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Julius Caesar (1953)
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by Warner Home Video
Sales Rank: 4013
Price: $14.98
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An examination of the relationship between political power and personal conscience, Joseph Mankiewicz's traditional <I>Julius Caesar</I> (1953) is a veritable master class for aspiring thespians. As the opportunistic Marc Antony, Marlon Brando delivers the famous funeral speech with pure conviction, elsewhere casting an intense physicality that recalls his work in <I>A Streetcar Named Desire</I>. James Mason suggests a latent Hamlet in his turn as the honorable Brutus, while John Gielgud is positively serpentine as the lean, hungry Cassius. Louis Calhern invests Caesar with intelligence and edgy noir echoes, and director Mankiewicz astutely balances the Renaissance view of Caesar as a power-obsessed, corrupt tyrant destined for punishment with modern suggestions that his murder may have been ill advised. The director's scrupulous pacing is supported in no small measure by Miklós Rósza's stunning score. At film's end, power itself is without a master, and the spirit of Caesar has been left unrevived: and to Mankiewicz's credit, the latter is revealed to be the true tragedy of <I>Julius Caesar</I>. <I>--Kevin Mulhall</I>
Viewer Reviews
I first saw this as a film in 10th. grade English as an assignment. it is one of Marlon Brando's finest works.
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