Caligola
A few months ago a brief friend gave my Caligola for no apparent reason. I have never seen it and had no idea what it was like. The opening scene gave me a big hint. If that didn't tell me, when Bob Guccione's name showed up on the credits I knew for sure. For the uninitiated Bob Guccione is the founder of Penthouse.
Anyway, Caligola is just porn, porn with Peter O'Toole and Malcolm McDowell. I expected it to contain sex, you can't make a film about Caligola without it, but not at this level. A nice shocker. I was too distracted to notice the story or acting. Now that I own it, I can check it out again.
You fools!!! You have no idea what you are talking about. I am the X-wife of Giancarlo Lui, one of the directors for Caligula. Bob Guccione was my husbands friends and Giancarlo was his confidant. The film had definite historic roots and was made (sexual input notwithstanding) as an effort to depict realistically what society would have been like in the years Caligula was in office. When you look at a film like this strictly for it's sexual content you completely obliterate the strength of it's message. Peganism was a reality in those days that cannot be obliterated from history by fools who's voyarism needs overlook the true message of the political eclectic socialpath Coligula was.
Posted by: Pola Muzyka (Paula Mitchell) at October 11, 2003 10:07 PM
I am well aware of what life was like during Caligula's rein. I know the film is realistic, but that doesn't mean it isn't porn.
Hell, films that call them selfs porn are realistic and true to the times. People do have sex now.
It's still porn.
Posted by: Thomas Noe at October 12, 2003 01:50 AM
Sorry about that comment. I have never even seen the film. Just pieces of it. I was told that it was to be a depiction of the reality of peganism in those days. I'm sure most of us were told the same thing. Our blinders were on. My life turned around because of that film and the lifestyle my X-husband chose and I came to know truth from a godly perspective. Yes, you're right. nudity and porno did not have to be so vivedly expressed in order to portray the tirent, Caligula; nor did it have to be expressed to portray the horror of those days.
Posted by: Pola Muzyka at November 10, 2003 02:17 PM
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You fools!!! You have no idea what you are talking about. I am the X-wife of Giancarlo Lui, one of the directors for Caligula. Bob Guccione was my husbands friends and Giancarlo was his confidant. The film had definite historic roots and was made (sexual input notwithstanding) as an effort to depict realistically what society would have been like in the years Caligula was in office. When you look at a film like this strictly for it's sexual content you completely obliterate the strength of it's message. Peganism was a reality in those days that cannot be obliterated from history by fools who's voyarism needs overlook the true message of the political eclectic socialpath Coligula was.
Posted by: Pola Muzyka (Paula Mitchell) at October 11, 2003 10:07 PM
I am well aware of what life was like during Caligula's rein. I know the film is realistic, but that doesn't mean it isn't porn.
Hell, films that call them selfs porn are realistic and true to the times. People do have sex now.
It's still porn.
Posted by: Thomas Noe at October 12, 2003 01:50 AM
Sorry about that comment. I have never even seen the film. Just pieces of it. I was told that it was to be a depiction of the reality of peganism in those days. I'm sure most of us were told the same thing. Our blinders were on. My life turned around because of that film and the lifestyle my X-husband chose and I came to know truth from a godly perspective. Yes, you're right. nudity and porno did not have to be so vivedly expressed in order to portray the tirent, Caligula; nor did it have to be expressed to portray the horror of those days.
Posted by: Pola Muzyka at November 10, 2003 02:17 PM