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Titus (1999) is a 1999 film adaptation of Shakespeare's revenge tragedy Titus Andronicus, about the downfall of a Roman general. It was the first film of the play (aside from TV productions). The film was made by Overseas Filmgroup and Clear Blue Sky Productions and released by 20th Century Fox. It was the directorial debut of Julie Taymor who co-produced and wrote the screenplay. It was produced by Jody Patton, Conchita Airoldi and executive produced by Paul G. Allen. Image File history File links Titus1w. ...
Julie Taymor (born December 15, 1953) is a critically acclaimed American director on Broadway and in film: she is known for her visual flair and brilliantly colorful costuming choices. ...
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Julie Taymor (born December 15, 1953) is a critically acclaimed American director on Broadway and in film: she is known for her visual flair and brilliantly colorful costuming choices. ...
Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins, CBE (IPA: ) (born 31 December 1937) is an Academy Award and Emmy Award-winning Welsh-born film, stage and television actor. ...
Jessica Lange in The Glass Menagerie (2005) Jessica Phyllis Lange (born April 20, 1949 in Cloquet, Minnesota) is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress. ...
Alan Cumming (born 27 January 1965 in Aberfeldy, Perth and Kinross), is a Scottish film, television and stage actor, best known for his film roles in GoldenEye, as Boris Grishenko; in X2: X-Men United, as Kurt Wagner/Nightcrawler; and on the stage with his Tony Award-winning performance as...
Harry J. Lennix (b. ...
Angus Macfadyen (born September 21, 1963 in Glasgow) is a Scottish actor. ...
Elliot Goldenthal, born on May 2, 1954, in Brooklyn, New York City, is an American composer of contemporary music and has written works for concert hall, theater, dance and film. ...
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1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...
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Title page of the first quarto edition (1594) The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus may be Shakespeares earliest tragedy. ...
The Roman Empire is the name given to both the domain obtained by the city-state of Rome and also the corresponding phase of that civilization, characterized by an autocratic form of government. ...
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Julie Taymor (born December 15, 1953) is a critically acclaimed American director on Broadway and in film: she is known for her visual flair and brilliantly colorful costuming choices. ...
Paul G. Allen (born January 21, 1953) is an entrepreneur who first established himself by co-founding Microsoft Corporation with Bill Gates. ...
The film stars Anthony Hopkins and Jessica Lange, with Alan Cumming, Colm Feore, James Frain, Laura Fraser, Harry Lennix, Angus Macfadyen, Matthew Rhys, and Jonathan Rhys Meyers. Geraldine McEwan also has a small role. Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins, CBE (IPA: ) (born 31 December 1937) is an Academy Award and Emmy Award-winning Welsh-born film, stage and television actor. ...
Jessica Lange in The Glass Menagerie (2005) Jessica Phyllis Lange (born April 20, 1949 in Cloquet, Minnesota) is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress. ...
Alan Cumming (born 27 January 1965 in Aberfeldy, Perth and Kinross), is a Scottish film, television and stage actor, best known for his film roles in GoldenEye, as Boris Grishenko; in X2: X-Men United, as Kurt Wagner/Nightcrawler; and on the stage with his Tony Award-winning performance as...
Colm Feore (born August 22, 1958, at Boston, Massachusetts) is an Canadian-American actor raised in Canada of Irish and Italian extraction. ...
James Frain (born March 14, 1968) is a leading British stage and screen actor. ...
Laura Fraser (born 24 July 1976, Glasgow) is a Scottish actress. ...
Harry J. Lennix (b. ...
Angus Macfadyen (born September 21, 1963 in Glasgow) is a Scottish actor. ...
Matthew Rhys Evans (born on 4 November 1974 in Cardiff, South Glamorgan, Wales) is a Welsh actor. ...
Rhys Meyers as Joe in Bend It Like Beckham Jonathan Rhys-Meyers (b. ...
Geraldine McEwan as Miss Marple Geraldine McEwan (born Geraldine McKeown on May 9, 1932, in Old Windsor, Berkshire, England), is a British actress (of Irish extraction) with a diverse and successful history in film, theatre and television spanning 55 years. ...
Background and production Director Julie Taymor took Shakespeare's script, added various linking scenes without dialogue (while cutting some of the text) and set the play in an anachronistic fantasy world that uses locations, costumes and imagery from many periods of history, including Ancient Rome and Mussolini's Italy. The selection of music is similarly varied. Look up Anachronism in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (July 29, 1883 – April 28, 1945) was the prime minister and dictator of Italy from 1922 until 1943, when he was overthrown. ...
Apart from the deliberate anachronisms, the film follows the play quite closely. The major departure from the play is the addition of a boy (apparently from the present) at the beginning and end of the film (in the middle of the film, the boy is identical to the character of Titus' grandson). At the beginning of the film the boy's toy soldiers transform into Titus's Roman army. At the end, when Titus' son Lucius avenges his father by condemning Aaron to a painful death, the boy takes pity on Aaron's baby son. That gives the film a happier and more humane ending. It is debatable whether the original play had such a positive ending, since some critics regard Lucius as a "severely flawed redeemer": Lucius was keen to lynch Aaron's baby, and his insistence on human sacrifice started the cycle of violence in the first place.
- LUCIUS. Give us the proudest prisoner of the Goths,
- That we may hew his limbs, and on a pile
- Ad manes fratrum sacrifice his flesh
The film was shot at Cinecittà , Rome and on location at the EUR in Rome, Pula, Croatia and Tampa, Florida, USA. Cinecittà (Italian for Cinema City) is a large film studio in Rome. ...
Palazzo dei Congressi The Esposizione Universale Roma (E.U.R.) is a large complex, built in 1935 by Benito Mussolini as symbol of fascism for the world; he wanted to expand the new Rome in the west, to connect it to the sea. ...
Pula on the map of Croatia Pula (Croatian Pula, Italian Pola; the city has an official Croatian-Italian bilinguism [1] - in Istriot Pula, German Polei, Slovenian Pulj) is the largest city in Istria, Croatia, situated at the southern tip of the peninsula, with a population of 62,080 (2005). ...
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Although the film did not do well at the box office, it was praised for its visual inventiveness. It is, so far, the only theatrical film based on a Shakespeare play in which Anthony Hopkins plays the leading role (he played Claudius in the 1969 film version of Hamlet, as well as Othello on television). The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke, more commonly known as Hamlet is a tragedy by William Shakespeare and is one of his best-known and most-quoted plays. ...
Title page of the first quarto edition of Othello, published in 1622 The Tragœdy of Othello, The Moore of Venice is a tragedy by William Shakespeare written around 1603. ...
In the film's dinner scene, Hopkins mimics the characteristic delivery of the three great British theatrical knights, John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson and Laurence Olivier. John Gielgud as photographed in 1936 by Carl Van Vechten Sir Arthur John Gielgud OM, CH (14 April 1904 – 21 May 2000), known as Sir John Gielgud, was an English theatre and film actor, regarded by many as one of the greatest British actors in history. ...
Sir Ralph David Richardson (19 December 1902 – 10 October 1983) was an English actor, one of a group of theatrical knights of the mid-20th century who, though more closely associated with the stage, did their best to make the transition to film. ...
Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM (22 May 1907–11 July 1989) was an Academy Award, Golden Globe, BAFTA and four-time Emmy winning English actor, director, and producer. ...
Cast Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins, CBE (IPA: ) (born 31 December 1937) is an Academy Award and Emmy Award-winning Welsh-born film, stage and television actor. ...
Jessica Lange in The Glass Menagerie (2005) Jessica Phyllis Lange (born April 20, 1949 in Cloquet, Minnesota) is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress. ...
Jonathan Rhys-Meyers (born Jonathan Michael Francis OKeeffe on 27 July 1977) is an Irish actor and Golden Globe winner. ...
Matthew Rhys Evans (born on 4 November 1974 in Cardiff, South Glamorgan, Wales) is a Welsh actor. ...
James Frain (born March 14, 1968) is a leading British stage and screen actor. ...
Laura Fraser (born 24 July 1976, Glasgow) is a Scottish actress. ...
Harry J. Lennix (b. ...
Alan Cumming (born 27 January 1965 in Aberfeldy, Perth and Kinross), is a Scottish film, television and stage actor, best known for his film roles in GoldenEye, as Boris Grishenko; in X2: X-Men United, as Kurt Wagner/Nightcrawler; and on the stage with his Tony Award-winning performance as...
Colm Feore (born August 22, 1958, at Boston, Massachusetts) is an Canadian-American actor raised in Canada of Irish and Italian extraction. ...
Angus Macfadyen (born September 21, 1963 in Glasgow) is a Scottish actor. ...
Kenny Doughty (born 1975 in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England) is a British actor. ...
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Trivia - The microphone on the podium during the election scene near the beginning of the movie has the call letters "SPQR" on it. SPQR stands for Senatus Populusque Romanus, which is Latin for "The Senate and People of Rome." The letters were used as a sigil for Rome (as a republic as well as the later empire), much in the same way that "USA" is commonly used to represent the United States of America. The abbreviation "SPQR" can still be seen in many parts of Rome to this day.
The inscription in the Arch of Titus Modern coat of arms of Rome Manhole cover in Rome with SPQR inscription SPQR is an initialism from a Latin noun phrase, Senatus Populusque Romanus (The Senate and the People of Rome), referring to the government of the ancient Roman Republic, and used...
Latin was the language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ...
Seal on envelope A seal is an impression printed on, embossed upon, or affixed to a document (or any other object) in order to authenticate it, in lieu of or in addition to a signature. ...
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