BBC's £58m Rome is most violent, explicit and costly drama yet

UK Telegraph ^ | 8/21/05 | Chris Hastings

[wagglebee]

A similar miniseries could probably be made about the Klintoon administration.

[mware]

Oh I saw previews of ROME on cable.

You can't much more suggestive., and some of the video looked like something out of the Pompeii wall paintings.

[Sans-Culotte]

Sounds like the Penthouse version of Caligula, only now it's "mainstream".

[tet68]

No, all those murders, too violent.

[mware]

I saw I Claudius years ago and although there were parts that were in bad taste. They did a decent job retelling Roberts Graves two novels.

[SteveMcKing]

They should go film the streets of London, where you can see an emipre falling for real.

[wagglebee]

Are you talking about the murders in ancient Rome or the Arkancide epidemic?

[Eagles Talon IV]

The very fact that television and movies are becoming more and more explicit proves, to me anyway, the sensitivity level and probably the intelligence level of many have declined precipitously over the last 40 years or so.

Subtlety is a lost art and today the point must be bludgeoned home.

[primeval patriot]

Haven't seen the new series but I, Claudius is a masterpiece.

[veronica]

HBO airs material meant for mature adults.

The Passion of the Christ was violent too. Probably far more violent for than this minseries.

[squirt-gun]

OHHH my!!!

[squirt-gun]

So true.

[CaptainMorgantown]

Rome, a drama set in the dying days of the Roman Empire, contains full frontal male and female nudity and depictions of violent sex.

The second sentence in the article reveals the extent of the author's knowledge of Roman history. The Roman Republic was nearing its end in 52 BC. The Roman Empire continued for another 500+ years, much longer if you include the Byzantine Empire as a continuation of Roman government with a different capital.

[starfish923]

The BBC will do whatever it takes to further its agenda.
On its agenda -- destroying the Western, European civilization.

Putting on the boob-tube movies that depict the absolute very worst of the Romans and then adding its own depravity, a la Sleazywood, does its job well in its own way.

The Roman Empire WAS civilization at that time (Yeah, yeah, SPARE me the rhetoric about China and Indian please.) and it was great and noble in more ways that it was evil and depraved.

Bottom line: BBC = Garbage in and garbage out. They are steadily getting worse. Sometime they might be as sleazy, depraved and vicious as Sleazywood.
They DO try.

B = Bilge

B = Butthump

C = Crap

[Fintan]

Y'know, I miss my college days...

[ValenB4]

I think that we tend to overemphazize the degree of debauchery that took place in ancient Rome. The elites no doubt had some hedonistic quirks, but most of the people were too busy getting by. It's not like society and pop culture today is a pillar of virtue. What will historians say us 2000 years from now?

It also sounds like they changed Atia a lot, as she was a doting mother who didn't want Octavius to lay claim to being Caesar's heir. I guess they wanted to make a character comparable to the Livia Drusilla as portrayed in "I, Claudius". But it still sounds like a good show.

[mware]

I have seen the previews of Rome and I have the video set of I Claudius

I Claudius would be considered G compared to the snip its I saw.

The acting of I Claudius was superb. Can't tell from what I saw from Rome

[mware]

From what I could make out from the trailers I saw on cable, the time period is before Julius Ceasar was killed.

[Tribune7]

Rome, a drama set in the dying days of the Roman Empire . . . The new series opens in 52BC,

Well being as how the Western Roman Empire lasted for another 500 years and the Eastern part, anogher 1500, it seems the writer is being quite flexible about the definition of dying days.

[starfish923]

The second sentence in the article reveals the extent of the author's knowledge of Roman history. The Roman Republic was nearing its end in 52 BC. The Roman Empire continued for another 500+ years, much longer if you include the Byzantine Empire as a continuation of Roman government with a different capital.

Details like that don't bother garbage-movie producers. Why deal with reality when depravity, sleaze and vicious sewage sells better? The go right for the lowest common level -- naked genetalia, adding the depravity of hard core pornography. They are no better than the sleazy, vicious porn industry that makes BILLIONS and thrives under the cover of "free speech," "art" and "adult entertainment."

We all know wrong when we see it.
The sad part is that they try to pass it off as "art" or "adult entertainment."