Why didn't they show Caesar's funeral, bros?

Why didn't they show Caesar's funeral, bros?

Why were we denied his epic speech?

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Why did most of the upper class romans have a Gallic look about them?

was funnier to do i off camera

Rumor has it some of the key performances were actually kind of trash apparently, there was some leaked stills of the actors rehearsing the funeral scenes so we know they considered it at least

just watch brando's speech, can't be beat

There is no way they could have done it justice. I loved Purefoy as Antony, but both the historical account of Caesar's funeral and the dramatic Shakespeare version set the bar so absurdly high that nothing on screen could ever top it. HBO made a lot of mistakes with season 2, but skipping the funeral to move directly to Antony maneuvering the plebs urbana against the optimates was not one of them.

That's a weird opinion man. It could've been fucking kino desu

Their gentes were from pure Aryan stock, ruling over plebeian Meds.

Also James Purefoy is one of those Brits who either from his Norman French blood or his Briton blood looks swarthy.

>Why did most of the upper class romans have a Gallic look about them?
They didn't. In Caesar's own writings about his war against the Gauls, he made a point of emphasizing that he and his soldiers were shorter and dark-haired compared to the tall, light-haired Gauls.
>Their gentes were from pure Aryan stock, ruling over plebeian Meds.
That isn't true at all, stop relying on Varg as your source of historical information. "Aryan" Romans did exist, Sulla for example was blonde-haired and Augustus had blue/gray eyes. But the vast majority of Romans were southern Italians. We have countless colored paintings/frescos and curly-haired marble statues backing this up.

Nothing they could come up with could love up to expectations
Its like in Game of thrones and them explaining the origin of the walkers
Your headcanon fills in the blanks better and everything they could do would ve a disappointment

I was mostly kidding. But Romans were Indo-Europeans, ie Aryans though the term is tainted I guess, and there were native Meds all up in the peninsula, obviously, the Etruscans being the most well known Roman phenotype are pretty mixed, you had gingers like Augustus and swarthlords like the busts in Pompeii.

nah, the show had great writers, and Purefoy was the perfect Antony. Its not how I originally thought of him, but after watching ROME, Purefoy's portrayal is the first image that pops into my mind when I think of him.

>But Romans were Indo-Europeans, ie Aryans though the term is tainted I guess
There is a difference in those terms, you're right. Aryan in the popular imagination is essentially nordic, even if that's not a fair characterization. 99% of the time when someone talks about Aryan populations they mean blonde hair/blue eyes.
>the Etruscans being the most well known Roman phenotype are pretty mixed, you had gingers like Augustus and swarthlords like the busts in Pompeii.
We don't have any real evidence for Augustus being a ginger, but I get what you're saying. There were a lot of different traits at play in what we consider the traditional Roman elites, even in the days of the Republic.


He absolutely nailed it, it was fucking amazing. I'd watch an entire tv show with Purefoy as Antony.

Really missed opportunity indeed. It would have greatly showcased how loved by the people Caesar was and how delusional Brutus and his crony senators ilk were. Purefoy could have absolutely delivered. But nothing is perfect, I guess.

purefoy look med as fuck

augustus was light blue eyed but black haired and swarthy

Rome seriously dropped the ball in S2 because HBO was allocating funding to some obscure fantasy show called "Game of Thrones". Thank god they gave that show a satisfying conclusion. Imagine if they killed Rome to make a show that produced the greatest blue ball ending in history, haha

But why did nobody tell the props department that they needed a coffin, not just a body draped with a sheet?

Why didn't the director change the dialogue upon seeing that the props department had supplied a body draped with a sheet instead of supplying a coffin?

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kino writing

Based and true. Thought the same thing when watching it as it aired, and still believe it. There is no way that it could have topped Shakespeare, and everybody already knows the broad strokes of the funeral orations.

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this, they can't have him do shakespears one and anything else would never be as good

No money for complicated shots

Heston
You disgust me

Here was a Caesar, when comes such another!

There was no way they'd be able to capture the energy, would have liked to see them try tho.

If they had season 1 budget it could have been possible

Nice fanfic , snownigger

its got nothing to do with budget they knew they could never top the shakespeare speech so they didn't do it at all, it was a good idea

You think anyone cares or knows about Shakespeare speech for them to have to top it? Might as well not make the show since they'll never be able to top what happened in real life. What kind of stupid logic is that?

Coffin could be interpreted as a figure of speech in that context, retard

Literally one of the two or three most famous Shakespeare speeches.

>Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears!
>I come to bury Caesar, not praise him...

The bard is immortal for a reason - he is incomparable.

They did it fine, the scene where purefoy goes to the house and says "Why so quiet? The tyrant is dead!" And totally fucking mops the floor with everyone and then cuts that one idiot's throat is one of the greatest scenes of all time.

Ummm sorry sweatie, just because you disagree with the personal politics of one actor and admire those of another doesnt change which one was obviously the better performer.