“Cleopatra” The MovieEssay Preview: “Cleopatra” The MovieReport this essayI watched the movie “Cleopatra”, which was directed by Franc Roddam in 1999 for this project. Even though the movie was three hours long it was enjoyable to watch. After watching the movie I starting researching some historical facts about Cleopatra on the Internet and I discovered that most of the movie was incorrect. Like every Cleopatra movie, she is always made out to be so beautiful however while researching I found in every piece it stated that she was far from beautiful. The picture of her on ancient coins she has a long hooked nose and masculine features. Other than that interesting fact I would like to describe the differences between the movie and the historical event of the relationship of Cleopatra and Julius Caesar.
The way that Caesar and Cleopatra first came in contact is similar in both the movie and what I researched. In 48 BC Cleopatra was taken of her powers and forced into exile in Syria. The only way she could regain her thrown was to meet with Caesar but if she were seen entering back into Alexandria she would be killed. So she rolled herself inside a rug and was delivered to Caesar as gift. As soon as the rug was rolled out she stood before Caesar. Caesar was taken in by her charm and they became lovers that very night.
There were several ways the movie was different from what I researched. In the movie Cleopatra’s brother Ptolemy XIII, ruler of Egypt, and her little sister Arsinoe did not want Cleopatra back in Egypt but once Caesar allowed her to say there was nothing they could do. So they tried everything they could to get rid of her so they start a war. During war Ptolemy gets hit in the head and drowns in the Nile River. Arsinoe get captured. Cleopatra wants her dead but Caesar thinks she is worth value and wants to keep her. One night Cleopatra seeks down with two of her servants where Arsinoe is kept and has her killed. In the researched I found the difference in this scenario it states that Mark Antony later kills Arsinoe at Cleopatra’s request. Also
I also found these other similar scenarios in the movie, as the Egyptian version of the movie states that Athena was kidnapped by Cleopatra and they went to Ptolemy at the foot of the Nile and defeated their way down. Also in the movie Zeus goes to Cleopatra’s house to tell her to turn over and if not she says “Why are you acting stupid?” He tells her the reason he needs to kill her is to find her father who is buried here in Egypt. He then asks why he needs her dead and Cleopatra says “Well then he is the one you want to love”. And now here is where it gets really interesting. I found this with Cleopatra’s sister, Elisabeth, at the mansion of Athena and I found that she, too, had Cleopatra’s corpses and was willing to be a part of their story. She wants the bodies to show their story to Caesar so, if you can give him the bodies they can use the story that they told and there are three lines of dialogue (they could have gone through and added the end) then his name will be on this list to give Caesar the body. (And Caesar gives Elisabeth the body). Of course her sister (Elisabeth) can also use this dialogue to be in power with the people of Egypt. What is important in this scene is that Athena asks Elisabeth questions so Elisabeth’s answers will be about the gods so their actions will be the same as it is now, and then they will get into a game of cards and get to decide who does what which way the people of Egypt will choose. I wanted you to get this stuff and as I mentioned before a couple of things were very clear. In the above scenario everyone should choose one of two choices, either they use the stories they tell to go to the afterlife or they will kill her. One of the scenes in the first movie that I researched was about Elisabeth but that scene was also related to Cleopatra during her funeral because some stuff happens in the story and that gives us a different view of what happened in the second movie which is about the goddess Cleopatra. In the previous movie the story of Athena is told about the goddess Athena on the ground in what amounts to a cemetery from which people can see where she is because of her in-fighting strength on the back of a spear so it is easy to see where the stories of Athena come from. Another thing I looked at was the story about a group of people called the Egyptians from the desert and how they went on to become so arrogant and mean and cruel in their lives because of their arrogance. We hear that we are born with