Movie Review: Cleopatra

I saw this movie last year and, to me it was an amazing film. Elizabeth Taylor stars as the enigmatic Queen Cleopatra. The film shows the story of how she came to power, her romance with Julius Caesar (portrayed by Rex Harrison) and how she became one of the most powerful women in the ancient world. After Julius Caesar was killed by Octavious and the Roman Parliament, the film shows how Marc Anthonious (portrayed by Richard Burton) went to Egypt and fell in love with Cleopatra. The romans hated Cleopatra and Octavious took the chance to attack Egypt, and after that winning that land and ruling it, along dying Marc Anthonious and Cleopatra.

This film was one of the most expensive ones in film history, exactly in the year 1963. Elizabeth Taylor was paid 100.000 to portray the famous Queen, being in that time the best paid actress. The film alone cost a lot of money, and the romance between its costars (Taylor and Burton) gave it a lot of talk-about. In my opinion, this movie did a great job in recreating the ancient Egypt, along with Rome. The costumes were amazing, and the makeup of Cleopatra was incredibly done. Althought the film is very long (even after they took away a lot of material) if you enjoy ancient history, and Egypt culture, then you will love this story, along with the fact that Elizabeth Taylor's and Richard Burton's romance make it even more interesting (because you can see the "special connection" between them)