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<blockquote data-quote="Toni" data-source="post: 440404" data-attributes="member: 82">I also re-watched it recently (the 4-hour version, of course...) and did it as a 2-part miniseries. I agree with most of what you all said here. It did need some more exteriors though, and the sea battle looks poor-ish. Everybody in the cast is great, and it was a nice surprise to see so many stars in their youth: Martin Landau and Roddy McDowall, and others that I knew from TV series like Francesca Annis, Richard O´Sullivan (whose makeup à la Liz turned him into a drag!), Jean Marsh (who nails two of her scenes with Burton!), and others who are not even credited or have any dialogue, like John Alderton and Calvin Lockhart.[ATTACH=full]59099[/ATTACH]
Octavia, the &quot;downstairs&quot; version of LizAntony´s &quot;Part 2&quot; gets more and more poignant and gives the story the power it should have had since the beginning, which drags along a bit. Liz´s cleavage is the most prominent supporting actor here! Quite bold for that time, as are the scenes with her in the &quot;jacuzzi&quot; with her slaves, where she seems to want to show everything that censorship would let her...and a tit more. This was filmed partly in Almería, Spain, and I found rather pathetic that there is no Spanish actor involved. [ATTACH=full]59100[/ATTACH]
Was she drinking something from the mini-bar?
I guess that it was a miracle that the whole thing ended up being such a historical movie (in many senses) and that it was successful worldwide though caused the debacle of Fox... [ATTACH=full]59101[/ATTACH]
Almodóvar once filmed a scene like this...
and a different ending.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Toni, post: 440404, member: 82"] I also re-watched it recently (the 4-hour version, of course...) and did it as a 2-part miniseries. I agree with most of what you all said here. It did need some more exteriors though, and the sea battle looks poor-ish. Everybody in the cast is great, and it was a nice surprise to see so many stars in their youth: Martin Landau and Roddy McDowall, and others that I knew from TV series like Francesca Annis, Richard O´Sullivan (whose makeup à la Liz turned him into a drag!), Jean Marsh (who nails two of her scenes with Burton!), and others who are not even credited or have any dialogue, like John Alderton and Calvin Lockhart. [CENTER][ATTACH type="full"]59099[/ATTACH] Octavia, the "downstairs" version of Liz[/CENTER] Antony´s "Part 2" gets more and more poignant and gives the story the power it should have had since the beginning, which drags along a bit. Liz´s cleavage is the most prominent supporting actor here! Quite bold for that time, as are the scenes with her in the "jacuzzi" with her slaves, where she seems to want to show everything that censorship would let her...and a tit more. This was filmed partly in Almería, Spain, and I found rather pathetic that there is no Spanish actor involved. [CENTER][ATTACH type="full"]59100[/ATTACH] Was she drinking something from the mini-bar? [/CENTER] I guess that it was a miracle that the whole thing ended up being such a historical movie (in many senses) and that it was successful worldwide though caused the debacle of Fox... [CENTER][ATTACH type="full"]59101[/ATTACH] Almodóvar once filmed a scene like this... and a different ending.[/CENTER] [/QUOTE]

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