Gay scenes from spartacus

The finale is going

Arts Oysters or snails: hiding homosexuality in “Spartacus” A suggestive scene between Laurence Olivier and Tony Curtis was saved from the cutting room floor when the slave revolt epic was restored in Eliot Wilson looks at what Stanley Kubrick wanted to depict and how it was restored to ambiguous glory. The epic Spartacus is one of Hollywood’s greatest historical dramas, but behind the scenes, it was a battlefield of its own—filled with feuds, censorship battles, and studio politics.

One of. The finale is going to break my heart, so I had to make something fun that was Spartacus-related so.. Yeah. Not even sorry.

Maybe a little This is "Spartacus Blood and Sand Ep.9 Clip 2" by John Cavill - Cinematographer on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them. Community content is available under CC-BY-SA unless otherwise noted. The story of a slave rebellion in ancient Rome which became the Third Servile War, it has enlivened many a bank holiday afternoon, and features a formidable cast, from its leading men, Kirk Douglas and Laurence Olivier, to the character studies provided by English greats Charles Laughton and Peter Ustinov.

Spartacus was a box office hit when it was released in A restoration project followed, which gained the backing of Steven Spielberg, using the original studio black-and-white separation prints. Stanley Kubrick himself, although he had disowned the original film, gave his blessing to the restoration and provided guidance by telephone and fax from London. One restored scene is of particular interest, and was not omitted because of its violence but because of its ambivalent attitude towards sexuality.

Marcus Licinius Crassus, a rich and aristocratic Roman general played with archly feline campness by Laurence Olivier, is bathing, attended by his slave, Antoninus then-Hollywood heartthrob Tony Curtis. Crassus: Do you consider the eating of oysters to be moral and the eating of snails to be immoral? Crassus: And taste is not the same as appetite, and therefore not a question of morals.

What had been, in , a brave attempt by scriptwriter Dalton Trumbo to reflect the nuances of Roman and Greek attitudes to same-sex love and intimacy is now a straightforward depiction of homosexuality. But Trumbo, who had been blacklisted for refusing to testify to the House Un-American Activities Committee in their search for communists in the movie business in , had been too bold.

The National Legion of Decency—a disheartening name if ever there was one; it was a front for the Catholic Church and most local chapters were run by parish priests—had vetoed the scene, and it fluttered to the cutting room floor. Restoring the scene presented some challenges. The main one was vocal: the soundtrack had been lost and the frames were silent.

Revoicing Antoninus was easy enough. Tony Curtis, though 66 by this stage, re-recorded his racy lines. But Lord Olivier as he had become had died in So the four-minute scene was brought back to life and unleashed on a new, and more broad-minded, audience, three decades on. Does it add much to the film? Arguably not: the theme of sexual ambivalence is not explored further and the bathing scene remains a rather arch little oddity, occasion for a titter but little else.

It is a technical curiosity, however, and very skilfully done. It is as if someone has drawn back a veil to reveal a quite different film: a film, perhaps, that Kubrick ought to have made…. Eliot Wilson is policy editor of Culturall. He was previously a clerk in the House of Commons. More by Eliot Wilson. Skip to content. Laurence Olivier as Marcus Licinius Crassus. Olivier left is bathed by Curtis right in the deleted scene.

Tony Curtis who played slave Antoninus. Eliot Wilson.