I thought that they were going for Elagobolus as emperor. The portrayal of getta and caracalla is horrible, as much as they were sadistic spoiled brats, the eccentric and feminine image doesn’t fit them at all.
i love you but you mixed up who's playing caracalla and geta... caracalla is played by joseph quinn and fred is playing geta. i love you though im sorry to correct just check letterboxd please!!! <3
Black Cleopatra .. black little mermaid.. black snow ( white ) .i heard about a project of a black Hannibal .. and now black Macrinus . . . Whats next ???
I am Algerian and I know that Hollywood is trying to transform Roman history into an American copy with blacks and whites and soon Latin will mean Latino centurion from new mexico
Oversimplified. The Romans persecuted Christians and thought that they were weird (superstitious). Even after Constantine's conversion and his legalization of Christianity, Christians were still persecuted in Rome. Street preaching wouldn't have been enough to convert Rome to Christianity.
the Colosseum apparently could only do naval battles under Titus's rule and the start of dometians rule. Dometian ordered the Colosseum to be renovated to have underground trap door capability which then made it impossible to flood the Colosseum as it would flood the underground sections where all the wild animals and gladiators were situated
Woke Hollywood garbage. Ridley Scott did Napoleon too, which was terrible. Make every Roman emperor was born in North Africa black. Make Hannibal black. Make Cleopatra black. Since Elon Musk was technically born in Africa, it's surely okay to depict him as a black man, right? African = Black. That is their logic. Safe to say, I won't be watching it. The movie is going to have race politics, making the villains who are white like the evil Caracalla go up against the civilized black Roman Emperor. Oh well…
This is a drama hollywood movie. Not a documentary. Hello. Are you going to tell me a mystery book isn't real. Yes this takes place in roman time. Yet it is just a drama fiction about the time. It looks good to me. Rome imploded. This indicates that and this trailer seems to take that in the next step.
When Hitler first appears the music background sounded like something from a Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoon. Another laughable moment is when the Nazis are going to bomb Moscow. Look carefully and you will see swastika symbols covering soviet red stars on the planes.
Thing that bugs me is that in all Roman Hollywood media, they have romans being played by people with Northern European background. Romans had Roman features.
Like seriously, why does everyone in the whole world have to have their history movies ruined just because a minority of black people in America have such a pathetic interiority complex that they demand everything to be about them
Seppos and Poms need to be banned from making historical media until they can get over their pathetic pathological need to have ancient rome and medieval europe look like London New York and LA demographics.
I believe the Lucius Varus that co-ruled with Marcus Aurelias died by a plague. Dead right about Caracala, soldiers respected him for he would carry the eagle standard when marcjing with them Should be very fit.
Not much evidence that he died of plague. There is however some mentions that Lucius Verus was a sickly man. Prior to going to the East to fight the Parthians, he became dangerously ill. Marcus Aurelius rushed to him & it took Lucius a few days to fully recover I think this bout of illness is what really killed him. Because on most of the websites I've looked. Most of them just state that Lucius died of "natural causes" . No mention of the Plague really And yeah, I'm not really a fan of the casting choices for Caracalla & Geta. They were of mixed Libyan-Syrian blood. But they look so pale & look like they came from Ireland 😂 They look nothing like the 2 brothers
so you are telling me they got actors of german/polish and english background to play septimius's sons but they went with an african american actor to play macrinus? holy shit lol
Yup its kind of funny that he made the Severans White (when they are likely Mixed Italian-Berber-Punic so Biracial by modern standards) and Macrinus Black (who is of a similar Mixed African Heritage) I guess because Severans are bad and Macrinus was killed because of Class background and so to parallel that with Modern Politics he did this.
Caracalla (Marcus Aurelius Antoninus his real name as an emperor) and Geta appear in a family painting from Alexandria that you can see at the min 6:44 of this video, both had very light skin tone like their mother Julia Domna (Sirian origin), my opinion is that the removed face is the one of Caracalla because he destroyed Alexandria because some in the city had fun of the fact that he killed his brother and this maniac just for that killed thousands, he was a terrible emperor but the family had even worst memebers like Elagabalo his real succesor (Macrinus just ruled some months or a year and never went back to Rome after the disastrous peace he signed with the persians, so the character of the movie for me is not Caracalla, all is fiction so its like Elagabalo was the brother of Geta
Originally I thought it might be the "Arch of Drusus" which was more likely an arch dedicated to Trajan along the Via Appia but if the two prominent buildings in the background are to be understood as the Flavian Amphitheatre (obviously), and I assume the temple is the Temple of Venus and Roma. For the Temple of Venus to be on the right hand side of the colosseum, you'd have to be walking along the Via Tiburtina or Via Nomentana situated in the north of the city, whereas the Via Appia is to the south. To my knowledge there not a known triumphal arch located in the north of the city. Also it must be stressed that the colosseum & Temple of Venus is too far too centrally located in the city to be seen from outside the walls of the city of Rome anyway. The trailer shows the colosseum being far closer to I presume are the Servian Walls but I wouldn't be surprised if they intended those walls to be the anachronistic Aurelian Walls
Why can't they depict African emperors as average North Africans as that's the region these individuals were born and raised around and many having their origins there
