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Let them hate me, so long as they fear me.Plot:
This is a short film based on the 1979 film of the same name. The film is stylized with the actors wearing modernized robes and Roman jewelry and females playing male characters and vice-versa. | full synopsisUser Comments:
Egomania is Timeless more (12 total)Cast
(Credited cast)| Adriana Asti | ... | Ennia | |
| Justine Bateman | ... | Attia, Imperial Courtesan | |
| Karen Black | ... | Agrippina | |
| Barbara Bouchet | ... | Caesonia | |
| Gerard Butler | ... | Prefect Cassius Chaerea | |
| Benicio Del Toro | ... | Macro | |
| Milla Jovovich | ... | Druscilla | |
| Courtney Love | ... | Caligula | |
| Helen Mirren | ... | Tiberia | |
| Mia Moretti | ... | Priestes of Isis | |
| Michael Okarma | ... | Greek Slave | |
| Michelle Phillips | ... | Messalina | |
| Glenn Shadix | ... | Claudius | |
| Tasha Tilberg | (as Tasha Tilberg) | ||
| Francesco Vezzoli | ... | Caligula | |
| Gore Vidal | ... | Himself |
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A conceptual film from Italian artist Francesco Vezzoli, first shown at the 2005 Venice Biennale and later traveling to the Whitney Museum of American Art. The work is conceived as a trailer for an imaginary remake of the infamous Tinto Brass/Bob Guccioni sexploitation fiasco that was 'Caligola'. Instead of shooting in the ruins of Rome, however, his location is a tacky Roman-lite villa in Hollywood. Instead of striving for historically accurate costumes, he has Donatella Versace design him some glamorous togas. And like Matthew Barney, he's able to talk a whole host of known (and unknown) actors to star in a an artwork that will rarely, if ever, be seen outside of a gallery (or online). The casual viewer can choose to read it all as a comment on the timeless nature of gluttony and excess or simply laugh out loud at Courtney Love's full-bodied reading of Gore Vidal's overwrought language - "I have existed from the morning of the world and I shall exist until the last star falls from the night" - egomania as fitting for a Hollywood star as it for a Wall Street executive or an insane Emperor. Which, or course, is the point.