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Titus

  • 19991999
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  • 2h 42m
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7.1/10
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Anthony Hopkins in Titus (1999)
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Titus returns victorious from war, only to plant the seeds of future turmoil for himself and his family.Titus returns victorious from war, only to plant the seeds of future turmoil for himself and his family.Titus returns victorious from war, only to plant the seeds of future turmoil for himself and his family.
IMDb RATING
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    • Julie Taymor
    • William Shakespeare(play "Titus Andronicus")
    • Julie Taymor(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Anthony Hopkins
    • Jessica Lange
    • Osheen Jones
    • Julie Taymor
    • William Shakespeare(play "Titus Andronicus")
    • Julie Taymor(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Anthony Hopkins
    • Jessica Lange
    • Osheen Jones
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    • 303User reviews
    • 65Critic reviews
    • 57Metascore
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    • Nominated for 1 Oscar

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    Titus (1999)
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    Anthony Hopkins
    Anthony Hopkins
    • Titus
    Jessica Lange
    Jessica Lange
    • Tamora
    Osheen Jones
    • Young Lucius
    Dario D'Ambrosi
    Dario D'Ambrosi
    • Clown
    Raz Degan
    Raz Degan
    • Alarbus
    Jonathan Rhys Meyers
    Jonathan Rhys Meyers
    • Chiron
    Matthew Rhys
    Matthew Rhys
    • Demetrius
    Harry Lennix
    Harry Lennix
    • Aaron
    Angus Macfadyen
    Angus Macfadyen
    • Lucius
    Kenny Doughty
    Kenny Doughty
    • Quintus
    Blake Ritson
    Blake Ritson
    • Mutius
    Colin Wells
    • Martius
    Ettore Geri
    • Priest
    Alan Cumming
    Alan Cumming
    • Saturninus
    James Frain
    James Frain
    • Bassianus
    Colm Feore
    Colm Feore
    • Marcus
    Constantine Gregory
    Constantine Gregory
    • Aemelius
    Laura Fraser
    Laura Fraser
    • Lavinia
      • Julie Taymor
      • William Shakespeare(play "Titus Andronicus")
      • Julie Taymor(screenplay)
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    • Trivia
      Writer, producer, and director Julie Taymor used anachronistic props and clothes throughout this movie (chariots, tanks, swords, and machine guns) because she wanted to symbolically depict 2,000 years of warfare and violence.
    • Goofs
      When Tamora leaves the party/orgy to join Aaron on the balcony, her hands are clasped across her chest. In the next shot she is holding a cigarette.
    • Quotes

      Titus: Oh villains, Chiron and Demetrius. Here stands the spring whom you have stained with mud, this goodly summer with your winter mixed. You killed her husband, and for that vile fault two of her brothers were condemned to death, my hand cut off and made a merry jest, both her sweet hands, her tongue, and that more dear than hands or tongue, her spotless chastity, inhuman traitors, you constrained and forced. What would you say if I should let you speak? Villains, for shame, you could not beg for grace. Hark, wretches, how I mean to martyr you. This one hand yet is left to cut your throats whilst that Lavinia, 'tween her stumps doth hold the basin that receives your guilty blood. You know, your mother means to feast with me and calls herself Revenge and thinks me mad. Hark, villains. I shall grind your bones to dust, and with your blood and it I shall make a paste, and of the paste a coffin I will rear and make two pastries of your shameful heads. And bid that strumpet, your unhallowed dam, like to the earth, swallow her own increase! This is the feast I have bid her to, and this the banquet she shall surfeit on... And now prepare your throats.

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      Featured in At the Movies: Simpatico/The Third Miracle/Titus (2000)

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    8/10
    Madness
    Titus Andronicus is the strangest of Shakespeare's tragedies and the tragedy which most underlines the modern day observation that his tragedies are often comic and his comedies fairly tragic. Particularly the final chain murder has always made me laugh in the theatrical renditions and this one is definitely up to par. As for the rest of the movie, it is a mix of beautiful images, wonderful acting, rotten acting and failed attempts to surrealize an already surreal play. Anthony Hopkins is almost perfect as Titus, Colm Feore pretty good as his righteous brother and Jessica Lange intolerable as Tamora, while most of the rest range from mildly indifferent to pretty okay. As for Aaron in the shape of Harry Lennix he is actually quite convincing albeit not quite in the same league as Kenneth Brannagh who did the all time finest Shakespeare mischievery playing Iago in Othello. But Brannagh as a Moor would be downright laughable - so a compromise well turned out.

    The modernisation of Shakespeare is in my opinion an impossibility. Some of his plays have a plot which makes a good basis for a modern production, but Shakespeare's absolute forté is his language and his linguistic jokes and acting in old English requires settings true to the play. That said, I think some of the scenes worked better in this surrealistic environment than they would have - scenes like Titus assembling his men for the shot at the Gods, or the messenger returning his sons' heads in a theater truck. That was novel.

    As for the overall feel of this movie, only one word suffices: Madness.

    • Thomas Nielsen
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    • thniels
    • Dec 19, 2004

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    • Release date
      • February 11, 2000 (United States)
      • United States
      • Italy
      • United Kingdom
      • English
      • Latin
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      • Pula, Croatia
    • Production companies
      • Clear Blue Sky Productions
      • Overseas FilmGroup
      • Urania Pictures S.r.l.
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    • 2 hours 42 minutes
      • Color
      • Dolby Digital

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