"In their version, it became the power of the orgy." But the DVD's immortal entertainment value is in the commentaries by folks you might think couldn't have endured watching Caligula again because they were in it. "In my own mind, the film should have been a film on the orgy of power," he says.
In one interview, the cigar-chomping Brass, who later fashioned a career in lush soft-core erotic comedies, weighs in on the controversy, and the lawsuits. So the extras, not the movie, are the items of value here. But the project is fascinating as an attempt to fuse the historical epic with the porno film at a time when it seemed possible that serious cinema might go hard-core.
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Intended as an ultra-raunchy Fellini Satyricon, the movie looks murky, the English stars embarrassed, the sex sequences (some shot by Penthouse editor Guccione without Brass' knowledge) explicit but turgid. The film itself, in either of the two cuts available on this "3 disc Imperial Edition," is both sumptuous and amateurish. It also earned many millions at the international box office, (one of the participants, actor John Steiner, floats the number $200 million), which proves how much more liberated or decadent moviegoing back then than today.
Caligula, filmed in 1977 and released two years later after many legal wrangles over the final cut, is remembered today as a bloated folly, a gargantuan collision of egos Vidal's, Brass' and producer Bob Guccione's and the most expensive pornographic film of all time ($17.5 million in the late 70s, which would be $55 million today).
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What was the HBO series Rome but Caligula without the hard-core sex? Moviemakers are drawn to the Roman Empire's decadence as a political metaphor for our own time and a license for orotund speeches and sexual excess. With Malcolm McDowell, Teresa Ann Savoy, John Gielgud, Helen Mirren, Peter O'Toole
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