Thursday, January 18, 2007

Jane has a nice post about the season premiere of Rome. How do you write the episode where Marc Antony has to come to bury Caesar, not to praise him?

Labels: craft

2:48 PM

3 Comments:

I'm guessing they chose to cut the scene for budget reasons. (all the extras in the crowd).

I loved the Roman Tony Soprano harping on about "tradition".

For a show that doesn't show the battles or most of the action it is edge of the seat drama.

By  Anonymous, at 8:28 AM  

They've got lots of crowd scenes. (And crowd scenes are all CGI these days anyway.) No, I think they cut the scene because no one wanted to write a speech that would be compared with the most famous oration in the history of the English language.

By  Alex Epstein, at 9:17 AM  

Oh yeah. I remember thinking how brilliant that was when I saw it. Before they buried Cesar I was curious as to how they were going to handle that. The result was original and perfect.

By  Anonymous, at 11:41 AM  

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