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I rewatched the old miniseries I, Claudius again (spoils)

Posted by con_carne Dec 19 '14, 08:33

This time I found myself paying more attention to the Antonia character, Claudius' mom. Her arc is amazing. She starts off innocent and then slowly becomes broken down by the corrupt, degenerate nature of Roman life. In her first scene, her innocence starts eroding when she finds out how common sexual depravity is. Then throughout the course of the episodes, she comments on the downfall of values under Tiberius and Caligula, until she finally takes her own life as an old woman, one of the last virtuous Romans. Tired of being the only one around who cares about being a decent person and standing up for what's good and right. Every other good Roman banished or dead.

Her acting is amazing in all of this, Margaret Tyzack.

http://www.kcet.org/shows/i_claudius/assets/images/antonia-margarettyzack.jpg (www.kcet.org)

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Derek Jacoby as Claudius and John Hurt as Calivu -- nm - eag Dec 19, 08:45 1
- As Caligula are the best performances -- nm - eag Dec 19, 08:46
I need to watch that again. Watched it first run and was blown away - amoxy Dec 19, 08:44
"Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud, hatch out" -- nm - amoxy Dec 19, 08:41
the whole series is fantastic -- nm - Peglegpete Dec 19, 08:34
One of the things I really want to do when we get a new TV is rewatch this. -- nm - Mel Profit Dec 19, 08:33 2
- My DVD copy shows its age on newer TVs unfortunately. And later editions doen't seem to have been... whatever the video equivalent of remastering is -- nm - con_carne Dec 19, 08:40 1
  - There was a remastered edition released a couple of years ago. -- nm - GregW Dec 19, 08:42

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