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Cleopatra

Film

Cleopatra es una coproducción cinematográfica de 1963, dirigida por Joseph L. Mankiewicz, con un guion adaptado por Mankiewicz, Ranald MacDougall y Sidney Buchman del libro de 1957 The Life and Times of Cleopatra de Carlo Maria Franzero, y de historias de Plutarco, Suetonio y Apiano. La película está protagonizada por Elizabeth Taylor en el papel del mismo nombre. Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Roddy McDowall y Martin Landau aparecen en papeles secundarios. Narra las luchas de Cleopatra, la joven reina de Egipto, para resistir las ambiciones imperiales de Roma.

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Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Screenplay: Ranald MacDougall · Sidney Buchman · Ben Hecht
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor · Richard Burton · Rex Harrison · Pamela Brown · George Cole
Genre: Drama
Runtime: 241 min
Country: United States · United Kingdom
Music: Alex North
Cinematography: Leon Shamroy · Jack Hildyard
Awards: Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Color · Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Color · Academy Award for Best Art Direction, Color
Rating: NR (USA)
Studio: 20th Century Studios
Budget: 31,100,000 $
Box office: 57,800,000 $

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Bandages, Scales and Scarabs

Jackal-headed Anubis adjusting a pair of scales: the dead man's heart in one pan, an ostrich feather in the other; Thoth taking down the result with his reed pen, and Ammit — crocodile, lion and hippopotamus stitched into a single beast — waiting underneath. Around them, the whole burial kit: heart scarabs with spells cut into the base, shabtis lined up in rows, the ankh, the eye of Horus, the djed pillar and the vulture from the royal headdress. And the architecture of the Napoleonic plates: the Sphinx buried in sand up to its neck, Hathoric columns, obelisks and ceilings painted with five-pointed stars.