I promised myself not to speak here of literature, and I do not want. But I have no regrets: in truth, anything that makes me vibrate feeds that I am, what I write, and is therefore a rightful place here.
So I no longer resist the temptation to say a word Rome, the series in two seasons (unfortunately no more) produced by HBO and that evokes the late Republic and early Empire. There among the Anglo-Saxon an amazing relaxation from Roman history and this series, which borrows without hiding to Shakespeare and Mankiewicz, is another testimony.
As often when constructing a fiction based on historical events, the writers of Rome reflect the clash between Pompey and Caesar, Mark Anthony and Octavian, without departing from the version commonly accepted facts of the great, and it is in the gaps of history, exploring the area of the intimate and the world of little people, they deploy all their fantasy fiction, shamelessly and to our pleasure.
But what is for me the most surprising success Rome that between the fictional characters (Lucius Vorenus and Titus Pullo, fabricated to help the viewer to enter the lambda History) and historical figures, it is paradoxically the seconds seemed to me the weakest and the most moving: I was literally fascinated by Ciaran Hinds in the role of Caesar, Tobias Menzies made me aware of humanity of Brutus; about James Purefoy, who plays Marc Antony, his charisma has nothing to envy that of Brando.
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