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Claudette Colbert's Cleopatra Film Analysis

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In the 1934 depiction of Cleopatra, Claudette Colbert plays Cleopatra as coquettish seen, “on the films bill board Image with her flighty gaze across at the stiff and pompous looking figure of Caesar” (in-text citation). Colbert’s Cleopatra is light-hearted, glossing over the tensions between Egypt and Rome; focussing instead on the romances with Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony. The following quote shows Colbert’s Cleopatra lovelorn over Caesar, ”MAN It wasn’t in his arms he wanted to hold Egypt, it was in his treasury. Woman Its true, you were blind. He didn’t love you. You were blind...blind.” (In-text citation). In contrast, from 1963 a movie poster of Elizabeth Taylor’s Cleopatra portrays her as aloof with the besotted Caesar and Anthony
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