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Warner Bros. Pictures
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Release Date: Dec 25, 1999
Running Time: 162 mins. (V)
Country Of Origin: United States
Country Of Origin: United Kingdom
synopsis
Titus Andronicus, the great Roman general, returns home victorious from a long war with the northern Goths during which all but his four remaining sons have died. Lucius, the eldest son, reminds Titus that part of the victory ritual is the human sacrafice of an enemy prisoner. Titus chooses the eldest son of Tamora, the Queen of the Goths, who has been brought back to Rome as a captive with her three sons and the Moor, Aaron. Though Tamora pleads for her son's life, Titus carries out the ritual, not out of cruelty but out of what he conceives to be religious devotion. Tamora and her two remaining sons, Chiron and Demetrius, vow revenge. With that, the tale of double revenge begins--first Tamora's and then Titus'.
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Titus Andronicus
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Young Lucius
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April 18, 2001
More than 400 years ago, when Shakespeare was still a pup and not yet in love with Gwyneth Paltrow, he wrote the ultra-violent Titus Andronicus and got his ass kicked by critics. Later, T.S. Eliot called it "one of the stupidest and most uninspired plays ever written." Luckily, director Julie Taymor wasn't scared off. A stage legend for her work on The Lion King, the extravagantly talented Taymor makes Titus her film baptism by fire, and to hell with a G rating.For starters, a vid-kid playing…
Julie Taymor made her name in the world of avant-garde theater, often mixing media. After earning a MacArthur genius grant, she moved to the mainstream first with a staging of her seminal theatrical musical "Juan Darien, A Carnival Mass" in 1996. Two years later, Taymor became the first woman to earn a Tony Award as director of a musical for her work on Disney's "The Lion King." Moving easily into filmmaking, she directed several television pieces, including "Fool's Fire" in 1992 and the opera… |
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