“Cleopatra” (1963), a Conversation about a Blockbuster
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Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa assess prestige kitsch and consider carrying a spathae to defend a London-born Egyptian matriarch. *** Referenced media: “My Fair Lady” (George Cukor, 1964)“Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” (Mike Nichols, 1966)“Rome” (John Milius, William J. MacDonald, and Bruno Heller, 2005-2007)“All in the Family” (Norman Lear, 1971-1979)“Kill Bill: Volume 1” (Quentin Tarantino, 2003)“Kill Bill: Volume 2” (Quentin Tarantino, 2004)“National Velvet” (Clarence Brown, 1944)“Doctor Dolittle” (Richard Fleischer, 1967)“Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope” (George Lucas, 1977)“Star Trek” (Gene Roddenberry, 1966-1969)“Flaming Creatures” (Jack Smith, 1963)“Bye Bye Birdie” (George Sidney, 1963), “Hud” (Martin Ritt, 1963)“The Nutty Professor” (Jerry Lewis, 1963)“The Terror” (Roger Corman, 1963)“The Little Shop of Horrors” (Roger Corman, 1960)“Jason and the Argonauts” (Don Chaffey, 1963)“PT 109” (Leslie H. Martinson and Lewis Milestone, 1963)“The Great Escape” (John Sturges, 1963)“Blood Feast” (Herschell Gordon Lewis, 1963)“Beach Party” (William Asher, 1963)“Flipper” (James B. Clark, 1963),“The Cool World” (Shirley Clarke, 1963)“The V.I.P.s” (Anthony Asquith, 1963)“Dementia 13” (Francis Ford Coppola, 1963)“Tom Jones” (Tony Richardson, 1963)“The Haunting” (Robert Wise, 1963)"High School Confidential" (Jack Arnold, 1958)“Cleopatra” (Cecil B. DeMille, 1934) Audio quotation: “Cleopatra” (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1963), including “Overture” and “Requiem”, written by Alex North“Indiana Jones Whip sound FX” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joMQ4A1n4NU“Theme from “The Dick Van Dyke Show”, written by Earle Hagen, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK_8QW8LO-c
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