The Sign of the Cross is one of the
worse movies of its kind because of the romance story between Marcus Superbus
and Mercia, the over acting by the actors, and the overuse of indecency such as
nudity, murder, and brutality.
The Sign of the Cross
tends to have things overly executed.
For example the romantic story of Marcus Superbus and Mercia and its
progression made little sense. In
parts of the movie Mercia showed that she was not at all into Marcus when they
meet. For example when Marcus has
Ancaria try to seduce Mercia and open her up for Marcus, but she is absolutely disgusted. Also when Marcus comes to take her away
from Favious’ house, she declines to go to stay and act motherly towards the
others in the house. Though in the
last 10 minuets of the movie she takes him to die with her cause they “love”
each other, which isn’t very motherly like. Similarly another dull point of the movie is the over acting
in the movie. The scene where
Marcus enters the movie and whips aside the crowd is a great example of
that. Marcus puts a lot of effort
into whipping the crowd, but the whip doesn’t move naturally and the crowd even
from the lightest of tap acts as if Satan had touched them from the pits of
hell. The movie also overly uses
indecency in different areas of the movie. The most notable would be the circus games at the end of the
movie, which also happens to be the point I found to be the amusing of the
entire movie. It is a gruesome
part of the movie and though it is historically correct that Christians wouldn’t
be killed solo, it is unneeded to show a midget being picked up on a sword
(though it may be amusing to see).
Also in the circus games are three specific instances where nudity was unneeded. One was the naked woman on the pole
with the gorilla, implying that a gorilla raped her. Second was the naked woman on a pole like a rotisserie
chicken waiting to be eaten by alligators. The third and last instance was the slave next to Poppeae,
who was naked for what seemed to be no reason.
Okay, comment didn't work the first time. Recap: Naked guy was by Nero because Nero is into dudes. You got thesis and detail. Over executed good. Indecency makes bad movie? Me thinks not. Unneeded does not mean bad. Bryce out.
ReplyDeleteI believe that you should go into more depth explaining what kind of effect the indecency had on the movie. Elaborate why it made the movie one of the worst of its kind and why it wasn't necessary that all the indecency be included.
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