Caligula (1979) | Trailer
On February 1, 1980, the historical epic “Caligula” premiered in Midtown Manhattan at a newly renamed theater called Penthouse East.
Opposed to the serious drama that director Tinto Brass and screenwriter Gore Vidal desired to make, Guccione commandeered the production in post and added graphic scenes of hardcore sex to spice things up.‘Once Upon a Mattress’ review: Sutton Foster is a perfect princess on BroadwayA lot of sex. Multiple, unsimulated orgy scenes leave nothing to the imagination — and go well beyond what most imaginations can whip up.
“If we wanted to make a porno movie,” he said at a 1980 New Haven, Conn., sneak preview The Post barged into, “we would have done it for $25,000 — not $17.5 million.” Production on “Caligula” began in 1976 in Rome, Italy, where 64 gigantic sets were built over the course of a year. It was directed by Brass, an avant-garde filmmaker whose movies leaned erotic, and scripted by Vidal, author of “Myra Breckinridge.
Mirren, who played Caligula’s frequently naked wife Caesonia, memorably called the much-mocked movie “an irresistible mix of art and genitals.”“Caligula” was also extraordinarily violent. There was a surreal decapitation machine — an advancing wall with spinning lawnmower blades — and a full-on depiction of a live birth.
One of the “enhanced” sequences was an orgy scene aboard a multi-level ship in the emperor’s palace called “the imperial brothel,” in which he forced Roman senators’ wives to copulate for money. Once the XXX material was in the can, the producer wrestled control of the editing process, adding the grainy, poorly-shot scenes into the main film.
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