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  • Опубліковано 21 сер 2024
  • From the Feature Films Caligula The Roman Emperor who was generally thought to be stark raving mad and who was eventually assassinated

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  • @marclawson6144
    @marclawson6144 4 роки тому +814

    without the Roman decapitation machine, today we'd have no lawnmowers.

    • @PatrickSilent
      @PatrickSilent 2 роки тому +26

      That is absolutely brilliant.

    • @13strange67
      @13strange67 2 роки тому +23

      . . . and no French Revolution

    • @viborgvee8399
      @viborgvee8399 Рік тому +14

      What did the Romans do for us? 🤷‍♂️

    • @rjr6274
      @rjr6274 Рік тому +23

      @@viborgvee8399 They built the western world. Many things you see in your daily life came from them, including the letters you are using to write and read this.

    • @wastehazey6468
      @wastehazey6468 9 місяців тому +13

      ​@@rjr6274well beside those things, what have the Romans ever done for us?

  • @morko3981
    @morko3981 3 роки тому +426

    this scene reminds me of the dreams i have when i'm sick

    • @Renegade_Saiyan
      @Renegade_Saiyan 3 роки тому +20

      Lol i always have weird dreams when sick

    • @AbrahamLincoln4
      @AbrahamLincoln4 3 роки тому +10

      sick with corona? or sick like a sadist lol

    • @byronb3506
      @byronb3506 2 роки тому +4

      LEgit LOL there. Spot on my friend

    • @kennethwayne6857
      @kennethwayne6857 Місяць тому +4

      The sound alone is nightmare-inducing.

    • @javelinXH992
      @javelinXH992 Місяць тому

      For some reason it reminded me of the cleaners in Labyrinth.

  • @enragedkaiser237
    @enragedkaiser237 3 роки тому +470

    This movie had incredible sets. Can't imagine any modern filmmaker having the balls to put such thing in his movie!

    • @wanderlust2279
      @wanderlust2279 3 роки тому +9

      Or hers

    • @sleezboy992
      @sleezboy992 2 роки тому +13

      Well Bob Gucionne is not exactly a filmmaker

    • @DJKinney
      @DJKinney 2 роки тому +12

      @@wanderlust2279 no balls at all.

    • @mosquerajoseph7305
      @mosquerajoseph7305 2 роки тому

      @@sleezboy992 the scenes Tinto Brass filmed still include lots of dicks, tits, and ass

    • @creepyskulldini581
      @creepyskulldini581 2 роки тому +11

      Say what one will about Caligula as an ENTIRE movie "Its BAD" or "Its GREAT!" blah blah yakity yak, THIS has to be among the most awesome scenes in motion picture history!

  • @Danny2113182
    @Danny2113182 3 роки тому +425

    That death machine looks like something straight out of Jodorowsky's imagination. The cinematography for this movie seems next level

    • @norcalroamer5774
      @norcalroamer5774 3 роки тому +22

      If this is out of Jodorowsky’s imagination, imagine what his nightmares are like.

    • @JacquesMesrine94
      @JacquesMesrine94 2 роки тому +3

      The amount of hairy pussies is also next level in this movie...

    • @ChupeTTe
      @ChupeTTe 2 роки тому +10

      I thought i was the only one who saw parallels to Jodorowsky.
      The amount of gore and naked women is very Jodorowsky

    • @creepyskulldini581
      @creepyskulldini581 2 роки тому +6

      Say what one will about Caligula as an ENTIRE movie "Its BAD" or "Its GREAT!" blah blah yakity yak, THIS has to be among the most awesome scenes in motion picture history!

    • @johnjamele
      @johnjamele Рік тому +6

      well, it never existed in actual Rome, so it certainly came out of some modern person's imagination.

  • @rogereduardoperezesponda3358
    @rogereduardoperezesponda3358 2 роки тому +140

    "If only all Rome has just one neck" that phrase...

    • @rogereduardoperezesponda3358
      @rogereduardoperezesponda3358 2 роки тому +3

      Had*

    • @ACAPREDDUDE
      @ACAPREDDUDE 11 місяців тому

      Is fuckin horrible!.... Terrible line. Terrible acting.

    • @emanuel82
      @emanuel82 Місяць тому +7

      According to Suetonius Caligula actually said that.

    • @HowieHoward-ti3dx
      @HowieHoward-ti3dx Місяць тому +5

      I thought he said one egg.... now I know it is neck.

    • @etsequentia6765
      @etsequentia6765 13 днів тому

      "That's it, off you go then, I heard that! you're no good emperor. Your services are no longer required. We're getting someone more sensible."

  • @anfrac3700
    @anfrac3700 2 роки тому +155

    Didn’t know Caligula was a resident evil boss.

  • @ChrisJFilms
    @ChrisJFilms 3 роки тому +491

    Here’s a theory: Alex from Clockwork Orange is a descendant of this version of Caligula. I mean, I’m sure if Alex had absolute power he would do shit like this

    • @jeremiahdansereau2950
      @jeremiahdansereau2950 2 роки тому +41

      Explaines his love for a bit of the ol ultraviolence and the in out in out

    • @l.salisbury1253
      @l.salisbury1253 2 роки тому +25

      @@jeremiahdansereau2950 "I've taught you much, me little Droogies!"

    • @ChupeTTe
      @ChupeTTe 2 роки тому +8

      Lol, but sadly no Beethoven or Monteverdi to bop the head to.

    • @joshchelf7729
      @joshchelf7729 Місяць тому

      More likely a reincarnation.

    • @behelit1997
      @behelit1997 Місяць тому +2

      ​@@ChupeTTehe dances with the screams of the decapitated

  • @emcaco
    @emcaco 3 роки тому +332

    Why with all the world's CGI at our fingertips don't we get more set design like this? It's all identical silvery spaceships and gray square-jawed villains. Gimme more crimson nightmare deathwalls with homoerotic visual themes, cowards.

    • @philbecker4676
      @philbecker4676 3 роки тому +4

      Oh shut up.

    • @MrBloodandGore
      @MrBloodandGore 3 роки тому +14

      So fucking true

    • @Sean-me4fv
      @Sean-me4fv 3 роки тому

      This is a disgusting depiction of the persecution and execution of homosexuals, and the best description you can think of is "homoerotic"? I think your next UA-cam comment needs to be "Gimme more education."

    • @oppie47
      @oppie47 3 роки тому +22

      @@Sean-me4fv
      Persecution of homosexuals? Huh? Did we watch the same movie? I remember the 15 minute long orgy scene, but the persecution of homosexuals scene slipped right past me.

    • @alcd6333
      @alcd6333 2 роки тому +14

      Hollywood has little imagination nowadays. It's mostly comic book action, sequels, and remakes. Almost no attention is paid to the story.

  • @cosmicwolf9918
    @cosmicwolf9918 2 роки тому +122

    Joffrey would’ve loved to have something like this

  • @davidryley4162
    @davidryley4162 Місяць тому +9

    I saw this when at the empire, Leicester square, when it came out. I was around 18.
    I am 62 now. Wow.

    • @landonjones258
      @landonjones258 Місяць тому +1

      I saw it at a late showing at a theatre in London (can't remember which one) in 1984. I was 20. Curious similarity of place and time.

  • @cutypie878
    @cutypie878 2 роки тому +126

    You can't imagine how cruel a man is when the power is in his hands.

    • @user-kf7lu4qe6v
      @user-kf7lu4qe6v Рік тому

      And he's in hell now

    • @morwickchesterham3875
      @morwickchesterham3875 Рік тому

      actually he's in heaven fuking jesus's ass...

    • @clarencebland4861
      @clarencebland4861 7 місяців тому +11

      One of the truest measures of a person is how they handle power

    • @NorthForkFisherman
      @NorthForkFisherman Місяць тому +10

      You don't need to imagine. just read the history of, well, anywhere there are humans.

    • @BegoneJonah
      @BegoneJonah Місяць тому +5

      Sure we can. Unconstitutional Covid vaccine mandates, anyone?

  • @shanekilpatrick3378
    @shanekilpatrick3378 Місяць тому +21

    “If only Rome had one neck!” Sir Peter Ustinov said something similar in Quo Vadis. “If Rome only had one throat, I could choke it and stop the maddening cries of the people!”

  • @stevekaczynski3793
    @stevekaczynski3793 11 місяців тому +59

    If such a thing had really existed at the time, it would have been an engineering miracle. A bit of re-arranging and it could have been used for threshing and other agricultural uses.

    • @pip12111
      @pip12111 5 місяців тому +8

      It's plausible. The Romans had knowledge about gear ratios,and mechanics

    • @nocturnalrecluse1216
      @nocturnalrecluse1216 Місяць тому +3

      It didn't exist, just like jeebus didn't exist.

    • @FlyxPat
      @FlyxPat Місяць тому +6

      They had some pretty big machines. There was a rotating top floor on a tower on the Palatine that was driven by oxen pulling a treadmill in the basement transmitted to the platform by massive wooden shafts and gearing.

    • @emanuel82
      @emanuel82 Місяць тому +12

      The romans had knowledge to create mechanics like that. No doubt. If they wanted to they could do it. The engineringskill was so developed that it took at least 1500 years to surpass it. We didnt get water in our houses until 19th century. The romans had that!

    • @cezar211091
      @cezar211091 Місяць тому +3

      Could have been built, they had the gears.

  • @classiclife7204
    @classiclife7204 2 роки тому +103

    Visually creative, but probably too quick for the Caligula of tradition (evidently the real one was merely an occasionally violent troll). One thing Caligula was supposed to have said while ordering an execution was to tell his henchmen that he wanted the prisoners cut slowly with knives, "so that they FEEL that they are dying." The phrase is so simple and terrible that it might even be true.

    • @silversnail1413
      @silversnail1413 2 роки тому +22

      The death itself is quick, but imagine being stuck there unable to move while this unstoppable machine of death is coming towards you. The psychological torture alone might be enough for a true sadist to get off on.

    • @classiclife7204
      @classiclife7204 2 роки тому +5

      @@silversnail1413 Yeah I can see that.

    • @Xfactories
      @Xfactories Рік тому +9

      That's in the movie. He orders the death of Proculus and gets mad when he dies too quickly.

    • @emanuel82
      @emanuel82 Місяць тому +2

      Psychopaths has been around forever. Caligula clearly was one.

  • @idontknow164
    @idontknow164 3 роки тому +197

    This scene is so comically over the top I can't take it seriously. Also, let's face it, if Caligula could've he probably would've had something like this built.

    • @GabiGris
      @GabiGris 3 роки тому +13

      Oh you're so serious about movies 🤣

    • @Hhjhfu247
      @Hhjhfu247 3 роки тому +15

      Thats good Such a thing never existed

    • @cosmiceyness
      @cosmiceyness 2 роки тому +14

      whole movie is over the top

    • @N00BTUBER987
      @N00BTUBER987 2 роки тому

      You’re a nerd

    • @marioarce9556
      @marioarce9556 2 роки тому +1

      Como toda pelicuala hay fantacia y mentiras

  • @officialFredDurstfanclub
    @officialFredDurstfanclub 2 роки тому +191

    I have to give them credit for going so completely all out with such a seedy, morally deranged film. It’s basically high budget porn, with a bunch of A listers. You could never get away with something this ballsy and nuts today, much less release it in theatres

    • @Skinski7
      @Skinski7 11 місяців тому +26

      Just visit a local Pride Parade instead.

    • @Xane_Dragon
      @Xane_Dragon 11 місяців тому +6

      ​@@Skinski7 🤣 True

    • @pandakicker1
      @pandakicker1 8 місяців тому +8

      @@Skinski7Ewwww no! They have no taste anymore. They just look ridiculous and horrid while not caring that they look horrid. I’d rather watch Caligula.

    • @tomservo5347
      @tomservo5347 Місяць тому +5

      Seedy and morally deranged-the Roman Empire. Emperor Augustus realized this and tried introducing laws of moral virtue but it just kept getting worse after his death. Augustus was one of those once in a million rulers.

    • @embreis2257
      @embreis2257 20 днів тому

      @@tomservo5347 Marcus Aurelius was one of those too - only about 150yrs later 'once in a million'

  • @pschroeter1
    @pschroeter1 2 роки тому +44

    So this is where that nightmare memory comes from. I wonder how I saw this decades ago.

  • @markrdavis5368
    @markrdavis5368 Місяць тому +9

    The beheadings and the head raising to the people. The banging of drums.

  • @tremorsfan
    @tremorsfan Рік тому +30

    I love that little "ick" noise he makes at the end.

    • @bretcantwell4921
      @bretcantwell4921 Місяць тому +3

      Over a piece of fruit after watching 20 people beheaded.

    • @kseniaixbalam2826
      @kseniaixbalam2826 Місяць тому

      It’s so Caligula-ish 😂

    • @Cjnw
      @Cjnw 28 днів тому +1

      Maybe he had #TourettesSyndrome

  • @mickeytwister4721
    @mickeytwister4721 3 роки тому +36

    The face makes on the death wall makes it even scarier

  • @kingston4313
    @kingston4313 3 роки тому +30

    The set is crazy. Look at the costumes!!! So opulent.

  • @StopFear
    @StopFear 4 роки тому +153

    There really is no point to the director having put this thing into the movie. There simply never was any such wall, or machine. But because its in the movie some people think it was real.

    • @marksolarz3756
      @marksolarz3756 4 роки тому +3

      StopFear your right....they had far longer more amusing death....scenes! This was just crazy.......to short!

    • @StopFear
      @StopFear 4 роки тому +24

      Mark Solarz I mean, it is very interesting to see it in the movie. Especially since we know that Roman rulers in general, and Caligula in particular, were sadistic. I am only saying it’s still a disservice to teaching history.

    • @StopFear
      @StopFear 3 роки тому +5

      @I am Jean Pierre, the Evil Puppet! To be able to say whether vast majority of texts are gone you have to know how many are supposed to be there. That is not known.
      But in general Rome has left us with many more written records and books than any other civilization. In any case, no one goes "well there is no document saying it didn't exist, so it could have existed." Logically no one would make a record describing a very specific thing to just state it didn't exist. Records usually describe actions or things which did take place or did exist.

    • @pantsedjuniorhayseed4816
      @pantsedjuniorhayseed4816 3 роки тому +1

      u don't know that u stupid... u didn't live back then! hating will get u nowhere in life!!

    • @vanthdreadstar8788
      @vanthdreadstar8788 3 роки тому +8

      @@pantsedjuniorhayseed4816
      How have you made it this far being so stupid?

  • @jerryjones1344
    @jerryjones1344  4 роки тому +61

    Saturday entertainment in Roman times.

    • @Kelly14UK
      @Kelly14UK 4 роки тому

      Was this execution one of their Matinees?

    • @sebastiancastellanos9527
      @sebastiancastellanos9527 4 роки тому +9

      @@Kelly14UK dude all things besides, caligula was a savage emperor and we need to be glad that we weren't born around his time...

    • @Kelly14UK
      @Kelly14UK 4 роки тому +2

      @@sebastiancastellanos9527 Yeah he was a git. Folk must've been relieved.

    • @reoreborn1209
      @reoreborn1209 4 роки тому +4

      Better than Britians got Talent.

    • @reoreborn1209
      @reoreborn1209 4 роки тому +1

      @@sebastiancastellanos9527 Bollocks. He was a glorious leader. One of the best! It's all propaganda I tell ye'.

  • @5Mariner
    @5Mariner Рік тому +19

    Only Malcolm McDowell could’ve played Caligula this well!

    • @Xane_Dragon
      @Xane_Dragon 11 місяців тому +1

      Yeah, he should have played Jack the ripper 😂

    • @ACAPREDDUDE
      @ACAPREDDUDE 11 місяців тому

      He was annoying to say the least 🙄.... Until he played Samuel Loomis, in Halloween 2007.

    • @stairwaytoheaven8
      @stairwaytoheaven8 7 місяців тому +1

      @@ACAPREDDUDE Trying so hard to be different so others can acknowledge your existence LOL Malcolm McDowell is a legendary and one of the best Actors. You probably like johnny depp

    • @ACAPREDDUDE
      @ACAPREDDUDE 7 місяців тому

      @stairwaytoheaven8 Malcolm McDowell had a one-note performance, in 'A Clockwork Orange', and his other films(including this one), were absolute shit!... Oh, and BTW....Johnny Depp is a modern day hero, who has done wonders for men's rights everywhere.

    • @PallasAthene12
      @PallasAthene12 2 місяці тому +2

      John Hurt did a pretty amazing Caligula in I, Claudius. A different style, for sure, but absolutely chilling.

  • @AbrahamLincoln4
    @AbrahamLincoln4 3 роки тому +31

    0:46 She literally has a leash on her neck.

    • @fritz9830
      @fritz9830 2 роки тому +15

      hot

    • @bigkuriboh3814
      @bigkuriboh3814 5 місяців тому +4

      So did lea in star wars

    • @Captain-Cosmo
      @Captain-Cosmo Місяць тому +6

      Helen Mirren in her prime. What's not to like?

    • @phuturelee3420
      @phuturelee3420 Місяць тому

      Yes she does. And ironically Dame Helen Mirren would probably request putting one on. She''ll never stop embracing her sexuality.

    • @Xabier2.0
      @Xabier2.0 Місяць тому +3

      ⁠@@Captain-CosmoHelen Mirren fine AF!

  • @J_man247
    @J_man247 3 роки тому +13

    Hi billy Mays here for the giant Roman wall of death, the fast and easy way to slice and dice them pesky peasants!

  • @omkr0122
    @omkr0122 3 роки тому +68

    If only all Rome had just one neck!

  • @alcd6333
    @alcd6333 3 роки тому +23

    At the end when he's assassinated, his mute guard gets decapitated.

    • @omkr0122
      @omkr0122 3 роки тому +1

      Would have been great if they had used this headchopper

  • @TRHARTAmericanArtist
    @TRHARTAmericanArtist Рік тому +16

    Macro was confident of rapid promotion for past services but Emperor Caligula was aware of the potential threat Macro posed and soon removed him from office. According to some sources, Macro was promised the governorship of Egypt but upon arriving at Ostia with Ennia to take ship, he was instead arrested and stripped of his office. Macro committed suicide soon after. Macro was able to leave enough money to provide an amphitheatre for his home town of Alba Fucens

    • @stevekaczynski3793
      @stevekaczynski3793 11 місяців тому +1

      A more prosaic death than this one. Amoral, but Caligula was probably astute enough to reflect that a figure who could kill one emperor might be a threat to another.

    • @wilhiamas
      @wilhiamas Місяць тому +1

      Your account of Macro is exactly what Robert Graves described in his great novel "I, Claudius".

    • @TRHARTAmericanArtist
      @TRHARTAmericanArtist Місяць тому

      @@wilhiamas We had the same source. Suetonious who wrote about the first twelve Caesars

  • @ishtarbabylon4869
    @ishtarbabylon4869 2 роки тому +15

    An absolutely underrated gem

  • @creepyskulldini581
    @creepyskulldini581 2 роки тому +9

    Say what one will about Caligula as an ENTIRE movie "Its BAD" or "Its GREAT!" Blah blah blah yakity yak, THIS has to be among the most awesome scenes in motion picture history!

  • @user-gi8pk9uc7q
    @user-gi8pk9uc7q Місяць тому +3

    Never give absolute power to a young man who's frontal lobe isn't fully formed yet, you will get a ruler like Caligula every time!

  • @AbrahamLincoln4
    @AbrahamLincoln4 3 роки тому +24

    "How would you ever know it's yours?" lol.

    • @brentfisher902
      @brentfisher902 3 роки тому +2

      Full Auto with Silencers and Drum Magazine...just spray and pray...one of the those discharged sperm cells has got to hit SOMETHING....

  • @blipblip88
    @blipblip88 Рік тому +7

    This movie is debauchery x 1000, as the violence and porn scenes are many. That they had so many top-line actors in the film amazes me to this day. Thanks!

    • @mkervelegan
      @mkervelegan 8 місяців тому

      The power of money commands you!

    • @brianmcconnell1817
      @brianmcconnell1817 Місяць тому +1

      They had no idea about the graphic sex scenes. Those scenes were all filmed independently of the A listers and edited into the film later. Obviously they were enraged about it but there was nothing they could do.

  • @pastormango6688
    @pastormango6688 2 роки тому +6

    Calígula talking about Disney 's top movie writters: 1:04

  • @MelancoliaI
    @MelancoliaI Рік тому +31

    Poor Macro. The only real friend Caligula had.

    • @ovechkin100
      @ovechkin100 Рік тому +2

      was he really a friend? He smothered his old Emperor.

    • @MelancoliaI
      @MelancoliaI Рік тому

      @@ovechkin100 The man was loyal...to a fault.

    • @ovechkin100
      @ovechkin100 Рік тому +3

      @@MelancoliaI nah. In these times this was obvious. He saw his old boss aging. He knew he had to get on the good side of the new emperor while he could, so he merely killed the old emperor to do so. Caligula knew he would do it to him if he had to. His sister even tells him this in the movie.

    • @MelancoliaI
      @MelancoliaI Рік тому

      @@ovechkin100 It's been a while since I saw the movie but I thought that Caligula killed Tiberius himself. I could be wrong 🤔

    • @ovechkin100
      @ovechkin100 Рік тому +4

      @@MelancoliaI You're definitely wrong. Macro kills Tiberius and turns to Caligula and says "hail Caesar"

  • @fs.pureblood
    @fs.pureblood Місяць тому +1

    I remember when this was on at the cinema. Had no idea Malcolm McDowell was in it. Didn't fancy seeing it at the time but I wouldn't mind watching it now.

  • @psn3720
    @psn3720 3 роки тому +23

    When the devil takes the form of man and the government

    • @williamjeune6469
      @williamjeune6469 2 роки тому +2

      I’d also describe Norman Stansfield from Leòn the Professional.

  • @revemuprev241
    @revemuprev241 2 роки тому +7

    Fellini must have inspired this appalling depraved gem of a film.

  • @AJ1990.
    @AJ1990. Місяць тому +2

    Its crazy that it took them that long to think, "alright this guy is just a bad apple. Time for a coup."

  • @TheRealVolk
    @TheRealVolk Місяць тому +2

    This movie is more accurate than Gladiator 2.

  • @quothetheraven79
    @quothetheraven79 3 роки тому +7

    It slices! It dices!!! It chicken fried rices!!!!!

  • @waltonkromer2702
    @waltonkromer2702 3 роки тому +9

    Ladies and Gentleman, I present to to you the newly patented DECAPITATOR

  • @Kevinhall11
    @Kevinhall11 2 роки тому +6

    That is such an impractical way to behead someone.

  • @ianchristopher9422
    @ianchristopher9422 Місяць тому +1

    I don't know why but UA-cam decided to recommend this for me to watch...

  • @wolfpax22
    @wolfpax22 6 місяців тому +2

    This has to be the craziest scene in the whole movie. This whole maniacal contraption, like who thinks up this stuff?

  • @MiguelPerez-zx2wg
    @MiguelPerez-zx2wg 2 роки тому +8

    So no one is gonna ask how potatoes are in 1th century A.D Rome when The Spanish haven't reached to the Americas in 1400 year later.

  • @stu5804
    @stu5804 Рік тому +4

    This movie was bonkers. And obsessed with phallic objects in every degree

    • @Altair885
      @Altair885 Місяць тому

      So was Rome. Phallic symbolism was everywhere, as it was in many ancient cultures, it represents fertility, which in turn means power and wealth of the society!

  • @arserobinson7118
    @arserobinson7118 Місяць тому +2

    Killing Macro led to his downfall. The reason the emperor before Caligula lived so long was because he had Macro in his pocket and therefore could control the prefects and any mutiny. Chaerea was quick to kill Caligula when he got the opportunity.

  • @johnflagg1898
    @johnflagg1898 2 роки тому +6

    I particularly like Travis Bickle's cameo!

    • @eamonwright7488
      @eamonwright7488 2 роки тому +3

      “One day a great flood of red wine will come and wash the streets of Aventide clean.”

  • @bg-yr5ir
    @bg-yr5ir 2 роки тому +5

    My friends mother hired this on VHS for us when we were 12. A little inappropriate in retrospect.

    • @Pisca-kk5cs
      @Pisca-kk5cs Рік тому +2

      I saw this in my teens too… the uncut full version!

    • @silversnail1413
      @silversnail1413 8 місяців тому +1

      First time I saw this movie was with my dad. He saw it when he was like 18 years old and it made a huge impression on him so when it got released on DVD he rented it and we watched it together.

  • @conscious-typeperson4583
    @conscious-typeperson4583 Рік тому +2

    This feels like something envisioned during a bad acid trip.

  • @robjones2408
    @robjones2408 2 роки тому +7

    Clearly the template for Game Of Thrones. MM was perverse and impish as ever, in his role as Caligula.

  • @davidellis5135
    @davidellis5135 2 роки тому +12

    Did such a machine actually exist in ancient Rome, I mean they used to flood the coliseum and have sea battles .

    • @NumeroBruno
      @NumeroBruno Рік тому +5

      No, this machine does not exist

  • @WinslowLeach1974
    @WinslowLeach1974 Рік тому +10

    This is absolutely horrible, all that good food they're throwing and wasting 😦
    And heck yeah, Helen Mirren 🔥🔥

    • @phoenixman8569
      @phoenixman8569 Місяць тому

      the wealthy waste food while the peasants starve in abject poverty, that the roman empire for ya!!!

  • @ErnieStephenson
    @ErnieStephenson Місяць тому +2

    there are time when i think that's a lot of directors/writers are just plain sadistic psychopaths...

  • @simval84
    @simval84 Місяць тому +3

    0:44 is that Helen Mirren on a golden leash? Not enough comments about this.

  • @nigel900
    @nigel900 Місяць тому +2

    History is Doomed to Repeat Itself…

  • @SweetGypsyRose
    @SweetGypsyRose Рік тому +2

    Helen Mirran a lovely & talented actress im today yrs old finding it in 2022 as a baby boomer i should have known this...

  • @davidfricker1208
    @davidfricker1208 3 роки тому +19

    Why are they throwing potatoes? That's a new world

    • @DiviAugusti
      @DiviAugusti 3 роки тому +12

      They probably figured everyone would have to suspend disbelief for the giant death wall anyway.

    • @user-pi3hd2bt3f
      @user-pi3hd2bt3f 2 роки тому +8

      Its actually eggs and i think they thought if they got one they wouldnt die.

  • @bernardogui3607
    @bernardogui3607 3 роки тому +10

    Why are there guys on the decapitation machine swinging canoe padels?

  • @franks5312
    @franks5312 3 роки тому +9

    The actor bahind caligula is soo good

    • @declanjones8888
      @declanjones8888 11 місяців тому +1

      You can never go wrong with Malcolm McDowell.

  • @firehorse_44alpha-omega
    @firehorse_44alpha-omega 21 день тому +1

    Things were simpler back then.

  • @SupremeGreatGrandmaster
    @SupremeGreatGrandmaster Місяць тому +3

    What is supposed to powering this machine? A steam engine? In ancient Rome?

  • @craigdamage
    @craigdamage 11 днів тому +1

    Caligula was depraved but this scene is absurdly unrealistic. Nobody in the ancient world could build a gigantic moving head chopping wall.

  • @kevinmunday5782
    @kevinmunday5782 Рік тому +2

    Cool the first combine harvester

  • @tedcantu1
    @tedcantu1 Рік тому +7

    I saw part of this on TV in college years ago....this scene sticks out.... was this based on a real thing? Its so outlandish and I never heard of it

    • @declanjones8888
      @declanjones8888 11 місяців тому +1

      There are no records of Caligula building something like this, although if he was able he probably would've had it built.

  • @bplenzner
    @bplenzner Місяць тому +5

    Imagine the meeting with the engineer that designed it.
    "Hey man, I want you to build me a mobile decapitating wall"

  • @Ozrictentacles87
    @Ozrictentacles87 13 днів тому +1

    This scene is insane

  • @Revelian1982
    @Revelian1982 3 роки тому +16

    In Japan the title of the film is "Carigura". No joke..

  • @AbrahamLincoln4
    @AbrahamLincoln4 3 роки тому +17

    *"They're all homosexuals who have been castrated."*

    • @brentfisher902
      @brentfisher902 3 роки тому +5

      That's like a computer CPU chip which has had the smoke liberated from it's epoxy prison.

    • @austinwillcut4919
      @austinwillcut4919 11 місяців тому +2

      What's strange is that the term "homosexual" didn't exist back then, they were referred to as Eunuchs by some.

    • @TallSilentGuy
      @TallSilentGuy 10 днів тому

      @@austinwillcut4919 What's even stranger is that they are speaking English...

    • @1292liam
      @1292liam 8 днів тому

      @@austinwillcut4919 because they assumed they didnt use them at all?

  • @bayibayi
    @bayibayi Місяць тому

    That device is entirely fictional but if Caligula saw that in real life he'd definitely wanted to have one.

  • @Carla-jd1ub
    @Carla-jd1ub Рік тому +3

    How is this allowed to stay on UA-cam? It’s so brutal im sick

  • @colorizedenhanced-silentmo9027
    @colorizedenhanced-silentmo9027 4 роки тому +6

    Hello, Jerry Jones. actually captivating video. thanks. :)

  • @HittokiriBattousai17
    @HittokiriBattousai17 11 днів тому

    Almost exactly for me!!! But I moved from pedantic to "I'll watch anything anywhere anyway"

  • @kostasamarantinis6051
    @kostasamarantinis6051 2 роки тому +4

    How sick he was

  • @viewerabundzu6887
    @viewerabundzu6887 Місяць тому +2

    utterly gruesome

  • @derekedmondson9909
    @derekedmondson9909 Місяць тому +2

    Well, since steam engines, internal busting engines, and electric motors were all invented more than a millennia later, what, exactly, was powering this beheading machine?

  • @Pooknottin
    @Pooknottin 10 місяців тому +2

    They say time is the fire in which we burn!

    • @GizmoBeach
      @GizmoBeach 9 місяців тому +1

      Not in The Nexus. It’s nice there, me and my bunch of imaginary kids.

    • @Pooknottin
      @Pooknottin 9 місяців тому +1

      @@GizmoBeach Yes, come in. The eggs are on.

  • @monkeycat48
    @monkeycat48 Місяць тому +1

    If such a device ever existed that would have been some sort of accomplishment. Unfortunately there's clearly no evidence it's just for show we're seeing

  • @rogercude1459
    @rogercude1459 23 дні тому

    Dam thats a absolutely amazing contraption, we need to bring it back😂

    • @catsbig200
      @catsbig200 11 днів тому

      I shouldn’t say this but for those that have killed children maybe

  • @jonyivre4541
    @jonyivre4541 16 днів тому

    Never seen or even thought of such an atrocity.

  • @exportexpert8
    @exportexpert8 2 роки тому +4

    Sad human behaviour

  • @naturalwizard1441
    @naturalwizard1441 11 годин тому

    This movie was sick! SICK! SICK!! SICK!!!!!!

  • @sansandulit
    @sansandulit 3 роки тому +4

    Myth says, the actor was paid to death.

  • @MGBranco
    @MGBranco 3 роки тому +3

    Great movie!

  • @goranvuletic8873
    @goranvuletic8873 2 місяці тому +1

    This scene traumatized me big time as a kid.

    • @HiDesert004
      @HiDesert004 Місяць тому

      Why were you watching this as a kid?

    • @goranvuletic8873
      @goranvuletic8873 Місяць тому

      @@HiDesert004 Actually as a teenager, something like 13-14. Like everybody else, I wanted to see the porn scenes. Never before or later have I seen such a long queue in front of the cinema.

  • @redadamearth
    @redadamearth 19 днів тому

    I still can't believe they actually built this thing and shot that scene. lol

  • @ackchyually9461
    @ackchyually9461 25 днів тому +4

    Romans when they accidentally invented a steam engine: it's useless
    also Romans: let's build a mechanical head mower

  • @richd8907
    @richd8907 24 дні тому

    I always think of the actors buried, unable to move, hoping that someone shouts cut and stops the machine in time. Unlike acting against a green screen, seeing that coming towards you probably made it quite easy to look shit scared!

  • @JesterVillain
    @JesterVillain 13 днів тому +1

    Goodness Gracious 😮

  • @ngel6618
    @ngel6618 3 роки тому +3

    hey it's that guy from clockwork orange

  • @CaneFu
    @CaneFu 6 місяців тому +1

    Well, you have to understand they had no cable TV nor internet back then and so they had to do something for entertainment.

  • @teamdrummond6915
    @teamdrummond6915 11 місяців тому

    "If only all of Rome had just one neck." Cold as ice!!

  • @ACAPREDDUDE
    @ACAPREDDUDE 11 місяців тому +1

    That has got to be the worst line of dialogue, in a major motion picture, by a renowned actor, I've ever heard.

  • @waywardpony
    @waywardpony Місяць тому

    Parents called this horrible thing a juggernaut. How old I was when I saw this is classified, but it was way, way, way too young XD

  • @MajorWorldLeader99
    @MajorWorldLeader99 20 днів тому

    Yes, I Am a Fan of Ancient Roman History, and I Was Born 1968 Years After Pontius Pilate Became Governor of Judea. To Put This into Perspective, Pilate Became Governor in 26, AD, and I Was Born in 1994. I Am Going To Be The Most Powerful and Wealthy Professional 31-year-old Hollywood and Private Spaceflight 9-Figure Messiah, and by December 20, 2027, when I Am 33, the Same Age as Jesus, I Will Be More Powerful and Richer Than 99% of Existence and I Will Permanently OWN a Hard-Earned 9-Bedroom Waterfront Postmodern Mansion.

  • @zyourzgrandzmaz
    @zyourzgrandzmaz 11 місяців тому

    I cant believe they actually make a building sized wall of death for 1 scene. You harsly even see the full wall. Irl it qas crazy looking and covered in artwork

  • @Losrandir
    @Losrandir Місяць тому

    Welly welly welly well, if it isn't little Alex

  • @andreasantoni6896
    @andreasantoni6896 2 роки тому +2

    If all of Rome just had one neck.....