Caligula
(1979) - Malcolm McDowell, Peter
O'Toole
Et maggis adducto pomum decerpere ramo, Quam de caelata
sumere
lance iuvat
"... and it is more pleasing to pluck an apple from the branch
you have
seized
than to take one up from a graven dish..."
(Caligulan wisdom no doubt)
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The lesson of Caligula is that men who
have power and have not their desires and passion in check and who rage with
wanton cruelties of the inane will always as been the case throughout history
suffer the The expression "for Britain we
sail" used by Caligula in the movie suggests that such types have to be made unwelcome so the never reach your shores and if found already amidst your
own, should be swiftly Michael Rizzo Chessman |