Why Livia Augusta >>>>> everyone
Oct. 12th, 2009 09:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
"Sometimes, Mother, I wish you'd behave like a normal woman."
"In order to be a normal woman, I'd have to be surrounded by NORMAL MEN!"
Siân Phillips, man. She divorced Peter O'Toole to marry Robin Sachs, and grew up with Welsh as her first language. I am inordinately impressed by both of these facts.
I don't think I ever noticed before, but the first forty-five minutes of I, Claudius is basically about the epic bromance between Augustus and Agrippa. Culminating in the Best Scene Ever (That Doesn't Involve Livia Or Agrippina The Elder):
"I LOVE YOU, MAN! YOU'RE MY BFF! DON'T EVER LEAVE ME AGAIN!"*
"You know, dude, such is the depth of our great love, the only thing that can bring us closer is the sacred bond of marriage."
"OH AGRIPPA, YOU'VE MADE ME THE HAPPIEST EMPEROR ALIVE!"
"...I meant your daughter."
"EH?"
"You can be my father-in-law!"
"..."
There is, allegedly, a new adaptation being filmed. But I don't believe a word of it.
* Augustus is played by Brian Blessed. Therefore, capslock.
"In order to be a normal woman, I'd have to be surrounded by NORMAL MEN!"
Siân Phillips, man. She divorced Peter O'Toole to marry Robin Sachs, and grew up with Welsh as her first language. I am inordinately impressed by both of these facts.
I don't think I ever noticed before, but the first forty-five minutes of I, Claudius is basically about the epic bromance between Augustus and Agrippa. Culminating in the Best Scene Ever (That Doesn't Involve Livia Or Agrippina The Elder):
"I LOVE YOU, MAN! YOU'RE MY BFF! DON'T EVER LEAVE ME AGAIN!"*
"You know, dude, such is the depth of our great love, the only thing that can bring us closer is the sacred bond of marriage."
"OH AGRIPPA, YOU'VE MADE ME THE HAPPIEST EMPEROR ALIVE!"
"...I meant your daughter."
"EH?"
"You can be my father-in-law!"
"..."
There is, allegedly, a new adaptation being filmed. But I don't believe a word of it.
* Augustus is played by Brian Blessed. Therefore, capslock.