"Your time in the cutting room is much too short,
but basically that’s as good as it gets"
- Guy Hamilton, director of Goldfinger, Diamonds are Forever,
Live And Let Die and The Man With The Golden Gun
Longer, wider and more colourful than anything Stanley Kubrick had done up to this point, Spartacus saw The Kube go EPIC. 198 minutes long! A four-minute rousing Alex North overture! A Saul Bass title sequence! An intermission and entr'acte, whatever that is! A $12 million budget! Super 70mm 2.2:1 Technirama! Between 10,000 and 50,000 extras depending on who you ask! If bigger means better,
Comments
Post a Comment