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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
what’s especially fantastic about i claudius for me is how much they did with so little money.
they’d stand on some evident cardboard sets, give speeches to an invisible “crowd” made of sound recordings, and managed to pull off absolutely thrilling tv.
by contrast these days there’d be more emphasis on CGI filler and stunt work and fucking and gore. and sure there’s a place for that in the universe but it’s not the same quality as a good, well-acted plot.
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Absolutely. Although that was probably quite a big, expensive production for the BBC back then. But yeah, where it really shines is the sheer quality of the acting and writing.
Always thought Sian Phillips (Livia) would've made a great female Bond villain
Did you ever see The Borgias? Another BBC mini-series from that period. Not quite as good as I, Claudius but still very much in the same vein.