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"Rome" Philippi (2007)



Overview

User Rating:
8.7/10   280 votes
Director:

Roger Young

Writers:

John Milius (creator) and
William J. MacDonald (creator) ...
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Contact:

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TV Series:

"Rome" (2005)

Original Air Date:

18 February 2007 (Season 2, Episode 6)

Genre:

Action | Drama | History | Romance | War more

Plot:

Cicero is finally undone by his duplicity in the form of Titus Pullo, acting upon Octavian's request to assassinate all supporters of Brutus in Rome... more | add synopsis

User Comments:

Disappointing. more (3 total)


Cast

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Additional Details

Runtime:

56 min | Argentina:60 min

Country:

USA | UK

Language:

English

Certification:

USA:TV-MA | Argentina:13


Fun Stuff

Goofs:

Factual errors: Brutus is shown as being killed by the soldiers of Octavius. In fact, he committed suicide. more

Quotes:

Gaius Octavian: [as the battle goes on] What's happening? Can you tell?
Mark Antony: [munching a loaf of bread] No idea.
[drops the loaf and draws his sword]
Mark Antony: On my command!
Gaius Octavian: What are you doing?
Mark Antony: When in doubt, attack!
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16 out of 40 people found the following comment useful.
Disappointing., 19 February 2007
Author: Scunner from Edinburgh

(Contains spoilers).

Whilst I love 'Rome' as a series and have been able to live with the historical inaccuracies in the cause of creative licence up until this point their mauling of the battle of Philippi and rewriting of the deaths of Brutus and Cassius was a step too far. I mean if they were allowed to fictitiously go down heroically fighting why not have given Caesar a sword and let him take out a few conspirators before being overwhelmed? It's not as if their real deaths by suicide weren't dramatic/tragic/moving enough without ridiculously hollywoodising them and as for the battle itself, while I understand the constraints of cost even in show with such a healthy budget, a mere hint of it lasting two days during the first of which Octavion was essentially defeated by Brutus would have been nice.

Another problem I had was Pullo chatting nonchalantly to Cicero before murdering him, he came across as a completely unbalanced psychotic rather than the only mildly unbalanced psychotic we've all grown to love.

Great series, bad episode.

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