“Cleopatra” (1963), a conversation about a Blockbuster

Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa assess prestige kitsch and consider carrying a spathae to defend a London-born Egyptian matriarch.

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Referenced media:

• “My Fair Lady” (George Cukor, 1964)
• “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” (Mike Nichols, 1966)
• “Rome” (John Milius, William J. MacDonald, and Bruno Heller, 2005-2007)
• “All in the Family” (Norman Lear, 1971-1979)
• “Kill Bill: Volume 1” (Quentin Tarantino, 2003)
• “Kill Bill: Volume 2” (Quentin Tarantino, 2004)
• “National Velvet” (Clarence Brown, 1944)
• “Doctor Dolittle” (Richard Fleischer, 1967)
• “Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope” (George Lucas, 1977)
• “Star Trek” (Gene Roddenberry, 1966-1969)
• “Flaming Creatures” (Jack Smith, 1963)
• “Bye Bye Birdie” (George Sidney, 1963), 
• “Hud” (Martin Ritt, 1963)
• “The Nutty Professor” (Jerry Lewis, 1963)
• “The Terror” (Roger Corman, 1963)
• “The Little Shop of Horrors” (Roger Corman, 1960)
• “Jason and the Argonauts” (Don Chaffey, 1963)
• “PT 109” (Leslie H. Martinson and Lewis Milestone, 1963)
• “The Great Escape” (John Sturges, 1963)
• “Blood Feast” (Herschell Gordon Lewis, 1963)
• “Beach Party” (William Asher, 1963)
• “Flipper” (James B. Clark, 1963),
• “The Cool World” (Shirley Clarke, 1963)
• “The V.I.P.s” (Anthony Asquith, 1963)
• “Dementia 13” (Francis Ford Coppola, 1963)
• “Tom Jones” (Tony Richardson, 1963)
• “The Haunting” (Robert Wise, 1963)
• "High School Confidential" (Jack Arnold, 1958)
• “Cleopatra” (Cecil B. DeMille, 1934)

 Audio quotation:

• “Cleopatra” (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1963), including “Overture” and “Requiem”, written by Alex North
• “Indiana Jones Whip sound FX” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joMQ4A1n4NU
• “Theme from “The Dick Van Dyke Show”, written by Earle Hagen, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK_8QW8LO-c