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Carry On Cleo
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This was Carry On series' take on the movie Cleopatra, with a fraction of its budget. It was released in late 1964, and is considered one of the best (along with Carry On Up the Khyber and Carry On Camping) out of the entire franchise. It stars Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Kenneth Connor, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Jim Dale, and Amanda Barrie, and used the old sets from the 20th Century Fox film. This film probably made more at the box office than the film it's parodying.The movie was the tenth made in the Carry On series, during the "heydays" of the franchise, according to many fans. It takes some references from William Shakespeare's tragedies Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra, as well as a few other quotes from his other plays. This film also contains a lot of Anachronism Stew, mostly to fit in with comedic tone of the series.Cleo begins in Ancient Britain, in which a group of Stone Age citizens are enslaved by the Roman army. Two members of the capture are Horsa (Dale) and Hengist Pod (Connor), two neighbors that have just acknowledged each other minutes before.After three years of settling down and conquering the British Isles, the exhausted Julius Caesar (Williams) and his army general Mark Antony (James) return to Rome, to be greeted by an angry crowd of citizens and Caesar's annoyed wife Calpurnia (Sims). Because of sheer stupidity, Ancient Rome becomes a part of a war between Ptolemy and Cleopatra (Barrie), so Mark is sent to kill them both. After one sight of the beauty of Cleopatra coming out of her asses' milk bath and wrapping herself up in her dressing gown, he decides to not kill her and hatches a plan to end Caesar's reign.Meanwhile, Horsa is bought at an auction by Gloria (Julie Stevens), a battle-axed woman who lusts over his looks, so he and Hengist decide to escape and hide in a temple for virginal women and eunuchs. Caesar, who is constantly tortured by Seneca's (Hawtrey) horoscope, visits the temple to get an accurate reading, followed by his Mooks, who have been told to have him killed. In the conflict, the bodyguards are killed, Horsa escapes, and the confused Hengist is mistaken as the killer. Overcome with relief, Julius makes him his new Commandant and personal bodyguard.Now Mark and Cleopatra's plan is ready to commence, giving Mark the excuse to have Caesar visit Egypt and discuss politics. The paranoid Caesar takes Commandant Pod along with him, grateful that he is far away from his wife yet again. Mutiny takes place on the ship, and Caesar's cabin is surrounded by sailors. This plan fails, much to Mark's annoyance, and the group arrives in Egypt. When waiting in his guestroom for further instructions, Caesar meets an oracle that shows him Cleo's actual intentions, which calls for a plan of their own for Caesar to find out what happens after the cliffhanger.Hilarity Ensues. | |
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Lovable Coward | |
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Lovable Coward: Caesar and Hengist. | |
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Daddy's Girl | |
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Daddy's Girl: Calpurnia to Seneca. Whenever her husband insults him, she immediately jumps in to defend him. | |
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The Ghost | |
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The Ghost: Ptolomy never appears in the story, and is mentioned by Cleopatra and Mark Antony a lot. | |
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Visual Pun: The Roman messenger that sends messages between Britain and Rome is rather hot-footed — you can tell because steam is coming out of his sandals. | |
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Lady Macbeth | |
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How Cleopatra convinces Mark to murder Caesar is the same way that Lady Macbeth convinced her husband to kill King Duncan by using reverse psychology towards his masculinity. | |
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Black Comedy | |
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Black Comedy: The soothsayer's premonition of Julius' death. Julius' actual murder in the Senate. The politicians line up silently and take turns stabbing him as if they're checking in at punch clock. | |
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Anachronism Stew | |
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Anachronism Stew: Hengist mentions that his mother was eaten by a dinosaur. Dinosaurs were long extinct by the time humans evolved. Ancient Rome was thousands of years after the Stone Age period, yet the British Isles are stuck in this time frame. On top of that, the Stone Age people have contact with Boudicca, whose army is apparently filling the role as the British Army in this universe, who was from the Celtic era. On top of this, Hengist and Horsa were, according to legend, Jutish chieftains who arrived in England in, at the earliest, 447 AD, during the reign of Vortigern, over three and a half decades after Rome had abandoned Britain, not within three years of conquering it! Horsa mentions asking for help from Boudica and her army, despite the fact that Boudica was long dead by 60AD. Caesar and Mark talk about the natives they've just enslaved moaning about "tea" and "crum-pet", wondering whether they're gods that the British pray to. There was no emperor's throne in Caesar's time, nor was he an emperor. Caesar mentions spaghetti, yet no form of pasta was invented at the time. Charles Hawtrey's character is called Seneca, but neither Seneca the Younger nor Seneca the Elder were old enough to have adult children during the reign of Cleopatra. In addition, his glasses are from 1948 and Calpurnia's real father was actually Piso. Calpurnia's mirror is made of made of glass, not polished metal as mirrors were at the time. Caesar and Calpurnia's bed has pillows, when it should have had a curved stone or metal headrest. The bed is also too lavish for the time period. Eucalyptus shouldn't have been available in Europe until the 17th century. The Latin alphabet didn't have a letter "W". Brutus claims the film is set during the Roman Empire, despite the time period taking place during the Roman Republic. There were no eunuchs in Rome. Hengist creating a Venus de Milo by accidentally cutting off Venus' arms pretending to reenact his fight with the bodyguards. One of the slaves can briefly be spotted wearing modern red underwear. | |
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Dirty Old Man | |
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Dirty Old Man: Seneca, who lies in the bath most of the time with many attractive female servants. Mark, who betrays the army in order to get on the "good side" of Cleopatra. | |
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Beauty Equals Goodness | |
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Beauty Equals Goodness: As with many Sid James characters, Mark just assumes that Cleopatra is the typical Straw Feminist who is trying to rule the empire because she wants to get back at men for not finding her desirable. The moment he sees her beauty, he immediately decides to betray the Roman Army. | |
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The Dreaded | |
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The Dreaded: How Julius uses Hengist, relying on his false reputation to keep the Senate and others in line. Only Antony seems to see through it... | |
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Blood on the Debate Floor | |
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Blood on the Debate Floor: Much like history, Caesar is murdered by his government when he returns home from successfully defeating Cleopatra. | |
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Bungling Inventor | |
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Bungling Inventor: Hengist, who is trying to invent the wheel, but has only managed to make a wagon with squares attached to them. | |
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Brits Love Tea | |
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Brits Love Tea: | |
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Agony of the Feet | |
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Agony of the Feet: The scene with the messenger ends with Caesar getting two stone tables dropped on his feet. Which had already been in pain to begin with due to gout. | |
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Does Not Know His Own Strength | |
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Does Not Know His Own Strength: Hengist is shown as a weakling in the movie, yet manages to break Cleopatra's bed in two in his drunken state when he jumps on it. | |
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Fortune Teller | |
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Fortune Teller: Jon Pertwee as the soothsayer. | |
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Mad Oracle | |
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Mad Oracle: Seneca is portrayed as this, moaning and twitching about the "Ides of March" and annoying Julius Caesar. Although a vague prophecy, the March gets its own back on Caesar, leaving a smug Seneca to mumble "I told you so" at his dead body. | |
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Et Tu, Brute? | |
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Et Tu, Brute?: Ironically attempted to be defied by Julius when he sees himself with a dagger in his chest in the soothsayer's vision. It isn't until it's too late that he discovers that Mark and Cleopatra have teamed up to kill him and Hengist. The final stab is from Brutus in the senate. | |
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Pint-Sized Powerhouse | |
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Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Invoked and averted, because Hengist was only in the right places at the right time to be seen as this by the other characters. | |
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"I Know What We Can Do" Cut | |
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"I Know What We Can Do" Cut: When the slaves on the ship to Egypt attack the guards and escape, everyone frets over who will steer the ship. Next thing the viewer knows, Antony, Julie and Hengist are sitting in the galley rowing with the oars. | |
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Inventing the Wheel | |
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Inventing the Wheel: Hengist Pod tries to create the wheel, but constantly makes squares. But the wheel has already been invented, at least in Ancient Rome. England and the rest of the British Isles are still in the Celtic (and Stone Age) era. | |
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Mistaken for Badass | |
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Mistaken for Badass: Hengist Pod is concussed hiding under a table while his badass neighbor, Horsa, takes out a squad of legionnaires and makes good his escape. With all the witnesses dead the authorities assume Hengist is the badass swordsman and he is made personal bodyguard to Julius Cesar... Hilarity Ensues. | |
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Plot Hole | |
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Plot Hole: It is strange that Stone Age people like Hengist and Horsa can write and read. | |
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Punny Name | |
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Punny Name: Sosages, Cleopatra's bodyguard. Lampshaded by Antony. | |
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Artistic License – Military | |
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Artistic License – Military: When the Romans attack Hengist and Horsa's village, they are wearing red capes. However, the Romans never wore their capes in battle. | |
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Understatement | |
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Julius' angry wife Calpurnia is rather annoyed that her husband was away from home for three years, and fears that it's because she's probably not desirable to him anymore. When she finally gets a chance, Julius has hired a bodyguard to watch over them as they sleep, and she's not really happy about it. | |
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Henpecked Husband | |
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Henpecked Husband: Julius Caesar towards Calpurnia, although her flirtaious attempts to make him agree to make love with her fail miserably. Hengist to Senna. | |
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The Comically Serious | |
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The Comically Serious: Sosages, doubling as a Silent Snarker. | |
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"No" Means "Yes" | |
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"No" Means "Yes": Hengist is unable to explain to Julius that he didn't slaughter any of the soldiers in the Vestal, and didn't mean to, Caesar is too delighted to listen, making him his bodyguard on the spot. | |
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Bodyguard Betrayal | |
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Bodyguard Betrayal: Caesar's head bodyguard, Bilius, attempts to kill him 'for the good of Rome' to his startled surprise. Luckily the attempt is foiled by Horsa, while Hengist gets the credit. | |
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Mobile Shrubbery | |
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Mobile Shrubbery: Seneca hides in a giant pot and wanders to Cleopatra's bedroom to watch whether Julius' plan to stop his murder will work. Mark catches the pot walking into the room from his hiding place under the bed and is rather confused. | |
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Made a Slave | |
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Made a Slave: Horsa and Hengist. When Hengist is mistaken for a professional soldier slayer, Julius thinks that it would be a waste of time to throw him into the gladiator industry. Meanwhile, Horsa is captured again and forced into slavery again. | |
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Unsuspectingly Soused | |
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Unsuspectingly Soused: Hengist drinks a liquid to calm his nerves as he pretends to be Caesar for Julius' plan. It turns him into an over-confident and horny man who throws Cleopatra onto her bed and launches himself on top, breaking the bed in two. | |
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Slave Market | |
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Slave Market: One of the many stock Sword and Sandal story tropes that shows up along the way. | |
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Femme Fatale | |
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Femme Fatale: Cleopatra, who plots murder and is a keen manipulator. It's unclear however whether Cleopatra actually likes Antony or just wants to rule both Rome and Egypt. Events at the end of the film imply the former, as they're still together despite the plan failing. | |
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Hollywood Prehistory | |
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Hollywood Prehistory: The Britons are portrayed as dinosaur-hunting cavepeople at the time of the Roman Empire. Rule of Funny applies, obviously. | |
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Accidental Art | |
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Accidental Art: The case of Hengist, who cuts off the Venus de Milo's arms. | |
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The Speechless | |
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The Speechless: Cleopatra's bodyguard, since he's mute. | |
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Mid-Battle Tea Break | |
| Carry On Cleo / int_961518ca | comment |
Mid-Battle Tea Break: Discussed (and implied to be the British Army's case) by Mark. It's even the page quote of the trope. | |
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Visible Boom Mic | |
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Visible Boom Mic: The shadow of one passes through the shot when Caesar and Mark discuss Cleopatra. | |
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Chick Magnet | |
| Carry On Cleo / int_9858c391 | comment |
Chick Magnet: Horsa. Hengist's wife flirts with him once she finds out that he's their new neighbor, even though her oblivious husband is in earshot. | |
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Bowdlerisation | |
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Bowdlerisation: When aired on British daytime TV, like many Carry On movies, this one is heavily edited with Double Entendre, Accidental/Innocent Innuendo and suggestive collisions taken out. | |
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Sword and Sandal | |
| Carry On Cleo / int_98e1780e | comment |
Sword and Sandal: The film does a pretty good job of working through and parodying many of the genre's stock tropes. | |
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Not Now, Kiddo | |
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Not Now, Kiddo: Much of Seneca's omens are dismissed as this. | |
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General Failure | |
| Carry On Cleo / int_a01f88a7 | comment |
General Failure: Julius Caesar. If you know the history of the Roman emperor, it wouldn't comes as a surprise. | |
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Embarrassing Middle Name | |
| Carry On Cleo / int_aa9fcfed | comment |
Embarrassing Middle Name: Senna was a nice name until she married someone called Pod. | |
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The Queen's Latin | |
| Carry On Cleo / int_b4a7b5ef | comment |
The Queen's Latin: Like Cleopatra, no actor in this movie is Italian or Egyptian. Bit jarring when the actual British characters arrive in the narrative. | |
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Gossipy Hens | |
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Gossipy Hens: Julius, implied. | |
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Demoted to Extra | |
| Carry On Cleo / int_b8e3f20a | comment |
Demoted to Extra: Despite being one of the main characters in Julius Caesar, Brutus hardly gets any screen time, to the point of the viewer questioning whether he's actually there. | |
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Prophecy Twist | |
| Carry On Cleo / int_bb5126ec | comment |
Prophecy Twist: Despite successfully managing to defeat Mark and Cleopatra, Caesar is still stabbed to death ... by his own government. | |
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UnfortunateName | |
| Carry On Cleo / int_bcd0b49b | comment |
Unfortunate Name: The woman that buys Horsa has the initials "W C", which is what is tattooed near Horsa's elbow. Hengist cannot hold back his giggles. Hengist's wife is named Senna; a pretty name — "until I married someone called Pod." (Senna Pod is a laxative.) | |
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Insane Troll Logic | |
| Carry On Cleo / int_c5f0119c | comment |
Insane Troll Logic: Why Hengist Pod makes square wheels. | |
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Shout-Out | |
| Carry On Cleo / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: During his speech to the senate, Caesar lapses into a Winston Churchill impression. When Hengist is found delirious after the assassin ambush, he collapses into Mark's arms unconscious making Mark laugh "What a carve up!", which could be a reference to the horror-comedy film What a Carve Up! that was released about the same time as this movie, which featured the two actors as the leading duo. "Infamy, infamy - they've all got it in for me!" is a reference to a British radio show called Take It From Here, but it's practically impossible to find someone who knows that. The narrator says that Julius will tell the Senate about his idea of "the winds of change", which is a reference to a speech Prime Minister Harold Macmillan made in 1961. Caesar is apparently emperor of Rome because he failed the XI plus exam. Seneca can be heard singing a parody of "Home Sweet Home" in one scene. | |
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Cassandra Truth | |
| Carry On Cleo / int_cf92fea8 | comment |
Cassandra Truth: Seneca keeps making dramatic predictions which get ignored by Julius. Played for Laughs because Caesar regards him as a fool, but then takes it seriously when he sees a vision of himself stabbed in the chest. | |
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Affectionate Nickname | |
| Carry On Cleo / int_dcd423d2 | comment |
Affectionate Nickname: Julius has "Julie" used by Mark, and he calls him "Tony". Cleopatra calls Mark "Marky". | |
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Awful Wedded Life | |
| Carry On Cleo / int_deecc9eb | comment |
Awful Wedded Life: After being abandoned for three years by her husband, Calpurnia is hoping that Julius' return will lead to a romantic evening, but it is constantly interrupted by either his interest in something else or Hengist guarding their bedroom. | |
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Faction Motto | |
| Carry On Cleo / int_e1f942b6 | comment |
Faction Motto: "Nihil expector in omnibus." note "No spitting on public transport." | |
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Ambiguously Gay | |
| Carry On Cleo / int_e34400ab | comment |
Ambiguously Gay: Cleopatra's adviser Archimedes talks in a stuffy, haughty lisp, and hobbles around flamboyantly. Seneca, implied. When he talks about a vision of half-naked women with see-through clothing, and Calpurnia dismissing this by assuming that, "he's been eating cheese again". | |
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Big Guy, Little Guy | |
| Carry On Cleo / int_e38d605 | comment |
Big Guy, Little Guy: The tall Horsa to the short Hengist. | |
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Slippery Skid | |
| Carry On Cleo / int_e3d5ba34 | comment |
Slippery Skid: In the introduction of Cleo (shown bathing in her asses' milk), an unknown Roman soldier (presumably either Brutus or Antony) marches in, slips on a bar of soap and falls into the bath. | |
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All Women Are Lustful | |
| Carry On Cleo / int_e41a9801 | comment |
All Women Are Lustful: Julius' angry wife Calpurnia is rather annoyed that her husband was away from home for three years, and fears that it's because she's probably not desirable to him anymore. When she finally gets a chance, Julius has hired a bodyguard to watch over them as they sleep, and she's not really happy about it. The women held in the vestal temple. When Horsa and Hengist sneak into their room, they immediately treat them like kings. | |
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Camp | |
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Cleopatra's adviser Archimedes talks in a stuffy, haughty lisp, and hobbles around flamboyantly. | |
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Epic Movie | |
| Carry On Cleo / int_e9784ee6 | comment |
Epic Movie: The movie is a parody of the epic Cleopatra movie that starred Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. Apparently, this parody did better than the original in the UK box office. | |
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Period Piece | |
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Period Piece | |
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Incredibly Lame Pun: | |
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Tagline | |
| Carry On Cleo / int_f51f4509 | comment |
Tagline: "The funniest film since 54 B.C.". | |
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Running Gag | |
| Carry On Cleo / int_f9f2c33 | comment |
Running Gag: Julius Caesar begins a speech with "Friends! Romans!" and is then interrupted by people who think he's forgotten the rest of the introduction with "Countrymen?", to which Julius replies angrily "I KNOW!!" They're even his final lines when he is stabbed. | |
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Have a Gay Old Time | |
| Carry On Cleo / int_fa6bfde9 | comment |
Have a Gay Old Time: And given the Reality Subtext, this trope is practically lampshaded. | |
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Comically Missing the Point | |
| Carry On Cleo / int_fbd285b7 | comment |
Comically Missing the Point: During their plan to kill Caesar, Cleopatra gives Mark Antony a poisonious asp, stating that one bite can kill a man. Mark proceeds to bite the poor thing's head off, and complains about the taste. | |
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Accidental Unfortunate Gesture | |
| Carry On Cleo / int_fd8cc713 | comment |
Accidental Unfortunate Gesture: Julius signals "two" with his fingers, with his hand inverted to Sosages. He nearly throws him off the balcony. | |
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Brick Joke | |
| Carry On Cleo / int_fe0330fb | comment |
Brick Joke: Near the beginning, Seneca the seer tells Julius "Beware the ides of March" but gets ignored. Sure enough, near the end, he gets killed and a smug Seneca goes "Told you so". | |
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