1. What movie is the picture from?
2. What movie is this quote from?
"Madness. Madness."
3. What movie is this?
It was a propaganda extravaganza commissioned by
Benito Mussolini to fire up Italians for the upcoming conquest of the new Roman
Empire. It was produced by his
twenty-one year old son Vittorio, but we can assume daddy was very
hands-on. It was the most expensive
Italian movie up to then as Benito spared no expense. It paid off as the movie won the Mussolini
Cup at the Venice Film Festival. That
must have been a shocker! Mussolini
“convinced” the army to provide a
division of extras. But more infamously,
numerous elephants were used and some did not survive (the ones with poor
agents). The soldiers were soon sent to
Ethiopia after production ended.
Hopefully the ones who wore wristwatches in their scenes were put in the
front lines.
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