Talk:Quo Vadis (1951 film)

Has anyone actually seen Elizabeth Taylor's cameo?

The article says Sophia Loren was an extra and Elizabeth Taylor had a cameo. I just rewatched the film looking for them and saw neither. I can understand not being able to identify an extra, but by definition a cameo appearance is one where the person can be identified. Does anyone have information on where Elizabeth Taylor appears? If she isn't in the film, or if her scene ended up on the cutting room floor, the article should be corrected.

Thanks.

Ellis Solros (talk) 08:46, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

Someone literally put direct false information in the page. I just watched the movie and it would be out of character for Lygia to have any slaves. I deleted the false information. 72.91.96.96 (talk) 22:47, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

Sophia Loren plays Marcus Vinicius' slave, and she is easily recognized in her scene. At least, for heterosexuals. It's early in the movie.AaronCBurke (talk) 09:31, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

Marcus does not have a female - or male - slave throughout the film. His uncle Petronius offers him a female slave called Eunice as a gift, which he declines. She is not played by Sophia Loren. The actress is Marina Berti. (Some people need to have their eyes tested, whatever their sexual orientation might be.) On IMDb Trivia someone has attempted to identify Sophia Loren with the redhaired girl who throws a flower to Marcus during his Triumph, but this girl looks nothing like her. Sophia's mother was also an extra on the film. Both of them are probably lost among the thousands who appeared in the crowd scenes. Elizabeth Taylor was one of the Christians in the Circus prisons. A single frame of her has been posted on Google Images. It doesn't appear in the film. You can also find a frame of her from her Technicolor screentest for the role of Lygia, before she was replaced by Deborah Kerr. O Murr (talk) 10:30, 9 March 2018 (UTC)

French painting the model for the arena scene?

I saw an art exhibition recently in Paris of the works of Gérome, a 19th century French artist. One of his paintings looks eerily like the scene in the arena and makes me wonder if it did not serve as the model for that scene. Does anyone have any information on this? Thanks. 212.157.116.18 (talk) 17:29, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

There are at least three paintings by Gerome set in a Roman Circus: "Pollice Verso" (1872), "The Christian Martyrs' Last Prayer" (1883) and "Departure of the Cats from the Circus"(1902). They all show the same style of Circus architecture, and they may have been intended to represent Nero's Vatican Circus, where the first Christian persecutions occurred in AD64. They probably did serve as a partial model for the art directors' version of the Circus. The broad red-brown strip running all round the Circus wall in the film is identical to the one in all three paintings. O Murr (talk) 11:09, 9 March 2018 (UTC)

In Joke?

In one scene Leo Genn's character says to Nero,"Isn't that taking 'Art for Art's Sake' too far?" MGM's motto is "Ars Gratia Artis" or "Art For Art's Sake".94.196.105.174 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 22:15, 26 August 2012 (UTC)

Ever noticed how, in the poster for "Quo Vadis", the letter stylus is the same for the heading in Jack Kirby's "Fouth World" comic book series "THE NEW GODS"? It would seem that "King Kirby", ever known for his lofty, inspiraing work probably took inspiration from the film, as both the movie and the "New Gods" graphic novel series deal with themes of revelation, celestial trasition of destiny, etc.  I know that no other book author has used this lettering style since.  --65.88.88.73 (talk) 20:17, 8 March 2014 (UTC)Veryverser

Henryk Sienkiewicz

Henryk Sienkiewicz was a famous Polish writer. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.107.196.217 (talk) 12:39, 27 December 2014 (UTC)