Caligula The Ultimate Cut (1980/2023)

“Caligula: The Ultimate Cut,” which runs 157 minutes and was made using 96 hours of Brass’ original footage, is very different from Guccione’s cut. The revived film’s producer Thomas Negovan “Approached this new version from a neutral perspective,” say the production notes.

“His desire to elevate the actors gives greater strength to the narrative and provides a new approach to the Emperor Caligula’s madness,” they add and go on to point out: “Another feat is that not a single shot from the original film was used, which makes “Caligula – The Ultimate Cut” a completely new feature film.”

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Chukzombi said:

Tinto Brass makes porn too. his GF Lina Romay starred in a lot of his films where she gets plowed and sucks cocks. if those Caligula scenes were added by Bob, then he must have added them because Brass wanted more money.

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'Caligula' Wasn’t Supposed to Be a Porno

How this big-budget Ancient Rome sextravaganza starring Helen Mirren, Malcolm McDowell, and Peter O'Toole became a movie so bad that Roger Ebert walked out of his screening.

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But Caligula wasn’t supposed to be a porno movie. Not exactly. Yes, there would be ample nudity of both the male and female variety. And sure, Guccione had personally flown a bevy of his magazine’s voluptuous Penthouse Pets to Italy to appear as horny extras. But it didn’t start out as the hardcore film that would end up playing in theaters. It was still being hyped as a lusty historical drama from the sophisticated quill of Gore Vidal starring some of the world’s most respected actors. It would be Ben-Hur with titillating dollops of nudity. Not Ben-Hur with oral, anal, and money shots.

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As the budget on Caligula started ballooning— eventually soaring past $17 million—Guccione began to get a little antsy. That’s when he decided to put his fantasies of becoming the next David O. Selzick on hold and reverted back to what he was and always had been: a realist, a pornographer. Sensing that there was no way he could recoup his costs on the film, he decided (unbeknownst to his writer, director, and stars) that he needed to take control of the film back from director Tinto Brass. Guccione snuck onto the set late at night and stealthily shot hours of graphic triple-X inserts to splice into the film. The result would be a weird, bloated Frankenstein monster of theatrical overacting and close-up copulating that all buts rubs the audience’s nose in gore and genitalia.

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Caligula (film) - Wikipedia

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Brass decided not to focus much on Danilo Donati's elaborate sets, and intentionally kept the Penthouse Pets in the background during sex scenes, sometimes not filming them at all. Guccione later said that Brass, apparently as a joke, would focus on "fat, ugly and wrinkled old women" and have them play the "sensual parts" intended for the Penthouse Pets.[19] Brass and Guccione disagreed about the film's approach to sexual content; Guccione preferred unsimulated sexual content that Brass did not want to film

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A few weeks after filming had concluded, Guccione and Giancarlo Lui returned to Rome along with several Penthouse Pets. Guccione and Lui "hired a skeleton crew, snuck back into the studios at night, raided the prop room"[19] and shot a number of hardcore sex scenes to be edited into the film.[32][33] The new unsimulated sex scenes included Penthouse pets Anneka Di Lorenzo and Lori Wagner, who appeared as supporting characters in Brass' original footage. Both performed a lesbian scene together.[19] Brass ultimately disowned the film[34] as a result, and the credits only list "principal photography by Tinto Brass".[36]

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