Movie Analysis - Spartacus

Introduction

Spartacus is an American film and the director of this film is Stanley Kubrick. This film was released in 1960 and it was released by the Universal Pictures. After few years in 1967 this film was released again with some modifications in it. The modifications were done based on political and historical basis. Later after many years it was released again in 1991 and many of the scenes were included that were omitted in previous releases. This historical film has won 4 international Oscar awards in all of it series.

The film Spartacus is based on American history and classical dramatic film which is based upon the novel written by Howard Fast. The novel written by him was also based on the same name “Spartacus”. The story of the life portrayed in this movie is based on the historical figures and the events of 3rd Servile War. These aspects are acted and displayed by Dalton Trumbo.

Many of the scenes are the famous scenes till today since the film was released in different periods. One of the most famous scenes is of the Crassus and his body guard, Antonius. The roles were shot on Laurence Olivier and Tony Curtis. It was the most famous scene and it is more commonly known as the scene of snails or the scene of oysters.

Discussion

The historical and classical film “Spartacus” got the huge success and got the highest rate in the box office. The film was selected for the nomination of 6 Oscar awards but the film got four Oscar awards. One of the won awards included for the character role of brilliant Ustinov on the basis of his supporting role.

Historically the film was highlighted successfully and the film generated a large number of revenues but there were also some errors that were found ...