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It is often said that “a picture is worth a thousand words”, but when it comes to Antiquity and its interpretation by an artist, sometimes these pictorial, sculptural, literary or cinematographic representations do not help us historians at all. , since they lead the viewer to believe them at face value, producing serious errors that become so entrenched in society that our task of extirpating them becomes quite complicated and, even more so, when films and novels are considered as valid as if they were essays and there is no critical vision of them. So it is very important to always keep in mind the premise that any of the arts that use an image of the past does not have to be reliable, since it is an interpretation of the artist. Pollice verse gladiators Pollice verso (), oil on canvas by Jean-Léon Gérôme (-), Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona. The case of Jean-Léon Gérôme's painting entitled Pollice verso () is well known , which has perpetuated the image of the end of the gladiators ' lives indicated by a thumbs up or down.
This interpretation has been reproduced to such an extent that today it has become an icon and is part of our daily lives in emoticons on social networks or on mobile phones. A wrong image. Something similar to Gérôme's painting is what happened with B2B Email List the idea that women in Roman spectacles were a mere sexual object , an erotic icon and even a pornographic vision that served to rekindle the most basic sexual instincts of the ancient Romans. . But although the denial of the pictorial work of art seems more plausible to us, the same does not happen with films, which, in general, are understood by the public as fictionalized documentaries. Big mistake. The sign of the cross Promotional poster for the film The sign of the cross (), released in Spain under the title The sign of the cross . It was not until that the image of a gladiatrix appeared in the cinema and it was in the masterful work titled The sign of the cross , a Paramount film, directed and produced by Cecil B.
DeMille and starring Fredric March, Elissa Landi, Claudette Colbert and Charles Laughton, based on the novel of the same name that Wilson Barrett wrote in This is not the first version of this novel, which had already been brought to the big screen on two previous occasions: once by the British Sigmund Lubin in and another in , also by Paramount and directed by Frederick A. Thomson. The sign of the cross. The woman in the Colosseum The plot of The sign of the cross , which in Spain can be seen under the title The sign of the cross , takes place in Nero's Rome after the famous fire, when the emperor looks for the Christians guilty of burning the city to bring them to justice. the sand and there execute them. The protagonist, Marcus Superbus, prefect of Rome and a pagan, falls madly in love with the Christian Mercia, who is the daughter of one of the ringleaders who instigated the fire. So far a simple story, but DeMille did not want to stop there and added a strong sexual charge to the plot , so during the film scenes take place (remember that the film is from ) of orgies, sadism, male and female homosexuality, sexual harassment… which managed to reach the market without any cuts, because the “censorship code” had not yet been established.
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