[lbo-talk] LBO Goes Crazy

[BklynMagus]

> And that scene where the black gladiator kills the roman 
senator instead of his supposed enemy is everything you 
ever need to know about class warfare.

All the scenes at the gladiator school were shot by Anthony 
Mann who was then fired by producer/star Kirk Douglas.

Douglas brought in Kubrick wih whom he had worked on PATHS 
OF GLORY to complete the shoot, and one of the reasons for 
the split personality of the film is that you have the mise 
en scene of Mann and Kubrick (not natural allies) wrestling 
with Trumbo's script and the nuances of all three confronted 
by the bombast of Douglas' performance (he was starting to 
evince the inflexibility that become the defining hallmark of 
his later career).

Brian