Spartacus was a man who seeked freedom. To be free of slavery, oppression, & injustice. He is forever a sign of hope for those who seek to rise above injustice, & will forever be seen as one of the masculine figures in history.
Anyone who could watch this scene and not cry would have to have be as cold-hearted as a reptile. One of greatest scenes and great movies of ALL-TIME. We are ALL SPARTACUS!!!
Nothing touches this. Alex North, Kubrick, Kirk Douglas & Peter Ustinov. Cinema history. My love my life. Says it all. Played it 20 times tonight. Still not enough! Part of 'my life'.
Dear RUclips friends: One more Kubrick's masterpiece. Mr Kirk Douglas and Ms Jean Simmons must have won the OSCAR. A great work and and a great movie, wonderful and touching soundtrack. Unforgettable scenes. Unmatcheable! Great cast most of all the British actors. Thank you for uploading! (PEOPLE PLEASE STOP KILLING ANIMALS! STOP EATING MEAT! STOP WEARING FUR/LEATHER!ThankyouAdemar(Brazil))
This scene always reduces me to a bubbling pool of mush... the acting , the Alex North music! And thank you for uploading more of that as well after the scene Love like this hurts, but you know...the lack of it hurts very much more. Go for it.
Some people make one hundred good songs, but to make one great one we should doff our cap. This is beautiful. This tune will be 50 years old next year but in reality its timeless. Great film, great musical score & ageless in its beauty. Alex North & Kirk Douglas I salute you!
This is the only ending of a hollywood movie that moves your heart and makes your mind think deeper at the same time. For what is it worth fighting for, the lost cause, the death on the cross. He faught for his wife and child to be free and the "God of slaves" answered his prayers.
This is THE most tear-jerking movie I've ever seen, EVER, bar none. It does it to me every time. The acting with phenomenal Jean Simmons, the score, the crucifixions on the Appian Way, it all added up to something deeply meaningful. Spartacus is one of the historical figures I would love to meet. He won 11 major battles against the Roman Empire and no one can figue out how he did it so he must have been extraordinary. .
Having love for something that is good and good for people is a blessing from God. We truly are blessed but the best is yet to come. This movie strikes such deep seated empathy and compassion. Have a great day!
Thanks for uploading. Marvelous and unequalled. I was cutting through a specialty food store to get to the supermarket where I shop and they began to play the Love Theme from Spartacus. I couldn't leave. I ended up shopping there and spending much more money. But I left a much richer man.
A scene, a movie of epic beautiful proportions. I can't let the beauty of this scene go - the music, the words, the hope, oh how beautiful. Life without freedom would not be life at all. Thank you dear God for giving us all the opportunity to
My favorite movie of all time. What a cast..Tony Curtis, Sir Lawrence Olivier, Peter Ustinov, Kirk Douglas..Charles Laughton..I know almost every line, and the soundtrack is amazing...
How touching and all enthralling. The tender beauty and compassion of people desirous of life with freedom. Truly a fantastic scene. How does one not shed a tear. The day will come when such sorrow and reason for tears will vanish and our dear God will make all things right. Spartacus and Varinia can live together forever!!!
Spartacus was a man who seeked freedom. To be free of slavery, oppression, & injustice. He is forever a sign of hope for those who seek to rise above injustice, those who seek to use revolution to make the world a better place, & he will forever be seen as one of the most masculine-& free figures in history.
This film is pure cinema, all directors and film makers should use this picture as a template on how to make pictures,because movies today are absolute rubbish. I truly believe that the art is lost.With the key elements of great cinematography, memorable music score and actors who can truly act you will have a movie that will endure for years!!!!!
SO heartbreaking--a scene that NEVER leaves you once you've seen it, it's sad but powerful because Spartacus saw his son and learned he'd be free because of him--Jean Simmons was amazing in the scene and Kirk Douglas even moreso, saying it all with his eyes, his expression. The score is so poignant and beautiful.
Jean Simmons was to die for anyway. The music in this last scene is superb. The finale as they drive off with the background soundtrack - triumphant even in defeat,
This is one of the most touching but depressing scenes I've ever seen in any movie. For Varinia to have to say goodbye to the man she so deeply loves in such tragic circumstances! And he, being nailed to a cross, can't embrace his new son. The only thing that triumphs is an idea he spawned.
@Beethovens7th Agree...and the music makes it more so. North's manipulation of emotions here is obvious, yet hauntingly beautiful. It's a pity that we will never see the like of this kind of movie making ever again. Mr. Douglas...I know you still look at RUclips from time to time. This was your master work...true art and a credit to you and the glory that was Hollywood.
yes he was one of the famous figure who had fight for freedom and justice! i love that hero and the movie makes a real good story about his life! by the way the music is so amazing that it increase the emotion every time we heard it all along the film.
Yep: Makes me tear a bit everytime I see it as well...One my three favorite Alex North scores (and his three best...) (the other two, of course, being *Cleopatra* and *Rich Man, Poor Man*).
I always cry in this part of the film. His body was never found by the Romans after the actual battle. For the next few years they feared that he survived and lived to reagroup his followers. He probably was smuggled out of the battlefield wounded & died in some place else. But, he died free along with the others that day. That is somerthing That even the night of Rome could not take away from them. The captured were execute in this fashion & the rest sold into slavery, but they had free souls.
It's so emotional when she says that his son is ''free'', Spartacus who was born a slave fought for freedom of the slaves and died for it and then before he dies he can at least die knowing that his son was born free...
@smartalek1 The last shot is from Spartacus' point of view--he's watching the retreating wagon. The guy you see slumped forward is one of Spartacus' warriors.
And to think that this film was made to match Ben Hur out of Douglas's envy for Heston getting the role in that one. Not bad, impressive indeed a film by a master like Kubrik.
Feel free 2 laugh at my ignorance, but... Are we supposed to take it that when his head slumps back in the last 4 seconds of his last closeup (2:37-2:31), he's died? Esp since, in the long shot that follows, he's completely slumped forward, & definitely looks like he's passed? And if so, why would they show it 4 so short a time & make it seem ambiguous (if it's not just me missing the obvious, as I often do)? Thx in advance 4 any answers & thanks KARAVYO777 4 posting this beautiful scene
@rgani1 they originally cut the scene where she says " die, my love die.." because it was too negative, later it was put back in as Stanley Kubrick intended
@MrMCGardner Wow thank you for the response interesting bit of info never knew that. Kind of eery how almost everyone from this film is gone, just a few actors remain in my lifetime
Gentlemen, Spartacus was indeed caught. But he was not crucified. His body was dis-membered and his parts were place along the main roads into Rome. This was to send a message to all that would try rebellion again.
It's too bad Hollywood can't make movies like this anymore. Everything about this film from the soaring musical score, the acting, the scenery, the writing.....is so far superior to the crap movies Hollywood makes today. How can you compare a classic film like this to the Harry Potter type junk they make today?
yes definitly , yesterday i saw on TV his son Michael Douglas in the film "disclosure" but not the same aura, i prefer the acting of Kirk ^^ So charming! one of my favourite movie: Spartacus!!
Every time I watch this scene, I get so depressed. Not all films had a happy ending back then. Once in a while, you'll see an episode of Law and Order where the "good guys" lose, but nothing today compares to this. They didn't care if you left the theater laughing or crying...as long as the movie affected you. DAMN, this scene sucks!
It was and is still impossible for me to believe the Roman Tribune did not suspect something. Yet he went out of his way NOT to question Varinia. There is no way he didn’t see her talking to Spartacus and showing him his son. Also, he didn’t order his men to search the wagon. Certainly Marcus Lucinius Crassus would have wanted her back, yet the Tribune didn’t even say anything to her. He didn’t even question who she was. I still wonder why. Could Spartacus have once saved or spared his life? Was he bribed by Cicero? Was he under orders from Caesar or Pompey or Lucullus to let them go? EDIT: Suggestions? Comments? Ideas?
When Spartacus was captured, and he was, the Romans cut his body up in pieces and sent them to different parts of Rome on main highways, as a warning to others who would attempt rebellion against Rome.
Woman: "He's free, Spartacus. Free. HE'S FREE! HE'S FREE!" Spartacus: "YES, YES WOMAN, STOP RUBBING IT IN MY FACE!" Woman: "Oh my love, my life, please die, die." Spartacus: "Why thanks, I wasn't suffering enough already, your tender words of love are like a balm to my aching heart. And body. And arms. Just fuck off, will you?"
Aaaaand, this is reason number three million and something why classics like this will be INFINITELY better than than the overly CGI'd crap Hollywood spews out today. Seriously. However, there are still some movies that are CGI'd AND have good acting. Harry Potter are good movies. With an AMAZING cast!!!
Spartacus was a man who seeked freedom. To be free of slavery, oppression, & injustice. He is forever a sign of hope for those who seek to rise above injustice, & will forever be seen as one of the masculine figures in history.
Anyone who could watch this scene and not cry would have to have be as cold-hearted as a reptile. One of greatest scenes and great movies of ALL-TIME.
We are ALL SPARTACUS!!!
Nothing touches this. Alex North, Kubrick, Kirk Douglas & Peter Ustinov. Cinema history. My love my life. Says it all. Played it 20 times tonight. Still not enough! Part of 'my life'.
Dear RUclips friends: One more Kubrick's masterpiece. Mr Kirk Douglas and Ms Jean Simmons must have won the OSCAR. A great work and and a great movie, wonderful and touching soundtrack. Unforgettable scenes. Unmatcheable! Great cast most of all the British actors. Thank you for uploading!
(PEOPLE PLEASE STOP KILLING ANIMALS! STOP EATING MEAT! STOP WEARING FUR/LEATHER!ThankyouAdemar(Brazil))
This scene always reduces me to a bubbling pool of mush... the acting , the Alex North music! And thank you for uploading more of that as well after the scene
Love like this hurts, but you know...the lack of it hurts very much more. Go for it.
Modern films makers take note....this is how a film should be made....no cheap computer trickery,just stunning photography,and a brilliant story.
Some people make one hundred good songs, but to make one great one we should doff our cap. This is beautiful. This tune will be 50 years old next year but in reality its timeless. Great film, great musical score & ageless in its beauty. Alex North & Kirk Douglas I salute you!
This is such a powerful scene. I watched this movie last night, and at this ending, I won't hesitate to admit it, I cried, and cried, and cried.
This is the only ending of a hollywood movie that moves your heart and makes your mind think deeper at the same time. For what is it worth fighting for, the lost cause, the death on the cross. He faught for his wife and child to be free and the "God of slaves" answered his prayers.
This is THE most tear-jerking movie I've ever seen, EVER, bar none. It does it to me every time. The acting with phenomenal Jean Simmons, the score, the crucifixions on the Appian Way, it all added up to something deeply meaningful. Spartacus is one of the historical figures I would love to meet. He won 11 major battles against the Roman Empire and no one can figue out how he did it so he must have been extraordinary. .
the most beautiful soundtrack for love theme , ever made!
Magnificant! A powerful story and wonderful score!
Having love for something that is good and good for people is a blessing from God. We truly are blessed but the best is yet to come. This movie strikes such deep seated empathy and compassion. Have a great day!
Thanks for uploading. Marvelous and unequalled.
I was cutting through a specialty food store to get to the supermarket where I shop and they began to play the Love Theme from Spartacus. I couldn't leave. I ended up shopping there and spending much more money.
But I left a much richer man.
A scene, a movie of epic beautiful proportions. I can't let the beauty of this scene go - the music, the words, the hope, oh how beautiful. Life without freedom would not be life at all. Thank you dear God for giving us all the opportunity to
RIP andy and evry1 who brings this classic and the story of spartacus to new generations
The guy who posted this is a genius!!!!!
Classic Film one of the best of all time !!!!
love the end title. amazing
My favorite movie of all time. What a cast..Tony Curtis, Sir Lawrence Olivier, Peter Ustinov, Kirk Douglas..Charles Laughton..I know almost every line, and the soundtrack is amazing...
How touching and all enthralling. The tender beauty and compassion of people desirous of life with freedom. Truly a fantastic scene. How does one not shed a tear. The day will come when such sorrow and reason for tears will vanish and our dear God will make all things right. Spartacus and Varinia can live together forever!!!
one of the great movies of all time.
Spartacus was a man who seeked freedom. To be free of slavery, oppression, & injustice. He is forever a sign of hope for those who seek to rise above injustice, those who seek to use revolution to make the world a better place, & he will forever be seen as one of the most masculine-& free figures in history.
You all have right.This score give me goosebumbs every time u hear it.Thanks for posting and keeping that way. :)
One of the all time classics this particular scene one of the saddest ever filmed
Yeah, this tears me up every time.
breathtaking last scene. Spartacus to Crassus..... " he'll come back as millions"
What a scene! what a music! what a cast! what a film!
Long may the memory of Spartacus survive, may he be remembered as the slave who fought back
yessssssssssssss i've looking for it a while!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thanks then! most beautiful music ever!
This film is pure cinema, all directors and film makers should use this picture as a template on how to make pictures,because movies today are absolute rubbish. I truly believe that the art is lost.With the key elements of great cinematography, memorable music score and actors who can truly act you will have a movie that will endure for years!!!!!
waouuu well written dear!! it'sa powerful movie during the music invade our hearts!
SO heartbreaking--a scene that NEVER leaves you once you've seen it, it's sad but powerful because Spartacus saw his son and learned he'd be free because of him--Jean Simmons was amazing in the scene and Kirk Douglas even moreso, saying it all with his eyes, his expression. The score is so poignant and beautiful.
Jean Simmons was to die for anyway. The music in this last scene is superb. The finale as they drive off with the background soundtrack - triumphant even in defeat,
This is one of the most touching but depressing scenes I've ever seen in any movie. For Varinia to have to say goodbye to the man she so deeply loves in such tragic circumstances! And he, being nailed to a cross, can't embrace his new son. The only thing that triumphs is an idea he spawned.
I was a kid when i saw this in 1997 and even though im 15 I fell in love with this movie
Echo what you said, an amazing emotional moment in the whole of movie history as far as I am concerned
Great film.. love Spartacus..
This is the only movie scene that has made me cry in all my life.
@Beethovens7th
Agree...and the music makes it more so. North's manipulation of emotions here is obvious, yet hauntingly beautiful. It's a pity that we will never see the like of this kind of movie making ever again.
Mr. Douglas...I know you still look at RUclips from time to time. This was your master work...true art and a credit to you and the glory that was Hollywood.
yes he was one of the famous figure who had fight for freedom and justice! i love that hero and the movie makes a real good story about his life! by the way the music is so amazing that it increase the emotion every time we heard it all along the film.
Spartacus...i love you! the legend will
always travel on...and on...respect to
you...Georginax
Best movie ever, expressing most important things in a human being,..
I cried like a baby.
I first watched this movie when I was ten years old and to this day, this scene as well as the "I am Spartacus" scene still bring tears to my eyes.
THANKS FOR POSTING KARVAY....
Alex North's score here is tops.
RIP Tony Curtis. Greatest film ever made.
The only film scene ever that has make me cry.
Terror and Power versus Humanity and Liberty.
And the Tragedy when the former triumphs... temporarily.
A truth that never fades.
Wow this soundtrack ... just wow!
BRILLIANT FILM....
this music ... goosebumps all over my body!
Yep: Makes me tear a bit everytime I see it as well...One my three favorite Alex North scores (and his three best...) (the other two, of course, being *Cleopatra* and *Rich Man, Poor Man*).
Every actor in this film was perfect!
I always cry in this part of the film. His body was never found by the Romans after the actual battle. For the next few years they feared that he survived and lived to reagroup his followers. He probably was smuggled out of the battlefield wounded & died in some place else. But, he died free along with the others that day. That is somerthing That even the night of Rome could not take away from them. The captured were execute in this fashion & the rest sold into slavery, but they had free souls.
It's so emotional when she says that his son is ''free'', Spartacus who was born a slave fought for freedom of the slaves and died for it and then before he dies he can at least die knowing that his son was born free...
I wonder how many takes director Stanley Kubrick demanded on this scene. He's notorious for his perfectionism and repeats.
@smartalek1 The last shot is from Spartacus' point of view--he's watching the retreating wagon. The guy you see slumped forward is one of Spartacus' warriors.
And to think that this film was made to match Ben Hur out of Douglas's envy for Heston getting the role in that one. Not bad, impressive indeed a film by a master like Kubrik.
Most touching scene ever
Feel free 2 laugh at my ignorance, but...
Are we supposed to take it that when his head slumps back in the last 4 seconds of his last closeup (2:37-2:31), he's died?
Esp since, in the long shot that follows, he's completely slumped forward, & definitely looks like he's passed?
And if so, why would they show it 4 so short a time & make it seem ambiguous (if it's not just me missing the obvious, as I often do)?
Thx in advance 4 any answers
& thanks KARAVYO777 4 posting this beautiful scene
Andy Withfield is a great man to he gets me so emotional to...............
Spartacus was the MAN.
"this is your son. he is free! he is free!"
2:03
No words needed
Based movie. We could use a Spartacus in America right now.
there are good films. There's at least one or two truly great films every year, no need to be so pessimistic.
I always cry like a baby in this scene.
@rgani1 they originally cut the scene where she says " die, my love die.." because it was too negative, later it was put back in as Stanley Kubrick intended
R.I.P.Jean Simmons!
@MrMCGardner Wow thank you for the response interesting bit of info never knew that. Kind of eery how almost everyone from this film is gone, just a few actors remain in my lifetime
my god mrpotatoehead you just took the word of my mouth..
Gentlemen, Spartacus was indeed caught. But he was not crucified. His body was
dis-membered and his parts were place along the main roads into Rome. This was
to send a message to all that would try rebellion again.
SPARTACUS TRUE LEGEND AND HERO
the series spartacus is FKING AMAZING!
Was anyone ever lovelier than Jean Simmons?
Greatest Last Scene. - E
Don't forget to give credit to the great Dalton Trumbull for the magnificent script of this film.
Men from many origins fighting for their right to live in peace and freedom... it should me a omen for times to come..
steven- i just gave you one thumbs up.....
Is there anyone who can watch that and not cry?
Kirk Douglas was a real man. You don't find these in Hollywood anymore.
It's too bad Hollywood can't make movies like this anymore. Everything about this film from the soaring musical score, the acting, the scenery, the writing.....is so far superior to the crap movies Hollywood makes today. How can you compare a classic film like this to the Harry Potter type junk they make today?
yes definitly , yesterday i saw on TV his son Michael Douglas in the film "disclosure" but not the same aura, i prefer the acting of Kirk ^^ So charming! one of my favourite movie: Spartacus!!
like"The Dying Gaul" Great Sculpture
Every time I watch this scene, I get so depressed. Not all films had a happy ending back then. Once in a while, you'll see an episode of Law and Order where the "good guys" lose, but nothing today compares to this. They didn't care if you left the theater laughing or crying...as long as the movie affected you. DAMN, this scene sucks!
R.I.P Ms. Simmons.
i wish I could find this song, man
It was and is still impossible for me to believe the Roman Tribune did not suspect something. Yet he went out of his way NOT to question Varinia. There is no way he didn’t see her talking to Spartacus and showing him his son. Also, he didn’t order his men to search the wagon. Certainly Marcus Lucinius Crassus would have wanted her back, yet the Tribune didn’t even say anything to her. He didn’t even question who she was. I still wonder why. Could Spartacus have once saved or spared his life? Was he bribed by Cicero? Was he under orders from Caesar or Pompey or Lucullus to let them go?
EDIT: Suggestions? Comments? Ideas?
When Spartacus was captured, and he was, the Romans cut his body up in pieces and sent them to different parts of Rome on main highways, as a warning to others who would attempt rebellion against Rome.
i fucken love this movie's soundtrack
please someone upload the soundtrack for this scene. plzzzzzz
Does anyone know why Anthony Hopkins was thanked in the credits??
Woman: "He's free, Spartacus. Free. HE'S FREE! HE'S FREE!"
Spartacus: "YES, YES WOMAN, STOP RUBBING IT IN MY FACE!"
Woman: "Oh my love, my life, please die, die."
Spartacus: "Why thanks, I wasn't suffering enough already, your tender words of love are like a balm to my aching heart. And body. And arms. Just fuck off, will you?"
Aaaaand, this is reason number three million and something why classics like this will be INFINITELY better than than the overly CGI'd crap Hollywood spews out today. Seriously. However, there are still some movies that are CGI'd AND have good acting. Harry Potter are good movies. With an AMAZING cast!!!
♫ Always look on the bright side of life. ♫
Further; not all where killed in the ensuing battle. Many survived to recount and record what had happened. Many where returned as slaves.
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