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  • Julius Caesar's arrival in Alexandria. Instead of having his soldiers fight their way through a crowded marketplace and causing a riot as the young pharaoh Ptolemy's advisers were hoping, he tells his men to follow his lead as he leisurely shops his way through!
    Ptolemy: (to Pothinus) You said the Romans were going to push the people back and make them angry! Why aren't they doing what you said they'd do?
    General Achillas: Your king has asked you a question Lord Chamberlain.
    Pothinus: The Romans have degenerative minds your most high majesty. They uh... do the unexpected.
    Achillas: Particularly one Roman. Master of the unexpected!
  • Cleopatra's grand and lavish entry into Rome.
    • The Italian extras clearly thought so as well, for they started cheering and calling Elizabeth Taylor's name in the middle of filming it.
    • Even though she bows to Caesar at the end, the sheer level of pageantry and charisma (not to mention all the wealth she just displayed) means the bow is mere theatre, and everybody knows it. The wink just seals it.

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