| [explaining how the studio ruined Annibale (1959)] My nicest scene, they cut out. I could not find any documentation or any explanation why Hannibal didn't take Rome after he defeated the Roman army at Cannae. Hannibal represented a dying civilization, the Carthaginians, and he was tremendously well-educated, knew that his civilization was moribund, was dying, and he also knew that the idea of democracy of the Roman republic was the coming thing, and couldn't get himself to destroy that - that was the future, and that's why Carthage did not let him come back. That's why he had to commit suicide five years later. The story actually should have been the tragedy of a man at that point in history when he sees his society dying and can see with his eyes what good will come - he cannot destroy it. But Warner Brothers threw it out - "much too philosophical". It was foolish. |
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