{"id":19722,"date":"2016-12-22T11:41:39","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T10:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/?p=19722"},"modified":"2020-04-17T08:07:45","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T07:07:45","slug":"chute-de-lempire-romain-de-anthony-mann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/2016\/12\/22\/chute-de-lempire-romain-de-anthony-mann\/","title":{"rendered":"La Chute de l\u2019empire romain de Anthony Mann"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ARTE diffuse <em>La Chute de l\u2019empire romain<\/em> (<em>The Fall of the Roman Empire<\/em>, 1963) de Anthony Mann lundi 26 d\u00e9cembre \u00e0 20h50. Le film sera \u00e9galement disponible en t\u00e9l\u00e9vision de rattrapage pendant sept jours, sur ARTE+7.<\/p>\n<p>Si <em>Quo Vadis <\/em>a relanc\u00e9 la mode du p\u00e9plum \u00e0 Hollywood au d\u00e9but des ann\u00e9es 50, <em>La Chute de l\u2019empire romain<\/em> de Anthony Mann va en sonner le glas lors de la d\u00e9cennie suivante. Cette superproduction de Samuel Bronston figure dans la liste des films les moins rentables de toute l&rsquo;histoire du cin\u00e9ma, avec seulement 1,9 million de dollars de recette en Am\u00e9rique du Nord pour un budget de plus de 20 millions de dollars. Cet \u00e9chec entra\u00eenera la faillite de Bronston, producteur ind\u00e9pendant qui s\u2019\u00e9tait sp\u00e9cialis\u00e9 dans les films historiques \u00e0 grand spectacle tourn\u00e9s en Espagne. Cette d\u00e9convenue commerciale, qui confirme l\u2019essoufflement du p\u00e9plum aupr\u00e8s des spectateurs am\u00e9ricain, peut s\u2019explique par l\u2019absence d\u2019une grande vedette masculine au g\u00e9n\u00e9rique. Charlton Heston et Richard Harris initialement pr\u00e9vus dans les r\u00f4les de Livius et Commode se d\u00e9sist\u00e8rent et furent remplac\u00e9s par Stephen Boyd et Christopher Plummer. Sophia Loren retrouve son r\u00e9alisateur et son producteur du <em>Cid<\/em> et se montre excellente trag\u00e9dienne dans le r\u00f4le de Lucilla, la fille de l\u2019empereur Marc-Aur\u00e8le, mais sa seule pr\u00e9sence ne parvint pas \u00e0 attirer en masse le public. <em>La Chute de l\u2019empire romain<\/em> m\u00e9rite pourtant d\u2019\u00eatre r\u00e9habilit\u00e9 et compte parmi les plus beaux films historiques hollywoodiens. Anthony Mann est un grand cin\u00e9aste qui signa plusieurs classiques du western et sa mise en sc\u00e8ne embrasse les d\u00e9cors naturels avec majest\u00e9. Cependant, c\u2019est dans les sc\u00e8nes intimes et les affrontements verbaux que le film atteint des sommets. Les auteurs \u2013 les sc\u00e9naristes Ben Barzman, Basilio Franchina et Philip Yordan &#8211; ont opt\u00e9 pour une approche adulte et s\u00e9rieuse de leur sujet, et pris la d\u00e9cision de privil\u00e9gier la r\u00e9flexion \u00e0 l\u2019action. Le film s\u2019interroge sur les origines et les raisons profondes de l\u2019effondrement de l\u2019Empire romain, \u00e0 son apog\u00e9e au d\u00e9but du r\u00e9cit. Il s\u2019appuie sur des faits historiques mais s\u2019oriente vers la trag\u00e9die shakespearienne, en contant une histoire de rivalit\u00e9, de jalousie et de folie au sein de la famille imp\u00e9riale, o\u00f9 la qu\u00eate effr\u00e9n\u00e9e du pouvoir conduit \u00e0 la trahison, au meurtre et \u00e0 la guerre. Ainsi <em>La Chute de l\u2019empire romain<\/em>, avec ses personnages n\u00e9vros\u00e9s \u2013 Commode, homosexuel parricide, inapte au tr\u00f4ne d\u2019empereur et fascin\u00e9 par la violence des combats de gladiateurs \u2013 ou d\u00e9chir\u00e9s par des dilemmes moraux, partag\u00e9s entre l\u2019amour et le devoir, rejoint l\u2019approche intimiste et psychologique de l\u2019autre grand p\u00e9plum de 1963, <em>Cl\u00e9op\u00e2tre<\/em> de Joseph L. Mankiewicz, chef-d\u2019\u0153uvre de d\u00e9mesure et d\u2019intelligence. Il accorde plus d\u2019importance aux dialogues \u2013 ce qui permet de savourer les interpr\u00e9tations des superbes com\u00e9diens britanniques Alec Guinness et James Mason \u2013 qu\u2019aux sc\u00e8nes spectaculaires, malgr\u00e9 le gigantisme des d\u00e9cors et de la figuration. Un hommage paradoxal fut rendu \u00e0 <em>La Chute de l\u2019empire romain<\/em> en 2000. Le triomphal <em>Gladiator<\/em> de Ridley Scott qui allait relancer la mode du p\u00e9plum \u00e0 Hollywood raconte la m\u00eame histoire que le film de Mann, sans que cette source d\u2019inspiration ne soit \u00e0 aucun moment mentionn\u00e9e, ni au g\u00e9n\u00e9rique ni lors de sa promotion.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ARTE diffuse La Chute de l\u2019empire romain (The Fall of the Roman Empire, 1963) de Anthony Mann lundi 26 d\u00e9cembre\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>La Chute de l\u2019empire romain de Anthony Mann - Olivier P\u00e8re<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/2016\/12\/22\/chute-de-lempire-romain-de-anthony-mann\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"fr_FR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"La Chute de l\u2019empire romain de Anthony Mann - 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