Never saw a comment about Claude's performance in this movie. He did great performing as Caesar! An iconic role for an iconic man like him.

@HaakonOdinsson

2 ай бұрын

Yeah he’s a great actor and did a damn good job of Caesar

The haunting beauty of Leigh transcends all!

@mahnoorfatima331

4 жыл бұрын

she looks like a goddess

@grazianairno5941

3 жыл бұрын

Yes but Virna Lisi is betterr🇮🇹👸

@MissDaisy-jr8vt

2 жыл бұрын

She looks very much like Hedy Lamar. ❤

I love this. Cleopatra after Caesar's advice on being a queen "This is not happiness, but it is greatness."

@joefairweatherblues8511

2 жыл бұрын

🤔

Leigh's dramatic talent was grossly underappreciated. It was her extraordinary beauty that captured imagination and held one spellbound.

@AndSendMe

Жыл бұрын

I'm not sure it was underappreciated. She got some tremendous roles. This was not a great use of her talent though. It does little credit to her, and none to Cleopatra.

@coloraturaElise

Жыл бұрын

The beauty could catch your attention, but not hold it without the charm that she also possessed.

@MrRight1000

Жыл бұрын

@@coloraturaElise True. But let's face it - Vivien had a face to die for The 'Cunning Pattern of Excelling Nature' 😺

Playing Cleopatra, Leigh's showing more "hauntedness" in her beauty and her transformation from a very young girl to an increasing sensuous (and murderous) siren. She's superb in the scene of her deceitful defense of her order to have Pothinus killed. What a performance!

Vivien’s voice is truly exquisite.

An absolutely fabulous film; My favorite of the "Cleopatras". Vivien Leigh IS fantastic!

@apong.konyaknaga3580

2 жыл бұрын

Same here😊😊😊bcs of Cleopatra movie I cried alot😊😊😊😊😊

@lydiabell6218

4 ай бұрын

She is unforgettable in Gone With the Wind, as is Clark Gable.

Claude Rains and Vivien Leigh were superb. Loved this movie.

Vivien Leigh and claude rains acting is superb

@kennethandersonru1562

Жыл бұрын

much better movie than the one with taylor

Vivien was such a beautiful woman, I can't stop looking at her. ❤

@Duseika72

2 ай бұрын

beautiful lady

Omg I couldn’t love Vivian Leigh more …she is the cutest Cleopatra ❤

The costumes that Cleopatra wore in this film were just magnificent. I have to say hers may have been better than the Elizabeth Taylor’s Cleopatra costumes. 🐒🧜‍♀️

@chaturongarchary9773

3 жыл бұрын

Dont forget Miss Colbert 's in the 30s before these movies.All clothes apparently depended on their production period...There was another one in the 50s by Rhonda Fleming , as well...

@MrRight1000

2 жыл бұрын

Taylor's costumes were monstrously inadequate.

@aramhamparsomian6183

Жыл бұрын

My🎉🎉🎉

@teo3798

Жыл бұрын

I agree regarding the costumes being magnificent. No one will ever fill them out the way Elizabeth Taylor did.

@ibaattard5184

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely better than Elizabeth Taylor’s performance

This is one of the greatest films ever made, and is far superior to the original play.George Bernard Shaw's screenplay is magnificent, and Vivien Leigh and Claude Rains are excellent in the respective roles.Vivien Leigh is lovely and enchanting in her role as Cleopatra,and should have been nominated, and won, an Oscar for Best Actress.The scene where Cleopatra realizes that the man she met at the Sphinx is really Caesar is one of the most memorable moments in Cinema History.

@velvetbees

2 жыл бұрын

I have to agree. The script is magnificent.

@perniciouspete4986

6 ай бұрын

Nah.

love how cleopatra haunts the sphinx in the opening.. this film is brilliant! 😼

Sublime Vivian Leigh. 💙💙💙

Beautiful 1945 Technicolour and great British cast. Setting was a bit like a stage play in terms of dialogue, but I think the relationship between the flirtatious Vivian Leigh still at the height of her beauty and the stately velvet voiced Claude Rains, they managed to make the wordiness enjoyable. Nice costumes and props but the backgrounds were like painted flats; I suppose that is to be expected with the high lighting requirements of technicolour film. Thanks for posting!

@peterkerj7357

4 жыл бұрын

It is a stage play.

@gloriamontgomery6900

4 жыл бұрын

Caesar and Cleopatra was written by the playwright George Bernard Shaw. It is a play.

@youtoo2072

3 жыл бұрын

THIS MOVIE IS THE SHAKESPEARE TAKE OF JULES AND PATTY!

@AnnaLVajda

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah most actors had stage skills then seemed more professional no need for 100 takes and cgi to entertain an audience. Scripts performances were more valued I would think then.

@CLASSICALFAN100

Жыл бұрын

Painted Flats would be a good name for a goth band...lol

My favorite cleopatra movie with Vivian Leigh

@user-bp1yx5cq7m

24 күн бұрын

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A superbly enjoyable film, with Leigh’s acting the equal of her beauty. One of the few films featuring Claude Rains in the title role, but his acting is exceedingly impressive. There are many other actors here, each of which bring nuggets of wonder to their role. The scene is set from the start, when Leo Genn, Stanley Holloway and Alan Wheatley exhibit high diction and authority. But there are many others, such as Michael Rennie, Stuart Granger, Francis Sullivan, Ernest Thesiger, Felix Aylmer, John Laurie, Flora Robson (superb) Kathleen Harrison and Cecil Parker. The scenes often involve hundreds of extras and are generally well constructed. The script is humorous in parts which sits well with the production. In summary, a cinematic gem and underrated film.

@seymourskinner2533

Жыл бұрын

Maybe just let us watch the movie without your narration?

@CLASSICALFAN100

Жыл бұрын

@@seymourskinner2533 "...without your narration?"...**WONDERFUL REPLY!!** Everyone could use less KZread word-play...lol

It’s amazing watching these films 77 years later good old you tube

Excellent watch.. Claude Rains is one of my favorite actors of all time...👍🌎😇.....

@Emanresuadeen

2 жыл бұрын

Claude Rains was the invisible man. Then something went wrong for Fay Wray and King Kong. They got caught in a celluloid jam.

The actors (and visual richness) make this play-on-film quite enjoyable, with that easy, more contemporary (circa '45) sense of delivery and pacing, ie without the usual overinflated and often pompous style of line delivery and stance. Very amusing in Shaw's satirical musings. And one could certainly go on about Leigh's beauty and talent, as well as Rains' expected lively, nuanced performance. Good spirited cast, all around (though that may be stating the obvious.) Quirky and fun long-overlooked (I think) historical retelling.

Wonderful to see this play acted by such a magnificent cast.

This is a better production than I first thought. Very interesting the way Claude Reins as Ceaser teaches Celopatra how to be a queen.

This has always been so good . One of the best films .

All the actors voice sounds very good prounounciation pause speaking in one breath is very good of the highest class

Claude Rains Skill Still Reins & Vivien Leigh is Beauty, Lovely Eternal!

Not a bad movie at all...remember, this was 1945...all the sets were either on site, or constructed...no CGI!! Thank you for the upload!

@bookerjones8123

4 жыл бұрын

I like the unreal look of the sets; this isn't about actual Romans and Egyptians, it's British actors dressed up like Romans and Egyptians, speaking witty British dialogue. Plus, that rich color!

@bryansammis998

4 жыл бұрын

Plus, this was just after WW2. People need a change

@coreys2686

4 жыл бұрын

Not all practical sets. There's extensive use of matte paintings.

@zvimur

4 жыл бұрын

This is Theatre on Screen. We're talking George Bernard Shaw here. As British playwrights go, second to Shakespeare only.

@eshaibraheem4218

Жыл бұрын

@@zvimur Irish.

Excellent movie. Amazing use of the English language from 1898. Sophisticated concepts. Wow

I liked her much more than Elizabeth Taylor. ET was a stunner but I found her pretty one dimensional. Not a thing wrong with that but Vivien could be childlike, vixenish, strong and I think she was great in this. Claude Rains great and he & Rex Harrison were equally magnificent I thought.

@youtoo2072

3 жыл бұрын

AMEN!!

@valkyriesardo278

3 жыл бұрын

Agree. ET was an astonishing beauty, but I think her acting when down the tubes after Burton. She started picking up his abominable vocal inflections. However, she was good in Giant and better in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. The one exception, she was a delight in Taming of the Shrew.

@debrasaunders7200

3 жыл бұрын

@@valkyriesardo278 Elizabeth was perfection in Whose Afraid of Virginia Wolf

@moncaman1

2 жыл бұрын

Oh my God excellent comment you could have said it any better God bless Long live those movies they are forever movies hard work no computers to enhance anything except the hard work involved I am so amazed when I watch these movies it just gives me chills God bless...🙏😇...

@xhagast

Жыл бұрын

There was a LOT of Shaw's Ceasar in Rex Harrison's Ceasar. Taylor's Cleopatra might have been more realistic but I love Leigh's

The opening speech if Cesaer to the Sphinx in the desert night was brilliant in explaining the Roman and Egyptian philosophies if the times then, as well as futuristic in explaining what we have since uncovered about the building of those civilizations and the various theories that did not exist at the time this version of the movie was made in 1947!! It was totally awesome!!! I never noticed it before, but, as I am much older and have been exposed to the newer theories on the ancient wonders like the Sphinx n the Nile River and the question of their inceptions!!! Applause to Claude Rains!!!

@abdul-kabiralegbe5660

9 ай бұрын

This eloquence here is exactly why you were chosen for the 1963 version, Liz.

Thank you kindly for sharing this epic film. 💚💜 Love + Light beautiful souls xx 🧜🏻🌻🐈

Loved this. Very many thanks, Retrospective. But the comments of so many viewers, who do not seem to know what they are watching, are astonishing. They are told at the beginning that it is Shaw's play. It's not Shakespeare directed by Cecil B deMille, thank God!

This is the first time I have seen it .it’s amazing it’s all in colour ,and there costumes they have on .

:) I’ve been looking for this film since seeing it on TCM in the 80’s ❤ Thank you!

Very nice movie thanks for posting

Ya...I thought I had seen all the movies with Cleopatra...surprise, surprise...thanks

Gorgeous movie!

This is more a theatre then a movie - but it is beautiful 😁

Flora Robson is amazing in the role of Ftatateeta, the nursemaid and assassin.

Lovely movie beautiful characterization

V L was awesomely superb as Cleo!

@user-bp1yx5cq7m

24 күн бұрын

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An excellent performance.

thought I was watching one of Mel Brooks Spoof movies of the 70's too funny and Vivien is over the top

@victoriajarvis2260

2 жыл бұрын

Me too. I watched it without the sound...deaf...with subtitles, and it is absurd.

I always loved this movie 🎥 cleopatra even the one with Elizabeth Taylor I liked the way they looked both actors were very good 😌 actors

Very entertaining, quite comical.

Thank u dear thank u❤❤❤

Claude Rains, I love you.

@zvimur

4 жыл бұрын

That's..... visible. 😉

Leigh slipped and fell making her lose her child to Olivier during this film. The event began a downward spiral for her.

@eddiewillers1442

5 жыл бұрын

You could tell it was after the Lighthouse scene. In it she was so young and buoyant. And in the next scene she looked downcast and years older.

@melvina628

3 жыл бұрын

@@eddiewillers1442 Timecode: 01:12:33 - 01:18:37

@eddiewillers1442

3 жыл бұрын

@@melvina628 Thank you.

@juliadawnyel3648

Жыл бұрын

Such a shame what could be a great drama with great talented actors turned into a comedy

Leigh is brilliant, but Shaw's depiction of Cleopatra as an amoral kitten is annoying given how savvy and smart the real woman was, even by the age of 21.

@AishaVonFossen

3 жыл бұрын

Couldn't have said it better myself. I like Elizabeth Taylor because she always had a strength, maturity, and dignity to her portrayal. :) I mean, could you imagine if this Cleopatra tried to deal with the battle and aftermath of Actium? She'd be running and crying for Caesar every other second. LOL

@Brembelia

3 жыл бұрын

This presentation was a showcase for Caesar and Claude Rains. I sincerely doubt Cleopatra ever acted like a (forgive me) brainless bimbo. Cleopatra spoke as many as a dozen languages fluently, was schooled in math, astronomy, geography, philosophy, oratory and diplomacy. She was far from being just some sex kitten. For this reason, I prefer the Taylor portrayal of this influential queen.

@AishaVonFossen

3 жыл бұрын

@@Brembelia Word!

@divinerevelations9504

Жыл бұрын

I was thinking this

@FlipDahlenburg

4 ай бұрын

@@divinerevelations9504 Why do women insist on confuting intelligence with low cunning? Beware of Greeks bearing gifts, ladies!

this is a Great movie the dialogue and quick banter is amazing. great actors.... Vivien Leigh "cleopatra" is stunning and naive...and also bloodthirsty lol

CLEO=kata kunci...PATRA= AMARTA=Air MAta Rindu Tercerahkan Akhlak...penyemangat kehidupan...

MAGNIFICA COMO SIEMPRE

Best movie ever❤

It's a 1945 movie based off a play. Yes it's not the greatest but it is ten times better than the 2019 CATS. I remember watching this in class when I was in school.

@user-bp1yx5cq7m

24 күн бұрын

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Este filmes são da minha infância me faz lembrar do passado quando eu vi eu tinha 10 anos. Ja se passarão muito tempo.🤔

Cercherò di vederlo in italiano, basta dire che recita Vivien Heigh ,, per piacermi : diva meravigliosa. Indimenticabile, tutti i suoi film stupendi, indimenticabile interprete e immortale: Via col vento. Di Leo Diana

so beautiful

@user-bp1yx5cq7m

24 күн бұрын

ಎಸ್

Mamma quanto é bonooo clauddeeee😍😍😍😍

Best movie ❤❤❤

Michael Rennie as 1st Centurion - who went on to greater things!

Love Claude rains

“When stupid men are doing something they are ashamed of, they say they are doing their DUTY.” Granger’s line about the Romans. I wonder, this film was made in 1945, what came first, the script to this film or the NUREMBERG TRIALS ???

@zvimur

4 жыл бұрын

Most of the script is a direct lift from the 1898 play.

@FlipDahlenburg

4 ай бұрын

I find this quote in every quote book I've looked through! And many more of his quotes are excellent and true.

There are so many awesome and awful things about this movie...

Where to watch full movie???

... Rains clomping about in those elevator sandals was almost as funny as Dame Flora routinely trucking uphill in first.

Unbelievable. What a script. I couldn’t bear a fraction of it.

@youtoo2072

3 жыл бұрын

IT WAS MANUFACTURED TO MEET THE STANDARDS OF TEENAGE MOVIE GOERS THAT SUFFERED WITH SHAKESPEARE DURING THEIR SCHOOL DAY HOURS, AND IT DID AT LEAST HELP GET THEM INTERESTED TO TRY TO READ THE OLD 'REAL' STUFF !LOL! THINK UNIVERSALLY AS THE FILMAKERS WERE TRYING TO WITH THIS.. INSTEAD OF HOW IN DECADES SINCE STUFF THAT IS NOTHING BUT MISERY IS SHOVELED AT US /IM NOT SAYING BE GRATEFUL , NOOOOO, NOR LAUDE THIS NECESSARILY, BUT JUST LET IT BE ENTERTAINING UNSCARING BY COMPARISON!

@leanie5234

2 жыл бұрын

D'Lou: I must agree with you. It's very old Hollywood...terribly silly. I can never get myself to admire these old movies (although they are certainly admirable).....I say "the emperor has no clothes".

@ironlady6897

2 жыл бұрын

More of a comedic farce than any kind of historical treatment. I found Leigh's Cleopatra childish and silly, bearing little to no resemblance to the historical accounts of the Queen. As the victors, the Romans talked quite a bit of smack about Her Maj that has survived to this day: she was in reality quite a woman, a capable and shrewd ruler, literate, multi-lingual, and reputedly the first in the Ptolemaic line in many generations who even bothered to learn the Egyptian language! The costumes and sets are nice, though, and I very much like that the odd person may become irreversibly bitten by the history bug.

I must confess I'm rather puzzled by the comments on this film! First of all, it's Bernard Shaw, he wrote SATIRICAL plays. That means that this is NOT about Ancient Egypt, or Rome. Or even necessarily Cleopatra. It had more to do with political and economic issues in England at the time of its writing. Likely to do with the British Empire and the state of the government and royalty. Shaw was, after all, a socialist. Second, I'm quite shocked to read what everyone's saying about the acting. These were the greatest British actors of their day! Many of them were Royal Shakespeare. Yes, the style of acting has changed, thanks to Hollywood. But frankly, I prefer this more classical style to the expletive littered, overwrought, and personality based American method of "building" a character (if you can call it that). Of course, there's no accounting for taste. I'm sure sooner or later Hollywood will put out another, "historically accurate" Cleopatra film, replete with an "inclusive" cast and script that, of course, reflects EXACTLY what people, motives, and ideas were like at the time of Caesar and Rome. Because Hollywood is always making art now, isn't it?

@hudsony777

3 жыл бұрын

I had seen bits and pieces of this on TV when I was growing up. How nice to see it from beginning to end with its wonderful humor and inimitable cast: my two favorites, Leigh and Rains (and some may recognize Ernest Thesiger, or Dr. Praetorius, of "The Bride of Frankenstein"). It is puzzling when some viewers don't recognize wit and satire set against history.

@bohomouse8890

3 жыл бұрын

You hit the nail right on the head

@suziecreamcheese211

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly!

@xhagast

Жыл бұрын

This movie is good. It made me laugh and had lots of great moments and great acting. Screw modern acting style, this movie was interesting and went fast. It entertained me. It is art. Hollywood can make documentaries for all I care. Only Hollywood and SJWs can turn a British play 150 years old into something shallow.

@perniciouspete4986

6 ай бұрын

I'm very happy for you that you're so much better and smarter than the rest of us.

penyemangat kehidupan tidak mengharapkan apapun ...

Thanks for this. How many people noticed Jean Simmons among the extras? Cheers.

@esmeephillips5888

Жыл бұрын

Future wife of Stewart Granger, also in it.

@nenabunena

4 ай бұрын

Can you pinpoint the time stamp?

Loved this movie. If onlu the companies of today and people would be as proud of the jobs and themselves. 😊

I think she plays a better Cleopatra than Elizabeth Taylor

Not the fault of the one who posted it. I did not give a thumb down.

It is not accurate historiccally. But it was written once by George Bernard Shaw.. Vivien Leigh is Magical! Claude Rains has alwAys impresse me. So you hAve to decide a history that 100% truth or beauty from every picture.

@FlipDahlenburg

4 ай бұрын

Both the play AND this screenplay were written by GBS. And he knew his history perfectly well, and also how to get his points across.

@annranhem3417

3 ай бұрын

I read GBS every year because he is one of the greats. Hollywood, in 1945, the end of the ww2 makes Cleopatra something that fits the time and has nothing to do with being right. I saw the movie because it had Claude rains and vivien Leigh playing the lead.GBS came as a wonderful surprise, afterwards

I read that this was a difficult and unhappy movie to shoot for Ms. Leigh. She suffered a miscarriage during it, and had many other grueling difficulties.

This was my second favorite film version compared to Liz Taylor and Burton.

I truly loved both Vivien Leigh and Elizabeth Taylor's costumes and think both were extremely grand, but I think the colour quality of the film in 1947 when Leigh's costumes were filmed was not as poignant as the colour quality if the film in the early 1960's, when Taylor's costumes were filmed. If you ever notice a movie from the 1940's, 1950's, 1960's the colour quality and the look of the atmosphere is different from the 1970's n 1980's, and you can always date a 1970's film by the feel of the colour quality in the atmosphere of the picture or film itself. I hope you can understand what I am trying to describe!!! Therefore, the costumes filmed in different colour quality would be just as magnificent as the ones filmed in Taylor's time period making all the costumes as well as both the wearers fantastic!!!

R.I.P Tatatita

Kesayangan tdkadatek ina

Also, even the men's costumes were extremely embellished and detailed and coloured in both movies, as well, but the same theory applies.

THUMBS DOWN . While i do love the players as magnificent members of theater aristocracy the script is so far from reality its broad comedy. The ads every five mins made a one hour film two and a half. Had to stay to see Leigh and Rains but will quickly advise not to bother.

ಅತ್ತೂತ್ತಮ ಚಿತ್ರ ❤❤

Is this film available in Hindi or urdu?

Life turn to far distances of golden era.

This is a farcical history lesson. How much is fact, and how much is fiction? Just enjoy the ride.

I like these old epics. Leigh and Rains were both good actors. But I forgot this one was made in 1945. I was done as soon as she started beating the black slave, who was portrayed as ignorant and cowardly. Some things, like this movie, are better left in the past.

@suziecreamcheese211

2 жыл бұрын

I agree but black people getting roles at all was rare especially in a major film. I think he was there for comic relief and did his job well. But the whipping scene was cringe worthy.

@charlesm7589

2 жыл бұрын

@@suziecreamcheese211 True, Blacks getting any role was rare back then. As far as comedic relief, what's funny to one man is another man's centuries-long insult. Consider how the Hebrew slaves played by white actors in The Ten Commandments were largely portrayed as noble or heroic. At the very least, they were acknowledged as victims. Besides, did the slave in this picture have to be black? Or was rhat just what felt comfortable to the white American public at the time? Still, there has been great progress since this movie was made. From being a cowardly, adle-brained slave back then to being the Superhero King of Wakanda! :)

@davidvincentkimel6919

2 жыл бұрын

It was that very scene where she fell and had her miscarriage.

Tatatita to be thrown into the nile to poison the crocodile very well said Vivien Leigh

Had to see this when I noted who was in the cast - terrific character actors & Leigh couldn't look lovelier. Especially enjoyed watching actors well known from other films like Thesiger, Rennie, Sullivan, Genn, Robson. The boy who played Ptolemy went on to direct "The Lion in Winter" (Anthony Harvey). My fave thing is Claude Rains in his wedgies to make him a bit taller. Thanks for the memories.

00:01:40 huge horseman - his shadow drops over the whole landscape😄

Another British film good cast romance

Tatateeta awesome.

@FlipDahlenburg

4 ай бұрын

Yes, but would you want her for your mother-in-law?

The costumes are great and Vivien is gorgeous but the script is trash.

@valkyriesardo278

3 жыл бұрын

Agree. She is a joy to watch. I love the blue headdress with her pale skin. She positively glows. She is such a kitten, adorably cute with needle sharp claws.

@rajdeepsingh6308

3 жыл бұрын

Alas! The humour and satire of the playwright couldn’t be depicted in theatre.

This was a sumptuous treat. I'd rate this above the Burton-Taylor version slightly. But both these versions are absolutely light years ahead of the unmentionable and unrepeatable dross that Netflix put out as a factual 😂😂😂documentary lol.

Not true history. She had a son by him

@roxyshow123

4 жыл бұрын

It's a play by George Bernard Shaw.

@benoitpellet1657

3 жыл бұрын

Ît’s not supposed to be true history. It’s a witty play by George Bernard Shaw.

@theblackericacane329

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you and he 🥰 her how could they make a whole movie 🎥 and leave out the most important Part!,,

@thomasgansevoort929

3 жыл бұрын

@@theblackericacane329 Ericia go on the net and look up "suspension of disbelief" then watch the film again.

I like this version and liz's version, which was obviously more costly.

R=pakar=karna=risky febian...penyemangat kehidupan...

Film needs restoration.

She was olso good in movie gone white the wind

Not a good movie. It's only for gazing on Vivien Leigh's beauty. She was quite stunning here.

@michelleayres5608

11 ай бұрын

Yes. Vivian Leigh could do a film reading the phonebook. I'd watch.

@redwandennaoui4508

10 ай бұрын

On the contrary it was a great movie

@sandracepoi1178

7 ай бұрын

It’s after a play by George Bernard Shaw

@heatherhinde6544

7 ай бұрын

I disagree. It is not meant as a historical drama but as a tongue in cheek comedic nod to the classics, which is exactly what it is....tongue in cheek, over- played and thoroughly enjoyable.

@doraphase

5 ай бұрын

That does put me off a bit, but at least it does somehow stand out than other movies. I like Shaw's wit here.

She caught consumption (tuberculosis) when she film this in Africa 😢

Wow Vivien was truly stunningly beautiful! 😍😍😍 But the story has changed heaps from how it actually went. Hope no school kids watch this & go off it like a study guide. They'd fail big time! Least the cleo patra with Elisabeth Taylor was more historically accurate. But still dramatised in different ways. 🤔why let the truth get in the way of a good story, I guess!🤔