Quo Vadis

The movie Quo Vadis really surprised me because I was not expecting it to be as religious as it was.  When we watched Ben-Hur I was expecting a lot of really religious scenes for that movie and since we did not get that much religion in Ben-Hur I was not expecting as much religion as was shown in Quo Vadis.  I have to say that out of all of the movies that we have watched so far, Quo Vadis, is my favorite.  It was a little long? Yes, but it was really enjoyable to watch.  I thought Nero was a very complex character and I found myself waiting to see when the villains of the movie were going to show up because I wanted to know what other ridiculous thing they were going to do.  In this case I think that the villains were the ones that stole the show.  Nero, as the crazy artist/ruler, would constantly make me crack up all throughout the movie, even when he set all of Rome on fire, I know it was supposed to be a dramatic scene and in a way it was but all I kept looking at were the faces that Nero was making and I though that Peter Ustinvo did such an amazing job as Nero and bringing that comedic factor into the movie and making the audience have a love-hate relationship with this character, I could not help but love him because he would constantly make me laugh but I also hated him because he was such the perfect villain.  I think that the way that Peter Ustinvo played Nero added to the whole feeling bad for looking concept that was mentioned in lecture, while watching the movie I felt bad because even though I was rooting for Nero to be killed, at the same time I did not want anyone to kill Nero yet because I wanted to know what else would happen throughout the movie and he was such an important character for this movie, if Nero would have died at the beginning of the movie then the movie would not have led to anything. The storyline very much relied in the character of Nero.  This movie so far is my favorite and I cannot wait to see if any of the other movies changes my mind.