Bruno

Discussion (5) ¬

1. 
   ronald

   October 18, 2017 at 11:12 pm | #

   To overthink things (why not?), Bruno’s reply indicates that she knows where the quote comes from but doesn’t necessarily know what it means, since the words “and you” in and of themselves have nothing to do with killing anyone.
2. 
   Christopher

   October 18, 2017 at 11:48 pm | #

   Dije says this (have jokingly)as if she’s betraying him (by leaving) as well. Caeser says it when he recognizes Brutus as one of his assassins. Right? Am I remembering wrong?
3. 
   ronald

   October 19, 2017 at 8:35 am | #

   Correct. It’s more colloquially expressed as: “What, you too? SERIOUSLY?!”
4. 
   Starry Gordon

   October 19, 2017 at 10:13 am | #

   I think Bruno does recognize what it means, and chooses pretty explicitly to ignore its meaning. She’s rejecting Dije’s claim on her loyalty, and on top of that, making a clever joke out of the rejection — a twist of the knife.
5. 
   Peter Rogan

   October 20, 2017 at 4:47 pm | #

   Actually, Caesar’s last words make the actual transaction clear: “Then fall, Caesar!” For Brutus was known to be one of the most honorable and just of the Romans. If even he sanctioned the killing, Caesar knew he must be on the wrong side.

   Punchline: His nephew pursued and killed or forced into suicide all of Caesar’s killers, Brutus as well. After disposing of Marc Antony and his opportunistic partner Cleopatra, he returned to Rome to establish state control in himself. With the tribunican, the consular AND the magisterial powers in his hands (and Pontifex, chief priest of all temples) and a name change from ‘Octavian’ to ‘Augustus,’ Caesar’s nephew reformed the laws and made it appear the Republic was restored, a fiction even the Senate gave up in AD 2 when they pronounced him ‘Pater Patriae’ — ‘father of his country.’ And so the Republic passed, and the Empire was founded. A more complete monarch over Rome than even Julius had tried to be. [Applause]

   Bruno neatly extracts herself from that complicated trap. The Caesar salad line is good.