1:00:04
Who are they to lecture me?
1:00:07
Commodus, the senate has its uses.
1:00:10
What uses?
All they do is talk.
1:00:14
It should be just...
1:00:16
you and me...
1:00:17
and Rome.
1:00:18
Don't even think it.
1:00:19
There's always been a senate.
1:00:22
Rome has changed.
1:00:23
It takes an emperor
to rule an empire.
1:00:26
Of course,
but leave the people their...
1:00:28
Illusions?
1:00:31
Traditions.
1:00:33
My father's war
against the barbarians...
1:00:37
He said it himself: it achieved nothing.
But the people loved him.
1:00:40
The people always love victories.
1:00:42
Why?
1:00:44
They didn't see the battles.
1:00:46
What do they care about Germania?
1:00:49
They care about
the greatness of Rome.
1:00:51
The greatness of Rome.
1:00:55
Well, what is that?
1:00:59
It's an idea...
1:01:01
greatness.
1:01:06
Greatness is a vision.
1:01:08
Exactly. A vision.
1:01:11
Do you not see, Lucilla?
1:01:15
I will give the people a vision of Rome,
and they will love me for it.
1:01:19
And they'll soon forget the tedious
sermonizing of a few dry old men.
1:01:34
I will give the people
the greatest vision of their lives.