Once they get to Egypt, the Gauls have to thwart the attempts by both rival architect Artifis and the Romans to ruin the palace's construction.įor the tropes common to both the comic book and the film, see the comic book's page. Getafix accepts to follow him in Egypt, and so do Asterix and Obelix. Edifis remembers that his distant friend, the Gaulish druid Getafix, can make a potion that grants tremendous strength, and sets sail for his village. To do so, she tasks the (pretty inept) architect Edifis with it, and shall he fail to pull it off, she would feed him to her crocodiles. Cleopatra retaliates by betting she can have a gigantic palace built for him in three months. Julius Caesar provokes Cleopatra VII by pretending Egyptians are decadent and not capable of building anything significant anymore. Gérard Calvi composed the soundtrack again after his work on the previous film, Asterix the Gaul. It is an adaptation of the album of the same name.
In the English translation, before Caesar sends Brutus to Upper Germania, he says Et tu, Brute?, which were the words he spoke before his death in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.Asterix and Cleopatra ( Astérix et Cléopâtre in French) is a 1968 French-Belgian animated film based on the Asterix comic book series and directed by the latter's creators themselves, René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo, in collaboration with Pierre Tchernia on the script.With the destruction of the village, Impedimenta's tearful failure at protecting the child, and the apparent Roman victory over the Gauls. Like Asterix in Switzerland, this album presents a rare dark tone as it touches on the possibility of an innocent's murder.
This is the only time the Romans successfully attack and destroy the village, although Caesar promises to have it rebuilt.Uderzo said he received a lot of criticism for not setting the final banquet in the village.
The story ends with a banquet on Cleopatra's royal barge. Caesar exiles Brutus to Upper Germania and promises to rebuild the village. Brutus had sought to kill the baby in order to become sole heir to Caesar's property and fortune, so Cleopatra had the boy sent to the Gaulish village for his protection. The unexpected arrival of Caesar and then Cleopatra resolves the mystery. Brutus seizes the baby from the women and escapes with the help of the pirates, but soon Asterix and Obelix catch up with him and rescue the baby. The men of the village entrust the baby to the women, before fighting the Romans. Finally, Brutus takes matters into his own hands, attacking the village with his own legions and burning it to the ground. The baby smashes the doors of several houses and harms the Roman spies sent to capture him, including a legionary disguised as a rattle peddler, and the Prefect of Gaul, Crismus Cactus, who is disguised as a nursemaid. While in the village, the baby twice drinks the magic potion, first by accident when Obelix uses a half-full potion gourd as a feeding bottle later, he falls into a nearly-empty cauldron of potion. Getafix realizes that the baby was left in the village for its protection. The Romans attempt to kidnap the baby, at the behest of Marcus Junius Brutus, Caesar's adopted son. Their only clue is the embroidered linen of the baby's clothes and wrappings, suggesting he comes from a rich Roman family. Stung by speculation that he could be the father, Asterix sets out with Obelix to find the baby's parents. A baby boy mysteriously appears on Asterix's doorstep one sunny morning.