Coriolanus (film)

Coriolanus is a 2011 British film adaptation of William Shakespeares tragedy Coriolanus, directed by and starring Ralph Fiennes in his directorial debut.

Martius returns to Rome victorious and in recognition of his great courage, General Cominius John Kani gives him the agnomen of Coriolanus. Coriolanuss mother Volumnia Vanessa Redgrave encourages her son to run for consul within the Roman Senate. Coriolanus is reluctant but he eventually agrees to his mothers wishes. He easily wins the Roman Senate and seems at first to have won over the commoners as well due to his military victories. Two tribunes, Brutus Paul Jesson and Sicinius James Nesbitt, are critical of his entrance into politics, fearing that his popularity would lead to Coriolanus taking power away from the Senate for himself. They scheme to undo Coriolanus and so stir up another riot in opposition to him becoming consul. When they call Coriolanus a traitor, Coriolanus bursts into rage and openly attacks the concept of popular rule as well as the citizens of Rome, demonstrating that he still holds the plebeians in contempt. He compares allowing citizens to have power over the senators as to allowing crows to peck the eagles. The tribunes term Coriolanus a traitor for his words and order him banished. Coriolanus retorts that it is he who will banish Rome from his presence There is a world elsewhere.After being exiled from Rome, Coriolanus seeks out Aufidius in the Volscian capital of Antium and offers to let Aufidius kill him, to spite the country that banished him. Moved by his plight and honoured to fight alongside the great general, Aufidius and his superiors embrace Coriolanus and allow him to lead a new assault on the city, so that he can claim vengeance on the city which he feels betrayed him. Coriolanus and Aufidius lead a Voscilian attack on Rome. Panicked, Rome sends General Titus to persuade Coriolanus to halt his crusade for vengeance when Titus reports his failure, Senator Menenius Brian Cox follows but is also shunned. In response, Menenius, who has seemingly lost all hope in Coriolanus and Rome, commits suicide by a river bank. Finally, Volum

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