The band was placed in the audience and they were not in costume. So when the song got to the chorus, the guys suddenly started singing, which surprised the audience around them.
In this clip, the song is only the first verse. At the end of the song, the band members all shut up and became the audience again almost instantly.
"Hey, man, you guys know this song?" A young man with hazel freckles on his nose next to one of the band members gently tugged on the sleeve of a singer next to him and asked in a low voice.
"Yes. We can sing." The singer replied simply.
"This is a powerful song! The young man exclaimed.
"There are a few more verses in the song, but here's just one, and the whole thing is even more powerful. Another person interjected, "I live nearby and I've been hearing them practicing this song for days ......"
"Shut up, I can't even hear the lines!" Another person complained.
The drama continued on stage, but Solvay was already too small to accommodate the insurgents. Spartacus and Crixus, another rebel leader, disagreed about the future direction of the rebellion. Spartacus thought that the Roman army was very strong, and after this battle, they had attracted the attention of Rome, and it would be difficult to stay in the area. The insurgents should leave Rome before the Roman legions on the border were transferred back, go to the north, cross the Alps, establish their own free country north of the Alps, and then return to Rome when they were strong enough to free all the slaves. Crixus, on the other hand, thought that Spartacus was too timid. He felt that the Roman regiment was nothing to be afraid of and that the insurgents should stay there, take down the Roman cities, free the slaves there, and they keep fighting, keep freeing the slaves and strengthening themselves, and eliminate the evil slavery at the least.
Neither could convince the other, so they had to resort to an mínzhǔ vote. The majority of the insurgents chose to support Spartacus, and Crixus was so angry that he asked to be the defender of Spartacus as he led his army north. When the rebel army left, he left the rebel army with a group of warriors and attacked the Roman city by himself. When Spartacus arrived, they had all been wiped out. The Romans executed all the prisoners with brutal punishments. When the insurgents saw this, they were so angry that they did not want to march further north and demanded revenge. Spartacus could not convince everyone, so he had to vote again. This time, everyone chose to stay in Rome and fight.
"Why did Spartacus obey the Mínzhǔ? One of the spectators couldn't help but say, "What do the slaves know?"
"That's not true." Another retorted, "If only Crixus had obeyed the mínzhǔ as Spartacus did, there would be no such thing. And you say, "What do the slaves know? Those clerics and nobles would have said the same thing about us!
Spartacus' insurgent army remained in Italy, and under his command, they continued to win victories, but Spartacus became more and more worried. For he knew that the victories were only temporary. The Romans' main force was approaching. He kept trying to convince the insurgent soldiers to hurry north, but his suggestions were always rejected by everyone.
Crassus with the Roman army blocked the path of Spartacus' army to the north, and they were closing in. Spartacus marched south with the rebel army while contacting the pirates, hoping to retreat across the sea to Sicily. But when they arrived at the appointed place, the pirates' fleet did not appear. So they were surrounded by Crassus' army. Crassus sent a letter to Spartacus to persuade him to surrender. He promised Spartacus that if he surrendered, he would become a Roman citizen and a general. But when Spartacus asked about the other slaves, Crassus replied, "They will go back to the manor and the gladiator school and continue to be slaves.
Spartacus refused Crassus' advice and led his troops to break out. At a great cost, they finally broke out of the siege. But the Romans brought in more troops, forcing Spartacus to fight Crassus' army at Apulia.
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Before the duel, Spartacus met with Crassus. Crassus again tried to persuade Spartacus to surrender on the same terms as before. Spartacus also refused Crassus again. He and Crassus agreed that they would fight to the death on the battlefield in the morning.
On the battlefield, the insurgents were outnumbered and finally defeated and Spartacus died on the battlefield. His adjutant, Enomayor, and more than 6,000 other soldiers were taken, prisoner. Crassus ordered them all to be crucified.
The final scene of the play is the crucifixion of Enomayor and two other insurgent soldiers. They were forced to carry their crosses and erect them themselves. Then the Romans crucified them. The two soldiers were crucified on either side, and Enomayor was crucified in the middle.
"This is blasphemy!" said one of the priests in a low voice, clutching the cross on his chest with his hand.
Indeed, this scene is a parody of the crucifixion of Jesus in the Bible. Jesus was also carrying his cross and was crucified along with two other prisoners, who were on either side, with Jesus in the middle.
The two crucified soldiers hung their heads and sobbed, and Enomayor, who was also crucified, looked from side to side in thought and cried out, "What is it, my brother, is it worse to lose one's life than to be a slave? Yes, we did not win freedom for ourselves in the end, but we have at least won for ourselves the right to never be enslaved again! This time we lost the war, but in the long run, our cause will not fail, and the slavery of man overpowering man and man enslaving man will be overthrown! The name and cause of Spartacus will be immortalized! Brothers, let us sing our war cry for the last time!
Then Enomayor began to sing: "Debout! lesdamnésdelaterre, Debout! lesfor? atsdelafaim ......"
At his song, the two crucified warriors also stopped crying, looked up, and sang along.
"Laraisontonneensoncratère.
c'estl'éruptiondelafin"
The Roman soldiers with spears in their hands looked up in horror at the crucified slaves and shouted in terrified voices, "No singing! No singing!" One soldier even stabbed Enomayor in the ribs with his spear, and the blood flowed out immediately.
"This, this is a terrible blasphemy! O Lord, may you send down thunder ......" The cleric whispered through gritted teeth.
In the Bible, after Jesus was crucified, a Roman soldier named Longinus stabbed him in the ribs with a long spear to check if he was dead or not. Later, this gun became a Catholic relic and was called the Gun of Longinus. There were even legends such as "if one holds the gun, all people within 120 feet will be submissive, and the holder of the gun will be able to rule the fate of the world, but those who lose it will die instantly". These legends have fooled many people in later times, and even Hitler was once a fanatic begging for souls with it. He was also said to have received the sacred pistol at one point, but it did not allow him to win the Second World War.
But Enomayor's song did not stop, he continued to sing.
The lyrics, which had been sung once before, were so simple and melodic that many of the audience in the theater sang along with them. Only the clergyman looked blue, bowed his head, and did not say a word.
Unlike the previous choruses, this time, the singing team sang the entire song directly. Of course, in the original history, this song should have six sections. But Joseph, who had crossed over, could not remember all the lyrics of these six verses. In the latter days of the Red Rabbit Kingdom, the song was sung in three stanzas only because of the translation, which was almost impossible to sing. So Joseph now copied it, and only the first, second, and sixth stanzas were left.
As the second verse was sung, the entire theater suddenly fell silent. Over the years, under the influence of people like Voltaire, the French have become far less "pious" than they used to be, but frankly speaking, as a filial daughter of God, France had done a lot of blasphemy in the past. But this direct denial of religious songs still took everyone by surprise. But because of the general discontent with the church, this extreme denial of religion made people more excited, and when the chorus started, more people joined in the chorus.
This was followed by a more explicit and defiant sixth verse.
The clergyman had slipped out quietly and disappeared into the street.
After the song, the theater was quiet for a moment, and then a voice rang out: "Bravo, this song is great! Can you sing it again?"
And then the entire theater was filled with the pleading voice: "Sing it again.
"Sing it again, I can't remember some of the words!
"Please, please sing it again."
"Sing it again!"
The curtain had come down and the actors and the band were going to leave the stage, but with such a request, they had to sing the song again, and then again ...... In the end, the whole song was sung six times. The premiere was an unprecedented success.