Music is played on lyres and harps.The cat-women leap hrough burning hoops of flames.Later on, under a moonlit night as they are serenaded, Cleopatra proposes a union of forces:Cleopatra: The sound to the stars.He introduced himself as "an old friend of Peter""s" - she admitted that their relationship was "complicated" and that they were currently broken-up.The whimsical revisionist Western film, with the new "M" rating (for mature), although varying considerably in tone and mood, did so by imitating the styles of other cultish outlaw films, including director Arthur Penn""sBonnie and Clyde (1967), and the balletic graceful shootouts of Sam Peckinpah""sThe Wild Bunch (1969).Unfortunately, the film was ignored and lacked even a single nomination by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.