She begins reading it aloud:Dear Miss Alquist:I beg of you to see me just once more.I have followed you to London...Gregory violently snatches the letter from her hands and stuffs it in his pocket - things are uneasy and not as they appear on the surface.I""m no longer a queen.I""m a woman.Antony: You choose me, Cleopatra, against the world.Cleopatra: Against the world.Antony: Then we""ll meet it.We""ll smash it to pieces, put it together again, and call it ours! War!...Cleopatra: So Rome would forgive and take you back.And all they demand is for us to part.Why don""t they ask the sun to fall right out of the sky?Antony: Yes, we""ll fight them.We""ll fight them all, if we have to fight alone.Stock footage from DeMille""s ownThe Ten Commandments (1923)comprises some of the montage""s action of attacking chariots, footsoldiers with shields and swords, flames catapulted from one ship to another, and exciting hand-to-hand combat.A page of the book is turned, and another title fades in over the open pages:Comes now from out the cradle of yesterday, the story of an ancient people, whose lives, though far away from ours, run parallel in their hopes and perplexities.Nute Gunray (Silas Carson) was still serving as viceroy of the Trade Federation.Senator Padmé Amidala (the ex-Naboo Queen) (Natalie Portman) flew in her Royal Spaceship to Coruscant to attend he Galactic Senate and express her views, as a representative who was opposed to the Separatists.Only Sessue Hayakawa, a former silent screen star and one of the first important Asian stars, who was nominated for his Best Supporting Actor role as the hot-tempered Japanese colonel, lost.