The Costumes: Before Stargate’s neo-Egyptian headdresses, Elizabeth Taylor donned a variety of decadent designs. There’s a lot of gold involved.

The Constrictions: Plays for power. Standing in the face of the imperialistic Roman forces who want to seize her kingdom, Cleopatra finds herself an island of resistance in a sea of Roman rule.

Oh, and then she falls in love with some bloke called Antony. That’s when things start to get really messy.

If They Changed Costumes: Time to crack out some Jack Sparrow garments. Chuck Antony a pirate’s hat, shove Cleo in a deckhand’s outfit and watch them sail off into the sunset. Ahhhhh.