PS. Another equally (in)famous scene from Spartacus -- the aristocratic Roman general Crassus (Laurence Olivier) asks his slave Antoninus (Tony Curtis) "Do you prefer to eat snails or oysters?" But of course we know he's not REALLY talking about улитки and устрицы, ho-ho-ho!



Trivia: In 1960, this scene was far too suggestive for Hollywood's team of self-censors, and so it was cut out and not publicly screened for decades. When the film was restored in the 1990s, Olivier was already dead and the audio for this scene had been lost -- so they brought in none other than Anthony Hopkins to dub Olivier's lines! Listen to the "snails or oysters" part and you can easily imagine Hannibal Lecter saying it!