Editing SPQR (section)

=== Popular culture ===
SPQR is often used to represent the Roman Empire and Roman Republic, such as in video games and movies.
In the 2000 movie ''[[Gladiator_(2000_film)|Gladiator]]'', the Roman general Maximus (portrayed by [[Russell Crowe]]) has "SPQR" tattooed on his upper arm, which he removes by scraping after he is sold into slavery.

The humorous modern Italian expansion ''Sono Pazzi Questi Romani'' ({{Lit|They're crazy, these Romans}}) is used in the French ''[[:fr:Ils sont fous, ces Romains !|Ils sont fous, ces Romains !]]'' ({{Lit|They're crazy, these Romans}}) as the catchphrase of the character [[Obelix]] in the French comic album series ''[[Asterix]]'', and the Italian original/[[retranslation]] (translating back to the original) ''Sono Pazzi Questi Romani'' is used in the Italian translation of Asterix, rendered with capitals to make the acronym clear;<ref>See for example the image at [https://www.reddit.com/r/bandedessinee/comments/17xlnei/spqr/ r/bandedessinee "SPQR"], ''Reddit''</ref> note that [[Albert Uderzo]], the co-creator of ''Asterix'', was born to Italian immigrants and was exposed to Italian as a child.<!-- In case this is confusing: Sono Pazzi Questi Romani is a humorous Italian expansion of SPQR, dating to the 1860s or earlier. In Asterix (starting in the 1950s), the French "Ils sont fous, ces Romains !" is a translation of this Italian phrase. The Italian translation of Asterix uses the original Italian source for this catchphrase, "retranslating" or "untranslating" it. -->