Depiction Of Gladiator

Like anything else, these shows were often times politically based to gain support for an Emperor. Aside from this they made for great entertainment to divert ones thoughts away from everyday troubles. What a better way than to see masses of people brutally slaughtered. In reality and the movie alike, the gladiators wore crude armor, not of military status to depict the difference in class. Nonetheless they were equipped with the armor and

Gladiators were mostly unfree individuals either condemned criminals, prisoners of wars who had lost their citizenship rights, although, some of them were volunteers who were mostly freedmen or very low classes of freeborn men who chose to be a slave for monetary rewards or for the fame. Gladiators were brought for the purpose of gladiatorial combat and would endure branding, chains, flogging or death by the sword and subjected to a rigorous training, fed on a high-energy diet, and given expert medical attention. Gladiators were famously popular in ancient from for seven centuries, from the 3rd century BC to the 4th century AD fairly late in the Public occupied a prominent position in roman society, they would fight in massive

Of the many monumental constructions that the Romans built, one of the most well known is the Coliseum, where brave Gladiators would fight dangerous animals and even each other to entertain the people of Rome. When people see the great arena, it is easy for them to forget the countless men, women, and animals that died fighting each other for amusement. Most people don’t know what it took for them to fight and either win or die, or how many hours they must have spent training to have a chance at defeating their opponents. Who were these gladiators?

Gladiators were a huge part of the Roman society and a large part of Roman culture. The people of Rome loved gladiator battles. The Roman coliseum was built in order to fit the standards of a bloody, brutal battle while also being able to keep thousands of Roman citizens comfortable and entertained.

Directed by Ridley Scott, Gladiator is an epic tale of honor, love, loyalty and power.

The movie Gladiator is based on a fictional storyline that takes place during the time of Ancient Rome. After having learned about Ancient Rome and the fashions of that time, I can say that the film Gladiator had both accurate and inaccurate representations of Ancient Roman fashion throughout. Some of the costumes, hair and makeup shown in the movie were accurate, while others were not.

This is actually factual as for gladiators were actually trained under their managers, tested and marked for purchases. The purposes of a gladiator were not to fight in wars or battles but to battle against each other, animals and beasts solely for public entertainment in the ancient Rome. The portrayal of gladiators’ status in the Roman society as well as their roles for bloody thirsty and violent entertainment in the film is displayed true to the ancient Rome.

According to Hope Babowice, the author of dailyherald.com, “Around five thousand gladiators died each year during the Roman empire which lasted till the 5th century.” If you do the math, that is two million five hundred thousand people that died in gladiator battles. The last thing that was unfair about the equipment is that when an emperor fought against a gladiator, he would weaken him. He did this by either taking away almost all of his armor, or he would give the gladiator a wooden sword while the emperor was able to use a steel sword. This shows me that the equipment that the gladiators used was unfair.

The background in training was also quite different for these two. A gladiator would go to a ludi ran by lunista who were in charge of acquisition and training of the gladiators. They would then be assigned a doctor to go with the style they are to be trained in. This is different from the way charioteers were brought up. Often time they would be trained from adolescents specifically for chariot racing. These riders as well as their horses would be controlled by four different factions who were responsible for the training, negotiating, and maintenance of the individual riders. The large difference here coming in the early up bringing of the charioteers as well as the factions versus the ludi.

Roman Gladiators had many other talents other than fighting too. They were very good at gathering attention from the media. They had to try and make big names for themselves in order to establish a fanbase. They also had to have great work ethic because usually the strongest man won so it was constant training. They had to set their entire lives around gladiator fighting and keep up with their normal lives, although most of them were in jail they still had lives even while living in a cell.

Gore, drama, and action. These are what most people pay Hollywood to show them at the screens. The movie gladiator from the year 2000 is no different. The movie gladiator is a movie with contents that does not align itself historically. Rather it is tainted with a bit of historical accuracy resulting it to be more difficult to discern the accuracy of the movie as it is now ambiguous for which part of the movie is unreliable and reliable. Nevertheless, this paper will be contrast the content of the movie with the historical accuracy of some of the event, the people in the plot, and the gladiatorial combat in the movie, proving the lack of historical revelevancy.

These games were instituted as unique entertainment for Roman society, which portrayed several gladiators fighting to the death. These praised by the people ‘gladiators’ were generally slaves, former slaves, or condemned prisoners (Cartwright, 2012). Being on the most watched form of entertainment these gladiators were forced to perform in arenas and they were trained specifically for this job, to fight to the death. There were four distinct class of gladiators and whichever class one was in dictated what kind of weapons and armor they used to protect themselves. Losers of the games, if not killed, could either beg for mercy from his opponent; however, it would either be the victor or the emperor who also attended the games to decide his fate.

Gladiators were both professional and amateur fighters in ancient Rome. They fought for the entertainment of its "civilized" spectators. Gladiators had a role in the Roman culture and it was to entertain the crowd. The gladiators amused the audience by getting thrown at lions and bears to prove how strong the men were. If they survived, then they would get thrown at the spectators themselves.

Gladiator didn’t show much of the training that the men received. Most of it was them in battle, but not what went on behind the scenes and all the vigorous training they had to go through. Watching the behind the scenes was interesting because throughout the whole thing I thought to myself, ‘wow this is crazy how much work it took for all these men to become gladiators for the film.’ No wonder they were all buff, because they did hours and hours of training everyday. In Roman times, gladiators had to endure lengthy and demanding training so that they could be prepared for what lay before them. In the movie, Maximus was Rome’s greatest general so they just assumed he was the best around and didn’t need any training.

Gladiator is in the manner that the main characters became slaves/gladiators and the aspect of how “freedom” is earned. Maximus on the other hand, was a Roman General that refused to serve for the Roman new emperor, Commodus, who had murdered his father, Marcus Aurelius, in order to obtain control of the Roman Empire. The biggest difference between Gladiator and Spartacus is the manner in which their respective freedom is earned. Gladiators freedom is earned thru defeating Commodus, who sentences Maximus to be executed. The story begins after he escapes his captors and rides off to his farm. This is after he discovers that his family has been murdered by said King/Emperor Commodus. Maximus collapses from exhaustion and is then picked up by slave traders and sold to Proximo, thus leading to his voyage of becoming a Gladiator and his fight against the King. Another difference is that Spartacus is pressured into fighting the best gladiator of the Roman army, upon the conclusion of his training however, he is defeated. Afterward he becomes leader of the Army of Slaves and in an effort to gain the slaves freedom back, he leads them to battle. After being captured, Spartacus ultimately has to fight it out with a slave who is also captured and the winner will be crucified. In Gladiator, Gladiators from all over the Roman