The Gladiator

one film that stands out among the rest has to be Gladiator. Gladiator can be argued as one of the greatest action movies of all time, and for good reasons. The soundtrack, dialogue, and characters have no equal in the revenge action category of film, and can be considered tops of pure action films. Gladiator is a perfectly well rounded movie that adds the best of all worlds to create the masterpiece seen today. Ridley Scott’s masterpiece, Gladiator, was released to the public in 2000. Received with

Gladiator is a film about Maximus, a soldier of Rome that is forced into the gladiator arena after the emperor, Marcus Aurelius, is killed. This film follows the Hero’s Journey almost perfectly. Maximus encounters some form of all but a couple stages of the Hero’s Journey. The first phase of the Hero’s journey is departure, when the hero transitions from one world to another. The first stage in this phase is the call to adventure, which is when Maximus is asked by Marcus Aurelius to be the next

Response Paper 2: Maximus Meridius, a True Hero in Gladiator The film, Gladiator, released in 2000, displays a great deal of bravery, honor, love, loyalty and sacrifice through Maximus Meridius, a man stripped of his title, land and family, but continues to live and fight with honor and compassion in his heart and mind. Maximus, the hero protagonist, is introduced as an admired Roman Army General and a favorite to the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius. The term hero is known to have multiple meanings

A Comparison between Cassius Dio Roman History and the Gladiator Roman history is known for its many battles and bloodshed along with many people gaining power of the empire. While Rome went through a period of many emperors throughout its history, the time frame of the movie Gladiator and in Cassius Dio’s Roman History are represented around the later Roman Empire. Rome had a period of emperors known as the Five Good Emperors. Both the text and movie describe the rein of the last of these emperors

My film I watched was Gladiator. It was an action movie as opposed to a documentary about war. It was based in Rome in the early times. In the movie, the emperor of Rome was Marcus Aurelius. He was a very victorious general. After his death he wanted Maximus to take the throne, and he wasn’t even his son. Aurelius’s son was very power hungry and wanted to rule. His plan was to rule Rome and take the throne. He wanted to murder the last ruler Marcus Aurelius and then execute Maximus, which was the

In the summer of 2000 a box office hit was released. “Gladiator” was a brilliant action film set in Ancient Rome, which appealed to over 15s from both genders. The film was hugely successful and raked in over $190,000,000 in the U.S box-office and $434,000,000 worldwide. However the film wouldn’t have been nearly as successful as it was without the help of an exciting and gripping trailer to appeal to the target audience. Trailers are very important in the film industry because it’s the one

Not all gladiators were brought to the arena in chains. While most early combatants were conquered peoples and slaves who had committed crimes, lured by the thrill of battle and the roar of the crowds, free men began voluntarily signing contracts with gladiator schools in the hope of winning and prize money, but not me I was poor and needed prize money to live. Female slaves were regularly condemned to the arena alongside their male counterparts, but a few citizens took up the sword of the own free

Ridley Scott’s Gladiator is a spectacular showing of the recreation of the golden age of the Roman Empire that will leave viewers on the edge of their seats in anticipation for the entirety of the movie. Set during the winter of 180 AD, a Roman general named Maximus (Russell Crowe) is about to fight the final battle of a campaign on the edges of the empire. As the battle starts Maximus tells his men to “unleash hell” and that is exactly what happened when his men fill the sky with flaming arrows

happen to the protagonist “Maximus Decimus Meridius” create an atmosphere of anxiousness, sadness, and confusion. In the film Gladiator (Scott, 2000), there are several scenes that allow the audience to see why is this movie considered a melodrama. The first time that the audience sees a complex scene with elevated dialogues and mixed emotions is when Commodus murders his father the Cesar after knowing that he would not be the successor to govern the nation. Within seconds, there is a twist to

Something you should know is that not all Roman gladiators were slaves, some people just wanted to feel the thrill of battle as a gladiator. Slavery in either Rome, Greece, and Egypt are going to be just as bad as any, slaves could be your family member if they owed debt, in you were a man of war, or if you sleep on a straw mat on the floor it was all just as bad. I think it’s cool to know that there was slavery in the amazing Greek city-state of Athens. When I saw Athens I thought of fountains