Gladiator

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I choose to watch the movie “Gladiator”. This film was directed by Ridley Scott, and produced by David Franzoni, Branko Lustig, and Douglas Wick. It was released in 2000. The major stars of the film include Russell Crowe who played Maximus, Joaquin Phoenix who played Commodus, and Connie Nielsen who played Lucilla (“Full Cast & Crew.”). I watched this movie on November 26th, at my house. In this film, a great war general named Maximus, is chosen to by Marcus Aurelius to become the next emperor of Rome instead of Marcus’s son Commodus. Commodus becomes enraged by this news, kills his father, and has Maximus sentenced to death. Maximus escapes, but is badly wounded. He is captured by slave traders, and taken to become a gladiator fighter. Maximus wins all of his fights, and he is taken to meet Commodus. Commodus cannot kill Maximus because all the people love him now, so he decides to fight Maximus in a gladiator competition. Commodus wounds Maximus before the start of the fight, but Maximus still defeats him. Shortly after he wins, Maximus dies to meet his family in the afterlife. …show more content…

Marcus Aurelius and Commodus are both real people, however Maximus the main character is made up. For the most part, the movie accurately displayed both of these people. Marcus was the emperor of that time, who waged wars, and Commodus was a strange man who did participate in gladiator fights. However, in real life, Commodus was a young child when he took the throne, and he did not kill his father. At the start of this movie they were fighting against the Barbarian tribes in Germania. This is historically accurate, and this war did actually take place against these people in that place

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