Tse Tsz Chung 1106826 ( Gladiator)

My favorite scene from the movie “Gladiator” is Maximus is going to be executed. He was forced to become a gladiator; Maximus must battle to the death with Commodus’ gladiator for the amusement of paying audiences.

Describe of the scene

During the battle, Maximus (Russell Crowe) defeats another of Commodus’  (Joaquin Phoenix) gladiators and tigers meant to ambush him. But Maximus has give mercy on the loser's life.

Reason I love the scene

The scene was started a crucial battle between Maximus and the Commodus’ gladiator. Maximus only has simple weapon (swords and shield); but Commodus’ gladiator is handing two aggressive and great attacking weapons (axe and a sword).  The interesting part in this movie is the Commodus’ gladiator is wearing a silver-made mask with a crying male facial structure and a helmet in lion shaped, which we can’t see through how the Commodus’ gladiator looked like, we even can’t see the face expression from him whether is he afraid and fear or not during the battle, which he shouldn’t let the competitors know it by face expression and also for the sake of the protection. It’s a pre-arrange battle to let the Commodus’ gladiator to win every battle, Maximus and the other prisoner are a scarification in every battle. With the existence of tiger ambush the scarification not only created a tension during the match and also indirectly slashed down the scarification attack abilities, ease for Commodus’ gladiator to get victory in the battle.  It’s a perception and conspiracy set during that century actually projected by nowadays wrestling show in U.S bringing the entertainment to the audience with pre-arrange and untrue design for the battle.

In this movie, accidentally Maximus won this battle due to his great abilities of defending and attacking, technically defeated the Commodus’ gladiator by throwing the shield to his face and stabbing in the foot with the axe after slaughtered a tiger.  The audiences were screaming to kill the Commodus’ gladiator (might be it was the first time get defeated has bringing a refreshment watching experience, which out of the planning.)  Even though the Commodus command Maximus to slay his gladiator, Maximus failed to do so but spared the defeated a life, which is totally disobey the battle’s rules, defeated must be dead, otherwise it was not counted.