Gladitor

1. Is the story a hero's journey? Try to describe it as a hero's journey and see if it fits the template.

Yes, it is a hero's journey. The main character - Maximus was a adventure and go through the task and challenge it by his strong spirit!

2. What did you learn about Rome from this movie? Do some research on the characters. Are they real people from history? Is the film accurate in historical detail?  And architectural detail (for example, the Colosseum/ Flavian Ampitheatre)? 

In very broad historical terms, the movie is fictional but based on real history.

Marcus Aurelius, the last of a string of good Roman Emperors, died in 180AD and was succeeded by his son Commodus, who was a nasty piece of work and was eventually assassinated. 

The rest is fiction and also borrows quite a bit from the 1964 movie 'Fall of the Roman Empire' with Alec Guinness, Sophia Loren, Anthony Quayle, James Mason

3. What was happening to the Roman empire during the period of Commodus' rule? And what eventually caused the decline and  downfall of the Roman Empire?

The important factor for the decline of Roman Empire was economy problem in that country.Commodus tried to stay out of the day-to-day affairs of state, leaving them to a group of men unflinchingly loyal to him, but he eventually had to take more of an active role because of infighting and threats. He also enjoy the gladiator games, received the games that had become popular at the Golden Age of Rome. Much of the money waste on these games taxes. The lack of slave imports via military conquest in an agrarian slave labor economy, the absence of military plunder,  and etc.

4. Is this film propaganda for a certain set of ideas or a way of life? Did the writer, director and actors intend for you to have the reactions that you have expressed here? Aren't you just a bit suspicious and critical of the film and the black and white division between Commodus and Maximus? Such a bad and nasty Emperor and such a loyal gladiator! One is a 'good Roman' and the other is just out for himself? Doesn't it all seem a little too simple? So, again, is this film propaganda for an idea of loyalty? To answer this, look at which country produced it and when it was produced. How is the film 'constructed' to provide a lesson to the audiences of that country of its origin? Is it really about Rome, or about the country it came from? What was happening in that country in the years just before it was created?

Yes, some part of this film was just propaganda a way of life based on the different of rich and poor. 

Both of this films' story line almost the same except the quality of the film and fiction story line make the 2010 gladiator more interested for the audience. Gladiator is a 2000 epic historical drama film directed by Ridley Scott, by us and uk production. Crowe portrays the loyal Roman General Maximus Decimus Meridius, who is betrayed when the Emperor's ambitious son, Commodus, murders his father and seizes the throne, make the firm more exited and attractiveness for entertainment effects.

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