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, Gladiator is the story of a hero's journey. Maximus is the person who goes out and achieves great deeds on behalf of the group. After Maximus won the battle, he don't really care about the reward from emperor. He just wish to back home to see his wife and his child since they didn't meet up long time ago. He cares and love his family better than the reward from emperor.
Actually I am not interested in historical film especially Rome, War or Fighting, and the movie title Gladiator make me feel bored. I am guessing that is it a boring movie? After I watched it, it make my mind change, although the film almost reach 3 hours. But I love the story, content, conflict and climate and it doesn't boring.
Yes, there are those people who name Maximus, Commodus or the Emperor in the past. They are real people but just from different time. There might be some different with the character background only. For example, in real life, Commodus's eldest living sister, Lucilla, did plot with a number of senators to kill him withing the first two years of his reign.
The film is slightly different in historical detail, right from the opening scene, the inaccuracies are legion. First there was no last great battle with the Germanic tribes on the eve of Marcus Aurelius' death. I have found no attested parallel to the war dog of the Roman commander Maximus, the movie's hero, and if there were one, it would not have been a German shepherd, a breed that did not exist in Antiquity. The use of fire-hurling catapults and mechanical dart launchers against the oncoming barbarians was certainly dramatic but probably unhistorical. By and large such weapons were too cumbersome for use on the open battlefield and were confined to more static siege warfare.
The Colosseum is a marvel of architectural engineering, it was built with giant travertine blocks, layered with soft stones and concrete. It was originally overlay ed with the marble but that was looted over the centuries. Its magnificent columns were made of the Doric, lonic and Corinthian orders.
The mammoth Colosseum measures 620 feet by 513 feet, 1/3 of a mile around. The 6 acre building contained 3 tiers of the seats, 80 entrances, seated 50,000 spectators, resembling the size and capacity of the Houston Astrodome.
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?
Commodus is the son of the Emperor. He killed his father and aspersion Maximus. He became such a bad and nasty Emperor. Commodus became heartless and bad. He wants to kill Maximus and gonna fight with him at last. Lastly, Maximus killed Commodus during the fight and eventually caused the decline and downfall of the Roman Empire.
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, Gladiator is a film propaganda foe a certain set of ideas or a way of life.
Yes, the writer, director and actors intend me to have the reaction that I have expressed here after I watched the film.
No, I don't have any suspicious and critical of the film and the black and white division between Commodus and Maximus. Black represent the heartless, nasty and bad Commodus. In contrast, White represent the loyal Maximus.
Yes, Maximus (Gladiator) is the good Roman. Commodus is the one who just out for himself. He is so greedy, he wants everything from Maximus even thought the reward from Emperor.
Yes, Gladiator is the film propaganda for an idea of loyalty. United Kingdom produced it and Gladiator is a 2000 epic historical drama film directed by Ridley Scott.
LEE SHEN YEEK
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