Screaming in pain while bending down to grab at his wounded foot, blood trickled from the mouth of his mask and he collapsed to the ground. The bloodthirsty audience then chanted for Maximus to kill the previously undefeated Tigris, but Maximus mercifully spared the gladiator.
This earned him the title "Maximus the Merciful" from the crowd, which further angered Commodus. Gladiator Wiki Explore. Correction: I don't see why this is a mistake. It's perfectly realistic that some arrows just won't ignite.
The archers will then fire them unlit, because they don't have all day to wait for them to catch the fire. Corrected entry : Rome was not on its peak during Marcus Aurelius as the film claims, but during emperor Trajanus. Correction: Rome is generally considered to be at its peak during the reigns of what were referred to as the Five Good Emperors, of which Trajan was the second, who did indeed extend the Empire to its greatest size.
Marcus Aurelius was the last of these 'Good Emperors' and thus is still considered to have presided over Rome during its peak period. Corrected entry : When Maximus nails Titus' foot to the ground, Titus bends over and blood pours from the mouth of his mask, is there some connection with the foot and mouth? Was the dreaded "Foot and Mouth" disease present then?
Correction: He'd just been hit in the face by Maximus ' shield. Corrected entry : After the battle against the Germans, Maximus lets out a cry of victory: "Roma victor. Amazing how a mistake is still possible as there are only about three sentences in Latin in the entire movie and a lot of specialists were supposed to have been working on it. Correction: The grammar is correct.
Not "Rome [is] the victor", but "Rome [is] victorious. Don't think that's right. That would be "Roma vicit" or "Roma victrix est. I think he says "Roma victa" not "victor. Correction: From "Il vocabolario della lingua latina " Castiglioni Mariotti: there no example at "victor, oris" wich could be used like noun or adjective, but at "victrix, icis" I read a real latin phrase "victrix Asiae Roma" wich means Roma winner of Asia, so I think the right way to celebrate victory is "Roma Victrix".
Correction: According to Google translate, "Rome is the victor" translated into Latin is, you guessed it, "Roma victor. Victor, as it is used in the movie, is a noun. Google translate is absolutely not a valid citation.
If it happens to be correct, it was by accident. Cite a source, please. Corrected entry : The forest in the opening battle scenes is man-made and not the natural, wild forest that would have covered Germania at this time.
The trees are all in nice straight lines, there are no low hanging branches and no tangled growth on the forest floor. If this were a natural forest the Roman cavalry would not be able to gallop through it and weave effortlessly between the trees as is depicted.
Correction: We can't fairly say what a given stretch of forest in that part of Europe years ago would look like. It could even be second growth forest, the original, denser primordial forest having been heavily cut by the tribes that obviously live there, and likely have for centuries. Correction: Note that you can find out where that stretch of woodland was just by looking it up. The whole area was set to be deforested, so Ridley Scott approached the Forestry Commission and offered his own way of deforestation Corrected entry : At the end fight there are rose petals falling all over the coliseum.
But how did the rose petals get in the middle? Did mother nature decide to rain rose petals? Correction: The petals are being thrown from the sides, and they blow into the middle. In some of the long shots you can see them lying in drifts, showing where they've been blown by the wind.
Although Maximus Decimus Meridius has an unquestionable affinity for killing, he's no bloodthirsty brute, and is often seen empathizing with his enemies replying " would you? It's also clear that Maximus values his bond with Marcus Aurelius far more than any blind loyalty to the Roman Empire.
Maximus doesn't want to fight, but by reconnecting himself to home through the dirt, he's compelled to survive one more battle, then another, then another, until he finally gets back to the soil - and, more importantly, the people - he calls home. It's a subtle, yet incredibly effective, motif that gives great unspoken insight into Maximus as a character, and serves to underline why Ridley Scott's Gladiator is so widely respected two decades on from its release.
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When Maximus is fighting with the last Praetoria guard, who was in charge to take Maximus' at execution, the sun lights Maximus' left side. But in the next shot, an extreme long shot, we see the two about to fight as the lighting from Maximus' right side.
When Maximus removes his helmet for the first time after the reenactment of Carthage, Commodus is clearly surprised to see that he is alive. And in the next scene Commodus asks "why is he still alive?
Prior to the battle between Commodus and Maximus, the elevator or lift only has enough room for one row of Praetorian Guards approximately 20 and their shields and spears.
Upon surfacing in the floor of the Colosseum, a substantially larger amount of guards. The length of Commodus' hair changes in a few scenes. The morning after the battle, when Maximus is patting his horse, a crew member in blue jeans walks backwards through the space underneath the horse's head and neck. During the Rome vs. Carthage battle, a chariot slides sideways and hits a wall. A blanket lifts up just before it hits, revealing a large tank and some pipe fittings on the back of the chariot.
In the Roma-Carthage battle reenactment, when one of the archers is cut in two by a chariot's wheel blade, a crew member can be seen kneeling in the chariot. At the end of the second battle in Zucchabar, Maximus throws his sword. The next shot shows Maximus and his fallen competitors as he taunts the crowd. A crew man, in blue jeans and white T-shirt, and a camera are visible on the left side of the screen, in the first row.
A lunge whip is visible when Maximus' horse falls on the ride home. During the fight with the tigers, one of them leaps onto Maximus' back. As he falls down to the ground, the tiger is now on top of a tiger-handler dressed as a gladiator, holding up a big piece of meat for the tiger to eat.
In the extended edition blu-ray release, as the two soldiers who are being sacrificed are being led to their death, there is a long shot showing a sandstone building. Three crew members wearing modern day clothes and holding a boom mic can be seen trying to hide around a corner of the building. After the battle with the Germanians, the next morning after the tavern, Maximus is walking in the army camp and he feeds a horse a piece of apple.
If you look closely between him and the horse, you can spot a crewman wearing a pair of blue jeans. In the 'Battle of Carthage' in the Colosseum, one of the chariots is turned over. Once the dust settles you can see a gas cylinder in the back of the chariot. In one scene, you can see the Tiber river from the Colosseum. The Colosseum was built near one of Rome's hills, and no road led directly from there to the river.
Roman legions always fortified their encampments; they never camped on open space. In the film, the emperor and crowd put their thumbs up for "live" and down for "kill. When he wanted the gladiator to die, he would put his thumb straight out to the side, symbolizing the sword. Studies of Roman artwork suggest that the "thumbs up" gesture was actually an affirmation to proceed with the kill. The opening battle is wildly inaccurate. The Roman legions were trained to fight as a regimented force, and to maintain formation for mutual support.
In the film, the formation collapses instantly upon contact with the enemy; in addition to being inaccurate, this would have almost certainly led to a Roman defeat, as, on a solo basis, the barbarians were by far the better warriors.
Further, the Roman legions used spears called pila. Doctrine called for them to be thrown while the enemy closed. The Romans would then draw their swords and fight, while remaining in formation. Maximus has "SPQR" tattooed on his left arm. In real life, it would have said "Legio", with the legion's number. That way the army could keep track of soldiers if they deserted or were lost in battle.
In the first gladiatorial battle, one gladiator uses a spiked ball and chain flail. This type of weapon was first used years later, by medieval knights. Traditional Roman combat strategy of the era taught soldiers to lunge with their swords while under cover of their shields, instead of the hacking seen in the movie.
When Maximus kills one of the tigers, it emits the high-pitched scream of an American mountain lion, which is a purring cat genus Puma. Tigers genus Panthera are roaring cats. When Commodus and Lucius are conversing after Lucius is "sword fighting" Commodus uses the term legionaire. The term should have been legionary. Tractor tracks and people in modern clothes are seen in some of the shots in ancient Rome.
The horsemen have saddles and stirrups which hadn't been invented in Roman times. When Maximus states his name to Commodus in the arena, he pronounces his name incorrectly.
In Latin the "c" in Decimus would be a hard consonant. The film is set in AD and Maximus is nicknamed 'The Spaniard' which is a French term that didn't come about until Marcus Aurelius wasn't killed by Commodus. That is a false theory which has no factual evidence in real life.
In fact, Commodus was more of a gladiator himself and was strong and very skilled at fighting. He had already been co-Caesar for three years when his father died and did not care to handle the administration.
Throughout his reign he entrusted the management of affairs to his palace chamberlain and Praetorian prefects named Saoterus, Perennis, and Cleander so he could focus on gladiator games and fighting. Commodus was assassinated in , when he was poisoned by Marcia and then strangled by Narcissus.
Lucius tells Maximus that his name is "Lucius Verus". Lucius Verus, Lucilla's son by her first husband, was dead by the time the film takes place. Her other son, Lucius Pompeianus, by her second husband, was 5 years old when Lucilla was executed by Commodus. A red, yellow and black banded snake is placed in bed with Senator Gaius as he sleeps.
The presumption is that the snake bites Gaius and kills him. However, the snake is actually a harmless Sinaloan milksnake. This species of snake was probably used because it mimics the dangerous coral snake. However, the coral snake is not indigenous to Europe, with India and Southeast Asia being the closest native habitat for the snake.
In the first battle, the Germania warriors all have metal shields many curved and full body or half body in length similar to the Romans. This would not be so in real life. Almost all of these warriors were farmers normally and they would have had smaller flat shields made of wood and leather.
In the first battle, the Germania warriors all have metal swords. Almost all of these warriors were farmers normally and they would have farming tools like axes, picks or maybe wooden spears. Senator Gaius tells Maximus that Rome was founded as a republic.
Rome began as a kingdom. Is this interesting? Most of the helmets worn by the Roman soldiers look like some combination of ancient Rome and Oliver Cromwell's Roundheads. The scheduling of the fighting games at the Colosseum always stressed equality and parity between combatants. There would never be a fight where chariots ran down gladiators on foot. These scenes are more than likely an homage to the arena battle between Jack Palance and Anthony Quinn in Columbia Pictures "Barabbas"
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