Can someone please tell me about the movie, "gladiators."?

Question

I have a project on this movie and I'm suppose to write about it in a spectators view on watching the movie. Except, I don't really understand this movie....and I don't even know what to write!!hellppp!!

I have a project on this movie and I'm suppose to write about it in a spectators view on watching the movie. Except, I don't really understand this movie....and I don't even know what to write!! i have to:
-describe the cooluseum
-describe the main gladiator
-describe what happeded during the games
-who besides the main gladiator was in the games
-describe the spectators
-how many spectators are in the game
-what role do the spectators play
-where does the emporor sit
-what role does the emporor play


please hellpp
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Answer 1

http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1800353749/details
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladiator_(movie)

This is what you write:
Whats your opinion of the movie? Did you agree with actions within the movie? How did you feel about how it ended? What rating did the movie get?

I personally thought the movie was awesome. Marcus Arulieus was ruler during that time. Caesar had two sons maximus and commodus but he wanted maximus to be the ruler if something happened to him. Commodus was hurt by the fact that his father didnt feel he made a better leader then his brother and took it offensively.He ended up killing his father. He then orders guards to kill his brother. Maximus was held as a slave. They called it gladiater because they had the slaves fighting to stay alive in the arena where they were put their as bait for the warriers. I loved the ending because when maximus's fame grew he was then taken to rome to fight where he was then able to confront his brother and seek his own revenge. The people were shocked because everyone thought he was dead. It was an awesome 4 star movie. one of the best fight movies made. Good luck bellie.

Answer 2

Gladiator has the classic elements of an epic movie but under the Hollywood gloss is a story about love, betrayal, honesty, dishonesty, revenge, jealousy & murder. Maximus is the verbaly adopted son of a murdered Ceasar who put his own life as risk when he refused to accept the new ceasar. He is on a one man mission to avenge the murder of his Wife & son & the emporer. He is falsly accused of being a traitor after giving 4 years of his life to lead an army for the ever growing Roaman Empire. This movie,if you choose to examin it, makes you ask yourself, "how far would i go to clear my name & avenge the noes i love". It's a powerful movie that makrs you feel alive when justice is finaly handed out. I love this film.

Answer 3

"Gladiators" is one of my 5 favorite films. What , specifically, is required in your report? What do you not understand? I am an english prof. and will try to help any way I can.

Answer 4

I think you might be referring to Gladiator - Movie.

Here is a link to the movie

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0172495/

Answer 5

Look it up in Wikipedia or Movie Database.
Or imagine you are a movie critic...

Answer 6

Gladiator was based on an original pitch by David Franzoni, who went on to write all of the early drafts.[1] Franzoni was given a three-picture deal with DreamWorks as writer and co-producer on the strength of his previous work, Steven Spielberg's Amistad, which helped establish the reputation of DreamWorks SKG. Franzoni was not a classical scholar but had been inspired by Daniel P. Mannix’s 1958 novel Those About to Die and decided to choose Commodus as his historical focus after reading the Augustan History. In Franzoni's first draft, dated April 4, 1998, he named his protagonist Narcissus, after the praenomen of the wrestler who strangled Emperor Commodus to death, whose name is not contained in the biography of Commodus by Aelius Lampridius in the Augustan History. The name Narcissus is only provided by Herodian and Cassius Dio, so a variety of ancient sources were used in developing the first draft.[2]

The 17th century painting that inspired Ridley Scott to tackle the projectRidley Scott was approached by producers Walter Parkes and David Wick. They showed him a copy of Jean-Leon Gerome's painting entitled "Thumbs down". Scott was enticed by filming the world of Ancient Rome. However, Scott felt Franzoni's dialogue was too "on the nose" and hired John Logan to rewrite the script to his liking. Logan rewrote much of the first act, and made the decision to kill off Maximus' family to increase the character's motivation.[3]

With two weeks to go before filming, the actors still complained of problems with the script. William Nicholson was brought to Shepperton Studios to make Maximus a more sensitive character, reworking his friendship with Juba and developed the afterlife thread in the film, saying "he did not want to see a film about a man who wanted to kill somebody."[3] David Franzoni was later brought back to revise the rewrites of Logan and Nicholson, and in the process gained a producer's credit. When Nicholson was brought in, he started going back to Franzoni's original scripts and putting certain scenes back in. Franzoni helped creatively-manage the rewrites and in the role of producer he defended his original script, and nagged to stay true to the original vision.[4] Franzoni later shared the Best Picture Oscar with producers Douglas Wick and Branko Lustig.[1]

The screenplay faced the brunt of many rewrites and revisions due to Russell Crowe's script suggestions. Crowe questioned every aspect of the evolving script and strode off the set when he did not get answers. According to a DreamWorks executive, "(Russell Crowe) tried to rewrite the entire script on the spot. You know the big line in the trailer, 'In this life or the next, I will have my vengeance'? At first he absolutely refused to say it."[5] Nicholson, the 3rd and final screenwriter, says Crowe told him, “Your lines are garbage but I’m the greatest actor in the world, and I can make even garbage sound good.” Nicholson goes on to say that "probably my lines were garbage, so he was just talking straight."[6]


One of the much-praised CGI shots of Rome.Overall, Gladiator cost $145.7 million to film and promote, with much of the production cost spent on computer special effects. However, the movie grossed over $187 million in American theaters and more than $269 million overseas.[7]

The film was shot in three major locations. The opening battle scenes in the forests of Germania were shot over three weeks in Bourne Woods, near Farnham, Surrey in England. Subsequently, the scenes of slavery, desert travel, and gladiatorial training school were shot in Ouarzazate, Morocco just south of the Atlas Mountains for a total of three weeks. Finally, the scenes of Ancient Rome were shot over a period of nineteen weeks in Malta using a multicultural workforce whose talents were stretched to the limits.[8]

A full-scale replica of about one-third of Rome's Colosseum was built in Malta to a height of 52 ft, (with the other two-thirds and remaining height added digitally) mostly from plaster and plywood. The reverse side of the complex supplied a rich assortment of Ancient Roman street furniture, colonnades, gates, statuary, and marketplaces for other filming requirements. The complex was serviced by tented 'costume villages' that had changing rooms, storage, armourers and other facilities.[8] The rest of the Colosseum was created in CG using set-design blueprints, textures referenced from live action, and rendered in three layers to provide lighting flexibility for compositing in Flame and Inferno.[9]

When actor Oliver Reed died in Malta of a heart attack during the filming of Gladiator, it was a European post-production company called The Mill that managed to create a digital body double for the remaining scenes.[9] The visual effects house photographed the body double in the shadows and then mapped a 3D CGI mask of Oliver Reed's face to the remaining scenes during production at an estimated cost of $3 million. The film is dedicated to his memory.

The Mill was also responsible for post-production tricks such as compositing real tigers filmed on bluescreen into the fight sequences, and adding smoke trails and extending the flight paths of the opening scene's salvo of flaming arrows to get around regulations on how far they could be fired. They also had to populate a CG crowd with 35,000 actors that looked believable and reacted to fight scenes using only 2,000 live actors. The Mill accomplished this feat by shooting live actors at different angles giving various performances, and then mapping them onto cards, with motion-capture tools used to track their movements for 3D compositing.[9]

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