Introduction-Gladiator Quorneshia Milner

In the movie Gladiator Scott Ridley, the director, shows us his version of how rough and rigid the Romans could be and how interesting they could be to watch at the same time. There are a couple of movies that come to mind when watching this movie- - 300, Alexander, Troy,and last but not least Rome (the series) all of thes movies have lots of battles and strong men young and old fighting for what they believe is right and/or wrong. Movies like Gladiator and the others make you wonder could wars really be this glorious and could they really be that gory. Gladiator is bassically like all the other war movies in the fact that at the end Maximus prevails and comes out on top, but it is different because of the struggles thatg Maximus had to go through in order to overcome- - becoming a slave and being forced to fight. Scott Ridley's point seems to be that no matter how much someone trys to hold you down you can come out on top if you just keep pushing on until the end.