My introduction

In the film "Gladiator" director Ridley Scott is trying to persuade his audience that even if you are the best at something and is well respected by most, there is always someone who is trying to take your spot. This shown throughout the movie beginning when we see Maximus Decimus Meridus, a well respected and honored man, leading Rome in a glorious war. Amazed by his strength and leadership qualities, the dying emperor of Rome, Maxus Aurelius, announced to MAximus Decimus that he would love and greatly appreciate it if Maximus would become emperor after he dies. As Marcus Aurelius announces his decision to his son Commodus, Commodus is deeply hurt and decides to take any necessary steps towards his father and Maximus to become emperor of Rome. Throughout the movie, Ridley Scott shows how Commodus betrays his father by killing him and plotting Maximus death to become emperor.

That is my introduction. I know I still need a conclusion sentence I am still stuck on that because I know it has to leads to the next paragraph so I am trying to think of something that is a summary of what I said that can also give me an arguable topic sentence for the next paragraph. Was my summary too short? I tried to only include a short overall summary because I did not want it to be too long but still support my topic sentence. Also, after the summary is the commentary talking about the summary and how it relates, did I do that correct or should I change it? Do it sound too much like it is suppose to be part of the summary?

Intro to Gladiator: Deangelo Toles

In Ridley Scott's, 2000 masterpiece Gladiator, he reveals the significance of the Roman empire. He immortalized this film through exciting action scenes and very beautiful, unique imagery. The mise-en-scene was very extreme and intense. Every scene I watched had it's very own unique way of showing how things occured in the empire. All of the brawls were interesting, eye-catching, and bloody. However, Maximus portrayed his character by being a strong individual who takes on the role of leadership for Julius Caesar. During the film, Maximus loses sight of his responsibilities that led into his betrayal and him being faulted for the death of Julius Caesar. Later, it resulted in the death of his own family. On the other hand, Commodus was the one who murdered Julius Caesar, his father, and he was the main reason for the death of Maximus's family and his position for becoming a gladiator.

J.Hunter- Introduction

In the film "Gladiator", by Ridley Scotthe is presenting to his viewers a story of themes that include jealousy, revenge, power, and hatred as well as many others through Roman history and culture. The film is the story of Maximus Decimus Meridius a powerful Roman general, who is loved by all and is the choice of the dying Emperor Marcus Aurelius to be next in charge instead of his corrupt son Commodus. The film is following Maximus a determined general, and how he strives to take out his vengence on Commodus for the murder of his family out of jealousy and his hunger for power and glory. The film dramatically depicts both the passion of vengence and the anticipated faliure of individuality caused by jealousy very closely. Scott brings to life his themes on film with his personal elaborate visual style as a director, which he has most likely developed over time. With his detailed aproach in design in the editing process, the many elements of mise-en-scene are portrayed very nicely intensifying every moment of the film, from the beginning onto the credits roll.

Gladiator Introduction::Jazmyn Lamar-Bruce

The film "Gladiator" directed by Ridley Scott is a very cut throat film showing how power and violence could corrupt a person. The main Gladiator, as known as Maximus, goes through the people closest to him being killed. These events seem to alter his character because he feels he has nobody else to live for since the ones he loves have been taken away from him. In this film, power also has a way of making people think differently. The character Commodus, after learning he won't be emperor, takes matters into his own hands to gain that power. Ridley Scott uses various creative ways to develop this story.

Gladiator Introduction Paragraph - Morgan Stevenson

In “Gladiator”, Ridley Scott is trying to show us that the Roman Empire was designed to “kill, steal, and destroy” and by doing so, it gave them power and control over a population of many but destroy them in the end, like karma.  Maximus, a solider that became the best Gladiator ever due to enslavement and a will to survive, led the Romans in a victory in a battle against their enemy.  His heroic acts and devotion to the Roman Empire led Marcus Aurelius, the dying emperor of the Roman Empire, to appointing him to the position of Emperor of Rome but Marcus’ son wanted to be emperor so he killed his father before anyone found out that Marcus wanted Maximus to be emperor.  Soon there after, Maximus was forced into slavery and became a Gladiator, a man trained to fight with weapons against other men or wild animals in an arena for the entertainment of the ruler and citizens.  Throughout this movie, the Roman Empire is portrayed as a government of manipulation that controls its citizens by putting the fear in them through death, barbaric acts or other forms of torture, which is shown primarily through the cinematography.  According to this film, the Roman Empire was strong in a sense but yet weak because of the inhuman ways it operated and even though it was seemingly structured, it had no foundation and that’s the reason why it collapsed and only the Roman Catholic Church survived the fall of the empire.

Gladiator Intro paragraph- Tevin Lanier

In Ancient Rome, Ridley Scott takes us through the mind of Maximus better known as "The Gladiator". "The Gladiator" played by Russell Crowe is an example of how losing your family to senseless acts of violence can turn a man into a crazed killer. During Maximus being in Rome, he has winessed some very gruesome events due to his participation in the military. Maximus saw many violent acts as the leader of the army,but experiencing his family being murdered took a serious toll on him. Maximus is now turned into a killing machine with no regard for human life, all to get revenge for his murdered family. Since Rome's government played a major part in their deaths, they now shall reap the effects of Maximus' wrath.

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.