Gladiator

The distribution:
Russell Crowe – Maximus
Joaquin Phoenix – Commmodus
Connie Nielsen – Lucille
Oliver Reed – Proximo
Derek Jacobi – senator Gracchus
Dijmon Hounsou – Juba
Richard Harris – Marcus Aurelius
A movie by Ridley Scott


The „Gladiator” is a historical and full of adventure film, a story brought in the XX century by Ridley Scott who also made „Blade Runner” and „Alien”; it was the winner of 5 Oscar Awards in 2001, including: „Best Movie” and „Best actor in a principal role” and it received very good critics: ”The ((Gladiator(( is a movie which takes your breath, a capodopera of all times and a future classic.” said Steve Irevolino, „Launch”; „A phenomenal film, adventurous and full of action.” said Steve Goldman, „Total Film”.

The story:
The action takes place around the second century b.C., when the emperor of the Roman Empire is Marcus Aurelius.
The movie starts with a battle in Germany that Maximus, the commandant of the roman army, wins by attacking the barbarian cavalry.
The emperor has a son, Commodus, and a daughter, Lucille, who is a widow and has a son named Lucius.
Marcus Aurelius is very old and he is about to die so he
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has to name an heir and his favorite is Maximus. He invites Maximus in is tent and says to him that he was the son that he never had because his son is corrupt and very arrogant, so he wants him to be the next emperor, the next ruler of the world, because the Roman Empire included all the known world.
But Maximus refuses, saying that when the emperor wouldn’t need him he would like to go home, at his family, but Marcus Aurelius lets him think about it until sunset.
The emperor wanted to give Rome back to its people and stop the corruption and he thought that his son couldn’t accomplish this mission but he would understand his decision. But it wasn’t so; Lucille meets Maximus when he got out of the tent and she presumes what her father told him and she tells that to Commodus.
Commodus’ reaction is viole