Gladiator fights were a brutal‚ barbaric way of entertainment. These battles were fought man vs. man‚ man vs. beast and beast vs. beast. The fighters were trained in schools. Criminals and slaves were sent to these schools. At the schools the gladiators were trained on everything up to how to die correctly. The acts performed in the games were considered choreography. Because of this‚ when a gladiators opponent was left-handed it was considered a special event because they were only taught how to
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By currently taking this History & Philosophy of Sports class‚ this film “Gladiator” establishes the whole scenery during the time period of ancient Rome. In the film‚ it introduced Gladiator battles. These Gladiator battles reflected as entertainment to society‚ as well as‚ being a survival setting between life and death. Not only they would compete for survival‚ but they would compete to become the best. By this time‚ Commodus‚ is the new Roman emperor and he fears that Maximus could use his heroic
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teThe Texas Gladiators Apparel Store The Texas Gladiators won the Super Bowl last year. As a result‚ sportswear such as hats‚ sweatshirts‚ sweatpants‚ and jackets with the Gladiator’s logo are popular. The Gladiators operate an apparel store outside the football stadium. It is near a busy highway‚ so the store has heavy customer traffic throughout the year‚ not just on game days. In addition‚ the stadium has high school or college football and soccer games almost every week in the fall‚ and baseball
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Jeannie Hardy PHO 184B Professor Smith September 7‚ 2102 Chapter 1 Essay The film Gladiator is not only known for Russell Crowe’s Academy award winning performance‚ but it is also known for it’s camerawork and cinematography. This film has a considerable amount of blatant formalism‚ which director Ridley Scott uses to portray Maximus’ message. Camera angles are commonly used to distinguish power in a scene‚ most of the time by using low-angle or high-angle shot. These types of angels are
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Although composed centuries apart‚ both Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Ridley Scott’s Gladiator explore the similar idea of ambition‚ through their villainous characters Macbeth and Commodus. Macbeth composed in 1606 for King James delineates a noble soldier’s character transformation from an ambitious individual to corrupted tyrant as supernatural Witches and Lady Macbeth ignite his desire for power. Similarly‚ Gladiator’s vicious antagonist is a malevolent personage‚ whose desire to be loved transforms
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has been greatly reduced; violence in T.V has greatly increased. We see a lot more blood‚ murders‚ and in greater detail. From 1960’s to the Early 2000’s‚ Movies have greatly changed in terms of violence. The first movie I choose to do was‚ “Gladiator”. It was released in the year 2000‚ and also won the Oscar for best picture. The director was Ridley Scott. The motion picture shows a lot of blood and people get slaughtered. In addition‚ the film has a lot of hand to hand combat with multiple types
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Both Gladiator and Spartacus were crucial films in developing the “Sword and Sandal” genre. Each film was very successful for the time period‚ and each dealt with similar plots. The two share a common theme of an underdog story and really helped set a standard for that theme‚ as we see it so frequently today. Maximus‚ the main character in Gladiator‚ and Spartacus‚ the main character in Spartacus have some slight differences‚ but overall‚ are very similar. Through the analysis of the two characters
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was one of the largest arenas with a stage in the center. Each and every person had a perfect view of the battles between gladiators and animals. The gladiatorial games were the highlight of the average roman’s day. Theese bloody battles were sometimes tests of the convenience of new and unusual weapons. If the gladiator performed well and the emperor approved‚ the gladiator would live. If not‚ he would be sentenced to death. This all has to happen with water of course‚ they couldn’t survive
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Gladiators were “created by the enactment of Roman justice and Roman authority” (Futrell 121). Thus‚ the lifestyle of the gladiator quite possibly originated from prisoners of war. During the second Sicilian slave war‚ the last standing survivors surrendered themselves to Aquilius who then took them to Rome where he “consigned them to fight with wild beasts” (Diodorus Historical Library 36.10). From there on‚ gladiators largely comprised of criminals‚ prisoners‚ slaves and other members of lower
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Gauls‚ nothing more. She paced the cage that she’d been locked in. Iska had proven to be an unruly gladiator at time‚ sometimes even assaulting fellow gladiators of the same ludus during training with the slightest provocation. She was still paying the price for breaking the nose of a Scythia gladiator and ruining her good looks. Here at the ludus of the lanista Quintus Fabius Maximus‚ the gladiators were picked for more than just strength‚ but in good looks and sexual prowess for both proved useful
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