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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Comparison Essay: Hamlet vs. Gladiator William Shakespeare’s Hamlet is a tragic play where Prince Hamlet of Denmark wants to seek revenge for his father’s death that was murdered by his uncle and now his stepfather‚ as the murderer married his mother and King Hamlets’ wife named Claudius. Gladiator is a 2000 historical drama film directed by Ridley Scott where a loyal Roman general named Maximus Decimus Meridius is betrayed when the Emperor Marcus Aurellus’s son‚ Commodus murdered his father and
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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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Block 4 16 May 2013 The life of a Gladiator could be compared to the life of a modern day professional athlete. Gladiators lived a lavish life much greater than the lower class of Ancient Rome. With food‚ medicine‚ and baths all at the tip of their fingers‚ they were to use all their energy and focus to fight against each other. These fighters were primarily used for inhumane entertainment. Many Gladiators were slaves‚ criminals‚ and some free men. Gladiators were first used for funeral ceremonies
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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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Gladiator is a historical dramatic film set in Ancient Rome. It depicts the storyline of a general betrayed by the emperor’s son‚ of which he then ascends the gladiatorial battlefield to challenge him once again. The movie was made in the year 2000‚ and was shot in three separate locations spanning from England‚ Malta and Morocco. The characters in the play were depicted by actors such as Russell Crowe as Maximus the betrayed general‚ Joaquin Phoenix as Commodus the emperor’s son and Connie Nielsen
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The first Gladiator fighting started around 265 BC. The Gladiators could of have been men or women and sometimes volunteers from the crowd‚ who risked their lives to fight each other or wild animals for audiences like the Roman Empire and Roman Republic. They fought for fame‚ riches‚ and glory in arenas like the Colosseum in Rome. Gladiators were solid men or women who were at their peak of fitness. Gladiators trained at special school that were designed for the purpose of gladiator fighting. There
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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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