Maple's first time watching Gladiator in a movie reaction. Full Reaction Here: / diegesischad Maple's Links: msha.ke/mapled... #Reaction #Gladiator #Sequel?
I’m in this movie! I was a Roman in the first battle scene. When Maple says’ that’s a lot of people’ around the minute mark, I was one of them! 10 days filming in 1999! This film has a very special place in my heart.
"If you find yourself alone, riding in the green fields with the sun on your face, do not be troubled. For you are in Elysium, and you're already dead!" I love how the calvary just laughs in the face of Death.
I love the, “ are you not entertained? “ scene! It shows how he despises the crowd, yet still they love him. You give people violent distraction and they’re easily controlled.
There is a DELETED SCENE previous to the ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED? ONE in which Proximus tells Maximus there's COMPLAINTS from the public about Maximus not giving a good spectacle because he has been killing his opponents too quickly and the audience is no longer entertained...that's why Maximus kills his opponents even more quickly this time!...And that's why in the next scene Proximus is pissed and asks him: "What do you want? Girl? Boy?"...and Maximus says: "I'm requested to kill, so I do and that is enough! " ...then Proximus explains that is enough for the villages but not for Rome and the Colosseum and that he has to learn to win the Crowd...aaahhh memories! and amazing movie!!! 👏👍
@@leopoldoastudillo7189 thank you for that! I always felt that the dialogue between Proximo (sic!) and Maximus in that "girl? boy?" scene was a bit forced and had unexplainable connotations. That deleted scene would explain them! SO thank you!
Among Ridley Scott's most legendary productions. Incredibly casted and such a great vision for it's time. The revival of the 'Sword and Sandals' era. First summer blockbuster of the new millienium. 48 consecutive awards including 5 Oscars. The story is so,,,,,,,, Epic as it should be. So many good quotes related to what makes this a story of being strong and honorable. It inspired so much about individuals and individuals as an force for what matters in life. Who we are and what we represent as people does echo in eternity.
One of the reasons I love this film is because its a 'modern' approach to the swords and sandals style. Instantly took me back to when I used to watch those reruns late at night on TNT during the summers in between school. The cast was such a powerhouse of talent, combined with Scott's magic, and Zimmer's music it was just amazing.
Im personally awaiting the return of the grand historical epic, they seem to have dropped off in the late 00s. There's just something about them I love and cant put into words why or even what makes them different from standard historical set fare. I dont know if modern audiences can appreciate the sweeping scope or what. Im a cinematography lover and I get totally engrossed by the camera movement and framing. Maybe the new Napolean film will reinvigorate the genre? The 1970 Napolean film was like a moving regal oil painting.
IKR, even though it's 2023 yet this masterpiece is my all time favorite alongside Lord of the Rings triology and Braveheart are my top 5 oat... they're just incomparable and unrepeatable.
"panem et circenses" literal translation for "bread and circuses" being two of the best things to create a happy populace. Still seems to hold some truth 1800+ years later.
I really like how Maximus belay's Quintus' order to move the artillery back then goes to lead the cavalry charge personally despite knowing the danger his own weapons will cause him. It's a brilliant way to demonstrate the main character's bravery and skill as a commander. A lazy writer would have just put in a dialogue scene where someone tells someone else what character traits Maxiumus has.
A great script, of course. Russell Crowe confesses in an interview that he almost left Gladiator because the script "was absolute garbage": "When we actually started the movie we had 21 pages of script agreed upon. A script is usually between 103 and 110 pages or something like that, so we had a long way to go and we basically used those pages in the first section of the movie. When we got to our second location, which was Morocco, we had to catch up." But, yeah, I love this movie.
At "My name is Maxiums Decimus Meridius... ".... goosebumps.. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME... and I've seen this movie dozens of times. One of the greatest "reveal" scenes in movie history. And, this home baker's heart is warmed by your love of bread, LOL...
I have the same spiel every time I see a Gladiator reaction so here I go: Marcus Aurelius is my all-time favorite person from history. He is remembered in history as a philosopher king which, according to Plato, is a ruler who possesses intelligence, reliability, and a willingness to live a simple life. He was a stoic philosopher and constantly reflected on his failings and how he could improve himself. He is the last ruler of the Five Good Emperors that presided over the golden age of the Roman Empire. I highly recommend buying Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, it is a compilation of his musings of stoic philosophy and his thoughts on good living and is far better than any mass peddled self-help crap that you see nowadays.
*I yam what I yam and that's all what I yam. Also that's all I can stands, 'cause I can't stands no more! -Popeye the Sailor Man* *The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering. -Bruce Lee*
Yes, the writings of Marcus Aurelius are amazing. . . . . and what brought you so low to become a nihilist? A mostly rhetorical question. Great fun at parties, I'm sure! Lol!
@@fullmoonprepping4024 I think nihilism is the ultimate form that realism takes. We're all mortal, and in the fullness of time even the human race will be extinct. The Earth will eventually be gone, the Sun dead, the cosmos plunged into the endless darkness of the heat death of the universe. Everything anyone has ever accomplished will be gone and there won't even be anyone left to have forgotten it.
I absolutely love how the sister gives the little speech at the end and they're all up in arms to carry him out. As they pan out, you see Commodus is laid out face down and no one gives a fuck about him. Just classic.
She hates him for killing their father ( the slap) but she still owes him her allegiance (kissing the hand) or her life could be forfeit as well . She also has a son to protect .
That moment is, in a way, the moment many revolutions win. When the army holds back from supporting the old regime. When the generals let their soldiers stay in the barracks instead of killing protesters. When we see an uprising against a dictatorship, does the army roll the tanks over the students protesting in the squares, or do they stay on their bases?
Winner of 5 Oscars including Best Picture! Before Russell Crowe was cast as Maximus, Antonio Banderas, Mel Gibson, Tom Cruise, Tom Sizemore and Hugh Jackman were considered for the role. Interestingly enough, Crowe was considered to play the role of Wolverine in the live action X MEN movie which went to Jackman. The movie was dedicated to Oliver Reed Proximo, whom died of a heart attack May 2, 1999. The opening battle scene was filmed in Surrey England, the gladiator training school was filmed in Morocco and finally the scenes involving Ancient Rome were filmed in Malta, which lasted for 19 weeks. Crowe sustained several injuries during filming and almost died as a direct result, especially the scene where he was fighting Tigris Of Gaul and the tiger almost killed him.
@@Diegesis at this time in history spain would have been populated by the original Iberians or Roman colonists who were all fairly light skinned in comparison, the darker complexion only arrives with the Moors and the muslim conquest much later.
@@christianforsstrom2222 Indeed. So many people don't seem to realize this difference between the people of Spain, who are European (though with the North African influence you noted), and their children in the Americas, who are often also descended from the Americas' native peoples and/or imported African slaves.
Thank you. We gotta obscure the movie to keep from sky net getting in our booties all the time but if I gotta do it then I wanna do it in a pleasing way that isn't just printing the title over the top of the footage
I’m still hoping for a Man On Fire reaction. After this, I believe it that much more so. Gladiator is a timeless masterpiece. Even a Spartacus series would be phenomenal at this point
@@jeffburnham6611 it’s one of the greats. And it’s even more difficult to decide it’s one of Denzel’s best. That’s saying a lot, considering everything he does is brilliant
The Colosseum was an incredible piece of construction and engineering. Hundreds of rooms for animals, and barracks for soldiers and prisoners. Sections of the floor could be raised or lowered to create different terrains, it could even be flooded for naval battles. Gladiators actually rarely died during fights as it was expensive to purchase a slave, train, arm, and sponsor them to risk them dying in a fight. In fact only one instance had prisoners die which was a group of condemned soldiers who gave the iconic line "we who are about to die salute you". There were also female fighters in the Colosseum known as Gladiatrixes. The visions Maximus sees of the door in the stone wall is the entrance to the Underworld, and the wheat field he walks through is the Elysium Fields, a section of the Underworld considered to be a paradise. The Greek Mythology version of Heaven.
It could not be flooded for naval battles. Not one piece of evidence exists. That is a misleading interpretation of a story. Maybe. But there’s no proof.
@@tempsitch5632 Very likely you are both right, you just need to agree that you are talking about different points in time. In the Colosseum as we know it today, 'naumachia' were not possible. For such purposes Augustus had an artificial lake built in the district of Transtiberim. The cellars of the Colosseum as we know it today date from the time of Domitian and Trajan. At an earlier stage of construction, the hypogeum (cellars with animal cages, dungeons for those condemned to death, trapdoors, ramps, elevators and rooms for props, access to the gladiator barracks) had apparently not yet been built, and Suetonius, Cassius Dios and Martial report that the Flavian emperors arranged fights with small ships in the Colosseum. Therefore, it can be assumed that the cellars that existed until then could be filled with water, later the water was drained again, the basements were covered with a wooden stage and then gladiator fights could take place on it.
It's kind of funny that Maple comments on how well-written the script appears to be. Apparently, they had to kind of "find the movie" during production. They only had a half-completed script going in, and significant rewrites were going on the entire time of shooting.
I think there's hidden storyline in this movie. 17:50 "Conjure magic for them and they'll be distracted." That guy seems power hungry. Would be typical Ridley Scott to hide the true story behind the obvious storyline.
At the beginning, that's a classic Alexandrian battle tactic: let the enemy smash against your line, and have the cavalry come in from the flank or the rear to crush them.
Nothing happens to anyone that his not fitted by nature to bear.This is one movie that can be an example for what a man needs to be a stoic man a man that stands by his values that is competent that comands respect .
I agree to the frolic. 😄 (when he first escaped and rode one horse while leading the other is a very common practice. The horses tire, as you saw the final horse collapse at the end, so when you take 2, or often more, you can share the load and let them recover while you ride the others. Cowboys often took 4 or 5 horses out for a days work.)
Maximus was shown getting knocked down a couple of times in the first battle to demonstrate that he can still fight effectively even from a disadvantageous position. That's so when it happens again later (e.g. against Tigris), when we're more invested in this character and his story, this ability won't seem to have come out of nowhere--even if we don't think about this connection, we already know he can get himself out of trouble, so it makes sense.
Lol "the villian origin is happening so fast". He shows up after the fighting is done in an armored carriage lounging about. His father say "so much for the honor of Rome to maximus about his son, implying the son has been a let down. The song tells maximus to not get to comfortable in rest because he will call on him soon. Being rude instead of celebrating his success he is telling him I control you and I am not impressed with your success. Phenox also played the monolog before killing his father perfectly. He didn't show genuine emotion but forced emotion. He was able to capture the decietfulness of the character.
yeah they did a good job but it happens like ten mins into the movie. it's the kind of thing other movies unfold slowly over the course of the second act
Lol. First thing she says...we will pwalbalbly be watching a movie about a gladiator. 30 sec later Maximus appears...who is this man. In my head I hear, I am Gladiator.
LOL Commodus has the distinction of ruling over the shortest dictatorship ever. He takes power and is almost immediately undone by his rival. LMAO Still, incredible film, and Commodus is terrifically portrayed by Phoenix. Maple's got some bangers here as well. The bit about the bread for instance. XD
"Commodus : I wonder, did your friend smile at his own death? Maximus : You must know. He was your father." After that burn I wonder how Commodus could even stand up let alone fight.
As much as I love the movie, it should be pointed out that most gladiatorial combat actually did NOT end in death. Gladiators were a very valuable and costly investment. Their owners far preferred them to not be slaughtered willy nilly. It definitely would have fit the historical Commodus to insist on a fight being to the death though.
Proximo originally wasn't supposed to die. Unfortunately, the actor (Oliver Reed) passed during filming because of a heart attack, and they couldn't film his remaining scenes. So with some clever editing, a stand-in, and some pretty good CG, they created a reasonably noble death scene for him. Reed was known for living hard and fast. Very much a "live out loud" sort of guy, with drinking and all the other things one might do to spice up life. He was 61 at the time of his death. So, he burned his candle fast and hard, but it still lasted a fair while, all things considered.
Don't forget to tell the tale HOW Oliver Reed died: Out drinking (and heavily that, just as he used to) at a bar with some British sailors on shore leave, arm-wresting 5 of them and WINNING against each of them (at 61) he collapsed in the bar and died on the way to the hospital. Maybe not the most pleasant ways to go, but oh boy, what a way ...
The incredible thing about this movie is that the script was written during filming because the team couldn't agree on a final version before production began. They had to start filming by a specific date to avoid losing Ridley Scott, who would have been paid his full salary even if he didn’t make the movie. With only 21 pages of the script completed and visual storyboards for the fight scenes, they went into production. Each day, the writer worked from a hotel, typing out the scenes that would be shot the following day.
When you talked about how well the script was done, that's ironic. They were changing it constantly throughout. If you watch one of those behind the scenes things, they talk about how much of it they changed.
I think anyone who doubts their ability to *HATE* and really *WANT* someone to *DIE* needs to watch this movie to learn about themselves. 😁 Good job, Joaquin. I'll hate you forever now. Yes, even the actor. No, not really. But I do *HATE* Commodus forever! 🤬 I think Maximus needs to get revenge against him again in their next lives, just for good measure.
Some cool and not widely known facts about the Coliseum and other forms of entertainment in the ancient world when it was in use thousands of years ago. Sometimes they would flood it, and wage naval battles, that’s how large it was and the Romans had such engineering prowess to do such a thing no one else could at the time. Also, the coliseum was no where near as popular as the hippodrome, as you usually had to have money or be someone of high status to attend, but the hippodrome basically anyone could go to no matter how poor you were, and it was basically only for equestrian use, ie. Chariot races and not any killing. People didn’t prefer to watch people kill or maim eachother, aside from the aristocrats (go figure) but the commoner much more enjoyed races of skill and talent with horses. As for Commodus, he was the epitome of entitled rich kid. He did have over 100 games and had his drinking buddies fill positions of state, which they failed at and just spent everything on having fun. Terrible ruler and some say the reason Rome became so weak that the “barbarians” (anyone not Roman were barbarians to Rome) eventually took it, but Rome never truly fell, they just lost much of their conquered land and cities, and cut off from trade routes. They became the byzantines, and any Byzantine would still call themself a Roman, because that is exactly what they were, just less powerful.
No, they did not flood it. That is a misinterpretation of a story and no evidence exists. It’s just been repeated enough times, eveyone believes. Similarly the thumbs up/thumbs down thing, was not a real thing.
@@tempsitch5632 I never said the thumbs up thing was real, it was not. But it is a fact that they did flood it, not often, but they did. It’s not a misconception, it’s true. They were mock naval battles, not real ones and it was usually a grande finale to some big game taking place. They’d only flood it to about 5 or so feet of water, but in those days it was a real feat. It was called Naumachia. Of course this was only under Emperor Titus, after his reign they made modifications to it and it became impossible to flood it.
@@CChissel I was just using the thumbs thing as an example of another popular falsehood that they used in this movie. I didn’t say you said it. And no, they didn’t flood the colliseum. What I said is a fact. It’s a misinterpretation of a story and there is absolutely no evidence. Go look for some proof if you want to waste your time, but experts agree, there’s no proof. (Unless they found some in the past 20 years)
@@tempsitch5632 Experts agree that it could be flooded during Emperor Titus’ reign, and it was, but only during his reign. Afterwards it was not possible. It was a very short period in Romes history.
Nice review there's another criminally underrated gem Boxing 🥊 movie the 1992 " Gladiator " with Cuba Gooding James Marshall Brian Dennehy Good story love friendship fights In the tough street's of cold Chicago A young school guy is forced to fight to pay of his father's gambling debts in a underrated ground Boxing fights And good soundtrack The year 2000 " Gladiator " Overshadowed the 1992 " Gladiator " It doesn't get it's dues and recognition it rightfully deserves
Hollywood really doesn't do Epics anymore. Troy, Gladiator, The Lord of the Rings. Stories that were truly bigger and grander. A true spectacle. For a Time Hollywood try to recreate this. Then they sort of... Gave up. A lot of movies are now shorter and flashier. An epic, like The Odyssey, takes time. But any true epic is worth telling and taking that time. Ironically, if you get to read this comment, I do recommend checking out epic the musical. It is about the Odyssey and is currently one of the highest streaming music albums on any service (over two million on Spotify in less than six days). Only two "sagas" are currently available (the Troy saga and cyclops saga) but the musical is completed and written. You'll just have to wait for each chapter like the rest of us. But I'm sure many people, myself included, would love to share this adventure with you. You don't have to share or react to it, but I do recommend you in particular checking it out.
