Gladiator

In the year 180, the death of emperor Marcus Aurelius throws the Roman Empire into chaos. Maximus is one of the Roman army’s most capable and trusted generals and a key advisor to the emperor. As Marcus’ devious son Commodus ascends to the throne, Maximus is set to be executed. He escapes, but is captured by slave traders. Renamed Spaniard and forced to become a gladiator, Maximus must battle to the death with other men for the amusement of paying audiences.

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Gladiator
Overview:
In the year 180, the death of emperor Marcus Aurelius throws the Roman Empire into chaos. Maximus is one of the Roman army’s most capable and trusted generals and a key advisor to the emperor. As Marcus’ devious son Commodus ascends to the throne, Maximus is set to be executed. He escapes, but is captured
Cast:

• Maximus Meridius: Russell Crowe
• Emperor Commodus: Joaquin Phoenix
• Lucilla: Connie Nielsen
• Proximo: Oliver Reed
• Marcus Aurelius: Richard Harris
• Gracchus: Derek Jacobi
• Juba: Djimon Hounsou
• Falco: David Schofield
• Gaius: John Shrapnel
• Quintus: Tomas Arana
• Hagen: Ralf Moeller
• Lucius: Spencer Treat Clark
• Cassius: David Hemmings
• Cicero: Tommy Flanagan
• Tigris: Sven-Ole Thorsen
• Slave Trader: Omid Djalili
• Praetorian Officer: Nicholas McGaughey
• Scribe: Chris Kell
• Assassin #1: Tony Curran
• Assassin #2: Mark Lewis
• Valerius: John Quinn
• Praetorian Guard #1: Alun Raglan
• Engineer: David Bailie
• German Leader: Chick Allan
• Giant Man: David J. Nicholls
• Rome Trainer #1: Al Hunter Ashton
• Narrator: Billy Dowd
• Maximus’ Wife: Giannina Facio
• Maximus’ Son: Giorgio Cantarini
• Centurion (uncredited): Malcolm Ellul
• Centurion (uncredited): Ray Mangion
• Roman Soldier (uncredited): João Costa Menezes
• Fighter (uncredited): Mike Mitchell
• Fighter (uncredited): Antone Pagán
• Sedan Chair Carrier (uncredited): Norman Campbell Rees
• Roman Soldier (uncredited): Neil Roche
• Catapult Commander Shouts “Loose” (uncredited): Paul Sacks
• German Barbarian (uncredited): Steve Saunders
• Coliseum Gladiator (uncredited): Brian Smyj
• Swordsman (uncredited): Richard Stride
• Man (uncredited): Tony Tomlinson
• Germanian Barbarian (uncredited): Paul Woodadge
• Rome Citizen (uncredited): Michael Yale

Crew:

• Executive Producer: Ridley Scott
• Production Design: Arthur Max
• Set Decoration: Crispian Sallis
• Original Music Composer: Hans Zimmer
• Screenplay: William Nicholson
• Costume Design: Janty Yates
• Casting: Louis DiGiaimo
• Unit Production Manager: Branko Lustig
• Producer: Douglas Wick
• Screenplay: John Logan
• Story: David Franzoni
• Visual Effects: Colin Coull
• Vocals: Lisa Gerrard
• Editor: Pietro Scalia
• Supervising Sound Editor: Per Hallberg
• Best Boy Grip: Adrian McCarthy
• Wardrobe Master: William McPhail
• Production Supervisor: Ty Warren
• Title Designer: Robert Dawson
• Assistant Production Coordinator: Lesley Keane
• Second Assistant Director: Adam Somner
• “A” Camera Operator: Peter Taylor
• Associate Producer: Terry Needham
• Boom Operator: Colin Codner
• Steadicam Operator: Klemens Becker
• Costume Supervisor: Rosemary Burrows
• Second Unit Director of Photography: Alexander Witt
• Production Coordinator: Sallie Beechinor
• Key Grip: David Appleby
• Key Grip: Rupert Lloyd-Parry
• Propmaker: Bill Hargreaves
• Scenic Artist: Cynthia Sadler
• CG Supervisor: Laurent Hugueniot
• First Assistant Editor: Michael Reynolds
• Art Direction: Keith Pain
• Foley: James Moriana
• Foley: Jeffrey Wilhoit
• Visual Effects Supervisor: Tim Burke
• Visual Effects Producer: Nikki Penny
• Sound Effects Editor: Randy Kelley
• Director of Photography: John Mathieson
• Camera Operator: Ben Gooder
• Hairstylist: Graham Johnston
• Hairstylist: Carmel Jackson
• Scenic Artist: Bob Walker
• Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Bob Beemer
• Camera Operator: Branko Knez
• Location Manager: Jeremy Johns
• Makeup Artist: Jo Allen
• Assistant Art Director: José Luis del Barco
• Camera Technician: Agapios Louka
• Hairstylist: Ivana Němcová
• Art Direction: Peter Russell
• Foley: John T. Cucci
• Foley: Dan O’Connell
• Animatronic and Prosthetic Effects: Neil Corbould
• Hairstylist: Alex King
• Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Scott Millan
• Hairstylist: Marese Langan
• Animatronic and Prosthetic Effects: Astrig Akseralian
• Visual Effects Supervisor: John Nelson
• Music Editor: Dashiell Rae
• Makeup Artist: Paul Engelen
• Makeup Artist: Laura McIntosh
• Makeup Artist: Melissa Lackersteen
• Assistant Art Director: Adam O’Neill
• Greensman: Roger Holden
• Sound Effects Editor: Jon Title
• Visual Effects Supervisor: Rob Harvey
• Stunt Coordinator: Phil Neilson
• Still Photographer: Jaap Buitendijk
• Transportation Coordinator: Gerry Gore
• Sound Effects Editor: Christopher Assells
• Camera Operator: Clive Jackson
• First Assistant Editor: Chisako Yokoyama
• Makeup Artist: Trefor Proud
• Makeup Artist: Ivana Primorac
• Unit Publicist: Rob Harris
• Hairstylist: Anita Burger
• Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Frank A. Montaño
• Visual Effects Editor: Wesley Sewell
• Location Manager: Mike Higgins
• Sound Effects Editor: Dino DiMuro
• Camera Operator: Felix Schroer
• Location Manager: Terry Blyther
• Stunts: Miroslav Lhotka
• Casting Associate: Stephanie Corsalini
• Executive Producer: Laurie MacDonald
• Executive Producer: Walter F. Parkes
• Casting Assistant: Yann Mari Faget
• Extras Casting: Billy Dowd
• Location Casting: Kathleen Mackie Higgins
• Extras Casting: Hamid Ait Timaghrit
• Extras Casting: Barbara L. Roche
• Location Casting: Mustapha Charif
• Casting Assistant: Pia Zammit
• Casting Assistant: Rob Martin
• Compositors: Simon Stanley-Clamp
• Supervising Art Director: Benjamín Fernández
• Supervising Art Director: David Allday
• Supervising Art Director: John King
• Special Effects: John Evans
• Gaffer: Daniele Botteselle
• Sound: Scott Martin Gershin
• Post Production Supervisor: Lisa Dennis
• Assistant Director: Ali Cherkaoui
• Color Timer: Dale E. Grahn
• Stunts: Eddie Stacey
• Animal Wrangler: Thierry Le Portier
• Property Master: Bruce Bigg
• Property Master: Graeme Purdy
• Dialogue Editor: Simon Coke
• Foley Editor: Richard Dwan Jr.
• Supervising ADR Editor: Chris Jargo
• Foley Editor: Lou Kleinman
• Dialogue Editor: David A. Cohen
• Property Master: Philip McDonald
• ADR Editor: Laura Graham
• Dialogue Editor: Lauren Stephens
• Script Supervisor: Annie Penn
• Set Production Assistant: Mark Taylor
• Production Sound Mixer: Ken Weston
• Stunt Double: Randy Miller
• Stunts: Ivan Miča
• Stunts: Martin ‘Mato’ Uhrovcik
• Stunts: Jennifer Stoute
• Stunts: José María Serrano
• Stunts: Stephanie Lelievre
• Stunts: Charles Jarman
• Stunt Double: Peter White
• Stunts: Gordon Smith
• Stunts: Trevor Lovell
• Stunts: Guy List
• Stunts: Alejandro García
• Stunts: Gary Fry
• Stunts: Petr Drozda
• Stunts: Walter Difrancesco
• Stunt Double: Stuart Clark
• Stunts: Viktor Cervenka
• Stunts: David Weiss
• Stunts: David Faivre
• Stunts: Pavel Vokoun
• Stunts: Tony Lucken
• Stunts: Mike Lambert
• Stunts: R.J. Steel
• Stunts: Mustapha Natouri
• Stunts: Chris Manger
• Stunts: Seoras Wallace
• Stunts: Derek Lea
• Stunts: Chuck Jeffreys
• Stunts: Eugenio Alonso Yenes
• Stunts: Marc Roberts
• Stunts: Tom Lucy
• Stunts: Ray Nicholas
• Stunts: Ivo Krištof
• Stunts: Morgan Johnson
• Stunts: Peter Hric
• Stunts: Tubardh Wilson
• Stunts: Ian Walker
• Stunts: Marek Toth
• Stunts: Ken Scotland
• Stunts: Pauline Richards
• Stunts: Hernan Ortiz
• Stunts: Graham Mullins
• Stunts: Peter Miles
• Stunts: C.C. Smiff
• Stunts: Jane Omorogbe
• Stunts: Robbie MacFarlane
• Stunts: Mirek Navratil
• Stunts: Carlton Headley
• Stunts: Eugene Collier
• Stunts: Mohammed Enahal
• Stunts: Ben Bellman
• Stunts: Ricardo Cruz
• Stunts: Sergio Casadei
• Stunts: Vincent Bellina
• Stunts: Vincent Keane
• Stunts: Carlo Antonioni
• Stunts: Kamil Fojtik
• Stunts: Michel Didier
• Stunts: Forbes Cowan
• Stunt Double: Ryan Alber
• Stunts: Kevin Johnson
• Stunts: Zdeněk Dvořáček
• Stunts: Gianluca Coppetta
• Stunts: Alejandro Cobo
• Stunts: Brian Smyj
• Stunts: Jean-Phillipe Roman
• Stunts: Peter Olgyay
• Stunts: Mark Anthony Newman
• Stunts: Neil Finnighan
• Stunts: Sebastiano Cartier
• Stunts: Manuel Cabrera
• Stunts: Alessandro Casalino
• Stunts: Radowan Kak
• Stunts: Martin Hub
• Stunts: Joss Gower
• Stunts: Georges Branche

Catogories:
Action,Drama,Adventure
My huge brother says this plugin is magnificent!

What we do in life echoes in eternity.
Language:
English
Production:
United Kingdom,United States of America
Company:
Universal Pictures,Scott Free Productions,Red Wagon Entertainment,Mill Film,DreamWorks Pictures
Popularity:
165.715
Date:
2000-05-04
Year:
2000

• Eky: Gladiator has been my most favorite film of all time. It is an epic masterpiece in many ways and it really explains why despite the numerous viewings, Gladiator still amuses me with its powerful imageries and many other crucial aspects so that it won five Academy Awards. This film is very well written, the well-ensemble casts, the A-class acting (especially Russell Crowe and Joaquin Phoenix), the stunning cinematography and definitely a strong character of Maximus (magnificently portrayed by Russell Crowe) whose life, struggle, disappointment and anger really move the audience, as if the world attention centers on him. Gladiator is not a historical film, because it only used the history of the ancient Roman Empire merely as the time setting.
  All other aspects namely those gorgeous shots, the great storyline/plot, the fantastic cinematography, the vividly lavish colors, detailed production design and digital imaging (that successfully rebuilt the stunning beauty of the ancient Roman Empire) and all sell really well, making the 170 minute-long running time definitely worthwhile. The visual of great battle in the first 15 minutes really stole my heart. The gruesome pictures, the blood and violence just to beautiful to abandon. Everything in this movie seems perfectly balanced, Ridley Scott as the film director really did his homework well in redefining and revitalizing the big battle sequence once considered masterpiece from Spartacus and Ben Hur. In the end, once again, I would say that Gladiator perfectly combines some crucial elements such as good, moving story, dazzling visual, beautiful scenery, filming techniques, direction and touching music score into one harmonious, action-packed film about heroism and its true meaning.
• John Chard: They said you were a giant. They said you can crush a man’s skull with one hand.

  Ridley Scott’s Gladiator is not a perfect film, I would think that the hardiest of fans, of which I’m firmly one, know this deep down. Yet just like Commodus in the film is keen to point out that he himself has other virtues that are worthy, so does Gladiator the film. Enough in fact to make it an everlasting favourite of genre fans and worthy of the Academy Award acknowledgements it received.

  In narrative terms the plot and story arc is simplicity supreme, something Scott and Russell Crowe have never shied away from. There has to my knowledge as well, never been a denial of the debt Gladiator owes to Anthony Mann’s 1964 Epic, The Fall of the Roman Empire. Some folk seem very irritated by this, which is strange because the makers of Gladiator were not standing up bold as brass to proclaim they were unique with their movie, what they did do was reinvigorate a stagnant genre of film for a new generational audience. And it bloody worked, the influence and interest in all things Roman or historically swashbuckling of film that followed post Gladiator’s success is there for all to see.

  What we do in life echoes in eternity.

  So no originality in story, then. While some of the CGI is hardly “Grade A” stuff, and there’s a little over – mugging acting in support ranks as some of the cast struggle to grasp the period setting required, yet the way Gladiator can make the emotionally committed feel, actually overrides film making irks. Crowe’s Maximus is the man men want to be and the man women want to be with. As he runs through the gamut of life’s pains and emotionally fortified trials and tribulations, we are with him every step of the way, urging him towards his day of revenge splattered destiny – with Crowe superb in every pained frame, winning the Academy Award for Best Actor that he should have won for The Insider the previous year.

  Backing Crowe up is Joaquin Phoenix giving Commodus preening villainy and Connie Nielsen graceful as Lucilla (pitch Nielsen’s turn here against that of Diane Kruger’s in Troy to see the class difference for historical period playing). Oliver Reed, leaving the mortal coil but leaving behind a spicy two fold performance as Proximo the Gladiator task master. Olly superb in both body and CGI soul. Richard Harris tugging the heart strings, Derek Jacobi classy, David Hemmings also, while Djimon Hounso gives Juba – Maximus right hand man and confidante – a level of character gravitas that’s inspiring.

  I didn’t know man could build such things.

  Dialogue is literate and poetic, resplendent with iconic speeches. Action is never far away, but never at the expense of wrought human characterisations. The flaming arrows and blood letting of the Germania conflict kicks things off with pulse raising clarity, and Scott and his team never sag from this standard. The gladiator arena fights are edge of the seat inducing, the recreation for the Battle of Carthage a stunning piece of action sequence construction. And then the finale, the culmination of two men’s destinies, no soft soaping from Scott and Crowe, it lands in the heart with a resounding thunderclap. A great swords and sandals movie that tipped its helmet to past masters whilst simultaneously bringing the genre alive again. Bravo Maximus Decimus Meridius. 10/10

• Kowalczyk: Ridley Scott’s Gladiator is a real masterpiece of its genre. With its unique battle scenes, cinematography, acting and directing. It’s a real must-watch. Shame on you if you haven’t watched this movie!
• CinemaSerf: This has got just about everything from “Spartacus” (1960) to “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” (1964) via a bit of “Quo Vadis” (1951) to it – and Ridley Scott has managed to create a magnificent spectacle of a film. Russell Crowe is the eponymous soldier “Maximus”. Commander of the Armies of the Rhine for Emperor Marcus Aurelius (Richard Harris) and his designated successor – until, that is, the emperor’s son “Commodus” (Joaquin Phoenix) and his sister “Lucilla” (an efficient Connie Nielsen) arrive and suddenly it’s all change at the top. Betrayed and left for dead, our hero must now make other shifts if he is to survive in his new world – controlled by slave-owning “Proximo” (Oliver Reed) and deliver him of vengeance on his new Imperial nemesis. The film looks great, the cast – including some some strong supporting efforts from Sir Derek Jacobi, John Shrapnel, Djimon Hounsou and Tomas Arana all contribute well to this grandeur of this historical saga. The high politics, betrayal and duplicity are matched with a sense of integrity and camaraderie as “Maximus” begins to galvanise his colleagues and his political allies into something more than a disparate band fighting just to survive each day. Reed and Harris both feature only sparingly, but both add a richness to the characterisations that are dominated by two on-form performances from Crowe and Phoenix that epitomise a struggle of good versus evil and ultimate power in an empire where corruption and brutality trade human life as if it were a watermelon. Add to this some superb visual effects and a rousing score from Hans Zimmer (and Lisa Gerrard) and we have a compelling watch on a big screen that shows there is still a glimmer of the Cecil B. De Mille spirit left in Hollywood.
• Prodank: “Gladiator,” directed by Ridley Scott and released in 2000, is undeniably one of the best movies ever made. A cinematic masterpiece that effortlessly blends action, drama, and history, this film leaves an indelible mark on all who watch it.

  At the heart of “Gladiator” are the remarkable performances by Russell Crowe and Joaquin Phoenix. Crowe’s portrayal of Maximus Decimus Meridius is nothing short of breathtaking. His stoic determination, unwavering loyalty, and charismatic presence make him the perfect embodiment of a hero. Joaquin Phoenix, on the other hand, delivers a chillingly convincing performance as the treacherous Commodus. His portrayal of the power-hungry and morally bankrupt emperor is both mesmerizing and repulsive, showcasing his exceptional acting prowess.

  What sets “Gladiator” apart from other films is its ability to evoke genuine emotions. The story of Maximus, a loyal general who seeks revenge for the murder of his family and the betrayal of his emperor, touches the very core of our humanity. The film explores themes of honor, justice, and the indomitable spirit of the human soul, making it a truly timeless narrative.

  I would rewatch it anytime and recommend it to anyone. It’s a solid 10/10, truly an amazing masterpiece.