Gladiator critical article

This article is about how the movie Gladiator shows the power of man. This is shown by Maximus who was a top Roman General who falls to become a gladiator slave and then was able to rise again to even more power then the Emperor. The writer of this article is Jacqui Sadashige, who is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. The article appeared in a book call The American Historical Review: volume 105, number 4 and it came out in October 2000. As Sadashige described "the late twentieth century would seem exclusively populated by physically, emotionally, and sexually compromised males." Gladiator is an example of this in many ways all throughout the movie. Sadashige explains that "Ridley Scott's Gladiator provides physically and cinematically muscled reassurance that there was once a time when men were men and the world loved them for it."