Sir Ridley Scott

Ridley Scott has a huge list of production under his belt as can be seen from the link. He has produced and directed many big budget films including, Gladiator, Kingdom of Heaven, Black Hawk Down, Hannibal, etc. His newest movie that is coming out this year is American Gangster, which is about a drug lord that smuggles heroin into Harlem during the 70's hiding the stashes inside the coffins of American soldiers' coffins, returning from Vietnam.

Gladiator's Commodus vs. the actual Commodus

The movie Gladiator, for those who have never seen it, is about a very respected general of the Roman Empire who is exiled by the new ruler Commodus. The general is captured and sold as a slave. He finds himself soon fighting in arenas as a gladiator against other men and animals. Eventually he fights Commodus in the arena and kills him.




Commodus was a real emperor of Rome. His full name and title is Caesar Marcus Aurelius Commodus Antoninus Augustus. He was a very brutal ruler who had many senators killed after an attempt on his life and ordered the execution of his chief advisor to please the army, and the successor was killed in a riot. He started to lose his mind and pretended that he was Hercules entering the Colosseum to fight gladiators and animals. On December 31, 192 AD, his advisors had him strangled by a champion wrestler.

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."