That was a great movie. I learned that interestingly enough, although the Maximus character was fictional, the other characters portrayed were historic, including the young Emperor Comodus. When I first saw the movie, I thought they were getting a bit too dramatic having the emperor fight in the colosseum, but apparently Comudus caught many times as a gladiator. He also cheated, as was shown in the movie, by either having his opponent pre-wounded, or providing the opponent with only a lead sword.
I thought that the recreation of the scenery, the sets, the battles, the costuming, everything was set so magnificantly for portraying the Roman Empire era. Stunning actually.
>>> Jor El was his Superman’s real pop, right? I get all that confused. There was Mon El and Kal El too
Don’t forget Lion El. He invented miniature locomotives on Krypton.
>>> When I first saw the movie, I thought they were getting a bit too dramatic having the emperor fight in the colosseum,
Before Gladiator, I learned of this Emperor in the film Fall of the Roman Empire. I made a point of acquiring a couple of the less expensive examples of his coinage as conversation pieces.
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