The Movie Gladiator

The first experience with Gladiator the movie directed by Ridley Scott was not a great experience at all. Walking into the movie theater with my parents while just being merely 8 years old. I was not aware of the gore and violence I was about to watch, so I spent most of the 155 minutes of the movie with my eyes shut closed, hiding behind my knees. Then to watch the movie again, but this time 15 years later for an assignment is a completely different experience, where I can tolerate the gore and violence as well as understanding what is being said throughout the movie while having the knowledge as well due to my studies.
While studying the Roman History throughout my studies at Arizona State University, I am not familiar with the name Maximus Decimus Meridius and in the movie Gladiator; he is the main role throughout the entire movie. The hero in the movie …show more content…
During his moment as a slave, he gained confidence and guided the other slaves as if they were in a war, along with being a strong leader while in Rome during the gladiator games with the crowd constantly cheering for him and praising him to win each time. Whether the circumstances he was always considered a role model to others, the Romans Soldiers, the slaves and the Roman citizens all looked up to him, but sadly enough was just a fictional character. From one of the sources I used from Exovedate Website it was mentioned that he was quite a mixture of those we have references of. Maximus is strongly similar to Emperor Diocletian (in latin: Gaius Aurelius ValeriusDiocletianus), who ruled from 284 – 305 CE. Diocletian was a man of the lower class, so presumably a farmer, the Emperor at the time favored him and trusted him enough to become the General. Once the Emperor knew it was his time to pass down the emperor roles, he had Diocletian