Gladiator

Sound has been an integral part of the film storytelling process since the studio era began. Since its inception, sound has proven to be an important technical and creative innovation used by film directors to gain the attention of its movie viewers. Present day films are unbalanced because they are visually two-dimensional but use 3-dimensional (3-D) sound. Sound plays a vital role in calling the viewer’s attention to the spatial and temporal dimensions within scenes. Directors, Editors and…

There is mythology of Pompeii and Herculaneum by Hercules. According to Pompeii and Herculaneum: A Sourcebook, “Hercules was sent to the western edge of the world, to Gades (modern Cadiz, Spain). Having defeated the monster Geryon there, he drove Geryon's herd of cattle back to Greece, passing through Italy on his travels. As he did so, he was said to have bestowed upon Pompeii its name, derived from the word for procession common to Greek and Latin (pompe/ pompa). Nearby Herculaneum was also…

generated arena. The winner that will live in peace with no problems. This is the same thing as what happened in the Roman Empire, tributes or in there case peasants, slaves, and criminals were thrown into a pit and forced to fight to the death against gladiators or even animals for a sort of entertainment to the people of Rome to push away all the problems that is happening or happened. Panem puts fear into the districts not to go against them or there will be punishment. In the past there was…

brutal gladiatorial games, just like modern day people would watch violent sports such as, football, MMA, boxing matches. One significant difference between our sports and the games of Ancient Rome is that in Ancient Rome, Gladiators would fight to the death against other Gladiators or animals to entertain the crowd. Many of today’s sports still do cause serious injuries. People love to watch this violence as they, get to experience their natural tendencies towards aggression through the…

tepidarium (warm room), and the frigidarium (cold room). The hot room was for relaxing and the warm and cold rooms were for washing. There is also a changing room where you can exercise. The city has a gladiator training ground for duels and fights. Some might fight animals, and some fight other gladiators. Most villas overlook the bay of Naples. Villas were one story tall and had a center hallway with rooms on the side of it. Pompeii consisted of many rich landowners with villas, farmers,…

For me, Black Rain is just another prime example of why I consider Ridley Scott to be a mixed bag as a Director. Sure he’s definitely made some classics like Blade Runner, Alien, and Gladiator but other films that I’ve seen in Scott’s filmography (Robin Hood, Exodus, and G.I. Jane) seems like he gets so caught up into creating visual atmospheres (especially in this one) to the point of where he loses focus on maintaining a genuine plotting or narrative. Black Rain is an 80’s recycled tough cop…

Gorge, Orwell writes about an elephant in his essay “Shooting an Elephant” where the main craters is a police man for the British emperor in one of the eastern countries. This police man has an internal power struggle with his duty and internal feelings of what he knows as right. In this country he imply about how the people there are cage and are oppressed by the British Emperor he is also concern with his duty and how the people view him. Even though the policeman is authority figure he takes…

there was never an affair, and furthermore he was never sold into slavery. This is where a large issue arises. ‘Hercules and his friend are taken captive and sold as slaves. Our hero eventually ends up in a makeshift arena in Sicily as a gladiator.’ Battling as gladiators is a part of Roman culture. One of the most fun inaccuracies however, is the lighting-whip sword that somehow seems to be invented in 500 B.C. Hercules traditional weapon of choice is actually a club. One of the things that is…

To win over Roman people, he decided to build the amphitheater where gladiator games would be held. (Dutemple, 2003) It was demanded by Emperor Vespesian that the Colosseum is to be built on the site of Nero's palace, so he could alienate himself from the hated tyrant. He thought by orchestrating dangerous and destructive combats of gladiators and extreme animal fights for public social viewing, that he would earn fame and popularity. In just 80 AD, about…

of a Roman guard, but he shortly after being sentenced is bought by a gladiator broker named Batiatus. At Batiatus’s academy Spartacus is trained in the art of combat. It was at the academy were Spartacus meets fellow slave Varinia who would go on to become his wife. One day at the academy powerful men and their wives show up and want to see the slaves fight to the death in the arena, Spartacus is one of the chosen gladiators. Spartacus loses his fight however his opponent refuses to kill him…