Watching GLADIATOR for the FIRST TIME!
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Watching GLADIATOR for the FIRST TIME! 
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That is what a Academy Award Winning movie looks like. NEVER see that made today. Great Pick!
Joaquin Phoenix was just a fabulous villain he deserved an Oscar for supporting actor!
43:02 I love how, at the end, his image of the afterlife is the road leading downhill through the fields toward his farm, with his wife and son safe, waiting for him to come home.
I'm from Spain, which used to be Hispania (Maximus' homeland) when the Romans ruled. Family is extra important to us, so much that most of us don't move far away because we want to be close to our relatives. This movie hit all the sensitive spots and I cry every time I see it.
Family is not extrea important to spanish people. Only to conservative churchloving monarchist francoists. Spanish men and women do not even make many babies.
This movie is on the short list of one of the Greatest Movies of All Time.
Yes he was the first Dumbledore. They switched him out in the third HP movie because he passed away.
Probably a wise choice. 😉
Love this channel! I stumbled across it when you started reacting to the MCU.
You guys are very quickly becoming one of my favourite reaction channels! I love your energy and enthusiasm! Your curiosity and insight!
Keep up the great work!
Hey Raymond!!! That makes us so happy to hear!! Thank you SO much for watching with us!! (:
The actor who plays Proximo died during the making of this movie. Love Oliver Reed. RIP
Reed was fantastic playing a lush.ofc,it helped that he wasn't acting.
Richard Harris (Marcus Aurelius) was the first Dumbledore yes. In the third one, due to he passed away, Michael Gambon replaced him.
Don't know how you guys weren't balling by the end of the movie but glad you got to see one of the best movies ever made. 🤔
SPQR is "Senatus Populusque Romanus", means the Senate and population of Rome during the old Republic.
31:35 - The subtitles messed this up. That's supposed to read "Alias Maximus" (alias, being a name someone is going by).
Also, this story isn't based on any actual historical events. Inspired by the times, and the setting & visuals are historically very close, and there was a Marcus Aurelius and an Emperor Comedus, but the real guy wasn't a complete monster like this depicts him as. The people & events are heavily dramatized & the story is fictional.
Search for the History Buffs channel here. They have a critique & commentary of the film, where they go into detail about the real people & events that loosely inspired this film.
My favorite movie of all time since it came out in 2000. Great reaction!
The Princess loved Maximus more than anyone in life save her son. Which is insinuated to be Maximus' son. Releasing Maximus to go to his family was the hardest thing he ever had to do. Maximus is hailed as an Emperor and Commodus is left lying in the dirt like a dog, as he should have.
Russell Crowe not only did his own stunts, he was an expert horseman. He has great love and respect for horses.
That first battle scene is just a perfect representation of how the Roman Empire came to conquer most of the known world at the time; disciplined, regimented tactics that took full advantage of terrain and technology. Roman engineering was genius for the time, and their war machines reflected this. Catapults launching firebombs full of pitch and naphtha; large, broad tower shields that the infantry would use in inexorable phalanx advances, with companies of bowmen firing hundreds of shafts in great volleys protected behind them; heavy cavalry units to flank the ponderous and disorganized hordes of barbarian fighters to further demoralize them and cut off escape routes. It was all very meticulously planned and precisely executed by the well-drilled soldiers in the legions.
Rome's problem in the end was that they held too much territory to defend effectively even with 400,000 troops and the practice of taking on foreign auxiliaries in a local policing role in those territories officered by a Roman squad. The tribes outside the borders (primarily the Germans and Goths) were too numerous and their attacks too frequent for Rome to keep up with, and, combined with political corruption at home as well as dealing with the aftermath of a devastating plague, saw the dismantling of the Western empire in 476, with its territories being divided between various barbarian kingdoms such as the Franks, the Angles, the Vandals, and the Visigoths, etc.
It might be a little intense for the channel, but if you want to watch it on your own, "Romper Stomper" was Russell Crowe's international breakthrough, and it helped pave the way for his Hollywood breakthrough in "L.A. Confidential".
Nice reaction - lots to consider w this film - for one thing, there are the Easter Eggs - Richard Harris famously played King Arthur in Camelot, evoking a moment of light in a dark history, pointing to a brighter future, and his casting here and as Dumbledore plays on that resonance; Derek Jacobi famously played the title character in I, Claudius, which probably defined how our pop culture sees Roman decadence; John Shrapnel was another Royal Shakespeare alumnus who specialized in classical Greek roles like Creon and Hector
BREAD AND CIRCUSES
As a film, Gladiator re-popularized a kind of 50s epic grandeur that then became newly prominent w LOTR - the Bread and Circuses idea is a major theme re how we consider our own spectatorship - it's a way we view ourselves as audiences, w all the questions that raises - you mentioned Hunger Games as another film treating that topic - Hunger Games is almost an exact rehash of the more uncompromising Japanese film, Battle Royale - another brilliant recent film addressing Bread and Circuses is The Truman Show; regarding the subject of gladiators, maybe the best film is Kubrick's Spartacus, w a pronounced sense of historical and political clarity
Harris' Marcus Aurelius is actually an important philosopher, and a central figure in Stoicism, which was prevalent during the Roman era
CLASSICAL ROME AND THE WEST
Rome is one of the central world civilizations, along w Persia, India, and China - in many ways Rome defines the West - if you're looking to do further research around this subject, it helps to have a general historical and cultural framework, to see how Rome still plays a central role in the story we tell about ourselves, and where it fits into the popular imagination today - here's a rough outline:
ROOTS IN GREECE
Rome consolidated the Classical Era, that traced its roots back to Homeric Greece (see the movie Troy, and also The Odyssey, w Armand Assante) building up to Hellenic Athens, w Plato and his student Aristotle setting our basic debate re the nature of reality, and Greek dramatists Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides defining our storytelling;
ROME SETS THE TEMPLATE
the Roman Republic saw itself as a continuation of the Greek tradition, adopting the same gods thru poets like Ovid, and writing themselves into the story of Troy w Virgil's sequel to Homer, the Aeneid, which became Rome's national epic - see Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra re this time when the Republic transitioned to an Empire, along w the legendary BBC series I, Claudius - these stories depict a vast descent into stagnation and depravity that remains an open question for our culture today, and is often used as a forecast re the possible fate of our current world order
- during this period, Rome also adopted and further defined Christianity, making it the central religion of the West - indeed, Rome established the template for Western civilization by fusing Classical Greece w the prophetic traditions of West Asia (see the writings of Augustine)
MIDDLE AGES
Rome then split into East and West; Eastern Rome transformed into the long-lasting Byzantine Empire, w the Emperor acting as the head of the Church (which continued into Tsarist Russia); Western Rome collapsed and fragmented, and the Catholic Church emerged as a unifying cultural power - this chaotic period lasted 1,000 years and is often called "the Dark Ages" (see Wagner's Ring Cycle, King Arthur movies Camelot and Excalibur, and Dante's seminal Divine Comedy to trace the evolution of this period)
EMERGENCE OF EUROPE
- Europe's interaction thru trade and the Crusades w the far more advanced Islamic West Asia re-connected the West w its own Classical roots and helped spark its rebirth thru the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, rejecting the authority of the Church in favor of Classical ideals of humanism, science, and inquiry (see Shakespeare and Descartes)
ENTER THE AMERICAS
- during this time, Europe sought trade routes to connect themselves w the flourishing Silk Roads of Eurasia, and this led them to discover the Americas, where their relative technological advantage enabled them to conquer and draw wealth, and rapidly rise to compete w the dominant world empires of China, India, Persia, and the Ottomans (the latter also seeing themselves as successors to Rome)
NEW ATLANTIC ORDER
- so the world center shifted from Eurasia to a new colonial and industrialized Atlantic order that set the template for today's geopolitics - and today that center may be shifting back to Eurasia, and Rome is still our self-image when we imagine ourselves as a Unified West
Hunger Games took from this, from Running Man, from Harry Potter (the chosen one), Battle Royale, The Most Dangerous Game, Series 7: The Contenders, 1984, Gattaca, etc. I always thought from the very beginning that the Hunger Games story was sort of a Frankenstein of other already established storylines that were pieced together in its own way to make a new story.
I've seen several dozen 'Gladiator' reactions, and I went back and re-watched the 'chained' battle several times at slower speed, but I still didn't see 'Giant' (the tall gladiator) intentionally kill his partner. All I saw was the big man cutting his dead teammate's hand off to free himself from the corpse. Can anybody enlighten me, here?
He did. The guy to whom he was chained was a liability.
37:26 Excellent acting by the boy playing her son in this scene as he legitimately looks freaked out here.
See this child actor also in a striking adaptation of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, also Roman-themed, filmed around the same time, and starring Anthony Hopkins and Jessica Lange
@@zmani4379 He’s also in Gladiator 2, playing the same character as a grown up.
Y'all copy has scenes mine doesn't have. He never stopped to resr when he was rushing to save his family. Also the scene with farm hands and white horse are new too.
Great movie! Thank y'all for reacting to this one!
Well this is history but embellished... like a lot! What happened is that there was once an emperor that loved gladiator games and participated in many of them himself because many of those games were gladiators fighting against wild animals like lions and tigers. In the end he had the bright idea to fight a slave gladiator in the ring himself and the slave gladiator won killing the emperor. Rome became republic after that because he left no heir to the throne. That's it. There were no plots or back stories of double love or what not. But it is a legend of a movie and I think that even if ancient Romans saw it, they would love it too...
Ending made me cry for real
AM I NOT MERCIFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Awesome reaction of my favorite DreamWorks movie!!!!!!😊😊😊😊😊😊
It’s based on historical figures… vaguely.
well,Marcus Aurelius,Commodus and Drusilla were real people of that period.Everone else.... not so much.
With him, when he transformed every full moon.
I’m so excited for the second Gladiator coming out in the fall. Paul Mescal (who is an incredible actor) is playing an adult Lucius. I feel like it’s going to be really good.
Love your reactions, and I'm already subscribed to your channel!!!
The amazing music was composed and conducted by none other than the great Hans Zimmer.
If you like to read, find the writings of Marcus Aurelius. A true philosopher-warrior.
Excellent movie and reaction. This is not one of my favorites by Ridley Scott, but it's and exceptional film. Joaquin Phoenix and Russell Crowe were perfectly cast. The story is not accurate historically, but that is not surprising for a Hollywood adaptation.
Another set of recommendations would be Ridley Scott's
1) Kingdom of Heaven (historical adaptation like Gladiator)
2) Bladerunner (cyberpunk sci-fi)
3) The Martian (near future hard sci-fi)
4) Alien (sci-fi horror)
5) Black Hawk Down (historical adaptation based on non-fiction novel)
14:28 Zucchabar is present-day Algeria in North Africa
Great reaction, 🤌 awesome.
Hey Stephen!! Thank you so much (: We appreciate it!
Excellent reaction.👍👍
id suggest watching all of the movies on the wheel, besides The Full Montie and Childeren of men which are good, the rest are some of the best movies ever
"Nooo-uh"
The Romans like the Greeks believed in an afterlife. The wicked dead would go to Hades/Tartarus and the righteous dead would go to the Elysium fields. Thats why they keep showing Maximus walking through wheat fields. 😢
Oliver Reed, who plays Proximo, this was his last movie. He unfortunately passed before the completion of the film. This required some stand ins and some digital masking to complete the remaining scene. 😢
We see where the phrase "Bread and Circuses" comes from. Free bread for the poor and the gladiatorial games as circuses...trained soldiers killing each other for sport and entertainment to the masses. 😢
"What is this?"
The technical term is shenanigans. It's a trap to have the animals savage Maximus so he loses the fight and his life. Maximus just refused to cooperate. 😲
"Hello, my name is Maximus Aurelius...you killed my son and wife...prepare to die."
Hi, you said "they are turning on him". Those soldiers are Pretorians, they are like the military police. They dont go to war with Maximus hence has no loyalty to Maximus. Plus they were simply following the orders of their in charge which happens to be Quintus. Quintus isnt a bad person but was playing the game of thrones just like everyone else, except Maximus, who just decided to ruin himself by showing outright rebellion right from the start. Not smart at all. Maximus reminds me of Ned Stark from GOT. But at lease Maximus didnt die as quick. LOL.
They are making a second one.
This is like watching two microwave baked potatoes watch a movie....
And one of the potatoes says "yuueahhhh" on repeat
удивительно что некоторые люди не смотрели этот шедевр. Это очень удивляет
Great movie. Not very historically accurate but great movie
Reacting TO a masterpiece 'THE SCHINDLERS LIST' IS AMAZING A SAD MOVIE BUT REAL
412 times I hear DANG!!!!!!!!@@@
Can you do more of Star Wars please 😢
ive watched and loved many of your other reactions, but this one does seem to be edited horribly. missed multiple great convos, epic monologues, and deaths. some movies need 1hr + reactions, the squeezing one-of-a-kind movies to 40ish mins is a crime.
Dambldore hp1. hp2 gladiator film 8 oscar 🥰🥰
Great movie, great story, some of the names were real but sorry not history.
Caballeria en un bosque no.solo queda bien en el cine.
Most of us can walk, talk and chew gum at the same time...please don't cut away from scenes when you talk. When you do so you're shrouding some context. You really don't need to obscure scenes for viewers to notice your reactions.
Jag blir alltid så förvånad över att Amerikaner inte kan något om Europeisk historia. Men allt om Amerikansk historia.Som inte sträcker sig mer än max 300 år.
Detta utspelades alltså för 2000 år sedan.
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Nice channel but you edit out all of the good parts
"It's like everything becomes a blur". Yes, all the parts we've come to watch you react to. Not a good one, guys.
Your editor deserves a pay decrease
If I could thumbs down this edit a hundred times, I would thumb it down a hundred and one. People don't come to reaction channels to watch your reaction, they come to watch the _movie_ with your reaction to it. You cut out all of the money lines so why should I like this reaction?
No their editor needs to be fired and hirer a new editor
Oh. Oh. Ow. Oh. Quite a reaction.
Terrible editing.
Way too much talking and interruptions !!! every five seconds terrible reaction/review..please don't give up your day jobs..
Dude, they do this perfectly.