"The one who wants it the least is the one who deserves it the most" - Good leadership quote. As veteran..the counting of days, thinking and desiring to be home, caring out those you serve with, seeing the horrors of war and wanting peaceful life...etc...everything Maximus did literally is what veterans go through.
Maximus wasn't being merciful when he spared Tigris of Gaul. He was waiting to see what signal Commodus gave so that he could openly defy him by doing the opposite.
@@BlackStudies Yes, I think that's something people may not realize because they're thinking of him being "good", but I'm pretty sure he would have killed if Commodus said not to.
It always annoys me when I watch a reaction and they cut that line out and also the "You should know, He was your father" That scene between them is such an iconic scene with such great lines that to cut too much of it out is just... well...
This reaction is common among a lot of women reactors. Usually not expecting much because they think it is just a violent "boy movie". But then there is a really pleasant surprise with it having heart and characters and great dialog and an engaging plot. It's always fun to see.
At the start of the film, when Maximus rides home to see his family, he pretty much rides all the way from Germany to Spain. That's why the horse collapsed and died under him
The Romans spoke Latin which is considered a dead language but it survives in medicine and academia nowadays. I know of a series which portrays the life of Arminius the German hero who defeated the Romans in Germania and in that series the Germans speak German and the Romans Latin. I think it was done that way because it is portrayed from the Germans point of view and they want us to feel how the Germans felt towards the Roman invaders but in Gladiator the story is from the Romans point of view so having it in English makes us see their side and relate.
12:30 The irony here is that the Praetorians are supposed to be the most elite soldiers in the Empire who always got the best; that's why they guarded the Emperor and his family. The best training, best equipment, best commanders, best of everything. And they were that once upon a time. But by the time of this emperor you can see how they've fallen into laziness, sloth and neglect since most of them will have never fought a battle in their entire lives.
This movie is inspired by real history of course but it is fiction. The ending of the movie is the only historically accurate thing in this story. There once was a Roman emperor who loved gladiator games and even participated in them from time to time and one slave gladiator defeated and killed the emperor in a duel. That emperor (which I forgot the name, maybe someone can help me with that) did not leave any descendants so Rome became a Republic. Some inaccuracies of the first battle are the flaming arrows were not lit in tar like that because the flame would be extinguished by the time it hit the target, in reality it had a whole mechanism with fuse that would make the flame burn for hours and you couldn't even put it out with water and the cavalry did not run down the hill at full speed in the forest like that because all the horses would've broken their legs before even getting to the enemy but it sure looks cool in film.
The first spot where he camped in the rocky area after he escaped execution is our local camping area in California called Alabama Hills. It is absolutely beutiful.
You have a good ear. The music for Gladiator was composed by Hans Zimmer and Lisa Gerrard. Zimmer also composed the music for Pirates of the Caribbean. Hence, there are definitely some similar themes, as you picked up on.
Marcus Aurelius and his son Commodus were real people. Commodus was emperor for 12 years and he also fought against gladiators in the arena. On December 31, 192 AD, he was strangled in a bath. The Praetorian Prefect QUINTUS Aemilius Laetus was an accomplice to the crime. The film is based on this very roughly and historically incorrectly.
This is a great movie and loved seeing your reaction to it! Also the soundtrack in this movie is amazing, and is made by the same person who did the Pirates movies, Hans Zimmer
The actor who played Proximo (the Gladiator trainer) was Oliver Reed. He was an extraordinary british actor, with a very interesting, fascinating and atypical life. He also was known for his alcoholism, having some scandals on TV and cinema as a consequence of this. During the filming of Gladiator in 1999, he sadly passed away. He had been sober for months, but one night (during a break from filming the movie) in an Irish pub in Malta (after a bet), he drank three bottles of Jamaican rum, eight bottles of German beer, numerous double whiskeys and challenged five young English sailors of the Royal Navy to arm-wrestling at The Pub bar (which after this incident was called Ollie's Last Pub). His bill, which was never paid, is preserved in a decorative frame in the bar.
One of my all time favorites. My mom didn't allow me to watch it when it was new so one day when she was away I jumped on my bike and rented the VHS and went back home to watch the movie and then I biked back before my mom got home so she wouldn't know, hahaha. I agree with you on the kiss, it comes pretty much out of nowhere and is very weird for him to do. Great reaction! I got tickets for the second movie on the 14th, so hyped!
Emperor Commodus did "fight" in the arena. Who was killed by his practice partner. Some historians say the assassination was arranged by a few senators.
Commodus' wife found his "hit list" and her name, his trainer's name and others were on it. So she arranged a dinner and they poisoned him with mushrooms but he almost immediately vomited. He thought he had a stomach flu and went to take a bath which was the Roman go to cure for everything. The conspirators were worried that he didn't have enough poison in his system to kill him so his trainer drowned him in the bath.
Oh dear, what language do you expect them to speak in? Latin was there tongue, but I doubt there are many actors who could do it, let alone viewers understand it! It’s a mish mash of actors and actresses from around the world, so all sorts of accents. However, I love the naive innocence in your reactions and comments. Made me smile continuously 👍.
Hans zimmer is the composer. He did gladiator and the pirates movies too, so good ear! Hes also done Rain Man, Lion King, the Batman Trilogy, inception, intersteller. Hes an amazing composer
Maximus (Russell Crowe) is called ‘Spaniard’, not used during this period. Maximus would be an Iberian or Celtiberian in Roman service. In a way his confusing accent was just right.
Incorrect. The name of Spain (España) comes from Hispania, the name used by the Romans for the Iberian Peninsula and its provinces during the Roman Empire. Technically, English would not have been used at all. So translating Iberian as Spaniard is fine.
While this story is fiction, there was an emperor Commodus. Surprisingly he did fight as a gladiator some have speculated he rigged it so he would win. Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.
You should see Gladiator II in the theaters rather than 9 months later on streaming. Everyone would’ve seen it by then. Some movie you gotta see on the big screen, not on a small computer monitor.
He's mainly indie and his only big movie were Walk the line and Gladiator before Joker. So, he's not a commercial enough to large range of audience to recognise but now he got that after Joker film
If you think this was good, you should watch the 2004 movie ''Troy'' which has Brad Pitt, Eric Bana and Orlando Bloom, this is my second favourite film just behind Gladiator.
Marco Aurelio was played by the first Dumbledore yes (Richard Harris). Harris did the first two HP films, but later on died. Therefore, Michael Gambon continued playing Dumbledore in HP saga.
this movie is awesome. they should make more series and movies about the Roman Empire until its end. every war and every political issue. but now days. Hollywood only wants is superhero movies.
People should really pay attention to the government organizations popularized by Rome like the senate as our western governments and congressional bodies are modeled after it. You understand it better if you understand the origins and can opinionate more on whether it's a good idea to have it or not.
Hello, if you don’t mind, can you do a movie reaction on a movie called, 1492: Conquest of Paradise. Adventure/Drama (1992). It stars Gérard Depardieu, Siqourney Weaver, Armand Assante. It portrays a version of the travels to the New World by the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus and the effect this had on indigenous peoples. Directed by Ridley Scott. Thank you, Chris.
This movie came in year 2000 before Pirate of the caribean so Pirate actually copied the soundtrack of Gladiator. This movie is as popular as Pirate of the caribean back then so dunno why many people only seen Pirate but not Gladiator.
It's a great film, but it's not subtle or unpredictable. Like, it ending with them fighting in the arena (sorry, "ring" 😅) is the obvious way for a film about gladiator versus the emperor to end. I'm sure she edited out all the times she predicted the Terminator traveled through time to kill John Conmodus...
GALDIATOR CAME OUT IN 2000 WHILE PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN CAME OUT IN 2003. SO INSTEAD OF SAYING GLADIATOR SOUNDS LIKE PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN YOU SHOULD SAY THAT PIRATES SOUND LIKE GLADIATOR! Got it?
"The one who wants it the least is the one who deserves it the most" - Good leadership quote. As veteran..the counting of days, thinking and desiring to be home, caring out those you serve with, seeing the horrors of war and wanting peaceful life...etc...everything Maximus did literally is what veterans go through.
Maximus wasn't being merciful when he spared Tigris of Gaul. He was waiting to see what signal Commodus gave so that he could openly defy him by doing the opposite.
He was being the bad boy of the arena and the crowd loved it.
Yes... he was being defiant!
Very true.
@@BlackStudies Yes, I think that's something people may not realize because they're thinking of him being "good", but I'm pretty sure he would have killed if Commodus said not to.
"Who will help me carry him?" 😭😭😭
No one ever includes my favourite line ("I think you've been afraid all your life") in their reaction to this film. 😥
I've actually seen quite a few channels include it. But yes, I agree, this a cold blooded line for sure 😈
It always annoys me when I watch a reaction and they cut that line out and also the "You should know, He was your father" That scene between them is such an iconic scene with such great lines that to cut too much of it out is just... well...
This reaction is common among a lot of women reactors. Usually not expecting much because they think it is just a violent "boy movie". But then there is a really pleasant surprise with it having heart and characters and great dialog and an engaging plot. It's always fun to see.
Best line is... What we do in life echoes in eternity
At the start of the film, when Maximus rides home to see his family, he pretty much rides all the way from Germany to Spain. That's why the horse collapsed and died under him
That's also why he took two horses. So he could ride the second when the first got tired.
Spain?...
Italy Is way closer to Germany.
Maximus was born in Spain, That doesn't mean he lived there.
Marcus Aurelius was born in Spain too.
@@damianomastroiaco2457 at the beginning of the film, he says his villa is in the hills above Trujillo, which is in western Spain
@@hgman3920 Plus, you can hear the Spanish guitar kick in during the riding montage when he crosses the Pyrenees mountains!
The Romans spoke Latin which is considered a dead language but it survives in medicine and academia nowadays. I know of a series which portrays the life of Arminius the German hero who defeated the Romans in Germania and in that series the Germans speak German and the Romans Latin. I think it was done that way because it is portrayed from the Germans point of view and they want us to feel how the Germans felt towards the Roman invaders but in Gladiator the story is from the Romans point of view so having it in English makes us see their side and relate.
12:30 The irony here is that the Praetorians are supposed to be the most elite soldiers in the Empire who always got the best; that's why they guarded the Emperor and his family. The best training, best equipment, best commanders, best of everything. And they were that once upon a time. But by the time of this emperor you can see how they've fallen into laziness, sloth and neglect since most of them will have never fought a battle in their entire lives.
This movie is inspired by real history of course but it is fiction. The ending of the movie is the only historically accurate thing in this story. There once was a Roman emperor who loved gladiator games and even participated in them from time to time and one slave gladiator defeated and killed the emperor in a duel. That emperor (which I forgot the name, maybe someone can help me with that) did not leave any descendants so Rome became a Republic. Some inaccuracies of the first battle are the flaming arrows were not lit in tar like that because the flame would be extinguished by the time it hit the target, in reality it had a whole mechanism with fuse that would make the flame burn for hours and you couldn't even put it out with water and the cavalry did not run down the hill at full speed in the forest like that because all the horses would've broken their legs before even getting to the enemy but it sure looks cool in film.
The first spot where he camped in the rocky area after he escaped execution is our local camping area in California called Alabama Hills. It is absolutely beutiful.
Dated a girl from that area in college.
Phoenix absolutely owns every scene he's in...put him on the map....great villain
The Last Samurai needs to be on your list for a soon to be watched movie. It is another masterpiece of filmmaking.
"The music is giving me Pirates of the Carribean vibes."
It's almost like the score was written by the same person. 🤔
You mean film composers can score more than one film? Wild! 😊
Pirate of the Caribbean copied Gladiator. This movie came in 2000 b4 Pirate of the Caribbean
@moonmc1047 both scores were written by the same person.
You have a good ear. The music for Gladiator was composed by Hans Zimmer and Lisa Gerrard. Zimmer also composed the music for Pirates of the Caribbean. Hence, there are definitely some similar themes, as you picked up on.
Marcus Aurelius and his son Commodus were real people. Commodus was emperor for 12 years and he also fought against gladiators in the arena. On December 31, 192 AD, he was strangled in a bath. The Praetorian Prefect QUINTUS Aemilius Laetus was an accomplice to the crime. The film is based on this very roughly and historically incorrectly.
This is a great movie and loved seeing your reaction to it! Also the soundtrack in this movie is amazing, and is made by the same person who did the Pirates movies, Hans Zimmer
Ooo that makes sense! Fantastic music as always from him 🔥
My favorite movie of all time since it came out in 2000. Great reaction! ❤️
The actor who played Proximo (the Gladiator trainer) was Oliver Reed. He was an extraordinary british actor, with a very interesting, fascinating and atypical life. He also was known for his alcoholism, having some scandals on TV and cinema as a consequence of this. During the filming of Gladiator in 1999, he sadly passed away. He had been sober for months, but one night (during a break from filming the movie) in an Irish pub in Malta (after a bet), he drank three bottles of Jamaican rum, eight bottles of German beer, numerous double whiskeys and challenged five young English sailors of the Royal Navy to arm-wrestling at The Pub bar (which after this incident was called Ollie's Last Pub). His bill, which was never paid, is preserved in a decorative frame in the bar.
He scared the hell out of me as Bill Sykes when I was a kid.
Kudos for keeping Maximus's whole monologue in the edit. A lot of reactors cut parts of it.
One of my all time favorites. My mom didn't allow me to watch it when it was new so one day when she was away I jumped on my bike and rented the VHS and went back home to watch the movie and then I biked back before my mom got home so she wouldn't know, hahaha.
I agree with you on the kiss, it comes pretty much out of nowhere and is very weird for him to do.
Great reaction! I got tickets for the second movie on the 14th, so hyped!
Omg bless ahahaha
Emperor Commodus did "fight" in the arena. Who was killed by his practice partner. Some historians say the assassination was arranged by a few senators.
Commodus' wife found his "hit list" and her name, his trainer's name and others were on it. So she arranged a dinner and they poisoned him with mushrooms but he almost immediately vomited. He thought he had a stomach flu and went to take a bath which was the Roman go to cure for everything. The conspirators were worried that he didn't have enough poison in his system to kill him so his trainer drowned him in the bath.
Oh dear, what language do you expect them to speak in? Latin was there tongue, but I doubt there are many actors who could do it, let alone viewers understand it! It’s a mish mash of actors and actresses from around the world, so all sorts of accents. However, I love the naive innocence in your reactions and comments. Made me smile continuously 👍.
Hans zimmer is the composer. He did gladiator and the pirates movies too, so good ear! Hes also done Rain Man, Lion King, the Batman Trilogy, inception, intersteller. Hes an amazing composer
Maximus (Russell Crowe) is called ‘Spaniard’, not used during this period. Maximus would be an Iberian or Celtiberian in Roman service. In a way his confusing accent was just right.
Incorrect. The name of Spain (España) comes from Hispania, the name used by the Romans for the Iberian Peninsula and its provinces during the Roman Empire.
Technically, English would not have been used at all. So translating Iberian as Spaniard is fine.
@ Yes, that works. Thank you.
While this story is fiction, there was an emperor Commodus. Surprisingly he did fight as a gladiator some have speculated he rigged it so he would win. Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.
Indeed. In fact truth is almost ALWAYS stranger than fiction.
You should see Gladiator II in the theaters rather than 9 months later on streaming. Everyone would’ve seen it by then. Some movie you gotta see on the big screen, not on a small computer monitor.
Hans Zimmer wrote both movies. Can you have one phrase so much that he used it in both. The phrase fits both.
You didn't recognize Joaquin Phoenix as Commodus??? He's super famous, he played the Joker, Johnny Cash, and lots of other iconic characters.
Omg????? That’s him??? I’ve seen him in joker and he freaked me out wow he’s like the perfect actor for a villain hahaha I didn’t recognise him at all
He's mainly indie and his only big movie were Walk the line and Gladiator before Joker. So, he's not a commercial enough to large range of audience to recognise but now he got that after Joker film
It is not based on a true story but some aspects are. There were roman emperor by the name of Marcue aurelius and his son comodus was also an emperor.
It's historical fiction.
If you think this was good, you should watch the 2004 movie ''Troy'' which has Brad Pitt, Eric Bana and Orlando Bloom, this is my second favourite film just behind Gladiator.
London sits on the city founded by the Romans called londinium
Marco Aurelio was played by the first Dumbledore yes (Richard Harris). Harris did the first two HP films, but later on died. Therefore, Michael Gambon continued playing Dumbledore in HP saga.
this movie is awesome. they should make more series and movies about the Roman Empire until its end. every war and every political issue. but now days. Hollywood only wants is superhero movies.
The Romans also named Germania
Imo top 20 film ever made you could rank it anywhere in the top 20
Roman generals paid their army out of their own pocket
People should really pay attention to the government organizations popularized by Rome like the senate as our western governments and congressional bodies are modeled after it. You understand it better if you understand the origins and can opinionate more on whether it's a good idea to have it or not.
Yeah...Rome is in Italy
"his voice sounds like Dumbledohr." 🤣🤣 You are giving me so much joy!❤❤❤
History: Boy meets girl, babies happen, rinse and repeat ;-)
Hello, if you don’t mind, can you do a movie reaction on a movie called, 1492: Conquest of Paradise.
Adventure/Drama (1992). It stars Gérard Depardieu, Siqourney Weaver, Armand Assante. It portrays a version of the travels to the New World by the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus and the effect this had on indigenous peoples.
Directed by Ridley Scott. Thank you, Chris.
Like...he like...i was like....like actually now...like....like^^
This movie came in year 2000 before Pirate of the caribean so Pirate actually copied the soundtrack of Gladiator. This movie is as popular as Pirate of the caribean back then so dunno why many people only seen Pirate but not Gladiator.
What the hell? This epic music sounds like pirates of the Caribbean? The emperor sounds like Dumbledore?
Your destroying my movie😭
Bro it is Dumbledore 😂 the same actor
The Romans spoke Latin
Have you seen "The Odyssey"? Just a heads up it's pretty gory but it isn't excessive.
Alice in Wonderland
They all spoke the common language at the time, depending on which area of Europe they come from, the accents will be different
It’s crazy that you called every single thing that would happen right before it did. Almost like you have seen it before.
It wasn’t that hard to predict
Yes noted as well, it happens to a lot of these reaction vids, so makes one wonder about sincerity
It's a great film, but it's not subtle or unpredictable. Like, it ending with them fighting in the arena (sorry, "ring" 😅) is the obvious way for a film about gladiator versus the emperor to end. I'm sure she edited out all the times she predicted the Terminator traveled through time to kill John Conmodus...
Not exactly historically accurate play a good tale
Its a fun movie but historical inaccurate
get over the accent
As a fellow Aussie I can tell you the Quokka's accent is just as hybrid - there's a strong hint of pretentiousness in there to make it worse...
Ya that's just the way Russel Crowe speaks in everything I've seen him in. It's not like he's putting on an accent.
GALDIATOR CAME OUT IN 2000 WHILE PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN CAME OUT IN 2003. SO INSTEAD OF SAYING GLADIATOR SOUNDS LIKE PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN YOU SHOULD SAY THAT PIRATES SOUND LIKE GLADIATOR! Got it?
She saw Pirates before she saw Gladiator, hence the comment.
@ No shiznit. My comment was supposed to be humor.
@ oh. It came across as rude. Hard to convey tone with text.