NeonFlux117 wrote...
With Maximus and his Legions storming Rome. Killing all those lazy scrub politicians and then crucifying that punk Commodus. Then Maximus dies in battle. Not some arena.
The film is named
Gladiator. The film ending in the arena shouldn't come as a surprise.
Come on, the skinny, weak, coward, incestuous emperor trying to beat the greatest gladiator/strategist ever?
Than he dies obviously, and everybody forgets CAESAR lying dead and carry the gladiator as a hero?
You have to agree that they could come up something better.
Commodus was supposed to be an unpopular Emperor. In the film he using the games as a distraction for his own mismanagement of the country. Given the backdrop, no one being sad to see him go makes sense.
And historically Roman Emperors were murdered all the time (including Commodus, though it didn't happen as depicted in the film). It was business as usual.
caldas wrote...
Maximus wounded dying in the arena fighting a regular gladiator would be believable at least.
but let's go back to ME.
Maximus dies fighting some random gladiator while Commodus, the film's main antagonist, reclines on a couch and applauds? That would have been anti-climactic.
Modifié par Han Shot First, 26 janvier 2014 - 08:35 .