The Gladiator Retrospective
The Gladiator is simply put one of the best movies I have ever seen. It is epic in scope, the story of Roman general Maximus Meridius, played by Russell Crowe. Maximus is loyal to the emperor, but is thrust into slavery when Commodus, expertly played by Juaquin Pheonix in one of the greatest acting roles I have ever witnessed, kills his father and seizes the throne. Maximus becomes a gladiator. Through his incomparable skills as a warrior, Maximus becomes a renowned gladiator with one thing on his mind – vengeance.
Ridley Scott did an amazing job of directing this movie. This movie restored the public’s interest in historical epic films. Most movies that win Oscars are dreadful pieces of crap that people claim to like so that they can feel superior to the rest of society. This is not the case with Gladiator. The acting is sensational. The cinematography is top notch. The conclusion is more than satisfying.
When I first came up with the concept of my novel Reconquest: Mother Earth, before I even sat to start writing it, I had an image in my head of my main protagonist, former Navy SEAL Mitch Grace, in an arena battling it out with aliens. I didn’t know how I was going to incorporate this into my book, but one thing was certain, somehow, someway it was going to be part of it.
In Reconquest: Mother Earth, the planet is taken over by alien conquerors. Mitch Grace wakes up from a coma five years later and is determined to take the planet back from the aliens. He starts a guerilla campaign against them, and in the process is captured and enslaved much like Maximus. He becomes an intergalactic warrior, even taking the moniker of “The Gladiator”. He becomes an intergalactic sensation, a human that can kill aliens in single combat. Much like Maximus, he is single-minded in his focus, which is to reconquer the planet.
Ridley Scott did an amazing job of directing this movie. This movie restored the public’s interest in historical epic films. Most movies that win Oscars are dreadful pieces of crap that people claim to like so that they can feel superior to the rest of society. This is not the case with Gladiator. The acting is sensational. The cinematography is top notch. The conclusion is more than satisfying.
When I first came up with the concept of my novel Reconquest: Mother Earth, before I even sat to start writing it, I had an image in my head of my main protagonist, former Navy SEAL Mitch Grace, in an arena battling it out with aliens. I didn’t know how I was going to incorporate this into my book, but one thing was certain, somehow, someway it was going to be part of it.
In Reconquest: Mother Earth, the planet is taken over by alien conquerors. Mitch Grace wakes up from a coma five years later and is determined to take the planet back from the aliens. He starts a guerilla campaign against them, and in the process is captured and enslaved much like Maximus. He becomes an intergalactic warrior, even taking the moniker of “The Gladiator”. He becomes an intergalactic sensation, a human that can kill aliens in single combat. Much like Maximus, he is single-minded in his focus, which is to reconquer the planet.
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