‘Gladiator’ (Scott, 2000) and ‘Paths of Glory’ (Kubrick, 1957): Borrowed Scenes and a Polemic on Violence

Gary Devore:

Seán Easton runs a great blog about the echoes and themes of Classics in modern media, Centuries Coexist. He teaches at Gustavus Adolphus College in Minnesota.

Originally posted on Centuries Coexist:

Ridley Scott’s Gladiator is widely (and accurately) seen as thecombination andrecreation of Stanley Kubrick’s Spartacus (1960) and Anthony Mann’s Fall of the Roman Empire (1966). Important parts of the thebeginning and endingofScott’s film, however, are modeled on Kubrick’s World War...