Similar to the approach to the Colosseum games, some of the characters involved in Gladiator II are based on real people, but what happens to them in the film is fictional. In 211 AD, the islands of Caracalla and Geta merged. ruler of Rome. Carasera at that time I believed Murdering Geta. Geta are even thought He died in his mother’s arms. Emperor Caracalla became a very unpopular emperor, with Potter describing him as “an evil and wicked man”. Caracalla left the city in 216 AD to wage war against the Parthian Empire; killed by one of his own soldiers in 217 AD.
Macrinus reportedly Recruited soldiers to become murderers. He became Roman Emperor on April 11, 217, three days after Caracalla’s death. “He was the first person to become emperor who was not a member of the Roman Senate,” Potter said. Macrinus himself was executed in June 218, just over a year after Caracella’s aunt led a rebellion to install her grandson Elagabalus, who was only 14 years old, as the new emperor. “Being emperor is the most dangerous job ever.” It could have been,” Potter said, but all the men who reigned over the next 100 years only reigned for short periods of time.
Since the work has already been completed, I started In the script for Gladiator III, viewers can once again expect Scott to use these true stories as inspiration before eschewing historical accuracy for entertainment purposes. Mariotti sees nothing wrong with this. Because, in his view, this simply reflects what artists have done throughout history. “What Ridley does is no different from Shakespeare or Michelangelo. Even painting. Police Verso Jean-Leon Gérôme’s work inspired Ridley to make his first film, but it’s all historically inaccurate. But it’s about using history to tell stories and teach us lessons. That’s why we are drawn to them. They are basically stories about us. ”
More than that, Mariotti believes that films like Gladiator II connect viewers with their ancestors. The Colosseum scene in particular, because Romans attended Colosseum events for the same reason they watched movies. “It was their movie theater. It was where they escaped from life. There, for a few hours, they were transformed into brave hunters and gladiators and shown parts of the world they had never seen before. . That’s what happens when people watch “Gladiator II.” They’re doing the exact same thing that the Colosseum was built for. ”
“Gladiator II” opens in U.S. theaters on November 22nd.
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