The level of camp increases as the movie moves towards the ultimate battle. There’s a scene with Macrinus in the Roman Senate and a beheaded head (no spoilers, not Washington’s head) and it’s just ridiculous. At times, Washington and the Emperor twins seem to be participating in their own little camping extravaganza, but rather than dragging the rest of the movie out, the style is a little more interesting than Gladiator II. It’s stuck as another sign that something is meant to be.
But beneath the crowd-pleasing surface, the film’s themes of political power, who wields it, and how, are powerful and purposeful, even if Scott carefully weaves them into his colorful spectacle. It is something that has. Question from new york times If you look at his connections to the Roman Empire and today’s political world, Scott answered bluntly: “Yes,” he added, “if we don’t see this, things will get worse.” The film points out some of Lucius’ questions about what Rome values. “Is this the attitude towards Roman heroes?” Lucius shouts from the arena when one of them is killed.
That social theme is also evident in the first Gladiator, where the civic-minded Senator Gracchus (Derek Jacobi, who appears briefly in the sequel) underestimates the shallowness of a mob easily appeased with bread and circuses. I’m warning you not to rate it. “He will bring death on them, but they will love him for it,” he says of Commodus, who is only a distraction from the game. In Gladiator II, Lucilla says, “The people are tired of madness and tyranny.” Which one is right is an open question in the sequel, where Lucius talks about his grandfather’s dream of a Roman republic and asks the people, “Will you rebuild that dream together?”
With any luck, Scott might have an answer. he said. hollywood reporter He said he had an idea for Gladiator III that was inspired by The Godfather II. From his lips to the ears of the Roman gods.
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Gladiator II will be released in the UK on November 15th and in the US on November 22nd.
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