Clásicos: Gladiator (English)

Today we open this important section in our blog. We are proud to present one of the best-argued and subjectively-worked films of recent years: Gladiator.
Few films have the necessary characteristics to be considered true Classics.
Before talking about the movie itself, let's take a few seconds to comment about the filming of this: The film was directed by Ridley Scott and starring Russell Crowe (Maximus Decimus Meridius). Its initial budget was 103 million dollars with a final collection of 457 640 427 $. Released in the year 2000, it captivated a lot of people in spite of some "remarkable technical failures". He won the Oscar for Best Picture of the Year, fighting against other great films like Billy Elliot or Cast Away.

The film begins strong from the outset, with a shocking scene of a great battle of the Romans against the Germanic peoples. Maximo is in charge of leading the Roman legion.
The spectacular sequence took 20 days to roll, starting with the incredible catapults and Roman ballistas burning the forest, which was the military site of the barbarians. When they were in great danger, they undoubtedly advanced to the mountain where their enemies were positioned ... What was not expected was an attack from behind with cavalry encouraged by the words of their general. The Germanic invaders did not last long in battle because they could not respond to the persecution, and although it took several soldiers to defeat their leader, it also fell.

Máximo received the recognition deserved by Marcus Aurelius and the children of this one, Commodus and Lucilla. The Emperor was too old to rule, and didn't see his son trained to get his title, so that in an act of imprudence, he ceded the empire to Maximus, not without promising him to unify Rome and let the senate rule. Commodus wasn't at all happy with this idea, and he took a hug to suffocate his father before he warned his generals of the decision he had made. The result? Commodus emperor of Rome and Maximo condemned to death ...

At the time of executing him, this one managed to escape wounded. He ran to his house, intending to save his family from possible death, but not fast enough.
The last time he saw his son and his wife, it was there, hung and burned by the Roman soldiers. The tiredness and the grief could be with him, he fell surrendered and nobody knew more about Maximo Meridio, at least with that name.

Hours later, a slave-trader picked him up from the ground, healed his wounds and handed him over to a free man, who instructed the former commander as a gladiator.
From city to city Maximus fought in small stadiums, gaining a certain reputation, until he arrived in Rome, where Comfortable, without listening to the advice of the senate, decided to open the great Coliseum.

The first battle of Maximo is possibly the most frenetic of the whole film.
A group of ten gladiators faced war chariots, simulating one of the battles that Rome had the pleasure of winning. The scene would have been a hunt, and no slave would have survived were it not for the commander's orders, which led to the victory of the small group by getting the carriages destroyed among them.
The people were shouting and applauding at such a spectacle. The emperor himself summoned his Praetorian guard, wanted to see the man hiding behind the hull.
"My name is Maximo," answered Comfortable.
It is difficult to explain the feeling that the emperor lived at that moment, the impotence in his gaze, is something that Maximo longed for a long time ...

Time passed, Maximo continued with his fighting in the Coliseum, until he had the idea to escape. For a gladiator to be a free man, the Emperor had to grant him the wooden sword as a sign of having won numerous battles. Our protagonist didn't expect to get this gift from Commodus to himself, if he contacted secretly with his former slave to try to put together a revolution ... Unfortunately, this reached the ears of Caesar and his goal was interrupted.

A few days later, Comfortable ordered to face Maximo in person since he saw that this would not die fast enough. Besides, the people had him in too much esteem. The untrained Emperor, before the combat, nailed a knife to Maximo to assure the death of this one. The fight was brutal and full of emotions. Despite the advantage that Comfortable had, lost his sword and didn't receive a new weapon from the personal guard of which he was surrounded, continued the confrontation with a knife with which tried to string his enemy. Máximo beheaded Caesar by causing him to nail the gun to his neck.

The mob didn't speak, a silence flooded the Coliseum until, Maximo fell because of the wound he had ... There are scenes that can not be written, there are scenes that one must see