Gladiator

2000

Director: Ridley Scott

Distributor: Dreamworks

Key Elements: Visuals – Lines – Message – Symbolism – Music - Gospel

My Review:

Awesome.

This is the story of a man fighting for the integrity of an ideal. Rome could represent anything we love that is taken from us. Maximus represents our desire to fight to protect and restore.

For me, this applies to Christianity. My faith is the most important part of my life. It’s how I identify myself. But many evils have been done (and sometimes are still done) in the name of Christ. Christianity, like Rome, has been hijacked by those who neither love nor respect it.
Those who truly belong to Christ must fight (with love) for the integrity of the faith.

My favorite movie quote ever comes at the beginning of this movie. “What we do in life echoes in eternity.” This is the first message of the gospel. If we spend our life running away from God, we spend eternity apart from Him. But if we spend life seeking and loving him, we spend eternity with Him.

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Quotes:

• Brothers, what we do in life... echoes in eternity.
• Strength and honor.
• I don't pretend to be a man of the people. But I do try to be a man for the people.
• I knew a man once who said, "Death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back."
• To my son - I tell him I will see him again soon. To keep his heels down while riding his horse. To my wife... that is not your business.
• Whatever comes out of these gates, we've got a better chance of survival if we work together. Do you understand? If we stay together we survive.
• Are you not entertained? Are you not entertained?
• Marcus Aurelius had a dream that was Rome, Proximo. That is not it. That is not it!
  My name is Gladiator …My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.
• The time for honoring yourself will soon be at an end.
• Today I saw a slave become more powerful than the Emperor of Rome.
• There was a dream that was Rome. It shall be realized.

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