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etalian
Mar 20, 2006

It was Oliver Reed's last movie

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etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Fandyien posted:

this actually sounds really cool

What followed was something called "Christ Killer," a resuscitation of the first "Gladiator" that attempted to make Maximus immortal and include a Jesus character. In Cave's proposed sequel, Crowe's character "goes down to purgatory and is sent down by the gods, who are dying in heaven because there's this one god, there's this Christ character, down on Earth who is gaining popularity and so the many gods are dying so they send Gladiator back to kill Christ and his followers."

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Fandyien posted:

jesus is all trying to banish demons outta those pigs or whatever and then russell crowe leaps out and gouges out his eyes

http://www.scribd.com/doc/39980725/Gladiator-2-by-Nick-Cave

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

ChocNitty posted:

They could never make a realistic depiction of ancient roman arena events because all PETA employees would die of brain aneurysms

And there would be too much gay pedophile buttsecks.

Roman arena had everything, in later years they even filled the arena with water and had mini-naval battles.

etalian
Mar 20, 2006





etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Arian_Samurai posted:

Tim Roth is such a loving bastard in that movie, it owns.

the final fight owns too

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Plucky Brit posted:

Braveheart was a moniker given to Robert the Bruce and has nothing to do with William Wallace. Says it all, really.

William Wallace was also a rich landowner.

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etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Premeditated Toast posted:

It's actually more ridiculous than that. They declared his Uncle, Claudius, Emperor. Nobody is 100% sure what was wrong with Claudius, with theories ranging from Cerebral Palsy, Polio, to even Tourette's Syndrome, but either way the rest of the family regarded him as "Special" (which he may have played up in order to avoid the various purges that happened between Emperor coups) but the Praetorian Guard figured he'd be better than god drat Caligula. There's a legend that after Caligula was killed, a guard found Claudius hiding behind a curtain and promptly declared him Emperor.



Other roman historians thought Caligula just enjoyed trolling everyone and wasn't crazy.

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