Historical Inaccuracies In The Movie Gladiator

Overall, ancient Athens was indeed not truly democratic as a result of the government having male citizens have authority, being an oligarchy government instead of a democratic government, and voting not accessible to women, free foreigners(Metics), and slaves except for male citizens. So that is why I conclude that ancient Athens was indeed not truly

The movie Cinderella Man was incredibly accurate of what it was like to live in the great depression, in its portrayal of the characters, setting, and events of the movie. Like in the movie, Jim J. Braddock was a boxer that lived during the great depression. He had many adversities that he had to face, and they are generally what fueled him to continue fighting. Movies usually tend to over exaggerate struggles, but Cinderella Man shows the raw reaction and reality during that time. The details about the characters in this movie are very accurate except for a few small details.

Star Wars involves a lot of shooting and running, and is about good guys versus bad guys. So does “The Most Dangerous Game.” With the Star Wars franchise, we don’t have to worry about things being changed from text to film because it was a film first. In most cases, things are dropped and others are added when a written work is turned into a movie.

To the majority of the American public, Indian Jones films are the closest they will ever get to even considering what the work of archaeologist looks like. This is too bad because the film represents a very cliché version of archaeological field work that kind of discredits the amount of time that is put into actual archaeological field work. In the film, Dr. Jones is a archaeology professor and a fearless archaeologist who travels the world attempting to protect the hidden artifacts in the world’s oldest archaeological sites. In this film he is searching for the Ark in order to prevent the Nazis from finding it first. Through action packed scenes, a love interest, and fighting evil Nazis, Jones is able to find the Ark and protect it.

Ranging bull (1980) and Rocky (1976), both movies have some similarities in that they are sports movies in the field of boxing, they are also dominated by money, violence. Beside of their similarities the color, the language used and the main actors’ character make difference between them. The similarity between the two movies will detailed in the first paragraph and the difference will be detailed in the second paragraph. Raging bull (1980) and Rocky (1976), both are sports movies about boxing.

It would mostly fit the villain for a movie. A villain is needed in most western movies. It fits in our mostly christian society of the need of a fight between good and evil. It would make sense for Hades to be the villain in the story in Hercules, but, in the actual myth, he is alright with Hercules. In the movie, Hades wants hercules dead.

War no longer was a defence of one’s home, of one’s country but simply a fight with death aplenty, yours just one of many. The

The characterizations of monsters was that the monster where more sympathetic but still wanted to cause terror to the people of Herot. The behavior of Beowulf he was a mighty warrior who fought for honor and glory, In the movie he had a weakness for women and would also boast a lot. Roles of religion back the christianity was just starting to spread and get popular, In the movie christianity was portrayed negativity.

Were honourable soldiers (lions) led by incompetent leaders (donkeys)? One of the most greatly asked questions after the great war is whether or not were the commanding officers incompetent in leading honourable men to battle. A commonly held belief is that the officers were notoriously inept and well hated by their subordinates. However, the opposite can also be correct.

This feat had never been accomplished in the surrounding 300 years of the Roman Republic. Plutarch makes it seem as if this was mostly luck due to the necessity of a military leader, when the unprecedented nature of the deed makes it obviously more difficult than Plutarch is willing to

Being an old emperor, Marcus Aurelius wanted Maximus to be the new emperor of Rome after he had died. He knew that general Maximus had the power to restore the old empire to the Roman senate. However, Marcus Aurelius’s son, Commodus, figured out the plan of his father {giving power to Maximus}, thus, he murdered his father. After the death of Marcus, Commodus claimed to be the new emperor of Rome. He planned to execute Maximus in order to secure his claim to the throne.

In ancient Rome for entertainment Romans could watch many gladiator fights. The first gladiator battles were held at funeral services due to the fact that the Romans believed that the defeated gladiator's spirit would protect the dead Roman on their way to the afterlife. Most gladiators were slaves and prisoners that had no choice in the matter, however, some gladiators were Romans who needed money to support their families or even just Romans who wanted fame. One type of gladiator fight was when a gladiator was put into the coliseum with a hungry animal so they had to survive and fight the animal but that wasn't why people wanted to see gladiator fights. The main reason Romans watched gladiator fights was to see gladiators fight each other,

To what extent is the film Pompeii an accurate historical representation of slavery in the Ancient Roman era? The film Pompeii is a historical based tragic romance directed and produced by Paul W.S Anderson, starring actors such as Kit Harington, Emily Browning, Carrie-Anne Moss, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Jessica Lucas, with Jared Harris, and Kiefer Sutherland. The film was filmed in Toronto, Oriana and was shot primarily at Cinespace Film Studios. Pompeii first premiered in France, Belgium and Russia on the 19th of February and then was later released in most major territories of the next following day. It was released to the rest of the public on the 28th of February, in 2D and 3D.

As a writer at Gladiators Monthly, I am examining the historical accuracy of the movie Gladiator. There are aspects of Gladiator that do and do not hold true to the historical accuracy of the Romans under Commodus. This essay will show how the depiction of Commodus has both accurate and inaccurate qualities, while the portrayal of the Roman crowd determining the fate of the gladiators is quite accurate. In reality, Commodus did not kill his father, Marcus Aurelius, nor did he reign for such a short period of time.

The Iliad is a mild representation of a very precise feeling of emotion that connects with the texts; Petersen’s Troy and Malouf’s novel Ransom. Imagery is visualised by having the characters assemble between the setting of the text to show a greater understanding to all readers and/or viewers. Through exploring the personal concepts of Homer’s Book XXIV of The Iliad; it could be argued that finalising the ‘glory of war’ is set upon ‘celebration’. It is of great power to have such awe in such a defined character mindset. “Imagine a king who fights his own battles.