Product: Gladiator [VHS] (2000)
Rating: 5.0
Classicism Lives!
My brother, who majored in ancient history, and I, a Latin and Greek major, saw this film last summer. We talked about it for at least three hours afterwards, both because of its "Shakespearean" story and because of the extraordinary amount of correct detail in the film. We were particularly struck by the opening scene, which looked exactly as we had both pictured Tacitus's account of Germania. There are many, many excellences in the details, the story and the acting, so many, in fact, that one is left simply to say "Thank God classical films can be made."