J. Douglas Canfield sees westerns in the same historical perspective. Both professors in the University of Arizona College of Humanities have recently published books that explore award-winning movies. J. Douglas Canfield sees westerns in the same historical perspective. Both professors in the University of Arizona College of Humanities have recently published books that explore award-winning movies. Solomon, a professor of classics, is the University of Arizona 2000 Five-Star Teaching Award winner.
Canfield is a regents' professor of English and former Arizona professor of the year.
If a movie is too scientific and precise it may lose its audience, which doesn't sell 200 million worth of tickets. They 'Hollywoodize' all of them. He did fight in the arena and did meet a violent death, but not in the arena. In real life he was strangled in bed. The gladiator training scenes, for example, are modeled on those in Spartacus.