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Gladiator - what cinematic techniques does the director, Ridley Scott use to convey the roles of the hero, maximus and the villain, Commodus at the begging of the film?
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Gladiator media assignment. Q: what cinematic techniques does the director, Ridley Scott use to convey the roles of the hero, maximus and the villain, Commodus at the begging of the film? "Gladiator is kind of an inverted Spartacus story; the exhibition of the film sees Roman general Maximus defeat a huge Germanic army. But soon Caesar and surrogate father is murdered by his son Commodus, because his fathers' privilege of being Caesar will pass to Maximus. Commodus thus retains the thrown and try's to kill Maximus for standing against him. Commodus' closest ally is his sister Lucilla, who also has feelings for Maximus. He escapes his doomed fait, but his family is killed and he is imprisoned as a slave, becoming a gladiator. Eventually he fights his way to Rome hoping for an audience with the Caesar in order to kill him and return the Roman Empire to its former glory." It is...
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