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Gladiator Media Assignment In the 21st century film, 'Gladiator', the director, Ridley Scott, uses a range of cinematic techniques to express the feelings and emotions of each of the main characters. Gladiator is a historical film, which is based on a true story, however the director has added a love triangle to add interest. Although this is a historical film, it is also a typical Hollywood film in the way that the hero defeats the villain and 'gets the girl'. In the first few shots of the film, Ridley Scott begins to portray the character, Maximus, as the hero. We can see this in the forth shot with a medium close up shot of Maximus. He is watching a red breast robin flying away, which symbolises freedom. The mis-en-scene in this shot include colours of dark icy blue tones which represents the cold atmosphere of the beginning of the film as he...

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