Compare And Contrast Gladiator
Gladiator: A hero will rise
This story has been adapted from the novel written by Dewey Gram, based on a screenplay by David Franzoni and John Logan and William Nicholson, story by David Franzoni, and retold in this book by Annette Keen. The year of first publication is 2001, published by Penguin Putman Inc. Also, there is a movie named and produced after the book, released in May of 2000, with many recognitions and multiple awards, including best Actor for Russell Crowe and 4 other Oscars. Although the movie and the book are two different formats with the same story, these two formats manage to convey the best teaching lesson that is “after much suffering and with effort the Gladiator finally got their freedom”.
The story begins with the last battle of a long war between the Roman Army and Germans tribes. Maximus, a Roman General of the North is offered by the Emperor to get the power and to help him pass the …show more content…
power to the Senate. Commodus, the emperor's son, who hates Maximus for being his father’s favourite and who was aware of his father passing the power to Maximus, decides to kills his father, assumes power and sends soldiers to kill Maximus and his family back at home. Maximus gets to escape from his murderers but his family doesn't. Heartbroken and tired of the ride,Maximus is captured by a slaver who sells him to Proximus, who trains him and makes him fight as a gladiator. With love and support from the people, Maximus and the other gladiators are offered to go to Rome to fight, where they start winning and gaining people of Rome support, but there Commodus discovers that Maximus is alive. After several combats and victories, Maximus becomes very well-known and this bring Commodus to a boil, here is when he decides to ask Maximus for a last combat in the arena.
In this last fight, Maximus manages to evade Commodus and to disarm him, but yet Commodus has a small knife which end up being his worst enemy,because Maximus stabs him and kills him after all. Then Maximus falls in the combat area and looking to the sky dies.
All characters in this story are very important, but also the meaning of their names are very characteristic and important as well.
On one hand, Maximus, whose name refers in Latin to the greatest, the most valuable, secured person. In the story the character is well-known for his strength, his kindness and for being a truthful man. He was a great general of 30 years old,who dedicated part of his life to Rome and the army and was also a key advisor to the emperor. Maximus was very religious and a fighter with principles, he earned the admiration of everybody. He would always take some earth in his hands before every fight, and let it fall from his hands.
On the other hand, Commodus, son of the Emperor of Rome, with his 28 years, was good looking, handsome and brave , but that was just an ornament, because he was not more that an instigator, envious,coward and incestuous. He thought that he was “the perfect picture of a new, young emperor”, but he is not a good man.
Another important point in this essay, is when happened the story? where? and
why?.
The Story starts in the winter of 180 A.D. in a Spanish field,where the last battle that brings the war to an end occurs and where Marcus Aurelius is killed, after that the slaver takes Maximus to a small city, in North Africa. Then the gladiator, Maximus and Proximus travel to Rome, where most of the time they are in their hootch, training, resting and recovering from each combat for the next one , and also they go to the Colosseum for their fights.
The writer took his belief in “Sacrifices bring rewards “. This theme is shown throughout the story since the beginning. Maximus makes sacrifices to revenge not only the death of his wife,his son and Marcus Aurelius but also to free Rome. The moral of the story is to show that in life despite going through difficult moments and that sacrifices must be done as well, rewards always come to us. This causes the reader's personal emotions to awaken with intense feelings of sadness and gratitude at the same time.
Both formats, the book and the movie, manage to convey successfully the main idea, that is making efforts and sacrifices always gives us rewards. In my opinion, is an interesting story, with different characters and situations that captured my attention all the time and kept me on the edge of my seat. Gladiator would be probably one of the few movies I would strongly recommend to someone, and that if you have not seen I recommend to you.
This story has been adapted from the novel written by Dewey Gram, based on a screenplay by David Franzoni and John Logan and William Nicholson, story by David Franzoni, and retold in this book by Annette Keen. The year of first publication is 2001, published by Penguin Putman Inc. Also, there is a movie named and produced after the book, released in May of 2000, with many recognitions and multiple awards, including best Actor for Russell Crowe and 4 other Oscars. Although the movie and the book are two different formats with the same story, these two formats manage to convey the best teaching lesson that is “after much suffering and with effort the Gladiator finally got their freedom”.
The story begins with the last battle of a long war between the Roman Army and Germans tribes. Maximus, a Roman General of the North is offered by the Emperor to get the power and to help him pass the …show more content…
power to the Senate. Commodus, the emperor's son, who hates Maximus for being his father’s favourite and who was aware of his father passing the power to Maximus, decides to kills his father, assumes power and sends soldiers to kill Maximus and his family back at home. Maximus gets to escape from his murderers but his family doesn't. Heartbroken and tired of the ride,Maximus is captured by a slaver who sells him to Proximus, who trains him and makes him fight as a gladiator. With love and support from the people, Maximus and the other gladiators are offered to go to Rome to fight, where they start winning and gaining people of Rome support, but there Commodus discovers that Maximus is alive. After several combats and victories, Maximus becomes very well-known and this bring Commodus to a boil, here is when he decides to ask Maximus for a last combat in the arena.
In this last fight, Maximus manages to evade Commodus and to disarm him, but yet Commodus has a small knife which end up being his worst enemy,because Maximus stabs him and kills him after all. Then Maximus falls in the combat area and looking to the sky dies.
All characters in this story are very important, but also the meaning of their names are very characteristic and important as well.
On one hand, Maximus, whose name refers in Latin to the greatest, the most valuable, secured person. In the story the character is well-known for his strength, his kindness and for being a truthful man. He was a great general of 30 years old,who dedicated part of his life to Rome and the army and was also a key advisor to the emperor. Maximus was very religious and a fighter with principles, he earned the admiration of everybody. He would always take some earth in his hands before every fight, and let it fall from his hands.
On the other hand, Commodus, son of the Emperor of Rome, with his 28 years, was good looking, handsome and brave , but that was just an ornament, because he was not more that an instigator, envious,coward and incestuous. He thought that he was “the perfect picture of a new, young emperor”, but he is not a good man.
Another important point in this essay, is when happened the story? where? and
why?.
The Story starts in the winter of 180 A.D. in a Spanish field,where the last battle that brings the war to an end occurs and where Marcus Aurelius is killed, after that the slaver takes Maximus to a small city, in North Africa. Then the gladiator, Maximus and Proximus travel to Rome, where most of the time they are in their hootch, training, resting and recovering from each combat for the next one , and also they go to the Colosseum for their fights.
The writer took his belief in “Sacrifices bring rewards “. This theme is shown throughout the story since the beginning. Maximus makes sacrifices to revenge not only the death of his wife,his son and Marcus Aurelius but also to free Rome. The moral of the story is to show that in life despite going through difficult moments and that sacrifices must be done as well, rewards always come to us. This causes the reader's personal emotions to awaken with intense feelings of sadness and gratitude at the same time.
Both formats, the book and the movie, manage to convey successfully the main idea, that is making efforts and sacrifices always gives us rewards. In my opinion, is an interesting story, with different characters and situations that captured my attention all the time and kept me on the edge of my seat. Gladiator would be probably one of the few movies I would strongly recommend to someone, and that if you have not seen I recommend to you.