Gladiator Movie Analysis

By currently taking this History & Philosophy of Sports class, this film “Gladiator” establishes the whole scenery during the time period of ancient Rome. In the film, it introduced Gladiator battles. These Gladiator battles reflected as entertainment to society, as well as, being a survival setting between life and death. Not only they would compete for survival, but they would compete to become the best. By this time, Commodus, is the new Roman emperor and he fears that Maximus could use his heroic ability to dethrone him and become emperor himself. Maximus would use his fame and popularity as a gladiator to invoke further damage to Commodus' insecure dominance of the devoted Roman people, hoping to influence them to restore their lost values and overcome the corruption that
In order to determine who is better, Commodus and Maximus would fight for the total control of Rome is at stake. Before they could fight, Commodus came up with a mastermind plan that would allegedly secure his claim to the throne, but Maximus stood in front of him and escaped an execution attempt inspired upon by Commodus. Maximus would be later sold into slavery and is directly forced to become a gladiator. In the end, Maximus and his fellow gladiators would survive and are sent to Rome for more gladiatorial combat. During his first combat in Rome, Maximus would lead the Proximo's gladiators to a decisive victory against the more powerful force. Later, Lucius, son of Lucilla, and Commodus would be stunned and would set up the next battle for Maximus to be against Tigris of Gaul. Maximus would continue his dominance and claim victory in this contest. Suddenly, Lucilla, daughter of Marcus Aurelius and the sister of Commodus, meets Maximus. She tries to persuades Maximus to join her and Senator Gracchus in a plot to overthrow Commodus, but Commodus suspected it which would make Lucius reveal the details of the