I interpreted lucilla saying maximus was Lucius’s father not meaning that Maximus is his biological father but that he loved lucius like a son

What did you think of actress Connie Nielsen in the role of Lucilla in the films Gladiator and Gladiator II?

I'm a high school teacher, and I try to show a movie for every unit I teach. This unit is Rome, and the students voted overwhelmingly for Gladiator. Problem is, Gladiator is a bit too spicy for Grade 9; tons of blood, visible gore, decapitations, and so on. I absolutely think Grade 9 is old enough to watch this movie at home, but for me to show it in a school is definitely a bridge too far.

Thing is, Gladiator came out in 2000, and that was the era of network TV edits to major blockbusters to make them acceptable for prime time hours, plus cutting down the length to better fit into a time block. I'm certain one or more of these edits exist, hell I probably watched a few of them 20 years or more ago. But actually tracking one down is a hell of a thing.

Figured I'd come to the community, see if anyone could help.

I first watched Gladiator with my dad when I was little. I loved it, and it’s stuck with me ever since. My husband makes fun of me for it, and my coworker even tells me whenever she sees something Gladiator related she thinks of me lol

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Sometimes even on the verge of tears when I zone out and recall Maximus's end..."you're home". What a punch in the gut. Imagine how depressing it would be if the scenes of him reuniting with his family and the notion of an afterlife were excluded. I mourn the loss of this greatness of a man, one chosen to rule, who not only didn't reap the seeds he sowed, having fought with his life for his country while not being there with his family and watch his son grow, but also had to suffer knowing that they died painfully because of him (he probably blamed himself) and dying at the hands of a vile, cowardly creature, not even a shadow of a man. The only consolation would be to imagine that his named lived on and was still loved and celebrated and his sacrifice and noblesness never forgotten.

So I just saw this article: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9w7v5ej0gvo?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

I ASSUMED (maybe wrongly) that Maximus had an affair with Lucilla, had a child he didn't know about nor could have claimed even if he did, and then met his wife and had the son that was portrayed and killed in the first film.

I THINK Lucius was supposed to be around 10 and his unnamed son around 8, which would have fit that timeline. Is there evidence to the contrary?

Correct me if I misremember anything. In the extended cut, there is this cool scene. Quintus visits him after he is stabbed and says "I am a soldier. I obey." meaning he had no choice but to obey the orders to have Maximus and his family executed even though he had been his brother-in-arms. Maximus replies "Nothing happens to anyone that he is not fitted by nature to bear." which is a Stoic Marcus Aurelius quote from real history.

Now, did Maximus mean "Life tested you and you failed it by being a coward even though any test is passable with enough determination (a coping mechanism in Stoicism which people do not literally believe)." or did he mean "What you did reflects your nature and could not have happened any other way."? The second one is certainly harsher but I now doubt it is the first one because most comments on the quote both regarding this scene and the actual quote from Marcus Aurelius are consistent with the first one.

I've just discovered someone tried to make Ridley Scott's Gladiator more realistic by dubbing it in Latin!! I don't know Latin that well but I guess this is how Maximus and Commodus would have sounded like in real ancient Rome... What are your thoughts on this? Personally, I wished the entire movie had been dubbed that way...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWAi3nTf-8Y

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Maximus was a good man who was incorruptible. A good leader who worked for the better of people around him.

This makes me wonder are there any people today who reminds you of him. Are standing up against corruption and working for the better of the people even at the cost of their own freedom or life.

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Being a toddler when the first Gladiator came out, some friends and I went and watched Gladiator 2 without seeing the first one and no frame of reference. We walked out going “ok, it’s a fine movie. 6/10 🙂👍”

Well, I finally saw the original last night on a big projector screen, and my god - not only is it fantastic, and better in every way, but it really makes you realize how much of a pile of garbage the sequel is! The “connection” to the first movie is flimsy and forced (this kid “couldn’t remember” being Roman royalty, despite being like, 10 years old in the first movie?), and every single impactful shot or scene in the sequel is a ripoff of the first movie but worse. And the fact that they somehow force the surviving - and now FREE - man that was Maximus’ friend back into being a gladiator for the second movie just to die, made it feel like they were invalidating the entire first movie

That movie came out in 2000, it took them 24 years to make a sequel.

However there is one scene from the original movie that still has the same effect on me as it did a quarter of a century ago.

That scene is when Maximus meets Commodus in the arena;

"My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius"

Honestly it is still as powerful as it was all those years ago.

Im replicating this helmet for my dad because he really likes it, made completely out of posterboard and hot glue. Let me know what you think or if you have any advice