First 15 minutes of Gladiator.

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First 15 minutes of Gladiator

Themes

 The theme of the movie is introduced right from the beginning when the universal studio logo appears. It is turned into a sepia colour with the music very sad, to separate this movie from any comedy, horror and etc movie. Within the text at the beginning of the movie we as the audience understand that this is a historical movie based on true facts due to the fact that it says true facts about the Roman Empire in the 181AD. The music plays a big role in explaining to us the theme; it is a very sad music, showing sorrow within the film, this gives an idea of a "tragic" movie to the audience.

Language

The language is expressed in English in both text and in oral in the first fifteen minutes of the movie.

At the beginning the title is shown in large old Roman fonts followed by texts explaining the current situation on the roman empire (this is also in Roman font but much smaller) in 181AD to put the audience in the right state of mind on what the movie is going to be about and the genre of the movie. Within the text it explains many different aspects of the Roman Empire, mainly superiority a of the Romans but yet on the other hand it says "a quarter of the world's population lived and died under the roman rule" therefore this brings the thought of death and cruelty to the audience. At the end of the text the audience is aware that something is going to happen to the Roman Empire because it mentions at the end that the Empire was at its rise.

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Then at the beginning of the first scene there is only one word which is written in text which is "Germania" to let the audience know where this scene is situated, on the other hand they could have just wrote "Germany" whereas Germania is a very roman word therefore it adds to the roman feeling and taste in the movie.

Music

The music is created by Hans Zimmer, it is very downhearted and melancholy all throughout the movie, it has a touch of Arabic tune in it, to add to the sad tune. It is more like dream music ...

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