Gladiator - What It Takes To Be a Caesar.

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Romina Reyes

30 April 2003

                                What It Takes To Be a Caesar

        Director Ridley Scott’s movie Gladiator is the result of a wonderful camera work, outstanding music, great scenes and beautiful costumes. This is a great movie, even though is long it is full of action and from its beginning to the end it captures your attention. Most of the actors are able to transcend the emotions to you.  Gladiator shows us how one person’s frustrations can lead to a total un-plug to the real world. The urge for power can destroy a family, a country an empire. This is the story of a general who became a slave, a slave who became a gladiator, the gladiator who defied an empire.      

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        The music in this movie, takes you into the moment. It is so majestic that gives you goose bumps. I recall the first scene where Maximus is walking through a wheat field and is able to touch it.  In the next scene when he opens his eyes he is in the middle of a dark, cold muddy war. He is able to close his eyes while at war and travel back home. While he does that the music has such melody that portraits the quietness and peacefulness of his home.

        Also when they are fighting in Germania the music ...

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