 Yo, what's up guys if you're new here where the October so we've been watching Game of Thrones and Joffrey Baratheon in the show Jack Gleason is a guy who portrays him apparently he drew a lot of inspiration from one of the characters in this movie And I've never seen it. You've never seen it. This is one of her dad's favorite movies He tells us that we should watch it every time we see him. So Mr. Ron this was for you and I'm ready to go right again gladiator At the height of his power the Roman Empire was vast stretching from the deserts of Africa to the borders of northern England Over one quarter of the world's population lived and died under the role of Caesars I guess serious now just one final stronghold stands in the way of Roman victory and the promise of peace throughout the Empire Those names got tough. Okay, the music already So this is Russell Crowe the actor. I don't know if you know that or not. No, I have no idea who that guy is Germania You know, I'm gonna keep all Roman things that I do or you don't know So far these costumers I know what he's wearing this is Roman time So this is around like 180 180 somewhere in there. It's in 180 180. Yeah So a respected leader we see Is that a headless horseman yeah, they sent them back. Oh my god. So they declined, huh? That's crazy, dude The fact that this was made 23 years ago was my mind already. Yeah, we might be on a We might be on the verge of a banger right here Have my signal unleash hell Love that dog loyalty. Well, they're just casually not even they're not even worried about it They know they're about the plan. Yeah with these makeshift weapons Are just ready Look at the chain. That is so sick the chain suits Imagine where you will be and it will be so that was tough Elysium it goes in eternity Man, they brought out the writers for this one He said he will be surviving this battle. He'll be what was that place? He said Elysium Yeah, that's all they had to do Did you imagine seeing like open-field combat like this though with archery and cannons and stuff or a kind of holes And I just imagine like walking by it. This is crazy. I guess we're desensitized so like what we see in modern times But this is just wild right here. I know That's gotta be upper management because it in the back, right? Come on. They got in the purple. Yeah. Yeah Who is that guy upper management? I was always Or is my unit was they let the pawns go first. I mean, yeah, the Roman Empire was just ahead of everybody They were so like well organized. There's so much more advanced. Oh, they took him down. Yeah, he about did any I Mean dang dude this movie just came out swinging didn't it? I know That's that high shutter speed effect right there. I hope he wins the war I don't think I've ever seen like a battle scene like that before That was really good. It was just different everything about that was different than I've ever seen before In a good way. Was that like a thank the heavens? Yeah, that's side relief. Yeah. Yeah Do you think he's really dying? He's been dying for 10 years. Oh, there he is really dying He wouldn't have sent for us. Maybe just misses us. He wouldn't have summoned them Commodus that's his name He's going to announce it. He will name me. So wait. He's the prince vibes He's at the front sire. They've been gone for 19 days. The wounded are still coming in my horse. He looks clean, too, though Nice work guys. You'll prove your family left to fight How come I reward you yourself? So he's the emperor and he likes Maximus right the general But his son thinks that he's about to name him why he's he got a name anybody right now That's what he said in the carriage. He said my father will name me Or something. Oh, yeah, I forgot about that. Have I missed it? You have missed the war father. Congratulations. I shall sacrifice a hundred bulls to honor your triumph save the bulls honor Maximus He won the battle general Rome salutes you and I embrace you as a brother. It has been too long my old friend Yeah father take my arm. I think it is time You didn't want your arm Loki. That's what that meant. Yeah, you don't miss the whole war so much. It's kind of crazy I didn't know you could just miss a war You know, I thought I just would find you just pull up after Man who knows what it is to command you give your orders the orders are paid in the battles one But these senators scheme squabble and flatter and deceive Maximus, we must save Rome from the politicians. Can I count on when the time comes? Minus when your father releases me. I intend to return home Lucila's here. Did you know she's not forgotten me and now you're the great man So he's jealous. That's what I'm sensing. Oh So the guy the guy's sister likes him strong. I see you sent for me Caesar Well, speak my name in years to come. I'd be known as the philosopher the warrior the tyrant Or will I be the emperor who gave Rome back her true self? There was once a dream that was Rome You could only whisper it different political fill Yeah, the politics are different between him and a son Wow, you say I work every great I want you to become the protector of Rome after I die I will empower you to one end alone to give power back to the people of Rome So, oh my god, they need to say you wanted to be at home. It must be you surely a prefect a senator somebody who knows the city who understands her politics, but you have not been corrupted by her politics The outsider approach. Mm-hmm. Oh wow that sucks Not a moral man. You have known that since you were young Come with us cannot rule. He must Oh You're the comatose will accept my decision. I need some time Man that is so much I just got put on his feet right there I know he just was talking about how much he loved his home and then he gets thrown with that Well, maybe at that point you can at least be with his family Well Yeah, that was an old item you can tell he basically just caught her a serpent Commodus expects that my father will announce his succession within days. Well, you serve my brother's you served his father I will always serve You know, I still remember you in my prayers. I was sad to hear of your husband's death. I mourned him And I hear you have a son. Yes, Lucius. You'll be nearly eight years My son is also nearly eight my son do Here we go. We should all just get together lady. Oh, right This movie feels heavy though, doesn't it? geez This poor guy. Yeah, they're really humanizing like the Roman soldiers and stuff. I always just picture it to be like I don't know man. Almost like it didn't really happen or something. You know I like super grizzly because they were just warriors the whole time. Yeah, like they were just brainless just We may not be able to go home. Oh God. I I don't want to see them now. So I don't know what he's about to do I don't really know him My powers will pass to Maximus to hold in trust. Oh my gosh Is to be a republic again. Do you hear that music change? My decision disappoints you you are false as a son is my failure as a father There's got to be truth to that, right? Love me. He's got some real daddy issues on me. Yeah Oh my god, Kate no, bro. You should have at least waited. Oh my god Right there in front of everybody symbolically. Yeah, he saw it. Does she know I don't know like how ironic, right? I would have put that together. Well, I don't know The surgeon say there was no pain. His bath gave out as he slept your emperor asked for your loyalty Maximus Take my hand. I only offered once. He's doing an ego play right now. Oh, no Oh, no guys. This is really heavy right now, man This guy's stressing me out. Love his character though. Jeez Oh, she knows. Yeah, because yeah It's pretty weak one there What? I must talk to the senator. She basically said I know what you did, but What can I do man? It is what it is at this point. Why are you armed Quintus? Guards? Oh, man, the state's getting involved man corruption set in As in they're killing him or they're killing the family seems like both Oh god, that's the execution yard. That better not be his family. I swear At least give me a clean death soldiers death. Oh, that's better because it's straight to the yeah Oh, wow Oh my god, he just grabbed that sword like that. Oh The frost sometimes it makes the blade stick Yeah, he knows that because he's a soldier Oh, there just ain't no shot. So he's the best Pretoria Drinking on the job, right? I know Did he miss I think he just hurt his shoulder because there's just so much force Oh, or not. Yeah, you can't just cut somebody like that without consequence. That's gonna hurt Good job max miss It was tough, wasn't it? Yeah, that really that really helps to like illustrate the importance of the moment right there Oh, he's really hurting Is that them? That's the state Oh my god, this tyrant's about to kill his whole family just because just because bro Maybe he doesn't want that little boy to come back in the future and get revenge or maybe he just is that mad that he said no That he wasn't gonna be loyal to him and he's so excited to see him guys. What? What they just trampled him like that? Oh my gosh Oh my gosh, he's so close to I remember them bases I mean yeah, commoners would just have to assume he's dead because you know the winks that man's gonna go through to kill that guy now Uh Like you can't have to see it right now. Like you can't take everything from oh my god Bro, they took everything from him. He has nothing left to lose Yeah, it's over for him He knows this is about him because the everyone else was on the ground Yeah True It just sucks man because not to make parallels to game of thrones But it's almost like eddard stark like he had decisions to make he could just keep his mouth shut and keep it moving And he could have went home potentially, you know I mean another guy said he was gonna use him in the future, but he's got his moral principles though They ended up costing him everything. Mm-hmm. That must be that place. What do you call it? Havana or something? Elysium Elysium, that's what it's called They told him don't die They were clean it wait and see Oh, yeah, who do you get picked up by the guy and guardians of the galaxy? Don't die they'll feed you to the lions. They're worth more than we are Roman province This is my new stock come and see them. Do any of the fights I got a match coming up. Some are good for fighting others for dying You need both I think I still got picked up and like he's being sold into like bondage and stuff. Yeah, like like the um like thordid on Ragnarok Ragnarok. Yeah Oh Who's the beast there is like that hyena thing and some monkeys so that man just bought them The other was there at your beginning so I should be there at your end And when you die and die you shall Your transition shall be to the sound of The clapping The title right there the clear giraffes so he like bought them to make them gladiators so I bet on them The prophet he said That's wild The man's over here fighting ken shamrock. Who's that? Google ken shamrock, you'll know That's the contender right there What's going on with you bro? You don't want to fight for this dude? He said yeah, ain't a slave, bro That's enough for the moment His time will come when it's like with a real sword. That will be his time. Right. Yeah Oh, he's trying to like cut it out He was trying to get rid of his god's undone some wrong things for him He thinks wasn't that like something for his army or something or was that like a religious thing? I don't know like so what is he like turned into like a nihilist or something because his family died So he just doesn't see the purpose of anything Red is the god's color. Oh, what is all that? So this is the thing the town does, huh? Yeah, there's some tough times They said war times. This is what we're focused on Y'all a little cuckoo for that What a motivational speech to your death like why? Yeah, I might hop up and put you to your death, bro. I go with brawn james on Always game time So this is like what the amateurs the amateur league I don't know. Oh one roman times they fought in like the huge coliseum and the roman coliseum That was like the big show right there. There's like double a Oh, he's peeing on himself Oh, yeah, they're in just a little small province, right? Yeah, but that guy looks like he's got a nice weapon for that little province So he basically fight or die basically fight or die. Oh, no It's just a big like free for all isn't it that guy just bought them to for entertainment It's so wrong. Is that a way you can get by and sell some tickets? Oh, they're shackled together. Oh my that's even worse Let's go dude Do they get them? No, not yet. Yeah, but do they have to fight each other after? Because I don't know. I don't know the rules. I ain't never been here. Me either The crowd loves it. They're going nuts If you ever like didn't have faith in humanity imagine being those freaking people You know what I'm saying? I look at everybody just cheering while you're slaughtering each other. Be crazy I could have been maximus Oh, they don't all love them They literally say hill Caesar He bought them there are many matters that require your attention I think I understand my own people then perhaps he's though will be so good as to teach us how to be his own extensive experience Well, we just challenged him publicly Has its uses what uses all they do is talk should be just you and me in Rome He has a way of like Dismissing all the like wisdom and stuff that people's bestowed before him by like his words like the way he just said that He made it seem like they're just rambling old man Yep, and then he's not saying much here. He's just saying I'm gonna give them a vision. Mm-hmm. It is That's the fire clever other than I thought clever You really think the people are going to be seduced by that You'll bring them death And they will love him for it. So that's his vision. Yeah, basically It's to keep everybody's thoughts off the politics and we're on like people kill another people Right because apparently the because the empire's falling apart because we all know how the roman empire really fell apart internally, right? I love how this is offering like so much insight into that Spend your new making these people like child's play he kebabbed him that was easy Okay, I don't like correct him at all. Oh, he's starting to love him for it You're good spaniel, but you're not that good That's enough for the provinces, but not for rome 50,000 romans Watching every movement of your sword as if you were the thunder guard himself. You were a gladiator. Yes. I was Yeah, he was speaking from experience. You could tell he touched me on the show. Yeah, do that for me real quick, bro Marcus who really I did not say I knew him. I said he touched me on the shoulder once You asked me what I want. I too want to stand in front of the emperor He's playing with him because he really knows the emperor like what you mean Man maximus has worn a lot of hats in his life He went from like Like a general to being a slave The best general the one that was about to get the whole empire handed to him now He's a gladiator and all those people happened upon him and didn't even realize who he was This man was almost the ruler of the biggest empire in history of the world over this point They sold him for like two grand, right Dang Yeah, you got a job to do. You gotta go set roam rate. Yeah Guys, I'm very impressed with this movie so far, especially if we in a 2000s movie. It's so like well put together Not that movies weren't amazing about them. They were but It stands up or holds up as it holds up. It's better. They don't put this much work What we have and what I'm saying is from a 2000s It's still like you would not know this came out in 2000 if you watched it unless you knew Look defaced I've like heard about this, but I didn't know like it was really like just to make people like distracted from political things I just thought it was like I don't know part of their culture like baseball or something People had a lot more real problems back then and they had a lot less immersive distractions. So right they really had to come Yeah The scrappy ones Watch out kid. He's gonna put you on fire What is he doing? I think the time is almost right. I could denounce the dissolution of the senate. Oh, wow Celebration time on a father You think I should but you stay with me stay with me tonight. You know, I won't bro. Isn't that your sister? He's on that nasty joint right now. Don't kiss me. Whoa Jamie Lenniser That's not all we wanted though, right? I don't know that's strange, bro I Thought for this place for so long now I'm fighting for myself They know each other I think that just reminds them of his son. No, that's what's her name son right there lucy lucillius Oh, yeah, you're right. I said you were a giant they said you could crush a man's skull with one hand Oh man. No the boys I shall cheer for you since it makes me strong Wow My father's dead master lucius. It is time. Her name is lucius lucius ferris after my father That's crazy. So he knows he's close. Yeah, he knows he's real close Hiding his face. Let's go a nice choice too. I think look intense But how can you win the crowd if you don't have your face out these stuff? Because they ain't about the face. It's just about the grace How you handle yourself out there That'd be a crazy way to die, dude Not even in a while that might be the craziest way to die like in front of people Yeah in front of my whole stadium I think it was wild. He said he paid people at his like annunciation basically To come in and show support for the propaganda They've been in the army. Yes, you can help me if we stay together we survive Is like anyone who arrives in there on site they would be to me Right like are you allowed to go right now? Oh, that was a woman on there. Do you see that? Look at his man out there being an army Yeah, he's leading too many. Dude the crowd's loving it. They're getting hype Oh That's their friend Oh, he's not in on the way He saved his life Being a sharp sword They just caused a lot of drama Oh And now he's on a horse on him They said win the crowd didn't they No one in there just has an easy death is brutal for everyone He's so proud of his little team. He said I brought y'all boys from the trenches We can all the benefits any Y'all shine in the light when it was time All those smucks in the crowd My history is a little hazy Cassius, but shouldn't the barbarians lose the battle of carthage? Ah, yes, sir. Forgive me, sir No, I rather enjoy surprises. Who is he? They call him the spaniel, sir Uh-oh I think I'll meet him. Oh, he's about to meet him He's ready to meet you too. No worries This is about to be awkward. Oh, look at him. Did I just hear somebody yell coward? Probably Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Do they think he's bowing when he's picking up an arrow? Oh, the little boy came. Oh, I just saved his life way to make it difficult His world deserves banners. I don't think there's ever been a gladiator to match you For this young man, he insists you are Hector reborn. I was a turkulous Why doesn't the hero reveal himself and tell us all your real name? My name is gladiator How dare you show your back to me? Slave will remove your helmet and tell me your name Why don't you make them you personally you? Oh, you don't want to know his maximus decimus meridius commander of the armies of the north general of the phoenix legions loyal servant to the true emperor marcus aurelius Father to a murdered son husband to a murdered wife, and I will have my vengeance in this life or the next Oh, he's listening to the people you hear that yeah, because he could lose room They don't like him And I've seen that little fella somewhere. I just don't know where He cannot stand the fact that he has to listen to his subjects right now He's like fuck your senate Dang Hey, that's what he's saying Because like that's what he doesn't want. He doesn't want a senate. He's a republic right right No, no, no, he doesn't want that. He wants a dictatorship. He wants to get rid of the politicians Dang, so we did that since roman times gave thumbs up gave thumbs up. Yeah So if he went like this that means off with your head He really hated to do that That hurt him You gotta stand the fact that he just had to be like brained in by his people That means it'll only be worse So he took that as like a victory that guy was right if you get the crowd to love you it will save your life It sure did for now I better get some extra biscuits tonight for dinner You're number one When you saw You're really pressed about that If they lied to me, they don't respect me What were you doing? Hmm This way Send assassins Didn't realize he would send his best Crucified while they were still alive I knew nothing Don't lie to me Being in a prison of fear since that day to live in terror Every moment of every day because your son is heir to the throne. Oh wow Why son? She's scared he'll kill him So is mine What does it matter if I trust you or not today? I saw a slave become more powerful than the emperor of rome with the power only to amuse a mob That is power the mob is rome and while There you go the mob is wrong controls everything My brother has enemies most of all in the senate There are some politicians who have dedicated their lives to rome if I can arrange it will you meet him? Then have him kill comers A man of principle who loved my father We know he's lost a lot because of rome right everything Help me escape There's some rotten moldy bread Hey, it's better than nothing the concessions I guess that's almost like insulting. Well, maybe if you're poor you just come there and get a little a little bread action Who's that I thought there's 150 days of this Years in retirement Caesar is pleased to bring you the only undefeated champion in roman history The legendary Oh this guy right here is in game Final boss Yes, so Let's go maximus They embrace him like he's one of their own He's been arranged So he ordered his death basically Well, hasn't he like already done that for 64 days right? Yeah, that's what I am Oh, they're just making sure that he can't win probably wait Wow See if he would have pulled off a dirty shot the crowd would have been against him right there. I didn't false start Oh Tigres, you got some Tigres up in here So they can't go a certain place because they'll bite him up but same with the other guy right? That thing's gonna get all I got on his back The thing sounded like a mountain lion right there Yeah, that's what the clumps in tiger sound like because I don't really like it Sucks for the tiger man. I didn't try to be there. He fights for this the hair and the throne Yeah, I get mad My phone he's pissed Wow, so so much of his political future just has to do with this guy dying or not Yeah, I guess just like crazy. Just like the success of this stuff to distract them Oh, he said no because the emperor told him to basically Oh, he's just basically defying him. I think so. Oh, wow I think he wouldn't have done it anyways. Maybe I don't know So defying the emperor is what they like Right. Yeah, exactly So he's a he's a political movement on his own Better let him live bro. How about he suits up and fights for the kingdom not the kingdom You know what I mean? Yeah, he's never gonna do that You simply won't die Are we so different you and I you take life when you have to as I do Don't tempt him But like he can't do that though Because that's like they're Yeah, he'll blow his opportunity I feel like he might not even have to do it because he's gonna get these people against him. I feel it If I was common as though that would have stressed me out because he just can't catch a w right now basically Find me move along find me the reese stones is Oh, wow His purpose is why yeah, they love maximus for his mercy. Oh my god Hi, baby little brat Every day he lives they grow bolder. Oh, wow That'll make him a martyr. I will not make a martyr. Right Sister, I'm home friend. How long have the men been in austere? I'll wait. How soon do you think they could be ready to fight for you tomorrow? That's what you want to hear right there Jesus lounging Good thing them dudes don't be asking questions though like the ushers Get me outside the city walls. That fresh horse is ready to take me to austere. My army is in camp there Once all of Rome is yours, you'll just give it back to the people Tell me why because that was the last wish of a dying man. It was I will kill comatose The fate of Rome I leave to you You stay alive or I will be dead That sucks man. He really wants to do some good But the moment he gets an opportunity to try to enact that good. There's gonna be some crook POS behind. I'm ready to stab him in the back. Mm-hmm. I know that you are but not you You say you ain't nothing but some profit to me big dog So you won't let him go to his army. Oh, wow, you hear that what he killed the man that set him free. Oh, no Where have you been? For the health of the room the senate must be bled and he will bleed too Wow, so he knows man Do you remember what our father said once? It's a dream Life is and I have only you to share it with That's so strange dude The only person he thinks that he can even relate to is a sister and the whole entire freaking empire But he can't stop being weird Oh, she can't wait for him to get killed So he just can't get love from anyone Is what the movie's trying to say, right? Like everyone just rejects it from him What you think babe not into it. Nope. I think she loves him so much So it's his time to die tomorrow in two days My brother said gracas arrested. We dared wait any longer. We must leave tonight Proxima will come at midnight and take you to the gate You risk too much because I loved you Dang that is crazy, man Your wife's watching bro I'll be honest with you, man. I was really hoping he wouldn't do that I don't like this character a little bit more. How do you not? Well, I mean he she just set all that up for him. So maybe that's just what she needed for the reward Yeah, she risked everything But it's kind of weird though like the whole reason he's doing all this is so I can binge his wife So it's just kind of strange he's doing that. But let me know what you guys think in the comments That could be totally off. Maybe you just want still like kill the company one more time for guys. I don't know Oh, not the hugs from him Manipulation I've been reading today Lucius. We've been reading about the great mark antony and his adventures in Egypt The queen killed herself for snake tomorrow night. I'll tell you the story of emperor claus. He was betrayed By his own blood. Oh my god So this is like a threat Loki But the emperor claus knew that they're up to something. What do you think happened then lucius? I ain't hanging out. Would you know more? The little bee taught him everything Oh, no, so do anything first then He's gonna sacrifice himself. Oh, wow I only need moments to not be careless with your lives. We were here for you Maximus Let's go kinship ruck Whoa, they left it for him. That was cool. There's that thing he wants. Yeah. Is he gonna put his name on it or something? I hope so Man He literally sacrificed himself for this So did he Everything's just going to plan too so far. He warned him. Yeah, that was so cruel the way they did him with that Man, that was crazy. That's one of the darker things i've ever seen actually. I was not expecting that He ain't dead, is he? I don't think he went down that easy Should I be merciful lucius will stay with me now and if his mother So much as looks at me in a manner that displaces me. You'll die. Oh my gosh And as for you you will love me as I love to you. Oh, no, you'll provide me with an air Of pure blood and I'm not merciful. You're a psycho is what you are bro. You're the worst He's frustrated They're throwing roses like he's dead. No, that's what they do every time he comes out. Are they're waiting on him? He's wearing wider clothes like he's holy or something. Mm-hmm They call for you the general who became a slave the slave who became a gladiator the gladiator of defied an emperor striking story What could be more glorious than to challenge the emperor himself in the great arena You would fight me. Do you think i'm afraid? He's gonna have booby traps Unlike maximus the invincible who knows no fear Did your friend smart his own death? Oh, wow Oh It was your dad. He was your father. You loved my father. I know but so did I that makes us brothers, doesn't it? Smile for me now brother Step on his arm Conceal the wound. Oh, he cheated. Oh my gosh. You're so much worse than I even thought you were bro I mean, I'll give him I'll give it to him at least he's gonna go fight the man But jeez he's gonna do it so then the people will be like, oh, we love him now Exactly. Oh, we had to do a slay the gladiator. What a diplomatic guy And it's so corrupt that everyone saw him do it and he's like concealed the wound and covered up And everyone's just gonna keep rocking with it. What an entrance though Like that looked crazy You can do it Get it up One more time dude I don't think I put it out but his name is like max like, you know more awesome The other guy's common like you're just like a common folk I mean, he has some skills. Remember he was beating up everyone in the woods. They were just kind of slow to the draw We didn't expect that close. Oh Make a break for this emperor though. Yeah, he risked it all. I'm shocked that he even decided to do this I'll break it down after a while. I think he did but give me your sword Don't do it That's cheating Oh, you can see it. Is he starting to like fade out? Oh my gosh Break it. Yes, do it. Oh my gosh Look, no one cares. No one cares. Everybody wants it to happen. Oh, you're so close Did he stab him? Yeah Oh, you finally got caught say he'll see sir. Come on Do it They don't like know how to feel I guess Dude, I don't know man. Maybe they're just shocked Like someone actually did that and they witnessed it. Maybe they're all shocked at how much no one really cared, right? So that's what the beginning was It's Rome worth one good man's life We believed it once Make us believe it again. He was a soldier of Rome Honor him who will help me carry him Everybody will all even luchas Look at his life was bodied just lay in there. No one cares about it. Yeah, no one helped carry him I hope she goes and kicks it and spits on it I will see you again, but not yet Yeah, because of him basically Directed by Ridley Scott. So guys that was gladiator. That was one of the best movies I've ever seen hands down Uh, I don't know why I enjoyed it so much. I think it has so much to do with the little political implications I think it had so much to do with the body language I think it had so much to do with Jacqueline Phoenix in this movie. He was amazing. I hope I said his name, right? I hope I can butcher that Um, everyone was amazing in it before I even start rambling because you know how I get baby I'm still from one to ten. What did you rate this movie come? Okay, my dad. Let me just say this my dad Good job Ron. That was a good one. I'll give you that that was a good taste It was a 10. Not bad Ronnie beef. Not bad. It was a 10. I was captivated the whole time Very good movie. It was amazing. It was a bummer that uh, well It was a bummer and also good that he finally got to be with his family It just sucks like he did all of this to just die, you know But it was good because he was right where he wanted to be The plot the politics made it just so like you just had no idea what was gonna happen next and well I will say one of the things of the movie was the movie was trying to tell us that It wasn't that he did all that just to die like Diane was ultimately the goal It's just that it was all about how you'd be remembered, you know So Diane was in goal, but it was just about how he handled his business before he did so He did exactly what the guy um, what's his name the first emperor? Yeah, he did exactly what he asked him to do So basically he did that. It was a job When his job was done. That was it Yeah, man. So just to do a quick little recap and break it down So you meet a character and you meet a guy and he's just such a noble person especially in the time and he's leading the army and The emperor says to him you're like the son that I never had What's the name again? Not communist, but maximus, right? And so maximus says well, you know, I don't want to I don't want to bestow this honor Like I want to go home and be with my family and he goes well, ultimately That's why you're the best man for the job You know, you don't desire the greed and the corruption and all the perks and privileges that comes with being political in this system, right? And so that really sat wrong with common or Commodus communist, right? Because he was just someone who was driven by his ego and even Ultimately in the end of this movie you saw that his ego killed him, right? You know, I thought I would get handed to him is what it was basically. Yeah, and he was like a petulant child. He was spoiled He was emotional. He didn't really have an ability He didn't really have an ability to not really communicate He seemed to speak very well, but he wasn't willing to like negotiate He was a dictator basically and I thought it was very interesting in this movie the political system of room that was basically Some sort of some the there was basically some form of democracy that they wanted to set in and then there was his version of Rome, which is Everyone's just under my subject and we don't really have time for all this. So his ideology was basically If everyone's bickering about how things should be like we do in democracy There's going to be all these problems that are going to go unsolved and there's all this corruption That's going to go unseen because people are going to be too distracted arguing this two-party system Basically or whatever the case may be he said damn all that i'm a dictator and that's just like every tyrant, right? They think that they know best and a lot of us do think we know best But ultimately it's just the system in itself, man And I just think that it was just a story of a guy whose ego was so big that in the end He thought that he could challenge that man, even if he was injured and win He knew he shouldn't have been able to do that and just the fact that he was willing to get out there and Do it just the fact that no one bought to like try to make him stop Just so they didn't care it showed that no one cared about that. He didn't win anybody by what he had going on I do feel a little bad for him because his dad even made the comment Like if I'd have been a better father you would have turned out to be less of a disappointment of a son You know, there's always true to that. He was saying he literally said though that in his 20 years of reigning 16 of them were fighting. How could he have been a father, you know, right? Yeah, like what could he have really done if he was fighting fighting fighting all 16 of 20 years Well, yeah, but it doesn't but the thing is is like this doesn't seem to be a character that Just made a choice to be evil or maybe like wasn't taught right. I mean this guy was just evil This guy was screwed up. I mean this guy had a lot of issues It's really hard for me to imagine that if his dad would have spent any time just Walking along the hillside and like just maybe pointing out the villages and being like look son This is what we fight for. This is you know, what makes our society run This is the children the youth the old, you know, this is what we care about all those things Like something would have stuck but this man seemed to just or maybe just been in battle with him a few times But to be honest, I don't know Because the movie was kind of short and it was my first view. I don't really know what his motivations were It seemed like to me. He just wanted to enjoy the luxuries basically of what everyone's built But at the same time like but he was trying to change it on its head though Right, but at the same time he was doing he he seemed to think that what he was doing was best Right what I'm trying to say. He just had this like whole like this whole political like Ambition that we didn't really know because he didn't really say it too much But we knew it was different from what they already had going on for sure Right. Well, I mean, I guess that's like why Being a dictator is so appealing or it's so we're not like appealing, but it's so like Attracted with so many people because the things that they were saying like the things that he was saying They're not necessarily wrong. I mean with Like look at our system in the united states. I guess it's absolutely screwed up I mean we we we elect the less of two evils and you know, we all do that You know, and so like there's just a lot of issues that we have you can imagine what it'd been like in rome And this guy just didn't seem to It's really hard to speak on how he was as a leader to be honest in the movie It's really easy to speak on his narcissistic Personality and just But you can say as a leader you can say he did opposite of what his father did So if his father ruled something out, he was going to bring it back in So it's basically like he was leading like what's the word spitefully in a way Yeah, absolutely So he was basically using his position to like further his ego He basically tried to use his position of power to force all these people to care about him because I mean He was literally given a whole empire empire and He wasn't giving it. He took it to quote what robert brachy and said on game of thrones He said the day that was uh Ned Stark sisters when she died. What was her name? Um leona, I think leona stark, right? He said the death of leona stark was a hole so big that all of the seven kingdoms couldn't fill it And that's basically how this guy was man. He just he was someone who just didn't know Right. He just had some daddy issues bad and bad And because of that it was like the reason why he was so corrupt and ultimately led to his death maximus He did the same thing that eddard stark did in game of thrones to me guys Sorry, not to make comparisons in the tube, but we just are on the journey right now, right? And to be honest man, that was a lot of parallels between those two More than I wanted a game and like a medieval said it will not medieval. You know what I mean I'm starting to think setting sorry to interrupt. No, you're I'm starting to think that was a lot more taken from this movie In the game of thrones world that maybe I'd realize because there was a lot of parallels in this Um, yeah, man. Basically, you're right. Let's talk about let's talk about the parallels between Eddard stark and the main character in this maximus So this was a man of moral character. It seems like in this day and age having moral character being a free thinker not just being someone who Will just necessarily be loyal to the crown It seemed like that was something that was very admired back then maybe because it was rare and that led him I mean minus the fact that he was A great warrior, right, but that carried him very far, especially politically. He was a general but you know, man, he made that same mistake when When commoness said do you support me? Basically, he should have pretended to support him He should have just played his cars, right? And then he should have made a move Underneath the cover of darkness when the time called for it. I know that's a lot snake here There's not as much honor in that like I definitely get that But his family would have been alive if he could have played that a little smarter I'm not even alive about that. You know what I mean? I love the big brashy honor. I'm gonna do us right no matter what No matter who gets hurt, but dude that kind of sucks for your kids and family, you know what I'm saying? But going along with that going along with that he also Had a love for the for the emperor So his love for the emperor was a different kind of love though. He had love for his family He looked at the emperor as a father as well. He even said As he was dying father I think that You're kind of forgetting how much of a love he had for that because when you think about that then you think Okay, he could have easily just said yeah, dude. I agree with you. I'm fighting for you But he didn't because he loved the emperor himself Well, it seemed like he just made such an emotional decision that cost him like I get it, right? And I'm not saying love the emperor less. I'm just saying be smarter about how you go about your business like Ultimately, it worked out for him In a sense, but I mean he could have handled that in a million different ways, obviously the same way eddard start could have Handled it on game of thrones guys if you haven't seen that man If you've seen this movie you haven't seen game of thrones. You should probably go check that out Because I definitely like it. I'm just gonna say that I'll give this movie a 10 out of 10 But I give that show a 10 out of 10 also not to draw But you know, they draw so much comparison off each other. Uh, maybe I'm just into this vibe, right? I mean the stakes when you're in this type of world the stakes are just so high You know what I mean? And it's just every every little twist and turn is stressful Like everything right right because you just any any wrong word you could put of someone like like a joffrey or a Comedist any wrong thing you say is your head. So right. Yeah. Yeah, exactly them being on the screen is just stressful But fun It's so much fun. And you know, the thing is is like We've seen the hero acted out so many times the hero's always deep the hero's complex the hero Is to be rooted for admired Persevered you can go on forever, right the villain on the other hand, man Not always so much. Sometimes the villain doesn't get necessarily like like for example You love spider-man so much, but people aren't quite as passionate about doc ock, right? I mean like his character is great. Don't get me wrong But we're not sitting there thinking about doc ock as much as our spider-man in this movie, man I think I think dr. King phoenix carried the movie the villain was like honestly phenomenal guys. Yeah, he was He was kind of a main character himself. It wasn't just Maximus the whole time It was also him. So if he would have been like a real life, well, obviously his character I think was based on a real character if I'm not mistaken. I'm pretty sure that was a real guy in history, but Um guys his character like the way he portrayed that was phenomenal. Absolutely phenomenal one of the best performances Maybe I've ever seen man like and and I know he didn't do too much. He wasn't over the top. He didn't have some great Crazy scene where he had to do too much, but it was the subtlety the subtlety Amplified this it was phenomenal even when it was just like whiny like when he would be whiny it was so like Like I understood like you can just feel that he was spoiled like kind of like a spoiled brat and it was like You know what he did when he whined he done is he done such a good job When he started whining the message he sent to me was because of you like like you it's your fault My world is not spinning correctly and it's your fault and I am not going to be happy until You've suffered and like when he would whine that was just the feeling that would come over me And he didn't have to say it. He didn't have to express it He was impressive. He did a good job. Russell crow. You're really phenomenal in this movie, man I mean dude, you're droopy facial expressions where you just Peared Sally into the camera and you were phenomenal. Uh, I'm trying to be funny, but seriously guys. I really think that His lack of his lack of like I'm not gonna say lack of a character because that's not what I mean Not what I mean But the fact that he didn't have some over-the-top personality right now He wasn't giving it back if he was giving it back It wouldn't have been as effective to me the fact that he just was like About what he was about and that was it he wasn't anymore or any less The only reason he was doing this stuff was because the guy was right proxima was right You do need to win the fans. So just to survive anything he was doing that was extra or anything out of that Was for survival only so he could get to his ultimate goal the way he handled himself on every level humiliated The emperor like on every level so just every facial expression he would make was just Insulting it seems so much more noble Than what the emperor was able to do He came across so much more genuine Just so much more relatable so much more human basically and I just thought it was good, man. I could break down the character the psychology Just the that's something i'm really enjoying man the parallels between the characters for real because they were like Two so closely knit characters that could have been like brothers could have worked together They could have been all of it, you know, dude, he gives me surcy vibes, too There was a lot of parallels between him and surcy especially with like the narcissism of like Like you're sibling, right? But the reason why he liked his sibling and just like the weirdness of it and it was just very Can we talk about the costumes? Yeah, they were amazing 100% if you were to tell me if I was to just watch this out of nowhere Today and y'all told me it was shot like, you know Three years ago or something I would have believed you because it was just like I think it was like definitely like ahead of its time Maybe that's why we always reminisce about like Old times and how they're just narrative out there that things used to be better. I don't know if that's true or false I personally believe that I think that things are getting worse as time moves on But maybe it's just because like i'm just getting older and i've seen it and i've heard of it more and you know It's harder to find new things, but man This stood up to anything and I really can genuinely say like when it comes to like costumes and the amount of work And texture and detail that goes into like, you know, just capturing that you can do it with cgi You can do it with programs and ai and stuff like that, man But there's just something about Just these real sculpted It was phenomenal guys the scenes thing on this would be really interesting. I'm sure a lot of that Armor they had on and stuff like now you can like probably like finds lesser and stuff like that But back then i'm sure like you had to just go with what you had and that stuff was probably heavy It's really one more thing I do want to point out man is like it's just really crazy to think because of power structures and hierarchies that An emperor that no one loves his own father didn't want him to rule and obviously if his dad didn't want to rule I mean you can't hide that right? I'm sure the empire knew that right people knew that No one loved them. No one cared about them. Everyone sort of despised them. They mocked them openly They were openly booing him he sent soldiers Who didn't even have like a real reason to support his claim To a peaceful to a peaceful farmland they executed a mother and a child And these soldiers would do that just based on like Being given an order because of a power right, you know, we live in a society like we're americans You know and not just americans man. We just live in the 21st century and there's people all around the globe with this mentality, but It is extremely extremely hard to fathom that unless you had some extreme leverage on me That anyone's ever going to order me to do something like that and i'm going to be okay Like absolutely absurd like that. Yeah, totally I would be so desperately like desperate to not have to do something like that That I would be dangerous. Like I would be scared of myself I'd be scared of what I would do boy to not have to do something like that And if it meant killing an emperor who told me to do that Like you know what i'm saying like I understand they're going to torture me and kill me But the whole theme of the movie is death comes first off anyways, right? It's all about how you live I just I couldn't do it and maybe that's just because I've never lived in a time where I've had to do that You know, I've never lived in that society But to be honest guys, I think that's effed up man And that's the thing that I really take away every time I see something like this I'm just so grateful that we don't live in a society where people can do that But in a sense we do we all understand that you know, they can always put the irs on you or send you to jail Or whatever the case may be But man This movie was nuts guys one of the best I've ever seen I've elaborate long enough, baby I've covered about all I can cover Well, there's something I I did want to like think about really quick because it was crazy I don't know when you're talking about costumes, you know at the end when he had like on that white thing and the other guy Had on the black thing and and like to me just like the puller They were a puller opposite the whole time that expressed it But then also like they were both dying One of them had like a funeral thing on and one of them acted like he was so holy He was like, you know what I'm saying, right? Like that's just how I I saw that to picking up back off you, babe Like you said in the end of this movie guys If you notice the emperor had on white, but the other guy didn't right and so it almost seemed like The emperor was lying to himself. Yeah, he was lying about who he was the other guy He wore black He didn't have to wear white because he knew who he was right you going from says that was like a weird symbolism Like a lot of the maybe not all the costumes in this one Like as I can notice in game of thrones has a lot of symbolism Because like in game of thrones you can change it because it's a season But and like this this right here like You kind of picked up on it. You kind of picked up on a lot of small things like that You picked up on like his eyes getting dark. It almost seemed like the longer he was emperor It was almost like it was like making him sick Dude, it was almost like it was almost like He sat in that role and the the universe allowed He sat in that role right in the universe rejected him and said you're not fit for this and so he was like Wearing it on his face. It was almost like he was starting to like eat him from the inside Just like probably probably just the politics of everything that was going on then and you're not ready You're not even the person that is appointed and you're sticking over It's crazy when he was basically like when he first became emperor Everyone was cheering for him and then he made the comment Like I hope this wasn't too expensive because I forget how he worded it But basically he said that he paid people Yeah And you know guys they really do that and it's just funny how this movie just captures society and so anyways like that and just But parallels it into like it's crazy man to 80 times you guys might can see the excitement guys I thought this was one of the best pieces of film. I've ever seen. I love this movie. This was great Maybe it's because I'm a dude or something, but this was this was good. Like you're very excited I mean, I'm excited. It was great, but like geez. I'm not like your energy is like Kind of it was such a good movie because it was so simple I'm not even gonna lie. Yeah, you're right. It was just good to see guys I liked it because it was honestly at the end of the day. It was very simple There wasn't really much to the movie if you really want to break it down And and you notice about like that I'm gonna say lord of the rings on top of this This and lord of the rings. They don't do much and add a lot Like just like by their dialogues by the deep dialogues by the deep like mute the music the costume That's why I'm excited because movies nowadays just have to do too much Right every little funny like, you know a movie can't just be funny because it's funny anymore Asked to be funny because they always have to put in some Corny just do movies just do too much and I just think that I really enjoy this one This one, I don't think they'll make a movie quite like this I just think that those days are over right less is definitely been more with this one at the lord of the rings franchise Yes, this movie wasn't about dialogue. It wasn't about action. It wasn't about it wasn't about any of that man It was about facial expressions. It was about facial expressions. It was about anticipation of the unknown because of different personalities and it was about It was about the fact that there was information that needed to be shared a.k.a. You won't be emperor Commoness isn't dead. There was all this information and this movie was about the anxiety of how is this crazy tyrannical Sick you serpere gonna basically handle this and I just thought it was really good, man It was so simple. It was so good It's one of those type of movies that you can watch it and you can really learn a lot about like the human condition human nature what it's like to be Alive, you know like you noticed in the movie like it was all about narrative, you know And that's how life is like I could go plead my innocence to the world I could be accused of something and I could try to speak to people with as much logic and reason And at the end of the day if you don't care about that you're just not gonna care about that And this movie was like that all right guys. Thank you so much for uh hanging out with us to the end man Like comment subscribe. We are on patreon guys. We post the whole Freakin movie over there uncut and you can just go watch it. It's like You know, man, it's something that we try to do as much as possible people really enjoy it. So go hit us up over there Uh, yeah, you guys are awesome, man. Thank you so much for the support. I'll repeat it again. Shout out to my dad for this one Yeah, shout out to ron. Thank you so much. Mr. Ron. This was a great movie Uh, I guess we gotta watch apocalypto now since We'll definitely watch it like your um style dad and guys I'm a hundred percent gonna watch this movie multiple times before it's all said and done because You know, we'll watch it back after editing. We'll watch it when it goes on youtube We always put our movies on and just make sure that they're good and stuff Make sure we don't do anything that's gonna like mess the movie up or anything like that. So uh, yeah I'll definitely be watching again. I'll go watch it with mr. Barnhill. So All right guys