Game of Thrones 5-24
May 25, 2015 19:47:03 GMT -5
Post by mosdub on May 25, 2015 19:47:03 GMT -5
joy what part was copying Gladiator? I am curious because I don't remember the movie well and I watched this episode with a group of boys who I am surprised didn't see the similarities. I want to bring it up with them!
Russel Crowe plays a general who is stripped of his leadership by the new emporer and sent off to be murdered. He gets away but is picked up by slave traders. He starts in the lower gladiator pits and finally gets up to the main event where he faces the emporer again and surprises him by still being alive.
That quote I made earlier (My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius...) is the speech he gives the emporer upon revealing himself after winning in the fighting pit. He fought hidden under armor and a face mask so it was unknown who he was until he won.
I mean - the whole scene with Jorah proving his worth by beating everyone in the fighting pit and getting to see Dany again was the. same. story. as. Gladiator.
I realize that I'm older than most people on this site, but I picked up on the similarities immediately. Gladiator was a huge movie when I was in high school/college. I'm really really surprised that HBO couldn't at least try to make it different.