Action/ Adventure/ Historical Fiction

Question 1

Gladiator is an epic historical drama film directed by ** **** and released in which year?

Answer 1

Ridley Scott
(Filming in the amphitheatre, sitting on the director’s chair but very wriggly, Scott of the Antarctic advising)

2000

Since its release, Gladiator has been critically reevaluated and it has been considered one of the best films of the 2000s decade, and one of the greatest historical epic films ever made. It has been credited with reinventing the sword-and-sandal genre after the genre waned in the public eye during the 1960s and also rekindled interest in entertainment centered around the cultures of ancient Greece, Rome, and other time periods throughout world history

Question 2

Gladiator stars:

Who portrays Roman general Maximus Decimus Meridius, who is betrayed when Commodus, the ambitious son of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, played by ** **, murders his father and seizes the throne.

Reduced to slavery, Maximus becomes a gladiator and rises through the ranks of the arena to avenge the murders of his family and his emperor.

Answer 2

Russell Crowe

Joaquin Phoenix

Joaquin is pronounced like ‘wa-keen.’