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| Gladiator Trivia |
Like modern day athletes, ancient Roman gladiators did product endorsements. The producers considered including this in the script but discarded the idea as unbelievable. |
Oliver Reed sufferred a fatal heart attack during filming. Some of his sequences had to be re-edited and a double, photographed in the shadows and with a 3D CGI mask of Reed's face, was used as a stand in. |
When Commodus says he would make a good emperor because he has ambition, he is standing in front of a bust of Plato who wrote, in "The Republic," that the unwilling would make the best rulers. |
In the coloseum scenes, only the bottom two decks are filled with people. The other thousands of people are computer animated. |
Russel Crowe began shooting for Gladiator a few months after The Insider wrapped. He had gained upwards of 40 pounds for his Oscar nominated role in The Insider and yet lost it all before he began Gladiator. He claims he did nothing special other than work on his sheep farm in Austrailia. |
The real-life Commodus was in fact the only Roman Emporer in history to fight as a gladiator in the arena and he did it several times not just once. However he was not killed in the arena, rather strangled in his dressing room by an athelete names Narcissus. |
Connie Nielsen found a 2000-year-old signet ring in an antique shop, which she wears in the Movie. |
Among the chanting of the germanic hoards at the beginning of the film are samples of the Zulu war chant from the film Zulu (1964). |
Some of the battle music on the soundtrack interpolates variations on "Mars, the bringer of War" from Gustav Holst's "The Planets." |
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