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GREECE AND ROME |
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1. Look and listen to the trailers at you tube. Say whether these sentences are true or false: a. Troy was a ruled by a woman. b. The wooden horse does not appear in the film. c. Comodus was played by Joaquim Phoenix. d. Gladiator is afraid of fighting. 2. Log into the wikipedia and make a 5 lines summary of the plots. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_(film) .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladiator_(2000_film) .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 3. GLADIATOR REVIEW. Fill in the gaps: DOLLARS GAME DIALOGUE WIFE CITY SLAVERY BATTLE HERO MEMORY STORY Running time: 150 minutes Starring: Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Oliver Reed, Richard Harris, Derek Jacobi, Djimon Hounsou Rating 8 out of 10 British director Ridley Scott makes an early bid for the summer box office crown with his 100.....................dollar sword and sandals epic, a muscular and bold combat film threaded with scenes of graphic gore which should have cinema audiences baying for blood for months to come. The ................... of the day is Maximus (Russell Crowe), a general in the army of Emperor Marcus Aurelius (Richard Harris) who is adored as much by his men as he is by the Emperor. Aurelius has always treated Maximus like his own flesh and blood, and confides that when he steps down, he would like the general to become the defender of Rome and work alongside the Senate to govern the .............. The Emperor's weasel-like son Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix) is not best pleased by this show of family disloyalty and murders the old man in a fit of jealousy. He assumes the throne and orders the immediate execution of the gallant Maximus, the sole threat to his rule. Barely escaping death, Maximus is forced into ............................... and is trained as a gladiator by the debonair Proximo (Oliver Reed). Just as fearsome in the arena as he is on the battlefield, Maximus soon slaughters his way to the Colosseum in Rome where his rising popularity sets him on a collision course with the increasingly unpopular Commodus. Scott opens his film with the ............................ between the Roman legions and the barbarians in the forest of Germania, a jaw-dropping 10 minute sequence of unbridled brutality which recalls the D-Day landings of Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan. The pace barely slackens for the remaining two hours 20 minutes, moving to the deserts of North Africa for his gladiatorial training and then back to Rome for the ................................. and the final showdown. Like Titanic, Gladiator is more concerned with delivering a spectacle than with coherent plot or character development. Some of the .................................. creaks badly and has a tendency towards the florid. Crowe shoulders leading man duties with obvious relish. His all-consuming desire to avenge the death of his.......................... and son is palpable, and lends Maximus an unexpected emotional depth and complexity. Rising star Phoenix is deliciously slimy as the vindictive Emperor, oscillating between illicit lust for his sister Lucilla (Connie Nielsen) to homicidal madness as he contemplates killing her son, the heir to the throne. Nielsen for her part delivers one of the picture's strongest performances and Harris is solid, but the real scene-stealer here is Oliver Reed in his final performance (he died shortly before finishing the film). Rather fittingly, Gladiator is dedicated to his......................... Ultimately, the film delivers everything it promises and then some. It doesn't purport to be the most intelligent of this year's big budget offerings but tells its ...........................with the minimum of dialogue and the maximum impact. Let the games begin. 4. Check the contrast in terms of historical accuracy between the two films in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieW9gLb4cwY Make a description of the different aspect contrasted. Who wins? Russel or Brad? |