Film Evaluation Gladiator When I first saw the movie Gladiator, I was in high school history class and it had to relate to ancient Rome. The class and I watched the movie, and I personally enjoyed it so much that I went home and watched it again on my free time. My boyfriend and I even recorded it and watched it very often. This movie was directed so well, the setting, summary, actors, and even the costumes were just perfect. For the main characters, Maximus and Commodus, their story and acting was perfect as well. Maximus’ loyalty to Marcus Aurelius, and his mark for death from Commodus. Commodus’ betrayal to his father, jealousy, and his envy made this movie. The best things about this movie are the costumes and setting, acting, and the …show more content…
Commodus gave a speech in a scene, about “busy bees” and he was warning his sister not to betray him again, and also that she must tell him everything that she has been doing. During his speech, this shows exactly how horrible and crazy of a person he truly is. In the “busy bee speech,” Commodus is reading to Lucius, his sister’s son, and he is reading to him about Mark Attorney and his adventures in Egypt. Lucius explains on how the queen ends up killing herself with a snake, and Commodus says, “And just wait until you hear about our ancestors.” After saying that, Commodus says, “Now if you are very good I will tell you the story of emperor Claudius and how he was betrayed, by one of the ones closest to him, by his own blood” as he looks at his sister, Lucilla, and implies it is her, and then he continued by saying, “and he whispered to the dark corners, and went out late at night, and conspired and conspired. But the emperor Claudius knew they were up to something, he knew that they were busy little bees, and so one night he sat down with one of them, and he looked at her and he said tell me what you have been doing, “busy little bee”.” At this part of the speech Commodus’ sister is terrified and poor Lucius has no idea what they are talking about, but he can tell something is wrong between them. Then Commodus threatens poor Lucius, but it was not obvious to Lucius. Commodus says, “Or I will strike down the ones dearest to you, you shall watch as I bathe in their blood. And the emperor was heart broken. The little bee dug a wound more deeper than anyone else ever could have done.” Finally, toward the end of his speech he brings Lucius into the conversation, and he says, “And what do you think happened then Lucius?” Lucius replied saying that he did not know, so Commodus said, “The little bee told him everything,” implying that he is about