From 180 to 192 C.E., Emperor Commodus ruled ancient Rome with an insatiable lust for power that brought an end to the fabled ...

Luca Locatelli / INSTITUTE Ariela Pizzati, 39 and a real estate consultant, assumes the character of a gladiator type called a Provocator. Luca Locatelli / INSTITUTE Emperor Commodus (sculpted as ...

a slave and a gladiator who eventually takes down the corrupt Emperor Commodus before dying a noble death in the gladiator arena. In the first film, we briefly meet Lucilla’s young son ...

It’s been 24 years since the Ridley Scott classic Gladiator came out, starring Russell Crowe as Maximus and Joaquin Phoenix as Emperor Commodus, the outstanding film received five Academy Awards ...

"Joaquin Phoenix's Commodus in Gladiator; certainly for my characterization of Joffrey," he told EW, "that had a big impact, the smirk." 16. To create the massive audience, 2,000 extras were ...

They are an amped-up version of Phoenix's Commodus ... The tropes in this emperor diptych are bizarrely dated, undercutting Gladiator II's exploration of masculinity by leaning into regressive ...

Gladiator can easily be considered a contender as one of the best films of its genre. Directed by Ridley Scott and boasting a ...

Roman general Maximus Decimus Meridius is a casualty of a power struggle between the corrupt Emperor Commodus and the senate ... but is sold into slavery as a gladiator - and uses his fame ...