Gladiator
Action! If there’s one word associated with cinema, the tension of movie sets, and the focus of attention, it’s this one. Action is very often at the heart of popular cinema: Harold Lloyd hanging from the clock hands in Safety Last! (1923), Cary Grant threatened and strafed by a plane in North by Northwest (1959), Franka Potente gasping for air in Run Lola Run (1998)... Westerns, swashbuckler films, martial arts or adventure flicks, thrillers, all these genres rely on action—sometimes frenetic, sometimes meticulously measured.
From movies by Sergei Eisenstein to Gilles Carle, from John Ford to John Boorman and Werner Herzog, via Paul Verhoeven, Kathryn Bigelow, Park Chan-wook, Érik Canuel, and Nicolas Winding Refn, this series will take you through the full range of emotions, from laughter to thrills, from fear to satisfaction.
Winner of 5 Academy Awards, including for Best Picture, in 2001
Emperor Marcus Aurelius is betrayed by his son Commodus, who seizes power by force. The new despot orders the execution of the Roman general Maximus, a close ally of Marcus Aurelius. Maximus escapes death, but he is enslaved and must fight in the arena as a gladiator while he plots his revenge.
Ridley Scott
Ridley Scott is a British director, screenwriter, and producer. After a notable career in advertising, in which he directed the short film 1984 announcing Apple's first Macintosh, he turned to feature films in his forties. He gained prominence in the late 1970s and early 1980s with the blockbusters Alien (1979) and Blade Runner (1982). He continued to make a strong impression with Thelma & Louise (1991) before returning to the forefront by revitalizing the sword-and-sandal genre with Gladiator (2000), winning the Academy Award for Best Picture in the process. He followed this with other major productions: Hannibal (2001), Black Hawk Down (2001), and Kingdom of Heaven (2005), while alternating with more modest films. He concluded this decade by leading three projects starring actor Russell Crowe: American Gangster (2007), Body of Lies (2008), and Robin Hood (2010). In the 2010s, he successfully returned to science fiction with titles such as Prometheus (2012), The Martian (2015), and Alien: Covenant (2017). He is currently working on a sequel to Gladiator, which is expected to be released at the end of the year.
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