As long as I live, I’ll never forget Russell Crowe as Maximus Decimus Meridius....aka Gladiator! Gosh! I remember so going off the deep end over that movie...saw it 10 times in the theater...and that was after it had been out nearly 3 months. Took me quite awhile to get over it all. Whew! “Strength and Honor...STRENGTH-AND-HONOR!”
Yeah - he was SO sexy in that movie. yowzie!
Hear he’s a real jerk in actual live however...but man, what an actor!
As a big Patrick O’Brian fan, I have to say he did a great job portaying Jack Aubrey in “Master and Commander”.
Gladiator is one of my favorite movies of all time. It really gets to me. So many good quotes in that movie, the music, the acting.. wow...
That was a great movie. I learned that interestingly enough, although the Maximus character was fictional, the other characters portrayed were historic, including the young Emperor Comodus. When I first saw the movie, I thought they were getting a bit too dramatic having the emperor fight in the colosseum, but apparently Comudus caught many times as a gladiator. He also cheated, as was shown in the movie, by either having his opponent pre-wounded, or providing the opponent with only a lead sword.
Did you see his Robin Hood? I really liked it.