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government who kills his family under the leadership by a corrupt Roman prince who is
turned king, the roman general comes back as a gladiator to seek revenge on the prince
turned king. The movie which was made in 2000 stars Russell Crowe as the Roman
general Maximus, Joaquin Phoenix as Comodus the prince turned king and Oliver Reed as
Proximo the generals kind servant along with a whole list of other characters. The main
plot of the story is Maximus, the most-trusted general serving the aging Caesar Marcus
Aurelius leading troops into battle against Germania in 180 A.D. But Marcus Aurelius
wants Maximus to fight a tougher opponent.. the corruption of Rome, by taking power
after the emperor's death and restoring Rome to a republic. Maximus is reluctant,
preferring to return to his wife and son, but he agrees to serve his Caesar. But his Caesar
doesn't last too long, thanks to Marcus Aurelius' son Commodus who kills his Dad and
takes the throne and orders Maximus and his family executed. Maximus escapes, only to
be captured by slave traders who train him as a gladiator. Maximus gets a chance at
revenge on Commodus when he goes to Rome
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Maximus as the king, but the king son finds out about it and then kills his father to become
king and kills the generals family. ” The
reason why I like this line from the movie was because every thing that he said was a fact
or was going to become a fact because his family was all dead and now he is going to get
his vengeance on the king by killing him. The gladiator who defied an emperor.
In the beginning of the movie the government system was a Monarchy which means the
city is controlled by the one person usually a King like in the movie, but sometimes by a
dictator like Fidel Castro of Cuba. My favorite line in the movie would have to be “The general who became a slave.
Some of the content that is related to the material in our text books our basically the
government systems that we are studying about and the classifying the classes by for
example social or financial classes are divided up. The class rankings were divided up
by social classes like in the coliseum the classes were seated in different spots in the
coliseum. But at the end of the movie the government system
turned into a Democracy due to the killing of the king. Maximus is
a hit with the crowd, setting him against Commodus in a battle for the hearts and minds of
Rome. Those are my favorite lines in the movie. In the movie there really wasn’t any specific kids if economy except for when
the king said he would collect taxes from the people to sponsor the gladiator event.
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