...In Spartacus, the Romans and their empire are portrayed in a mainly negative way. They are painted as the villians of this story and as the opposers to the film’s hero, Spartacus. Rome and it’s citizens were predominantly represented by the ruthless senators that made it there ultimate goal to stop the progression of Spartacus and his army. However, that does not meant that the empire was without its bright sports within. In the first senate scene, starting at 00:58:02, the shot opens to the camera making a panning sweep over the room filled with senators. It is made clear that the senators are discussing Spartacus, his followers, and how they believe that they need to be “taken care of.” Gracchus takes this opportunity to convince Glabrus,...
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...Everything you need to know about Gladiators A gladiator was a professional fighter who fought in arenas for entertainment. They specialised with weapons and fought in a arena with animals or other human beings. Most of the time a fight ended with a death. All the killing made gladiators have a very short life expectancy. The job of a gladiator was a very popular one. The Romans got the idea of Gladiators from Italy. Italy would organise gladiatorial like games. The Etruscans would make these game contests with fights to the death but it had a certain religious sigificance. The first gladiator contest was to ccommemorate the death of a father. The life of a Gladiator was strict and harsh mainly for new recruits. The new recruits were taken out of slavery or jail or sometimes were even prinsoners of war. They were forced into life as a gladitor and were sentenced to either be Executed or die as a Gladitor. They had no freedom as a gladitor and they had no choice. When a new recruit entered a gladitor school he was looked at by a doctor and the owner of the school. If he was very strong like being able to wear heavy armor or hold a heavy sword he would most likely be put in a different class than people who can only wear light armor. Most people that were forced to go to the school came from different backrounds so they were called Thracians, Gallus, and Samnites. Some became Beast Fighters while other became Net Fighters. Most of the trainers were retired...
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... all great things must come to an end which is exactly what happened to the Senate before it was replaced by Julius Caesar and his followers thereafter. A big trigger which caused the fall of the Senate was the Spartacus Revolt, a massive slave rebellion from 73BCE to 71BCE. The way Slaves or servi were treated obviously varied from owner to owner, but some slaves were inherently treated poorly to say the least. Miners, farmers and all manual labourers were treated in conditions that no human should endure. They would work in all conditions despite clothing that barely protects from any weather, something that the roman Columella pointed out, saying “The foreman should choose the slave’s clothing with an eye to utility rather than fashion… and thus no day is so unbearable that no out-of-doors work can be done”. However, Slaves...
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...Derek Ajamian The different topics in the movie weren’t all accurate. Back then gladiators were supposed to make it believable but no actually kill each other. Also the pointing of a thumb down or up was changed in the movie then it really was. Another difference was some of the men had good bodies and weren’t plump or chubby. I think this movie is very believable. Hollywood added the drama between the crazy emperor and Maximus. Maximus was sold into slavery and back then Gladiators did that too. In the movie they didn’t have gladiators fight privately in other peoples rich homes and in the past they would. They didn’t make it 100% based on historical fact because they want a dramatic storyline that really brings action to an amazing story. They changed the thumbs because since this movie was made in our generation that’s what were used but in the past they would have it the other way. The coliseum’s big and small was exactly the same in the movies and back then in Rome. There was a battle of Carthage that Rome had won in real life and in the movie Maximus and others won that battle. The weapons and training were pretty much the same except there was no net in the movie and in the past they had those. Woman gladiators were in the movie and in past Rome too. They showed gambling in the movie before the battles and in the past they did this too. Fans would get very into these events in the movie and in the past. Lastly the gladiator dress was the same in the early Roman time...
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... In The Jugurthine War, Sallust describes the Roman military leaders that are sent to fight against the Numidian king, Jugurtha, to make a political point about the corruption and immoral nature of the roman elite. Sallust includes speeches made by Adherbal to the roman senate, Gaius Memmius to a plebian crowd and Jugurtha to the roman senate in his work the Jurgurthine war. Sallust intended for his history of the Jurgurthine War for the entire of roman society especially the middle and lower class so as to hear his history of the Jurgurthine war and how it related to current events of the roman society. Sallust was a “supporter of the populares, the anti-senatorial group of politicians among whom Caesar had been since the late sixties one of the most prominent.”pg. 7 He then "was installed by Caesar as proconsul governor of the Province of Africa Novo" p. 7. He then retired from politics after Caesars' death and wrote his Jurgurthine War. In 111 Lucius Calpurnius Bestia was elected consul. He was the first noble to be sent against Jugurtha to try and subdue him. Sallust says about Lucius Calpurnius Bestia "the consul had many good qualities of mind and body, but they were all rendered useless by his avarice” pg. 64. Sallust means by this that Lucius Calpurnius Bestia was more interested in winning praise for his battle expertise than serving the Roman Republic. Aemilius Scaurus was one of Lucius Calpurnius Bestia‘s lieutenants. Aemilius Scaurus is described...
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...Roman Gladiators Long ago, in the Roman Empire, there were people called gladiators. Gladiators were slaves, criminals, and volunteers who fight each other to the death for entertainment. Roman gladiators were mostly men, sometimes there were female gladiators. They trained very hard to fight in the arena. Roman gladiators trained for arena fights by getting in very good physical shape, learning how to die, and learning how to use weapons. To be able to do anything, Roman gladiators had to be in really good physical shape. How did they get in this amazing shape? The first thing new gladiators did when they got to training camp is go through a inspection to see if they were able to train and fight. Research suggests that gladiator trainers kept their students on a largely vegetarian diet. Also, the first thing the trainers taught their gladiators was how to fight without a weapons to gain muscle in their body. Gladiators even trained with weapons two time as heavy as the real weapon to build up their upper body and core. Gladiators also had to learn how to die bravely. They also, had to learn how to die gracefully and with honor. Showing no fear when dying was a big part in learning how to die. Spectators of this sport fully expected these gladiators to die like hero; offering the cold-blooded murder that would fall upon themselves. During the last moments of their lives, gladiators had to remember their training and die bravely, gracefully, with honor, and without...
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...Spartacus the Free Would you fight a whole army to stand up for what you believe in? The gritty Spartacus sure did. Grit is using perseverance, passion and determination to face life’s difficult challenges. Spartacus was a gladiator born in Thrace; which is modern day Bulgaria and Turkey. Spartacus escaped from his master’s palace in Capua with seventy other slaves. He died fighting for his revolution to free all the slaves in Rome. To begin with, Spartacus used perseverance to overcome challenges. Firstly, Spartacus kept strong even when his allies disagreed with him. For example, Kenneth Czech author of “Spartacus” shares that Spartacus’s second in command constantly wanted to invade villages while Spartacus was focused on evading the Roman army (Czech). Secondly, He outsmarted military leaders. For instance, Czech says that the Romans changed generals four times before defeating Spartacus. Hence, Spartacus was able to kill off multiple armies because of the perseverance of him and his men. Thirdly, Spartacus...
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...themes in a film of a given genre, the actors are faced with numerous and varying demands that requires them to feature in multiple scenarios and faces numerous circumstances. This paper seeks to analyze the acting demands faced by the main actors in the movies: Spartacus and The Year of Living Dangerously. Spartacus is an epic film produced in 1960 by Edward Lewis with Stanley Kubrick as the director. The film was inspired by the heroic struggles of Spartacus a slave leader who led a widespread rebellion against the Romans in the quest for freedom for the slaves (Olivier, 1960). The film was based on Howard Fast’s novel of the same name incorporating events of the third servile war and the life story of Spartacus. The film went on to win four Academy Awards and has been ranked among the most successful film of the 20th century. However, the success of the movie came from the successful fulfillment of the acting demands of Kirk Douglas (Olivier, 1960). Spartacus went against the normal order of the time by waging a rebellion of slaves against the Roman authorities and slaughtering thousands of them. Douglas aimed to create a strong character that was ready to die for what he believed in. From the onset, Spartacus knew very well that...
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...Then more women start to accuse not only Weinstein but also other prominent men. “When multiple harassment claims bring down . . . Matt Lauer, women who thought they had no recourse see a new, wide-open door.” (Zacharek and others). One expiation for they all these women choose now to bring up these claims because there is a safely in numbers. Some of the women making accusation are claiming they stayed silent out of threat of death, for example actress Selma Blair said, “He said if I ever wronged him, he would . . . throw me into the Hudson river”. The women could feel safer speaking out because the Spartacus effect. The Spartacus effect is based off the story of the roman gladiator Spartacus who led a rebellion against Roman. When the Roman’s captured Spartacus and his co-revolutionaries, they ask the men to give up Spartacus, to which the men all started to calm they were Spartacus. They did this so the Romans would...
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...Civil rights is a topic that is always present. Turn on the news and there will be another new story about how a cop killed a black man. Civil rights is an issue that yes many seem to be getting out of hand but it’s something that we need to change in society. Everyone should be treated equally. People are born a certain race and they cannot change that. Just because someone is a certain race people need to respect the person for who they are and not judge them based on their race. There is a Bavarian saying that they live by “Mia San Mia” which stands for we are who we are and they live their lives by that and respect each other. That’s something that is not seen in the United States. Birth of a Nation, Gone with the Wind, Burn!, and Spartacus are a good representation of how America’s view on slavery and the mixing of races changed over time. Birth of a Nation was made in 1915 when segregation was still huge in American society. Burn! was made in 1969 which was right after the Civil Rights Act of 1968 was passed. It’s a big time frame to look at but it gave a good understanding on how viewpoints changed over time. The films Birth of a Nation and Gone with the wind were made 25 years apart and mainly took place during the reconstruction period after the civil war. But they both presented different viewpoints on the issues. The first main theme brought up in Birth of a Nation was the mixing of races. In the opening scene the film African-Americans are coming to America and being...
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...for Confederate veterans established in Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1866 (Ku Klux Klan Britannica). Most of the leaders were former members of the Confederate Army and the first Grand Wizard was Nathan Forrest, an outstanding general during the Civil War (Ku Klux Klan Spartacus). They got the name from the Greek word kyklos, which in English means “circle”; “Klan”...
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...States underwent a generational revolution that influenced many of its cultural facets--in particular, motion pictures. Kubrick's two epics, Spartacus and 2001: A Space Odyssey, frame the beginning and end of this decade and thusly represent it as a time of human progression byway of revolution, sexuality, and violence. Spartacus launched the trajectory of Kubrick's career as well as sparked his creative style, which he then perfected in 2001. Both of these films, the largest productions Kubrick worked on during the 1960s, are therefore exemplary in...
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...free-spirit and in a biography of Stanley Kubrick, a “talented shit” (Baxter) and Hitchcock “The Master of Suspense” and what I gather to be mainly just a sick, obsessive pervert. That all being said, these men faced the new world that was emerging in film. It was the early 1960’s and the Hollywood Studio System collapsed which led to an intense weakening on censorship rules. From fluffy tales of love, suggestive and symbolic vampires, and only whispers and innuendos to appease the audience need for guttural expose, rose the dawn of sex and violence. This concept of weakened censorship paved the way for two very disturbed, very brilliant people to move to the forefront of mainstream cinema. Stanley Kubrick was a targeted to resurrect “Spartacus” at the beginning of his career and it was an instant classic and quite a feat for someone as new as he was. Hitchcock on the other hand was riding on success after success with his films “Vertigo” and “North by “Northwest.” While they had many differences in genre and execution, they were both...
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...he likes to be well treated as some of the competitors had done in the past "Some of your competitors have been very persuasive...Singulus gave the red carpet treatment to Komoda and his team during their last visit to Germany...they helped us start our business in the USA five years ago..." It´s all about the customer relationship. There has to be a clear consolidated customer management. Mr.Kimura wants to be treated like a special client, he needs to trust the partnership with Pramtex and its suppliers regarding the completion and manufacture of its final product, the "Spartacus" He expects not just the sale, there has to be a before and an after. (Good customer service, it's a constant interaction process and not a static one.) Obviously when buying a product it´s important for it to be above the competition, "Spartacus was the turnkey of the Rolls Royce.." Obviously Mr.Kimura praised and saw the Spartacus as a competitive advantage, "Pramtex’s equipment would minimize the learning and start-up curve.." Despite the fact that they sold state of the art solutions that were above what was needed, Mr Kimura was looking for a partner who he could fully trust and not just a simple supplier. This was not accomplished as we could read through reading the case. (lack of professionalism and maintenance, right after the first breakdown) After the sale of their first machines they decreased their attention to Mr.Kimura, attention that was high valued by the client. 2. Who are the key...
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...The Life of Mikhail Gorbachev Abstract Mikhail Gorbachev was a Soviet politician. He was the general secretary of the Communist Party from 1985-1991 and the president of the Soviet Union from 1990-1991. For most of his life he was proponent on communist ideals, who learned these views at an early age from his grandfather. Gorbachev would later understand in order to strengthen the Soviet Union; he would need to democratize the country’s political system. He would see lead the end of Soviet communism and the end of the Soviet Union’s postwar domination of Eastern Europe. Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was born on March 2, 1931 in Privolye, Stavropol kray, Russia. Gorbachev was born of Russian peasant in the Straropol territory (kray). At a vey young age, fifteen, he joined the Komsomol (Young Communist League) and worked on a state farm until his early twenties. He was a very promising member of the Komsomol and entered law school at Moscow State University. During his time at Moscow State he became a member of the Communist Party. In 1955 he graduated with his law degree and held various important post in the Komsomol and regular party organizations in Stavropol, where he became the first secretary of the regional party committee in 1970. (Encyclopedia Britannica, 2012) Mikhail Gorbachev’s ideals were molded at a very young age. Gorbachev’s grandfather, Pantelei Yefimovich Gopkalo, was a devoted member of the Communist Party. In 1937 Gopkalo was arrested by the...
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