Eng Gladiator

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http://subscene.com/u/659433
Improved by: @Ivandrofly

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Sir.

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General.

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Sir.

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Lean and hungry.

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- Still nothing?
- Not a sign.

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- How long has he been gone?
- Nearly two hours.

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Will they fight, sir?

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We shall know soon enough.

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Soldier, I ordered you to
move those catapults forward.

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- They're out of range.
- Range is good.

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- The danger to the cavalry...
- Is acceptable. Agreed?

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They say no.

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People should know when
they're conquered.

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Would you, Quintus?

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Would I?

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- Strength and honor.
- Strength and honor.

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At my signal, unleash hell.

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Load the catapults.

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Infantry form up for advance.

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- Archers ready.
- Archers!

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- Nock!
- Nock!

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<i>Fratres!</i>

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- Maximus!
- Maximus!

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Three weeks from now, I will
be harvesting my crops.

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Imagine where you will
be, and it will be so.

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Hold the line! Stay with me!

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If you find yourself alone,

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riding in green fields
with the sun on your face,

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do not be troubled.

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For you are in Elysium,
and you're already dead!

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Brothers,

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what we do in life

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echoes in eternity.

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Pull!

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Cohorts ready, sir!

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Archers, ignite!

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- Ignite!
- Ignite!

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Archers, draw!

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Loose!

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All right, men, ready!

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Hold the line!

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Loose!

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Reload!

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Hold the line!

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- Draw!
- Loose!

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Stay with me!

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Stay with me!

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<i>Roma Victor!</i>

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Do you think he's really dying?

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He's been dying for 10 years.

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If he weren't really dying,
he wouldn't have sent for us.

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Maybe he just misses us.

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And the senators? He wouldn't
have summoned them if...

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Peace, Commodus.

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After two weeks on the road,

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your incessant scheming
is hurting my head.

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He's made his decision.
He's going to announce it.

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He will name me.

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The first thing I
shall do when...

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Is honor him with games
worthy of His Majesty.

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For now, the first thing I
shall do is have a hot bath.

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Your Highness?

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We seem to be almost there, sir.

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- Sire.
- Where's the Emperor?

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He's at the front, sire.
They've been gone for 19 days.

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The wounded are still coming in.

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My horse.

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My lord.

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Kiss?

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You have proved your valor
yet again, Maximus.

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Let us hope, for the last time.

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There's no one left
to fight, sire.

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There is always someone
left to fight.

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How can I reward Rome's
greatest general?

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Let me go home.

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Ah!

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Home.

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They honor you, Caesar.

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It's for you, Maximus.
They honor you.

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Have I missed it? Have
I missed the battle?

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You have missed the war.

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Father, congratulations.

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I shall sacrifice 100 bulls
to honor your triumph.

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Save the bulls.

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Honor Maximus. He
won the battle.

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- General.
- Highness.

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Rome salutes you, and I
embrace you as a brother.

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It has been too long,
my old friend.

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Highness.

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Here, Father. Take my arm.

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I think it is time
for me to leave.

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So much for the glory of Rome.

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Magnificent battle.

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General. Still alive?

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Still alive.

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The gods must have
a sense of humor.

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- The gods must love you.
- Valerius.

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Back to barracks, General?
Or to Rome?

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Home. My wife, my
son, the harvest.

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Maximus the farmer. I still
have difficulty imagining that.

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You know, dirt cleans off a lot
easier than blood, Quintus.

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- Here he is.
- Highness.

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Senator Gaius, Senator Falco.

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Beware of Gaius. He'll pour a
honeyed potion in your ear,

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and you'll wake up one day and all you'll
say is, "Republic, republic, republic."

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Well, why not? Rome was
founded as a republic.

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Yes, and in a republic the
senate has the power.

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But Senator Gaius isn't
influenced by that, of course.

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Where do you stand, General?
Emperor or Senate?

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A soldier has the advantage

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of being able to look his
enemy in the eye, Senator.

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Well, with an army behind you, you
could be extremely political.

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I warned you. Now I shall save you.
Senators.

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Maximus.

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I'm going to need
good men like you.

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How may I be of
service, Highness?

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You're a man who knows
what it is to command.

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You give your orders, the orders
are obeyed, and the battle is won.

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But these senators scheme,
squabble and flatter and deceive.

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Maximus, we must save Rome from
the politicians, my friend.

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Can I count on you
when the time comes?

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Highness, when your father releases
me, I intend to return home.

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Home? Well, no one's
earned it more.

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Don't get too comfortable. I
may call on you before long.

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Lucilia's here. Did you know?

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She's not forgotten you.

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And now, you're the great man.

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If only you had been born a man,

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what a Caesar you
would have made.

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Father.

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You would have been strong.

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I wonder, would you
have been just?

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I would have been what
you taught me to be.

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How was your journey?

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Long. Uncomfortable.
Why have I come?

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I need your help.
With your brother.

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Of course.

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He loves you. He always has.

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And

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he will need you
now, more than ever.

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Enough of politics.

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Let us pretend that you
are a loving daughter,

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and I am a good father.

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This is a pleasant
fiction, isn't it?

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Good morning to you.

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I need three more horses.

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One! Two! Three!

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Four!

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One! Two!

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You sent for me, Caesar?

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- Caesar?
- Tell me again, Maximus.

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Why are we here?

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For the glory of
the empire, sire.

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Yes.

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Yes, I remember.

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Do you see that map, Maximus?

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That is the world
which I created.

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For 25 years,

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I have conquered, spilt
blood, expanded the empire.

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Since I became Caesar, I've
known four years without war.

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Four years of peace in 20.

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And for what?

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I brought the sword.
Nothing more.

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Caesar, your life...

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Please. Please don't
call me that.

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Come. Please.

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Come sit.

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Let us talk together now,

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very simply, as men.

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Well, Maximus,

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talk.

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Five thousand of my men are out
there in the freezing mud.

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Three thousand of them are
bloodied and cleaved.

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Two thousand will never
leave this place.

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I will not believe that they
fought and died for nothing.

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And what would you believe?

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They fought for
you and for Rome.

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And what is Rome, Maximus?

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I've seen much of the
rest of the world.

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It is brutal and cruel and dark.
Rome is the light.

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Yet you have never been there.

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You have not seen
what it has become.

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I am dying, Maximus.

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When a man sees his end,

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he wants to know there was
some purpose to his life.

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How will the world speak
my name in years to come?

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Will I be known as
the philosopher?

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The warrior?

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The tyrant?

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Or will I be the Emperor who
gave Rome back her true self?

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There was once a
dream that was Rome.

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You could only whisper it.

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Anything more than a whisper
and it would vanish,

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it was so fragile.

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And I fear that it will
not survive the winter.

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Maximus,

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let us whisper now,

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together, you and I.

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You have a son.

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Tell me about your home.

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My house is in the
hills above Trujillo.

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A very simple place.

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Pink stones that
warm in the sun.

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A kitchen garden that
smells of herbs in the day,

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Jasmine in the evening.

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Through the gate
is a giant poplar.

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Figs, apples, pears.

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The soil, Marcus, black.
Black like my wife's hair.

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Grapes on the south slopes,
olives on the north.

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Wild ponies play near my house.
They tease my son.

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He wants to be one of them.

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When was the last
time you were home?

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Two years, 264 days
and this morning.

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I envy you, Maximus.
It's a good home.

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Worth fighting for.

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There is one more duty

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that I ask of you
before you go home.

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What would you have
me do, Caesar?

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I want you to become the
protector of Rome after I die.

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I will empower you
to one end alone,

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to give power back to
the people of Rome,

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and end the corruption
that has crippled it.

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Will you accept this great
honor that I have offered you?

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With all my heart, no.

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Maximus,

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that is why it must be you.

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But surely a prefect, a senator,

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somebody who knows the city,
who understands her politics.

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But you have not been
corrupted by her politics.

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- And Commodus?
- Commodus is not a moral man.

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You have known that
since you were young.

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Commodus cannot rule.

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He must not rule.

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You are the son that
I should have had.

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Commodus will
accept my decision.

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He knows that you command
the loyalty of the army.

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I need some time, sire.

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Yes.

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By sunset, I hope you
will have agreed.

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Now embrace me as my son.

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And bring an old man
another blanket.

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- My father favors you now.
- My lady.

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- It was not always so.
- Many things change.

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Many things. Not everything.

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Maximus, stop.

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Let me see your face.

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- You seem upset.
- I lost many men.

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What did my father
want with you?

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To wish me well before
I leave for home.

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You're lying.

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I could always tell when you were lying,
because you were never any good at it.

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I never acquired your
comfort with it.

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True.

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But then you never had to.

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Life is more simple
for a soldier.

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Or do you think me heartless?

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I think you have a
talent for survival.

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00:30:26,742 --> 00:30:28,284
Maximus, stop.

278
00:30:30,579 --> 00:30:33,372
Is it really so terrible
seeing me again?

279
00:30:33,457 --> 00:30:35,958
No. I'm tired from battle.

280
00:30:36,585 --> 00:30:39,378
It hurts you to see
my father so fragile.

281
00:30:42,507 --> 00:30:46,927
Commodus expects that my father will
announce his succession within days.

282
00:30:48,096 --> 00:30:51,474
Will you serve my brother
as you served his father?

283
00:30:53,643 --> 00:30:55,811
I will always serve Rome.

284
00:30:57,731 --> 00:30:59,523
Do you know,

285
00:30:59,608 --> 00:31:02,109
I still remember
you in my prayers.

286
00:31:03,153 --> 00:31:06,072
Oh, yes. I pray.

287
00:31:10,619 --> 00:31:13,954
I was sad to hear of your husband's death.
I mourned him.

288
00:31:15,832 --> 00:31:18,667
- Thank you.
- And I hear you have a son.

289
00:31:20,337 --> 00:31:22,755
Yes. Lucius.

290
00:31:24,549 --> 00:31:26,342
He'll be nearly eight years old.

291
00:31:26,426 --> 00:31:28,677
My son is also nearly eight.

292
00:31:31,473 --> 00:31:33,641
I thank you for your prayers.

293
00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:43,943
Ancestors, I ask
for your guidance.

294
00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:48,823
Blessed Mother, come to me with
the gods' desire for my future.

295
00:31:50,450 --> 00:31:54,245
Blessed Father, watch over my
wife and son with a ready sword.

296
00:31:55,455 --> 00:31:58,332
Whisper to them, I live
only to hold them again.

297
00:31:59,459 --> 00:32:01,669
<i>Ancestors, I honor you,</i>

298
00:32:02,838 --> 00:32:06,132
and will try to live with the
dignity you have taught me.

299
00:32:29,030 --> 00:32:30,239
Cicero.

300
00:32:34,828 --> 00:32:35,953
Sir.

301
00:32:40,417 --> 00:32:42,960
Do you ever find it
hard to do your duty?

302
00:32:45,714 --> 00:32:48,257
Sometimes I do
what I want to do.

303
00:32:49,009 --> 00:32:51,552
The rest of the time,
I do what I have to.

304
00:32:54,556 --> 00:32:57,433
We may not be able to
go home, after all.

305
00:33:48,568 --> 00:33:51,362
Are you ready to do
your duty for Rome?

306
00:33:54,533 --> 00:33:55,950
Yes, Father.

307
00:33:57,035 --> 00:33:59,119
You will not be emperor.

308
00:34:02,457 --> 00:34:04,792
Which wiser, older man
is to take my place?

309
00:34:04,876 --> 00:34:07,419
My powers will pass to Maximus,

310
00:34:08,630 --> 00:34:10,381
to hold in trust,

311
00:34:10,465 --> 00:34:14,176
until the Senate is ready
to rule once more.

312
00:34:15,762 --> 00:34:19,181
Rome is to be a republic again.

313
00:34:21,142 --> 00:34:23,727
- Maximus.
- Yes.

314
00:34:29,818 --> 00:34:32,069
My decision disappoints you?

315
00:34:35,615 --> 00:34:37,658
You wrote to me once,

316
00:34:39,536 --> 00:34:41,954
listing the four chief virtues.

317
00:34:43,707 --> 00:34:45,082
Wisdom,

318
00:34:45,166 --> 00:34:46,625
Justice,

319
00:34:46,710 --> 00:34:48,168
fortitude,

320
00:34:48,587 --> 00:34:50,379
and Temperance.

321
00:34:52,507 --> 00:34:55,676
As I read the list, I
knew I had none of them.

322
00:34:56,636 --> 00:34:59,096
But I have other
virtues, Father.

323
00:35:00,307 --> 00:35:01,640
Ambition.

324
00:35:02,851 --> 00:35:05,853
That can be a virtue when
it drives us to excel.

325
00:35:07,188 --> 00:35:10,274
Resourcefulness, courage.

326
00:35:11,359 --> 00:35:15,654
Perhaps not on the battlefield, but
there are many forms of courage.

327
00:35:17,282 --> 00:35:20,534
Devotion to my family,

328
00:35:21,661 --> 00:35:23,037
to you.

329
00:35:24,539 --> 00:35:27,333
But none of my virtues
were on your list.

330
00:35:29,586 --> 00:35:32,921
Even then it was as if you
didn't want me for your son.

331
00:35:33,006 --> 00:35:34,381
Commodus,

332
00:35:35,258 --> 00:35:36,925
you go too far.

333
00:35:37,719 --> 00:35:40,721
I searched the faces of the gods

334
00:35:41,473 --> 00:35:45,851
for ways to please you,
to make you proud.

335
00:35:46,728 --> 00:35:48,729
One kind word,

336
00:35:49,147 --> 00:35:51,065
one full hug,

337
00:35:51,232 --> 00:35:54,902
where you pressed me to your
chest and held me tight,

338
00:35:56,071 --> 00:35:59,573
would have been like the sun
on my heart for 1,000 years.

339
00:36:02,243 --> 00:36:04,036
What is it in me
you hate so much?

340
00:36:04,120 --> 00:36:06,121
Shh... Commodus.

341
00:36:07,207 --> 00:36:09,291
All I've ever wanted

342
00:36:09,584 --> 00:36:13,837
was to live up to you, Caesar.

343
00:36:15,090 --> 00:36:17,758
- Father.
- Commodus,

344
00:36:22,180 --> 00:36:24,264
your faults as a son

345
00:36:25,266 --> 00:36:28,602
is my failure as a father.

346
00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:40,781
Come.

347
00:36:44,327 --> 00:36:45,786
Father.

348
00:37:00,719 --> 00:37:03,429
I would butcher the whole world,

349
00:37:04,305 --> 00:37:06,807
if you would only have loved me!

351
00:37:44,471 --> 00:37:47,556
Maximus, the Emperor needs you.
It's urgent.

352
00:37:53,021 --> 00:37:54,855
Lament with me, brother.

353
00:37:55,940 --> 00:37:57,900
Our great father is dead.

354
00:38:24,636 --> 00:38:26,220
How did he die?

355
00:38:27,514 --> 00:38:30,182
The surgeons say
there was no pain.

356
00:38:30,266 --> 00:38:32,392
His breath gave out as he slept.

357
00:38:42,153 --> 00:38:43,403
Father.

358
00:38:46,074 --> 00:38:48,742
Your emperor asks for
your loyalty, Maximus.

359
00:38:50,078 --> 00:38:51,703
Take my hand.

360
00:38:54,415 --> 00:38:56,250
I only offer it once.

361
00:39:10,431 --> 00:39:11,765
Quintus.

362
00:40:01,983 --> 00:40:03,483
Hail, Caesar.

363
00:40:04,444 --> 00:40:07,070
I must talk to the senators.
I need their counsel.

364
00:40:07,155 --> 00:40:09,740
- Wake Gaius and Falco.
- Gaius and Falco.

365
00:40:09,824 --> 00:40:12,034
- Sword.
- Sword.

366
00:40:14,537 --> 00:40:17,456
Maximus, please be careful.
That was not prudent.

367
00:40:17,540 --> 00:40:20,334
Prudent? The Emperor
has been slain.

368
00:40:20,793 --> 00:40:23,295
The emperor died
of natural causes.

369
00:40:25,048 --> 00:40:27,299
- Why are you armed, Quintus?
- Guards!

370
00:40:30,511 --> 00:40:32,679
Please don't fight, Maximus.

371
00:40:34,432 --> 00:40:36,725
I'm sorry. Caesar has spoken.

372
00:40:37,185 --> 00:40:38,977
Ride until dawn,

373
00:40:40,188 --> 00:40:41,772
and then execute him.

374
00:40:41,856 --> 00:40:44,274
Quintus, look at me. Look at me!

375
00:40:44,525 --> 00:40:47,444
Promise me that you will
look after my family.

376
00:40:48,529 --> 00:40:51,198
Your family will meet
you in the afterlife.

377
00:41:16,057 --> 00:41:17,307
Kneel.

378
00:41:20,853 --> 00:41:23,230
<i>Blessed Father, watch
over my wife and son.</i>

379
00:41:23,314 --> 00:41:26,400
<i>Whisper to them that I live
only to hold them again.</i>

380
00:41:29,028 --> 00:41:31,405
At least give me a clean death.

381
00:41:33,116 --> 00:41:34,908
A soldier's death.

382
00:41:56,222 --> 00:41:59,391
The frost, sometimes it
makes the blade stick.

383
00:42:20,038 --> 00:42:21,455
Praetorian!

384
00:43:41,202 --> 00:43:43,120
<i>When was the last
time you were home?</i>

385
00:43:43,204 --> 00:43:46,206
<i>Two years, 264 days
and this morning.</i>

386
00:43:47,792 --> 00:43:49,626
<i>Blessed Father, watch over my
wife and son with a ready sword.</i>

387
00:43:49,710 --> 00:43:52,087
<i>I will try to live with the
dignity you have taught me.</i>

388
00:43:52,171 --> 00:43:54,631
<i>Whisper to them, I live
only to hold them again.</i>

389
00:43:54,715 --> 00:43:57,134
<i>With a ready sword, for
all else is dust and air.</i>

390
00:43:57,218 --> 00:44:00,387
<i>Whisper to them, I live
only to hold them again.</i>

391
00:44:00,471 --> 00:44:02,764
<i>For all else is dust and air.</i>

393
00:45:03,034 --> 00:45:05,035
Papa!

398
00:47:49,116 --> 00:47:50,617
Don't die.

400
00:47:56,916 --> 00:47:58,583
<i>You'll meet them again.</i>

401
00:48:00,628 --> 00:48:01,920
<i>Not yet.</i>

403
00:48:10,471 --> 00:48:14,224
No. They will clean it.
Wait and see.

405
00:48:48,634 --> 00:48:50,009
Don't die.

406
00:48:50,803 --> 00:48:53,221
They'll feed you to the lions.

407
00:48:53,305 --> 00:48:55,598
They are worth more than we are.

408
00:49:05,609 --> 00:49:07,068
Better now?

409
00:49:08,195 --> 00:49:10,071
Clean. You see?

410
00:49:40,811 --> 00:49:43,646
Proximo! My old friend.

411
00:49:45,024 --> 00:49:48,109
Every day is a great
day when you are here,

412
00:49:48,569 --> 00:49:52,739
but today is your
most fortunate day.

413
00:49:55,367 --> 00:49:59,078
Those giraffes you sold
me, they won't mate.

414
00:49:59,705 --> 00:50:03,625
They just walk around
eating and not mating.

415
00:50:04,919 --> 00:50:07,837
You sold me queer giraffes.

416
00:50:08,714 --> 00:50:11,257
- I want my money back.
- Not a chance.

418
00:50:15,012 --> 00:50:17,847
- I do special price for you.
- On what?

419
00:50:19,934 --> 00:50:22,852
Have you seen my new stock?
Come and see them.

420
00:50:36,784 --> 00:50:39,577
Do any of them fight? I've
got a match coming up.

421
00:50:39,662 --> 00:50:42,455
Some are good for fighting,
others for dying.

422
00:50:42,540 --> 00:50:44,874
You need both, I think.

423
00:50:44,959 --> 00:50:46,167
Get up.

424
00:50:54,134 --> 00:50:55,802
What's your trade?

425
00:50:56,470 --> 00:50:57,762
I was a Hunter.

426
00:50:57,846 --> 00:51:01,558
No, I bought him from a
salt mine in Carthage.

427
00:51:02,351 --> 00:51:03,726
Sit down.

428
00:51:07,856 --> 00:51:10,024
Mark of the legion.

429
00:51:10,109 --> 00:51:11,067
Deserter.

430
00:51:11,151 --> 00:51:12,860
Maybe so, but who cares?

431
00:51:13,320 --> 00:51:14,445
He's a Spaniard.

432
00:51:14,530 --> 00:51:16,489
I'll take six. For 1,000.

433
00:51:16,574 --> 00:51:20,076
1,000? The Numidian
alone is worth 2,000.

434
00:51:20,160 --> 00:51:22,245
These slaves are rotten.

435
00:51:22,329 --> 00:51:25,498
It all adds to the flavor.
No, no, no, wait! Wait!

436
00:51:26,000 --> 00:51:27,709
I can negotiate.

437
00:51:28,836 --> 00:51:33,006
I'll give you 2,000, and
4,000 for the beasts.

438
00:51:33,090 --> 00:51:35,216
That's 5,000 for an old friend.

439
00:51:52,860 --> 00:51:56,279
Come on! How long does it take
to get into my own house?

440
00:51:56,363 --> 00:51:58,281
I am Proximo.

441
00:51:58,991 --> 00:52:01,534
I shall be closer to you
for the next few days,

442
00:52:01,619 --> 00:52:03,828
which will be the last
of your miserable lives,

443
00:52:03,912 --> 00:52:08,249
than that bitch of a mother that
brought you screaming into this world.

444
00:52:08,542 --> 00:52:11,878
I did not pay good money
for you for your company.

445
00:52:13,088 --> 00:52:16,299
I paid it so that I could
profit from your death.

446
00:52:17,051 --> 00:52:20,803
And as your mother was
there at your beginning,

447
00:52:21,805 --> 00:52:24,390
so I shall be there at your end.

448
00:52:25,893 --> 00:52:28,936
And when you die,
and die you shall,

449
00:52:29,855 --> 00:52:32,774
your transition shall
be to the sound of...

451
00:52:37,488 --> 00:52:38,946
Gladiators,

452
00:52:40,074 --> 00:52:41,616
I salute you.

453
00:52:46,372 --> 00:52:47,413
Red.

454
00:52:51,085 --> 00:52:54,837
Yellow.

456
00:53:05,557 --> 00:53:06,683
Good.

457
00:53:07,476 --> 00:53:08,851
- Red.
- Red.

458
00:53:13,774 --> 00:53:15,066
Spaniard.

460
00:53:48,434 --> 00:53:50,768
That's enough for the moment!

461
00:53:51,103 --> 00:53:52,729
His time will come.

462
00:53:55,774 --> 00:53:56,816
Next.

463
00:54:10,164 --> 00:54:11,497
Spaniard,

464
00:54:13,000 --> 00:54:14,792
why don't you fight?

465
00:54:15,169 --> 00:54:16,627
We all have to fight.

466
00:54:16,712 --> 00:54:18,421
Well, I don't fight.

467
00:54:19,089 --> 00:54:22,300
I shouldn't be here, I'm a
scribe, I write down words,

468
00:54:22,384 --> 00:54:24,260
and speak seven languages.

469
00:54:24,344 --> 00:54:25,386
Good.

470
00:54:26,346 --> 00:54:29,348
Tomorrow, you can scream
in seven languages.

472
00:54:37,649 --> 00:54:40,985
Perhaps the scribe will be the
one who wins his freedom.

473
00:54:41,987 --> 00:54:43,279
Freedom?

474
00:54:44,364 --> 00:54:46,199
What do I have to do?

475
00:54:46,617 --> 00:54:48,910
You go in the arena
and you kill me.

476
00:54:48,994 --> 00:54:50,369
And him,

477
00:54:51,371 --> 00:54:53,080
and the Numidian,

478
00:54:53,165 --> 00:54:54,749
and the deserter.

479
00:54:56,376 --> 00:54:57,794
And 100 more.

480
00:54:57,878 --> 00:55:00,713
And when there's no more
to fight, you're free.

481
00:55:01,381 --> 00:55:03,132
I can't do that.

482
00:55:04,176 --> 00:55:05,384
No?

483
00:55:11,642 --> 00:55:13,059
But I can.

484
00:55:28,575 --> 00:55:30,785
Is that the sign of your gods?

485
00:55:35,999 --> 00:55:38,084
Will that not anger them?

487
00:55:59,398 --> 00:56:01,065
The gods favor you.

488
00:56:01,441 --> 00:56:03,609
Red is the gods' color.

489
00:56:04,987 --> 00:56:07,154
You will need their help today.

491
00:56:46,528 --> 00:56:48,154
Proximo!

492
00:56:53,493 --> 00:56:55,661
Still leading with the German?

493
00:56:55,746 --> 00:56:57,830
The crowd love a barbarian.

494
00:56:58,290 --> 00:57:00,207
Besides that, he's
making me rich.

495
00:57:00,292 --> 00:57:02,919
Has that Numidian fought before?

496
00:57:03,754 --> 00:57:05,338
No, first time.

497
00:57:05,422 --> 00:57:08,382
And that one, laborer, soldier?

498
00:57:08,800 --> 00:57:10,051
He's a Spaniard.

499
00:57:10,135 --> 00:57:13,220
He might as well be a eunuch for
what he brings to the ring.

500
00:57:14,181 --> 00:57:18,392
500 sestertii, the Numidian and
Spaniard team makes it through.

501
00:57:18,477 --> 00:57:22,188
And 1,000, that the Numidian
makes it through alone.

502
00:57:23,690 --> 00:57:26,817
Are you asking me to bet
against my own man?

503
00:57:28,654 --> 00:57:30,154
It's unethical.

504
00:57:30,238 --> 00:57:32,114
What if I make it 2,000?

506
00:57:46,421 --> 00:57:49,465
Some of you are thinking
you won't fight,

507
00:57:50,759 --> 00:57:52,051
some that you can't fight.

508
00:57:53,387 --> 00:57:56,889
They all say that until
they're out there.

509
00:57:59,685 --> 00:58:00,851
Listen.

510
00:58:00,936 --> 00:58:03,854
- Kill! Kill! Kill!
- Kill! Kill! Kill!

511
00:58:10,988 --> 00:58:13,698
Thrust this into
another man's flesh,

512
00:58:14,116 --> 00:58:16,784
and they will applaud
and love you for that.

513
00:58:16,868 --> 00:58:18,285
And you,

514
00:58:20,247 --> 00:58:22,206
you may begin to love them

515
00:58:23,041 --> 00:58:24,458
for that.

516
00:58:28,547 --> 00:58:32,049
Ultimately, we're all dead men.

517
00:58:34,594 --> 00:58:36,887
Sadly, we cannot choose how,

518
00:58:38,140 --> 00:58:40,933
but we can decide how
we meet that end,

519
00:58:41,852 --> 00:58:44,353
in order that we are remembered

520
00:58:46,273 --> 00:58:47,523
as men.

521
00:58:47,607 --> 00:58:48,649
Come on!

523
00:58:51,611 --> 00:58:53,904
On the left, draw your shields!

524
00:58:54,948 --> 00:58:57,324
On the right, draw your swords!

525
00:58:57,617 --> 00:59:00,161
- Kill! Kill! Kill!
- Kill! Kill! Kill!

526
00:59:01,288 --> 00:59:03,706
Pair them up, red with yellow.

527
00:59:08,754 --> 00:59:09,962
Next!

528
00:59:15,844 --> 00:59:16,927
Move!

533
01:02:34,292 --> 01:02:36,377
Usurper!

535
01:02:57,983 --> 01:03:00,693
- Go away!
- You'll never rule us, Commodus!

536
01:03:31,099 --> 01:03:35,811
He enters Rome like a conquering hero.
But what has he conquered?

537
01:03:36,104 --> 01:03:38,522
Give him time, Gracchus.
He's young.

538
01:03:38,606 --> 01:03:40,899
I think he could do very well.

539
01:03:41,234 --> 01:03:43,193
For Rome, or for you?

540
01:03:49,492 --> 01:03:52,578
Go to your mother, Lucius.
It's what she'd like.

541
01:03:59,044 --> 01:04:01,086
- Lucius!
- Mother!

542
01:04:03,381 --> 01:04:04,923
Hail, Caesar.

543
01:04:05,008 --> 01:04:06,508
Senators.

544
01:04:10,138 --> 01:04:13,057
Rome greets her new emperor.

545
01:04:13,141 --> 01:04:16,685
Your loyal subjects bid
you welcome, Highness.

546
01:04:16,770 --> 01:04:18,604
Thank you, Falco.

547
01:04:18,688 --> 01:04:22,775
And for the loyal subjects, I
trust they weren't too expensive.

548
01:04:22,859 --> 01:04:24,860
- Caesar.
- Gracchus.

549
01:04:24,944 --> 01:04:27,446
All Rome rejoices in
your return, Caesar.

550
01:04:27,530 --> 01:04:31,033
But there are many matters
that require your attention.

551
01:04:33,495 --> 01:04:36,372
To order, please. To order.

552
01:04:36,831 --> 01:04:38,624
For your guidance, Caesar,

553
01:04:38,708 --> 01:04:41,502
the Senate has prepared
a series of protocols

554
01:04:41,586 --> 01:04:44,671
to begin addressing the
many problems in the city,

555
01:04:44,756 --> 01:04:48,842
beginning with basic sanitation
for the Greek Quarter,

556
01:04:49,344 --> 01:04:52,971
to combat the plague which is
already springing up there.

557
01:04:53,056 --> 01:04:54,098
So, if Caesar...

559
01:04:56,976 --> 01:04:58,894
Don't you see, Gracchus?

560
01:05:00,313 --> 01:05:02,606
That's the very
problem, isn't it?

561
01:05:03,024 --> 01:05:05,692
My father spent all
his time at study,

562
01:05:07,445 --> 01:05:10,823
at books of learning
and philosophy.

563
01:05:11,825 --> 01:05:15,327
He spent his twilight hours
reading scrolls from the Senate.

564
01:05:16,287 --> 01:05:19,498
And all the while, the
people were forgotten.

565
01:05:20,125 --> 01:05:22,292
But the senate is
the people, sire,

566
01:05:22,377 --> 01:05:25,921
chosen from among the people
to speak for the people.

567
01:05:26,631 --> 01:05:30,217
I doubt many of the people eat
so well as you do, Gracchus.

568
01:05:30,969 --> 01:05:33,429
Or have such splendid
mistresses, Gaius.

569
01:05:33,513 --> 01:05:35,597
I think I understand
my own people.

570
01:05:35,682 --> 01:05:39,184
Then perhaps Caesar will
be so good as to teach us,

571
01:05:39,602 --> 01:05:42,229
out of his own
extensive experience.

573
01:05:46,109 --> 01:05:47,651
I call it love.

574
01:05:48,236 --> 01:05:51,363
I am their father. The
people are my children.

575
01:05:51,656 --> 01:05:54,158
And I shall hold them to my
bosom and embrace them tightly.

576
01:05:54,242 --> 01:05:57,703
Have you ever embraced someone
dying of plague, sire?

577
01:06:04,002 --> 01:06:06,628
No, but if you
interrupt me again,

578
01:06:08,131 --> 01:06:09,465
I assure you that you shall.

579
01:06:09,549 --> 01:06:11,884
Senator, my brother
is very tired.

580
01:06:12,886 --> 01:06:17,055
Leave your list with me. Caesar
shall do all that Rome requires.

581
01:06:17,640 --> 01:06:22,561
My lady, as always, your lightest
touch commands obedience.

582
01:06:29,694 --> 01:06:31,945
Who are they to lecture me?

583
01:06:32,238 --> 01:06:34,781
Commodus, the Senate
has its uses.

584
01:06:34,866 --> 01:06:37,743
What uses? All they do is talk.

585
01:06:38,953 --> 01:06:43,499
It should be just you
and me and Rome.

586
01:06:43,583 --> 01:06:46,919
Don't even think it. There's
always been a Senate.

587
01:06:47,420 --> 01:06:49,087
Rome has changed.

588
01:06:49,172 --> 01:06:52,216
It takes an emperor
to rule an empire.

589
01:06:52,550 --> 01:06:54,593
Of course, but leave
the people their...

590
01:06:54,677 --> 01:06:56,053
illusions?

591
01:06:57,680 --> 01:06:59,097
Traditions.

592
01:06:59,974 --> 01:07:02,768
My father's war against
the barbarians.

593
01:07:03,353 --> 01:07:07,022
He said it himself, it achieved nothing.
But the people loved him.

594
01:07:07,106 --> 01:07:08,982
The people always
love victories.

595
01:07:09,067 --> 01:07:12,736
Why? They didn't
see the battles.

596
01:07:14,072 --> 01:07:16,031
What do they care
about Germania?

597
01:07:16,115 --> 01:07:18,450
They care about the
greatness of Rome.

598
01:07:18,535 --> 01:07:20,452
"The greatness of Rome."

599
01:07:22,413 --> 01:07:24,206
Well, what is that?

600
01:07:26,918 --> 01:07:30,128
It's an idea. Greatness.

601
01:07:33,883 --> 01:07:37,302
- Greatness is a vision.
- Exactly. A vision.

602
01:07:39,430 --> 01:07:41,348
Do you not see, Lucilia?

603
01:07:42,725 --> 01:07:46,687
I will give the people a vision of
Rome, and they'll love me for it.

604
01:07:47,313 --> 01:07:51,733
And they'll soon forget the tedious
sermonizing of a few dry old men.

605
01:08:03,121 --> 01:08:06,456
I will give the people the
greatest vision of their lives.

607
01:08:57,675 --> 01:09:00,594
White and red wine for
your drinking pleasure!

608
01:09:08,895 --> 01:09:10,062
Games.

609
01:09:12,357 --> 01:09:15,400
One hundred and fifty
days of games.

610
01:09:15,902 --> 01:09:17,444
He's cleverer than I thought.

611
01:09:17,528 --> 01:09:21,073
Clever. The whole of Rome
would be laughing at him,

612
01:09:21,908 --> 01:09:24,159
if they weren't so afraid
of his Praetorians.

613
01:09:24,243 --> 01:09:27,037
Fear and wonder. A
powerful combination.

614
01:09:28,456 --> 01:09:31,583
You really think the people are
going to be seduced by that?

615
01:09:31,668 --> 01:09:34,753
I think he knows what Rome is.
Rome is the mob.

616
01:09:35,421 --> 01:09:38,590
Conjure magic for them, and
they'll be distracted.

617
01:09:39,175 --> 01:09:42,427
Take away their freedom,
and still they'll roar.

618
01:09:42,970 --> 01:09:47,349
The beating heart of Rome is
not the marble of the Senate.

619
01:09:47,433 --> 01:09:49,434
It's the sand of the Colosseum.

620
01:09:51,437 --> 01:09:53,480
He'll bring them death,

621
01:09:55,233 --> 01:09:57,609
and they will love him for it.

623
01:10:20,299 --> 01:10:22,384
All you do is kill, kill, kill.

624
01:10:22,468 --> 01:10:24,886
The crowd don't want a
butcher, they want a hero.

625
01:10:24,971 --> 01:10:27,013
We want them to
keep coming back.

626
01:10:27,098 --> 01:10:31,268
So don't just hack them to pieces,
remember you are an entertainer.

627
01:10:33,855 --> 01:10:35,230
Spaniard.

628
01:10:43,030 --> 01:10:44,573
So entertain!

631
01:11:49,680 --> 01:11:53,809
Are you not entertained?
Are you not entertained?

632
01:11:56,103 --> 01:11:58,355
Is this not why you're here?

633
01:12:02,985 --> 01:12:05,987
Spaniard! Spaniard! Spaniard!

634
01:12:06,572 --> 01:12:10,450
- Spaniard! Spaniard! Spaniard!
- Spaniard! Spaniard! Spaniard!

635
01:12:23,256 --> 01:12:25,006
What do you want?

636
01:12:27,552 --> 01:12:28,718
Girl?

637
01:12:29,762 --> 01:12:30,929
Boy?

638
01:12:31,848 --> 01:12:34,099
- You sent for me.
- Yes, I did.

639
01:12:35,184 --> 01:12:38,270
You're good, Spaniard, but
you're not that good.

640
01:12:38,354 --> 01:12:39,521
You could be magnificent.

641
01:12:39,605 --> 01:12:43,108
I'm required to kill, so I kill.
That is enough.

642
01:12:43,943 --> 01:12:47,028
That's enough for the
provinces, but not for Rome.

643
01:12:50,408 --> 01:12:54,327
The young emperor has arranged
a series of spectacles

644
01:12:54,412 --> 01:12:58,582
to commemorate his
father, Marcus Aurelius.

645
01:12:59,125 --> 01:13:01,084
I find that amusing,

646
01:13:01,419 --> 01:13:04,504
since it was Marcus
Aurelius, the wise,

647
01:13:04,589 --> 01:13:08,049
the all-knowing Marcus
Aurelius, that closed us down.

648
01:13:11,053 --> 01:13:15,181
So finally, after five years
of scratching a living

649
01:13:15,266 --> 01:13:17,475
in flea-infested villages,

650
01:13:17,560 --> 01:13:20,604
we're finally going back
to where we belong.

651
01:13:21,314 --> 01:13:22,898
The Colosseum.

653
01:13:25,151 --> 01:13:27,944
You should see the
Colosseum, Spaniard.

654
01:13:29,280 --> 01:13:31,323
Fifty thousand Romans,

655
01:13:32,283 --> 01:13:36,119
watching every movement
of your sword,

656
01:13:37,538 --> 01:13:40,040
willing you to make
that killer blow.

657
01:13:41,208 --> 01:13:44,836
The silence before you strike
and the noise afterwards.

658
01:13:45,838 --> 01:13:49,466
It rises. It rises up,

659
01:13:50,676 --> 01:13:52,302
like a storm.

660
01:13:53,095 --> 01:13:55,764
As if you were the
thunder god himself.

661
01:13:55,848 --> 01:13:58,808
- You were a gladiator?
- Yes, I was.

662
01:14:05,232 --> 01:14:07,442
You won your freedom?

663
01:14:07,526 --> 01:14:09,861
A long time ago, the Emperor

664
01:14:11,530 --> 01:14:13,615
presented me with a rudius.

665
01:14:13,699 --> 01:14:16,409
It's just a wooden sword.

666
01:14:18,120 --> 01:14:20,372
The symbol of your freedom.

667
01:14:22,541 --> 01:14:25,543
He touched me on the
shoulder, and I was free.

669
01:14:26,921 --> 01:14:29,339
You knew Marcus Aurelius?

670
01:14:29,423 --> 01:14:33,677
I did not say I knew him. I said he
touched me on the shoulder once.

671
01:14:34,303 --> 01:14:36,388
You asked me what I want.

672
01:14:37,723 --> 01:14:40,684
I, too, want to stand in
front of the Emperor,

673
01:14:41,936 --> 01:14:43,353
as you did.

674
01:14:43,437 --> 01:14:46,856
Then listen to me.
Learn from me.

675
01:14:47,733 --> 01:14:50,777
I wasn't the best because
I killed quickly.

676
01:14:51,988 --> 01:14:54,656
I was the best because
the crowd loved me.

677
01:14:55,741 --> 01:14:59,077
Win the crowd, and
you'll win your freedom.

678
01:15:03,541 --> 01:15:05,417
I will win the crowd.

679
01:15:07,628 --> 01:15:11,089
I will give them something
they've never seen before.

680
01:15:12,091 --> 01:15:15,093
So, Spaniard, we shall
go to Rome together

681
01:15:15,761 --> 01:15:17,595
and have bloody adventures.

682
01:15:17,680 --> 01:15:19,472
And the great whore
will suckle us

683
01:15:19,557 --> 01:15:22,142
until we are fat and happy
and can suckle no more.

684
01:15:22,226 --> 01:15:23,685
And then,

685
01:15:24,770 --> 01:15:26,938
when enough men have died,

686
01:15:29,108 --> 01:15:31,568
perhaps you will
have your freedom.

687
01:15:35,990 --> 01:15:38,324
Here. Use this.

688
01:16:02,058 --> 01:16:05,226
It's somewhere out
there, my country.

689
01:16:06,312 --> 01:16:07,645
My home.

690
01:16:08,814 --> 01:16:10,982
My wife is preparing food.

691
01:16:11,942 --> 01:16:14,652
My daughters carry
water from the river.

692
01:16:15,988 --> 01:16:18,031
Will I ever see them again?

693
01:16:19,325 --> 01:16:20,825
I think, no.

694
01:16:21,118 --> 01:16:23,578
Do you believe you'll see
them again when you die?

695
01:16:23,662 --> 01:16:25,038
I think so.

696
01:16:25,664 --> 01:16:28,750
But then, I will die soon.

697
01:16:30,377 --> 01:16:32,837
They will not die
for many years.

698
01:16:33,631 --> 01:16:35,298
I'll have to wait.

699
01:16:35,382 --> 01:16:37,550
But you would? Wait?

700
01:16:38,177 --> 01:16:39,552
Of course.

701
01:16:41,472 --> 01:16:42,847
You see,

702
01:16:44,016 --> 01:16:47,560
my wife and my son

703
01:16:49,271 --> 01:16:51,439
are already waiting for me.

704
01:16:51,524 --> 01:16:55,193
You'll meet them again.
But not yet.

705
01:16:59,240 --> 01:17:00,615
Not yet.

706
01:17:02,201 --> 01:17:03,910
- Unless...
- Not yet.

707
01:17:07,915 --> 01:17:09,207
Not yet.

709
01:17:22,096 --> 01:17:23,638
There he is.

711
01:18:12,771 --> 01:18:13,897
Out.

712
01:18:15,107 --> 01:18:17,025
Move, go, out!

713
01:18:29,747 --> 01:18:32,248
Good to see you
again, old friend.

714
01:18:37,588 --> 01:18:39,297
Bring me fortune.

715
01:18:43,886 --> 01:18:46,763
Have you ever seen
anything like that before?

716
01:18:47,848 --> 01:18:50,433
I didn't know men could
build such things.

717
01:19:00,402 --> 01:19:01,986
Win the crowd.

718
01:19:02,196 --> 01:19:04,530
Get inside. Move.

719
01:19:04,615 --> 01:19:05,907
Inside.

720
01:19:55,124 --> 01:19:57,875
He sleeps so well
because he's loved.

721
01:20:00,796 --> 01:20:02,880
Come, brother. It's late.

722
01:20:06,468 --> 01:20:09,304
I will make Rome the
wonder of the ages.

723
01:20:12,099 --> 01:20:15,435
That is what Gracchus and his
friends don't understand.

724
01:20:15,853 --> 01:20:19,063
All my desires are splitting
my head to pieces.

725
01:20:26,113 --> 01:20:28,865
Commodus, drink this tonic.

726
01:20:38,417 --> 01:20:40,877
I think the time
is almost right.

727
01:20:41,253 --> 01:20:44,172
I could announce the
dissolution of the Senate

728
01:20:44,256 --> 01:20:46,341
at the celebration
to honor our father.

729
01:20:46,425 --> 01:20:48,384
Do you think I should?

730
01:20:49,136 --> 01:20:51,054
Are the people ready?

731
01:20:53,182 --> 01:20:55,558
I think you need your rest now.

732
01:21:01,482 --> 01:21:03,316
Will you stay with me?

733
01:21:03,400 --> 01:21:05,818
Still afraid of the
dark, brother?

734
01:21:12,576 --> 01:21:13,785
Still.

735
01:21:15,621 --> 01:21:16,913
Always.

736
01:21:18,624 --> 01:21:21,501
- Stay with me tonight.
- You know I won't.

737
01:21:25,964 --> 01:21:27,507
Then kiss me.

738
01:21:36,308 --> 01:21:37,850
Sleep, brother.

740
01:22:30,654 --> 01:22:32,780
Having servants who
are deaf and mute

741
01:22:32,865 --> 01:22:35,616
at least ensures I
live a little longer.

742
01:22:37,411 --> 01:22:39,745
They're arresting scholars now.

743
01:22:39,830 --> 01:22:43,666
Anyone who dare speak out. Even
satirists and chroniclers.

744
01:22:44,293 --> 01:22:46,210
And mathematicians.

745
01:22:47,421 --> 01:22:49,547
And all to feed the arena.

746
01:22:51,216 --> 01:22:53,634
The Senate did not
approve martial law.

747
01:22:53,719 --> 01:22:56,554
This reign of terror is
entirely the Praetorians.

748
01:22:57,723 --> 01:22:59,849
I'm afraid to go out after dark.

749
01:22:59,933 --> 01:23:03,478
You should be more afraid of
your activities during the day.

750
01:23:03,562 --> 01:23:08,274
The Senate is full of his spies,
led by that whore master, Falco.

751
01:23:09,610 --> 01:23:14,030
But what is in his mind? That's
what I trouble myself with.

752
01:23:14,823 --> 01:23:17,742
He spends all his days
singularly obsessed,

753
01:23:17,826 --> 01:23:20,661
planning the festival
to honor your father.

754
01:23:20,746 --> 01:23:24,332
He neglects even the most
fundamental task of government.

755
01:23:25,083 --> 01:23:27,293
So just what is he planning?

756
01:23:27,669 --> 01:23:29,295
And what pays for it?

757
01:23:29,379 --> 01:23:33,591
These daily games are costing a
fortune, yet we have no new taxes.

758
01:23:34,343 --> 01:23:35,760
The future.

759
01:23:37,137 --> 01:23:39,180
The future pays for it.

760
01:23:40,641 --> 01:23:43,518
He's started selling
the grain reserves.

761
01:23:43,602 --> 01:23:45,436
This can't be true.

762
01:23:46,063 --> 01:23:48,564
He's selling Rome's
reserves of grain.

763
01:23:49,149 --> 01:23:52,068
The people will be
starving in two years.

764
01:23:52,611 --> 01:23:54,111
I hope they're
enjoying the games,

765
01:23:54,196 --> 01:23:57,573
because soon enough they'll
be dead because of them.

766
01:23:57,908 --> 01:24:00,243
- Rome must know this.
- And how?

767
01:24:00,744 --> 01:24:03,120
He's going to
dissolve the Senate.

768
01:24:03,705 --> 01:24:07,291
And who will tell them before
it's too late? You, Gracchus?

769
01:24:08,627 --> 01:24:10,127
You, Gaius.

770
01:24:10,212 --> 01:24:11,921
Will you make a speech on
the floor of the Senate,

771
01:24:12,005 --> 01:24:13,756
denouncing my brother?

772
01:24:14,299 --> 01:24:16,842
And then see your family
in the Colosseum?

773
01:24:17,803 --> 01:24:19,178
Who'd dare?

774
01:24:28,355 --> 01:24:31,399
I have been living in a
prison of fear every day,

775
01:24:31,483 --> 01:24:34,068
because my son is
heir to the throne.

776
01:24:39,658 --> 01:24:41,158
He must die.

777
01:24:45,497 --> 01:24:46,664
Quintus and the Praetorians

778
01:24:46,748 --> 01:24:49,292
would simply seize
control for themselves.

779
01:24:49,376 --> 01:24:53,254
No. Cut off the head and
the snake cannot strike.

780
01:24:53,338 --> 01:24:55,381
Lucilia, Gaius is right.

781
01:24:55,465 --> 01:24:59,594
Until we can neutralize the
Praetorians, we can achieve nothing.

782
01:25:01,138 --> 01:25:02,638
So we do nothing?

783
01:25:02,723 --> 01:25:05,516
No, child. We keep our counsel.

784
01:25:06,518 --> 01:25:07,852
We prepare.

785
01:25:08,687 --> 01:25:13,482
As long as the people support
him, we are voices without steel.

786
01:25:14,276 --> 01:25:15,693
We are air.

787
01:25:18,697 --> 01:25:21,490
But with every day that
passes, he makes enemies.

788
01:25:21,575 --> 01:25:24,452
One day, he'll have more
enemies than friends.

789
01:25:24,870 --> 01:25:27,830
And on that day, we will act.

790
01:25:28,415 --> 01:25:30,291
Then we will strike.

791
01:25:31,209 --> 01:25:32,960
But until then,

792
01:25:34,129 --> 01:25:35,713
we are docile.

793
01:25:36,173 --> 01:25:38,341
We are obedient.

794
01:25:39,926 --> 01:25:41,927
And we are treacherous.

795
01:25:50,562 --> 01:25:51,729
Come on!

796
01:26:00,572 --> 01:26:02,615
All right, that's enough.

798
01:26:25,180 --> 01:26:26,580
The Emperor wants battles,

799
01:26:26,598 --> 01:26:28,766
and I don't want to
sacrifice my best fighters.

800
01:26:28,850 --> 01:26:32,186
The crowd wants battles, so the
Emperor gives them battles.

801
01:26:32,270 --> 01:26:35,856
- You get the battle of Carthage.
- Massacre of Carthage.

803
01:26:37,818 --> 01:26:39,235
Well, why don't you go
down to the prison,

804
01:26:39,319 --> 01:26:41,320
round up all the
beggars and thieves?

805
01:26:41,405 --> 01:26:42,571
We've done that.

806
01:26:42,656 --> 01:26:45,032
If you want to give away
the best gladiators

807
01:26:45,117 --> 01:26:46,283
in the whole of the empire,

808
01:26:46,368 --> 01:26:48,494
then I want double the rates.

809
01:26:48,578 --> 01:26:52,373
You'll get your contract rates, or
you'll get your contract canceled.

810
01:26:52,457 --> 01:26:53,874
You don't like it?

811
01:26:53,959 --> 01:26:57,920
Then you can crawl back down that
shit hole that you came from.

812
01:27:01,007 --> 01:27:03,175
Cassius, please.
You can free us.

813
01:27:32,998 --> 01:27:36,125
Gladiator, are you the one
they call the Spaniard?

814
01:27:36,209 --> 01:27:37,334
Yes.

815
01:27:38,128 --> 01:27:40,337
They said you were a giant.

816
01:27:40,422 --> 01:27:43,591
They said you could crush a
man's skull with one hand.

817
01:27:43,675 --> 01:27:45,426
A man's? No.

818
01:27:46,762 --> 01:27:48,095
A boy's.

819
01:27:50,098 --> 01:27:53,642
- Do they have good horses in Spain?
- Some of the best.

820
01:27:54,686 --> 01:27:57,772
This is Argento and
this is Scarto.

821
01:27:59,191 --> 01:28:00,983
They were my horses.

822
01:28:01,902 --> 01:28:03,986
They were taken from me.

823
01:28:04,279 --> 01:28:07,573
I like you, Spaniard. I
shall cheer for you.

824
01:28:08,116 --> 01:28:11,452
- They let you watch the games?
- My uncle says it makes me strong.

825
01:28:11,536 --> 01:28:14,830
- And what does your father say?
- My father is dead.

826
01:28:16,583 --> 01:28:18,667
Master Lucius, it is time.

827
01:28:19,920 --> 01:28:21,295
I have to go.

828
01:28:21,379 --> 01:28:22,963
Your name is Lucius?

829
01:28:25,091 --> 01:28:27,760
Lucius Verus, after my father.

830
01:28:58,416 --> 01:29:00,125
Lower!

831
01:29:05,257 --> 01:29:08,175
- Claudius!
- Yes?

832
01:29:08,260 --> 01:29:10,678
- More shields!
- All right.

833
01:29:29,781 --> 01:29:34,535
When the Emperor enters, raise
your weapons, salute him,

834
01:29:34,619 --> 01:29:36,662
and then speak together.

835
01:29:37,455 --> 01:29:40,958
Face the Emperor and don't
turn your back on him.

836
01:29:42,043 --> 01:29:44,879
Go, and die with honor.

840
01:30:39,976 --> 01:30:42,061
Hail, mighty Caesar!

841
01:30:45,273 --> 01:30:48,317
Caesar! Caesar! Caesar! Caesar!

842
01:30:48,401 --> 01:30:49,641
Caesar! Caesar! Caesar! Caesar!

843
01:30:52,530 --> 01:30:55,532
- We who are about to die salute you!
- We who are about to die salute you!

844
01:30:57,243 --> 01:30:58,827
On this day

845
01:30:59,537 --> 01:31:02,539
we reach back to
hallowed antiquity

846
01:31:03,416 --> 01:31:07,086
to bring you a re-creation
of the second fall

847
01:31:07,170 --> 01:31:09,213
of mighty Carthage!

849
01:31:12,926 --> 01:31:17,346
On the barren plain of Zama

850
01:31:17,973 --> 01:31:21,058
there stood the
invincible armies

851
01:31:21,434 --> 01:31:24,061
of the barbarian Hannibal.

852
01:31:24,771 --> 01:31:27,940
Ferocious mercenaries
and warriors

853
01:31:28,024 --> 01:31:30,401
from all brute nations,

854
01:31:30,485 --> 01:31:34,780
bent on merciless destruction,

855
01:31:35,657 --> 01:31:37,032
conquest.

856
01:31:37,951 --> 01:31:41,996
Your emperor is
pleased to give you

857
01:31:42,080 --> 01:31:45,124
the barbarian horde!

859
01:31:53,466 --> 01:31:55,467
Anyone here been in the army?

860
01:31:55,552 --> 01:31:58,470
Yes. I served with
you at Vindobona.

861
01:31:59,431 --> 01:32:01,098
You can help me.

862
01:32:02,392 --> 01:32:04,935
Whatever comes out
of these gates,

863
01:32:05,687 --> 01:32:09,481
we've got a better chance of
survival if we work together.

864
01:32:09,566 --> 01:32:11,275
Do you understand?

865
01:32:13,403 --> 01:32:15,446
If we stay together, we survive.

866
01:32:15,530 --> 01:32:18,657
The Emperor is pleased to
bring you the legionnaires

867
01:32:18,742 --> 01:32:22,327
of Scipio Africanus!

868
01:32:33,131 --> 01:32:34,840
To the death!

869
01:32:38,636 --> 01:32:41,221
- Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill!
- Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill!

870
01:32:45,101 --> 01:32:46,643
Stay close.

871
01:32:52,650 --> 01:32:54,526
Come together!

872
01:32:55,820 --> 01:32:59,907
Stay close. Staggered columns!

873
01:33:13,129 --> 01:33:15,172
You don't have a chance.

874
01:33:26,518 --> 01:33:29,061
Lock your shields. Stay as one.

875
01:33:30,563 --> 01:33:32,147
Hold!

876
01:33:34,192 --> 01:33:37,194
Hold! As one!

877
01:33:40,115 --> 01:33:41,448
Well done.

878
01:33:53,336 --> 01:33:57,172
Hold. Down low!

879
01:34:02,971 --> 01:34:04,179
Yes!

880
01:34:16,276 --> 01:34:17,526
Hagen!

881
01:34:41,634 --> 01:34:45,179
This column to the chariot!
This column stay with me!

882
01:34:48,808 --> 01:34:50,184
Quickly!

883
01:34:50,852 --> 01:34:53,604
- Get out there.
- Hurry!

884
01:35:34,812 --> 01:35:35,979
Maximus!

885
01:35:48,201 --> 01:35:50,619
Single column! Single column!

887
01:36:35,915 --> 01:36:37,332
We win!

888
01:36:42,714 --> 01:36:45,215
My history's a little
hazy, Cassius,

889
01:36:46,050 --> 01:36:48,969
but shouldn't the barbarians
lose the battle of Carthage?

890
01:36:49,053 --> 01:36:50,804
Yes, sire.

891
01:36:52,724 --> 01:36:54,099
Forgive me, sire.

892
01:36:54,183 --> 01:36:56,893
No, I rather enjoy surprises.

893
01:36:57,687 --> 01:36:58,812
Who is he?

894
01:36:58,896 --> 01:37:01,898
They call him the
Spaniard, sire.

895
01:37:04,402 --> 01:37:06,320
I think I'll meet him.

896
01:37:06,404 --> 01:37:07,738
Yes, sire.

897
01:37:09,949 --> 01:37:11,867
Hail to the barbarians!

898
01:37:26,799 --> 01:37:30,218
Forward! Arms at ready!

899
01:37:43,775 --> 01:37:45,442
Drop your weapons.

900
01:37:49,447 --> 01:37:52,407
Gladiator, the Emperor
has asked for you.

901
01:37:52,992 --> 01:37:55,243
I am at the Emperor's service.

903
01:38:21,938 --> 01:38:24,064
Rise. Rise.

904
01:38:33,408 --> 01:38:35,659
Your fame is well
deserved, Spaniard.

905
01:38:35,743 --> 01:38:38,245
I don't think there's ever
been a gladiator to match you.

906
01:38:38,329 --> 01:38:41,248
As for this young man, he
insists you are Hector reborn.

907
01:38:41,332 --> 01:38:42,916
Or was it Hercules?

908
01:38:44,335 --> 01:38:48,171
Why doesn't the hero reveal himself
and tell us all your real name?

909
01:38:50,216 --> 01:38:51,842
You do have a name.

910
01:38:52,635 --> 01:38:54,511
My name is Gladiator.

911
01:38:57,807 --> 01:39:00,976
How dare you show your back to me?
Slave!

912
01:39:02,353 --> 01:39:05,689
You will remove your helmet
and tell me your name.

913
01:39:17,452 --> 01:39:19,953
My name is Maximus
Decimus Meridius,

914
01:39:20,329 --> 01:39:22,289
commander of the
armies of the north,

915
01:39:22,373 --> 01:39:24,708
general of the Felix Legions,

916
01:39:24,792 --> 01:39:28,086
loyal servant to the true
emperor, Marcus Aurelius,

917
01:39:29,505 --> 01:39:31,673
father to a murdered son,

918
01:39:32,133 --> 01:39:34,426
husband to a murdered wife,

919
01:39:34,760 --> 01:39:38,513
and I will have my vengeance,
in this life or the next.

920
01:39:45,521 --> 01:39:46,897
Arms!

923
01:39:59,994 --> 01:40:03,330
Live! Live! Live! Live!

924
01:40:03,414 --> 01:40:06,625
- Live! Live! Live! Live!
- Live! Live! Live! Live!

926
01:40:50,628 --> 01:40:53,338
Arms, at rest!

927
01:41:45,850 --> 01:41:50,312
- Maximus! Maximus! Maximus!
- Maximus! Maximus! Maximus!

928
01:42:38,402 --> 01:42:39,569
Father.

930
01:43:53,936 --> 01:43:55,812
Why is he still alive?

931
01:43:57,064 --> 01:43:58,565
I don't know.

932
01:43:59,066 --> 01:44:00,650
He shouldn't be alive.

933
01:44:01,485 --> 01:44:02,902
It vexes me.

934
01:44:04,655 --> 01:44:06,448
I'm terribly vexed.

935
01:44:17,668 --> 01:44:19,586
I did what I had to do.

936
01:44:20,337 --> 01:44:24,382
If Father had had his way, the
empire would have been torn apart.

937
01:44:24,467 --> 01:44:26,134
You do see that.

938
01:44:26,510 --> 01:44:27,677
Yes.

939
01:44:32,475 --> 01:44:35,685
What did you feel
when you saw him?

940
01:44:37,813 --> 01:44:39,439
I felt nothing.

941
01:44:41,400 --> 01:44:43,943
He wounded you
deeply, didn't he?

942
01:44:44,987 --> 01:44:47,197
No more than I wounded him.

943
01:44:51,702 --> 01:44:53,995
They lied to me in Germania.

944
01:44:55,623 --> 01:44:57,707
They told me he was dead.

945
01:44:59,710 --> 01:45:02,295
If they lie to me,
they don't respect me.

946
01:45:02,379 --> 01:45:05,715
If they don't respect me,
how can they ever love me?

947
01:45:07,051 --> 01:45:09,427
Then you must let
the legions know

948
01:45:09,512 --> 01:45:12,597
their treachery will
not go unpunished.

949
01:45:13,432 --> 01:45:14,891
Poor sister.

950
01:45:15,309 --> 01:45:17,769
I wouldn't want
to be your enemy.

951
01:45:18,979 --> 01:45:20,730
What will you do?

952
01:45:33,702 --> 01:45:35,036
This way.

953
01:46:10,406 --> 01:46:13,867
Rich matrons pay well to be
pleasured by the bravest champions.

954
01:46:13,951 --> 01:46:16,452
I knew your brother
would send assassins.

955
01:46:16,954 --> 01:46:18,580
I didn't realize he
would send his best.

957
01:46:21,208 --> 01:46:23,293
Maximus, he doesn't know.

958
01:46:24,253 --> 01:46:27,380
My family was burnt and crucified
while they were still alive.

959
01:46:27,464 --> 01:46:30,008
- I knew nothing...
- Don't lie to me!

960
01:46:36,473 --> 01:46:38,224
I wept for them.

961
01:46:38,309 --> 01:46:42,145
As you wept for your father?
As you wept for your father?

962
01:46:42,229 --> 01:46:45,815
I have been living in a prison
of fear since that day.

963
01:46:46,317 --> 01:46:50,153
To be unable to mourn your
father for fear of your brother.

964
01:46:51,030 --> 01:46:54,240
To live in terror every
moment of every day,

965
01:46:54,325 --> 01:46:57,118
because your son is
heir to the throne.

966
01:46:58,996 --> 01:47:00,455
I have wept.

967
01:47:01,790 --> 01:47:04,626
My son was innocent.

968
01:47:05,461 --> 01:47:07,503
So is mine.

969
01:47:09,506 --> 01:47:12,592
Must my son die, too,
before you'll trust me?

970
01:47:14,053 --> 01:47:17,013
What does it matter if
I trust you or not?

971
01:47:17,890 --> 01:47:20,934
The gods have spared you.
Don't you understand?

972
01:47:21,018 --> 01:47:24,479
Today I saw a slave become more
powerful than the emperor of Rome.

973
01:47:24,563 --> 01:47:26,356
The gods have spared me?

974
01:47:26,440 --> 01:47:29,901
I am at their mercy, with the
power only to amuse a mob.

975
01:47:29,985 --> 01:47:31,527
That is power.

976
01:47:32,029 --> 01:47:33,154
The mob is Rome.

977
01:47:33,238 --> 01:47:36,866
And while Commodus controls
them, he controls everything.

978
01:47:37,201 --> 01:47:38,743
Listen to me.

979
01:47:39,286 --> 01:47:42,413
My brother has enemies,
most of all in the Senate.

980
01:47:42,498 --> 01:47:44,749
But while the people follow him,

981
01:47:44,833 --> 01:47:47,877
no one would dare stand
up to him until you.

982
01:47:48,837 --> 01:47:51,130
They oppose him, yet
they do nothing.

983
01:47:51,215 --> 01:47:54,968
There are some politicians who have
dedicated their lives to Rome.

984
01:47:55,052 --> 01:47:56,803
One man above all.

985
01:47:57,888 --> 01:48:00,974
If I can arrange it,
will you meet him?

986
01:48:01,308 --> 01:48:03,226
Do you not understand?

987
01:48:03,477 --> 01:48:07,689
I may die in this cell tonight, or
in the arena tomorrow. I am a slave!

988
01:48:07,773 --> 01:48:10,441
What possible
difference can I make?

989
01:48:10,734 --> 01:48:12,986
This man wants what you want.

990
01:48:13,070 --> 01:48:15,279
Then have him kill Commodus!

991
01:48:17,908 --> 01:48:19,701
I knew a man once,

992
01:48:20,619 --> 01:48:21,911
a noble man.

993
01:48:22,913 --> 01:48:25,790
A man of principle
who loved my father,

994
01:48:26,750 --> 01:48:28,835
and my father loved him.

995
01:48:30,796 --> 01:48:32,964
This man served Rome well.

996
01:48:37,302 --> 01:48:39,012
That man is gone.

997
01:48:40,180 --> 01:48:42,306
Your brother did his work well.

998
01:48:42,391 --> 01:48:44,058
Let me help you.

999
01:48:49,982 --> 01:48:53,067
Yes, you can help me.

1000
01:48:56,405 --> 01:49:00,116
Forget you ever knew me,
never come here again.

1001
01:49:03,787 --> 01:49:06,539
Guard! The lady is
finished with me.

1003
01:49:34,985 --> 01:49:36,652
What's your name?

1004
01:49:39,656 --> 01:49:41,240
Julian Crassus.

1005
01:49:46,747 --> 01:49:47,997
Name?

1006
01:49:49,291 --> 01:49:50,792
Marcus, sire.

1007
01:49:51,710 --> 01:49:53,419
My father's name.

1008
01:50:00,928 --> 01:50:03,096
They must have known
of Maximus' escape,

1009
01:50:03,180 --> 01:50:06,015
when they found the
bodies of the four men.

1010
01:50:06,475 --> 01:50:09,060
They thought it was
a barbarian raid.

1011
01:50:10,104 --> 01:50:13,272
These are good men, sire.
Loyal to the Emperor.

1012
01:50:20,614 --> 01:50:22,323
Load your arrows!

1014
01:50:29,957 --> 01:50:31,874
Prepare to fire!

1015
01:50:52,396 --> 01:50:55,690
Then perhaps it
was you who knew,

1016
01:50:56,525 --> 01:50:58,234
and never told me.

1017
01:50:58,485 --> 01:51:00,736
- I didn't know.
- You didn't know?

1018
01:51:02,239 --> 01:51:05,074
But a general is
always in control.

1019
01:51:06,451 --> 01:51:10,121
Always in command, isn't he?

1020
01:51:11,665 --> 01:51:13,124
Yes, Caesar.

1021
01:51:27,055 --> 01:51:29,765
Then give the command. Say it.

1022
01:51:46,658 --> 01:51:47,783
Fire.

1024
01:52:23,028 --> 01:52:24,362
Maximus.

1025
01:52:25,113 --> 01:52:28,241
You commanded legions?
You had many victories?

1026
01:52:29,117 --> 01:52:31,327
- Yes.
- In Germania?

1027
01:52:33,247 --> 01:52:34,997
In many countries.

1028
01:52:36,583 --> 01:52:37,917
General.

1031
01:53:27,009 --> 01:53:28,884
You have a great name.

1032
01:53:30,387 --> 01:53:33,431
He must kill your name
before he kills you.

1033
01:53:42,399 --> 01:53:43,733
Yes, at the far end.

1034
01:53:43,817 --> 01:53:45,735
- Senator Gaius.
- Hello.

1035
01:53:46,236 --> 01:53:48,195
Senator Gracchus.

1036
01:53:49,781 --> 01:53:53,200
Don't often see you enjoying the
pleasures of the vulgar crowd.

1037
01:53:53,285 --> 01:53:56,412
I don't pretend to be a man
of the people, Senator,

1038
01:53:56,496 --> 01:53:58,998
but I do try to be a
man for the people.

1040
01:54:15,265 --> 01:54:17,767
Caesar! Caesar! Caesar! Caesar!

1041
01:54:17,851 --> 01:54:20,519
Caesar! Caesar! Caesar! Caesar!

1042
01:54:25,025 --> 01:54:26,650
People of Rome!

1043
01:54:28,945 --> 01:54:31,405
On the fourth day of Antioch,

1044
01:54:32,032 --> 01:54:36,410
we can celebrate the
64th day of the games.

1045
01:54:37,037 --> 01:54:41,290
And in his majestic Charity,

1046
01:54:42,042 --> 01:54:46,253
the Emperor has deigned this day
to favor the people of Rome

1047
01:54:46,838 --> 01:54:50,257
with an historical final match.

1048
01:54:51,051 --> 01:54:55,638
Returning to the Colosseum today,
after five years in retirement,

1049
01:54:57,057 --> 01:55:00,518
Caesar is pleased to bring you

1050
01:55:00,602 --> 01:55:04,397
the only undefeated champion

1051
01:55:04,481 --> 01:55:06,440
in Roman history,

1052
01:55:06,525 --> 01:55:11,445
the legendary Tigris of Gaul!

1053
01:55:33,009 --> 01:55:36,178
He knows too well how
to manipulate the mob.

1054
01:55:36,263 --> 01:55:38,973
Marcus Aurelius had a dream
that was Rome, Proximo.

1055
01:55:39,057 --> 01:55:41,851
This is not it. This is not it!

1056
01:55:41,935 --> 01:55:44,770
Marcus Aurelius
is dead, Maximus.

1057
01:55:45,605 --> 01:55:48,190
We mortals are but
shadows and dust.

1058
01:55:48,859 --> 01:55:50,985
Shadows and dust, Maximus!

1059
01:55:51,069 --> 01:55:54,947
Representing the training
lyceum of Antonius Proximo,

1060
01:55:55,031 --> 01:55:58,701
Caesar is proud to give you.

1061
01:55:58,785 --> 01:56:02,621
Aelius Maximus!

1063
01:56:15,427 --> 01:56:17,803
They embrace him like
he's one of their own.

1064
01:56:17,888 --> 01:56:21,807
The mob is fickle, brother.
He'll be forgotten in a month.

1065
01:56:24,561 --> 01:56:27,396
No, much sooner than that.

1066
01:56:29,316 --> 01:56:31,108
It's been arranged.

1067
01:56:49,628 --> 01:56:52,588
We who are about
to die salute you.

1068
01:56:55,926 --> 01:56:57,718
We're with you, Maximus!

1070
01:57:40,303 --> 01:57:42,096
Fight on, finish it!

1071
01:58:10,333 --> 01:58:12,001
Pull, pull!

1072
01:58:44,367 --> 01:58:45,909
Loose! Loose!

1073
01:59:14,022 --> 01:59:16,106
- Gut him!
- Kill!

1074
01:59:17,567 --> 01:59:21,153
- Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill!
- Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill!

1075
01:59:41,591 --> 01:59:43,634
- Kill!
- Kill!

1079
02:00:21,506 --> 02:00:23,716
Maximus the Merciful!

1081
02:00:32,892 --> 02:00:36,395
Maximus! Maximus! Maximus!

1082
02:00:36,479 --> 02:00:38,647
Maximus! Maximus! Maximus!

1083
02:00:45,864 --> 02:00:48,490
Forward, arms at ready!

1084
02:01:18,480 --> 02:01:20,856
What am I going to do with you?

1085
02:01:22,025 --> 02:01:25,486
You simply won't die.

1086
02:01:30,241 --> 02:01:32,618
Are we so different, you and I?

1087
02:01:33,745 --> 02:01:36,663
You take life when you
have to, as I do.

1088
02:01:38,041 --> 02:01:41,710
I have only one more life to take.
Then it is done.

1089
02:01:42,253 --> 02:01:44,004
Then take it now.

1090
02:01:57,060 --> 02:01:59,061
They tell me your son

1091
02:01:59,854 --> 02:02:03,774
squealed like a girl when
they nailed him to the cross.

1092
02:02:05,902 --> 02:02:07,569
And your wife

1093
02:02:08,822 --> 02:02:10,739
moaned like a whore

1094
02:02:11,866 --> 02:02:16,411
when they ravaged
her again and again

1095
02:02:17,747 --> 02:02:19,164
and again.

1096
02:02:24,420 --> 02:02:28,173
The time for honoring yourself
will soon be at an end,

1097
02:02:32,762 --> 02:02:34,137
Highness.

1098
02:02:48,403 --> 02:02:51,363
Maximus! Maximus! Maximus!

1099
02:03:01,666 --> 02:03:07,462
General! General!

1100
02:03:09,507 --> 02:03:11,300
- General!
- Cicero!

1101
02:03:18,766 --> 02:03:20,267
- General!
- Where are you camped?

1102
02:03:20,351 --> 02:03:21,643
Ostia.

1103
02:03:28,109 --> 02:03:31,069
- We love you, Maximus!
- Praise the Victor!

1104
02:03:31,154 --> 02:03:33,655
Tell the men their general lives.
Find me.

1105
02:03:33,823 --> 02:03:35,616
- Move along!
- Find me!

1106
02:04:01,476 --> 02:04:03,435
Can they hear you?

1107
02:04:07,023 --> 02:04:10,525
- Who?
- Your family, in the afterlife.

1108
02:04:13,029 --> 02:04:15,364
- Yes.
- What do you say to them?

1109
02:04:19,243 --> 02:04:20,702
To my boy,

1110
02:04:22,538 --> 02:04:25,082
I tell him I will
see him again soon,

1111
02:04:25,166 --> 02:04:28,752
and to keep his heels down
when he's riding his horse.

1112
02:04:30,046 --> 02:04:31,546
To my wife,

1113
02:04:34,050 --> 02:04:36,176
that is not your business.

1115
02:04:43,851 --> 02:04:46,728
And now they love
Maximus for his mercy.

1116
02:04:48,106 --> 02:04:51,650
So I can't just kill him, or it
makes me even more unmerciful.

1117
02:04:52,986 --> 02:04:57,239
The whole thing is like
some great nightmare.

1118
02:04:58,491 --> 02:05:00,325
He is defying you.

1119
02:05:00,410 --> 02:05:03,787
His every victory is
an act of defiance.

1120
02:05:03,871 --> 02:05:07,457
The mob sees this, and
so do the Senate.

1121
02:05:08,251 --> 02:05:11,128
Every day he lives,
they grow bolder.

1122
02:05:12,672 --> 02:05:14,423
- Kill him.
- No.

1123
02:05:16,300 --> 02:05:18,760
I will not make a martyr of him.

1124
02:05:25,893 --> 02:05:28,353
When I went to the Senate today,

1125
02:05:28,438 --> 02:05:32,899
I purposefully told them about using the
grain reserves to pay for the games.

1126
02:05:34,819 --> 02:05:36,987
And did you note what happened?

1127
02:05:37,071 --> 02:05:40,282
- Nothing.
- Exactly. Nothing.

1128
02:05:41,284 --> 02:05:43,618
Not a single word of protest.

1129
02:05:43,703 --> 02:05:47,330
Even the insolent Senator
Gracchus was silent as a mouse.

1130
02:05:47,415 --> 02:05:48,582
Why?

1131
02:05:50,293 --> 02:05:54,004
I have been told of
a certain sea snake

1132
02:05:54,088 --> 02:05:58,133
which has a very unusual
method of attracting its prey.

1133
02:05:58,593 --> 02:06:02,304
It will lie at the bottom
of the ocean as if wounded.

1134
02:06:03,306 --> 02:06:05,640
Then its enemies will approach,

1135
02:06:05,725 --> 02:06:08,810
and yet it will lie quite still.

1136
02:06:09,145 --> 02:06:12,939
And then its enemies will
take little bites of it,

1137
02:06:13,024 --> 02:06:16,318
and yet it remains still.

1138
02:06:19,530 --> 02:06:20,697
So,

1139
02:06:22,033 --> 02:06:23,825
we will lie still,

1140
02:06:24,535 --> 02:06:27,871
and let our enemies
come to us and nibble.

1141
02:06:29,040 --> 02:06:31,291
Have every senator followed.

1142
02:06:48,935 --> 02:06:50,685
Cicero, my old friend.

1143
02:06:50,770 --> 02:06:52,690
I thought perhaps I'd seen
you for the last time.

1144
02:06:52,730 --> 02:06:55,273
- I thought you were dead.
- Close.

1145
02:06:55,358 --> 02:06:56,983
How long have the
men been in Ostia?

1146
02:06:57,068 --> 02:06:58,401
All winter.

1147
02:06:58,736 --> 02:07:02,030
- And how do they look?
- Fat and bored.

1148
02:07:02,740 --> 02:07:05,784
- Who's in command?
- Some fool from Rome.

1149
02:07:07,411 --> 02:07:09,246
How soon do you think they
could be ready to fight?

1150
02:07:09,330 --> 02:07:11,123
For you, tomorrow.

1151
02:07:12,583 --> 02:07:15,085
I need you to do
something for me.

1152
02:07:19,715 --> 02:07:21,133
Come, see, witness.

1153
02:07:21,217 --> 02:07:24,261
If you haven't been in the arena,
you can see the show here.

1154
02:07:24,345 --> 02:07:27,973
Giant Maximus is defeating
our emperor, Commodus.

1155
02:07:28,057 --> 02:07:30,684
What are we to do? He's
just defying everyone,

1156
02:07:30,768 --> 02:07:32,435
by doing this to him, they do...

1157
02:07:33,688 --> 02:07:35,021
My goodness!

1159
02:07:36,816 --> 02:07:40,402
- He got him, he's defeated.
- Give way!

1160
02:07:46,492 --> 02:07:49,077
My lady? I served your
father at Vindobona.

1161
02:07:49,162 --> 02:07:50,704
- Back.
- My lady.

1162
02:07:50,788 --> 02:07:53,206
I served your father
at Vindobona.

1163
02:07:53,291 --> 02:07:54,374
Back!

1164
02:07:54,458 --> 02:07:57,669
And I served General Maximus.
I serve him still.

1165
02:07:59,172 --> 02:08:00,755
Stop. Stop.

1166
02:08:01,299 --> 02:08:02,465
Stop!

1167
02:08:03,384 --> 02:08:04,801
Stand back.

1168
02:08:06,095 --> 02:08:09,139
The general sends word, he
will meet your politician.

1169
02:08:10,850 --> 02:08:14,144
- For your loyalty, soldier.
- Thank you, my lady.

1170
02:08:23,905 --> 02:08:25,238
Leave us.

1171
02:08:30,953 --> 02:08:32,662
Senator Gracchus.

1172
02:08:46,469 --> 02:08:47,761
General.

1173
02:08:48,846 --> 02:08:51,598
I hope my coming here
today is evidence enough

1174
02:08:51,682 --> 02:08:54,768
that you can trust me.

1175
02:08:59,065 --> 02:09:01,524
- The Senate is with you?
- The Senate?

1176
02:09:03,027 --> 02:09:05,737
Yes. I can speak for them.

1177
02:09:06,364 --> 02:09:09,699
You can buy my freedom and
smuggle me out of Rome?

1178
02:09:10,076 --> 02:09:11,534
To what end?

1179
02:09:12,995 --> 02:09:15,330
Get me outside the city walls.

1180
02:09:15,915 --> 02:09:19,793
Have fresh horses ready to take me
to Ostia. My army is encamped there.

1181
02:09:19,877 --> 02:09:23,213
By nightfall of the second day, I shall
return at the head of 5,000 men.

1182
02:09:23,297 --> 02:09:25,548
But the legions all
have new commanders,

1183
02:09:25,633 --> 02:09:27,050
loyal to Commodus.

1184
02:09:27,134 --> 02:09:30,303
Let my men see me alive, and you
shall see where their loyalties lie.

1185
02:09:30,388 --> 02:09:32,055
This is madness.

1186
02:09:32,723 --> 02:09:36,059
No Roman army has entered
the capital in 100 years.

1187
02:09:36,143 --> 02:09:38,395
I will not trade one
dictatorship for another!

1188
02:09:38,479 --> 02:09:42,023
The time for half measures
and talk is over, Senator.

1189
02:09:42,566 --> 02:09:45,652
And after your glorious
coup, what then?

1190
02:09:46,862 --> 02:09:50,490
You'll take your 5,000
warriors and leave?

1191
02:09:50,574 --> 02:09:52,117
I will leave.

1192
02:09:52,618 --> 02:09:54,661
The soldiers will stay
for your protection,

1193
02:09:54,745 --> 02:09:56,413
under the command of the Senate.

1194
02:09:56,539 --> 02:09:57,706
So,

1195
02:09:58,040 --> 02:10:02,252
once all of Rome is yours, you'll
just give it back to the people?

1196
02:10:03,629 --> 02:10:04,629
Tell me why.

1197
02:10:10,761 --> 02:10:13,930
Because that was the last
wish of a dying man.

1198
02:10:16,976 --> 02:10:18,852
I will kill Commodus.

1199
02:10:20,771 --> 02:10:23,857
The fate of Rome I leave to you.

1200
02:10:25,609 --> 02:10:27,902
Marcus Aurelius trusted you.

1201
02:10:29,739 --> 02:10:31,781
His daughter trusts you.

1202
02:10:35,786 --> 02:10:37,454
I will trust you.

1203
02:10:37,872 --> 02:10:39,914
But we have little time.

1204
02:10:40,458 --> 02:10:42,208
Give me two days,

1205
02:10:43,002 --> 02:10:45,253
and I will buy your freedom.

1206
02:10:45,880 --> 02:10:47,213
And you,

1207
02:10:48,758 --> 02:10:50,342
you stay alive,

1208
02:10:51,844 --> 02:10:53,511
or I'll be dead.

1209
02:10:55,473 --> 02:10:57,057
Now we must go.

1210
02:11:24,126 --> 02:11:27,712
He'll be waiting for you. Stand
at the foot of the colossus.

1211
02:11:27,797 --> 02:11:29,381
He'll find you.

1212
02:12:13,551 --> 02:12:15,009
It won't work.

1213
02:12:15,970 --> 02:12:18,096
The Emperor knows too much.

1214
02:12:18,848 --> 02:12:19,848
And as for me,

1215
02:12:22,184 --> 02:12:24,227
it's becoming dangerous.

1216
02:12:25,521 --> 02:12:27,772
You'll be paid on my return.

1217
02:12:29,859 --> 02:12:31,651
I give you my word.

1218
02:12:31,902 --> 02:12:34,988
Your word? What if
you don't return?

1219
02:12:36,240 --> 02:12:39,200
Do you remember what it was
to have trust, Proximo?

1220
02:12:39,285 --> 02:12:40,535
Trust?

1221
02:12:44,790 --> 02:12:46,541
Who am I to trust?

1222
02:12:47,126 --> 02:12:50,295
- I will kill Commodus.
- Why would I want that?

1223
02:12:51,088 --> 02:12:52,797
He makes me rich.

1224
02:12:57,928 --> 02:13:00,763
I know that you are a man
of your word, General.

1225
02:13:02,516 --> 02:13:05,101
I know that you would
die for honor.

1226
02:13:06,437 --> 02:13:08,396
You would die for Rome.

1227
02:13:09,440 --> 02:13:12,567
You would die for the
memory of your ancestors.

1228
02:13:12,651 --> 02:13:14,944
But I, on the other hand,

1229
02:13:17,656 --> 02:13:19,491
I'm an entertainer.

1230
02:13:22,995 --> 02:13:24,204
Guard!

1231
02:13:29,043 --> 02:13:31,628
He killed the man
who set you free.

1232
02:13:40,804 --> 02:13:42,639
Praetorians, master.

1233
02:13:48,812 --> 02:13:49,979
Halt!

1237
02:14:55,129 --> 02:14:56,921
Where have you been?

1238
02:14:57,381 --> 02:14:58,965
I sent for you.

1239
02:15:00,551 --> 02:15:02,218
Please, brother.

1240
02:15:07,975 --> 02:15:09,851
What's troubling you?

1241
02:15:12,271 --> 02:15:14,647
Does Gracchus have a new lover?

1242
02:15:16,442 --> 02:15:17,942
I don't know.

1243
02:15:19,945 --> 02:15:22,071
I thought you'd seen him.

1244
02:15:22,906 --> 02:15:25,408
He infects everyone
like a putrid fever.

1245
02:15:27,202 --> 02:15:30,413
For the health of Rome,
the Senate must be bled.

1246
02:15:30,831 --> 02:15:32,874
And he will bleed, too.

1247
02:15:33,751 --> 02:15:35,126
Very soon.

1248
02:15:36,629 --> 02:15:38,296
But not tonight.

1249
02:15:53,312 --> 02:15:56,230
Do you remember what
our father said once?

1250
02:15:57,566 --> 02:15:59,233
"It's a dream,"

1251
02:16:01,111 --> 02:16:03,029
"a frightful dream,"

1252
02:16:05,574 --> 02:16:06,908
"life is."

1253
02:16:09,620 --> 02:16:11,704
Do you think that's true?

1254
02:16:12,456 --> 02:16:13,956
I don't know.

1255
02:16:17,544 --> 02:16:19,087
I think it is.

1256
02:16:21,840 --> 02:16:24,592
And I have only you
to share it with.

1257
02:17:02,172 --> 02:17:03,798
Open your mouth.

1258
02:17:41,086 --> 02:17:42,879
You know I love you.

1259
02:17:44,965 --> 02:17:46,549
And I love you.

1261
02:18:23,212 --> 02:18:24,754
Out. Get out!

1262
02:18:25,964 --> 02:18:27,215
Move!

1263
02:18:31,887 --> 02:18:33,930
Congratulations, General.

1264
02:18:34,014 --> 02:18:36,808
You've got very
persuasive friends.

1265
02:18:42,815 --> 02:18:45,316
My brother has had
Gracchus arrested.

1266
02:18:45,400 --> 02:18:48,861
We daren't wait any longer.
We must leave tonight.

1267
02:18:48,946 --> 02:18:52,573
Proximo will come at midnight
and take you to the gate.

1268
02:18:53,242 --> 02:18:56,911
Your servant, Cicero, will be
waiting there with horses.

1269
02:18:58,914 --> 02:19:01,207
- You have done all this?
- Yes.

1270
02:19:02,417 --> 02:19:04,126
You risk too much.

1271
02:19:05,087 --> 02:19:07,088
I have much to pay for.

1272
02:19:09,508 --> 02:19:11,717
You have nothing to pay for.

1273
02:19:11,802 --> 02:19:14,887
You love your son.
You're strong for him.

1274
02:19:18,100 --> 02:19:20,434
I am tired of being strong.

1275
02:19:22,396 --> 02:19:26,607
My brother hates all the
world, and you most of all.

1276
02:19:27,109 --> 02:19:30,236
- Because your father chose me.
- No.

1277
02:19:31,530 --> 02:19:33,781
Because my father loved you.

1278
02:19:37,703 --> 02:19:40,121
And because I loved you.

1279
02:19:42,708 --> 02:19:44,375
A long time ago.

1280
02:19:49,131 --> 02:19:51,257
Was I very different then?

1281
02:19:57,806 --> 02:19:59,557
You laughed more.

1282
02:20:03,645 --> 02:20:06,063
I have felt alone all my life,

1283
02:20:07,357 --> 02:20:09,025
except with you.

1284
02:20:12,112 --> 02:20:13,487
I must go.

1285
02:20:14,156 --> 02:20:15,281
Yes.

1286
02:20:43,769 --> 02:20:44,977
There.

1287
02:20:56,531 --> 02:20:58,032
And I got you.

1288
02:21:01,078 --> 02:21:02,995
Isn't it late to be
playing legionnaire?

1289
02:21:03,080 --> 02:21:05,164
I'm not a legionnaire.

1290
02:21:05,499 --> 02:21:08,084
- Not a legionnaire?
- I'm a gladiator.

1291
02:21:09,378 --> 02:21:10,836
A gladiator?

1292
02:21:11,546 --> 02:21:14,215
Gladiators only
fight in the games.

1293
02:21:14,299 --> 02:21:17,718
Wouldn't you rather be a great
Roman warrior like Julius Caesar?

1294
02:21:17,803 --> 02:21:20,388
I'm Maximus, the savior of Rome!

1295
02:21:23,225 --> 02:21:25,059
The savior of Rome?

1296
02:21:33,068 --> 02:21:34,777
And who said that?

1297
02:21:43,620 --> 02:21:45,204
Where's Lucius?

1298
02:21:46,415 --> 02:21:48,833
He's with the Emperor, my lady.

1299
02:21:51,753 --> 02:21:53,513
- She couldn't.
- Yes, she did.

1300
02:21:53,547 --> 02:21:55,756
She took it from a basket,

1301
02:21:57,175 --> 02:22:00,928
and pressed it to her breast,
right here above her heart.

1302
02:22:02,556 --> 02:22:05,766
- It bit her in the breast?
- Yes.

1303
02:22:06,435 --> 02:22:10,396
You see, Lucius,
sometimes royal ladies

1304
02:22:10,897 --> 02:22:14,859
behave very strangely and do very
odd things in the name of love.

1305
02:22:14,943 --> 02:22:17,528
- I think it's silly.
- So do I.

1306
02:22:19,614 --> 02:22:20,948
So do I.

1307
02:22:21,491 --> 02:22:23,576
Sister, join us.

1308
02:22:24,202 --> 02:22:25,953
I've been reading
to dear Lucius.

1309
02:22:26,038 --> 02:22:28,039
- I've been reading, too.
- Yes.

1310
02:22:28,123 --> 02:22:32,460
He's a very clever little boy. He'll
make a grand emperor one day.

1311
02:22:34,004 --> 02:22:36,422
We've been reading about
the great Mark Antony,

1312
02:22:36,506 --> 02:22:37,840
and his adventures in Egypt.

1313
02:22:37,924 --> 02:22:40,468
And the queen killed
herself with a snake.

1314
02:22:40,552 --> 02:22:43,888
And just wait until you hear
what happened to our ancestors.

1315
02:22:43,972 --> 02:22:45,806
If you're very good,

1316
02:22:45,891 --> 02:22:49,685
tomorrow night, I'll tell you
the story of Emperor Claudius.

1317
02:22:49,770 --> 02:22:51,479
He was betrayed

1318
02:22:52,689 --> 02:22:54,815
by those closest to him.

1319
02:22:56,693 --> 02:22:58,444
By his own blood.

1320
02:22:59,780 --> 02:23:02,239
They whispered in dark corners

1321
02:23:02,324 --> 02:23:04,784
and went out late at night,

1322
02:23:04,868 --> 02:23:08,204
and conspired, and conspired.

1323
02:23:10,832 --> 02:23:14,668
But the Emperor Claudius knew
that they were up to something.

1324
02:23:14,795 --> 02:23:17,338
He knew they were
busy little bees.

1325
02:23:19,299 --> 02:23:22,343
And one night he sat
down with one of them,

1326
02:23:23,136 --> 02:23:25,137
and he looked at her,

1327
02:23:25,889 --> 02:23:27,431
and he said,

1328
02:23:28,600 --> 02:23:31,185
"Tell me what
you've been doing,"

1329
02:23:31,853 --> 02:23:33,562
"busy little bee."

1330
02:23:35,857 --> 02:23:38,943
"Or I shall strike down
those dearest to you."

1331
02:23:40,112 --> 02:23:43,155
"You shall watch as I
bathe in their blood."

1332
02:23:46,868 --> 02:23:49,286
And the Emperor was heartbroken.

1333
02:23:51,373 --> 02:23:53,582
The little bee had
wounded him more deeply

1334
02:23:53,667 --> 02:23:56,377
than anyone else could
ever have done.

1335
02:23:58,505 --> 02:24:01,382
What do you think
happened then, Lucius?

1336
02:24:02,008 --> 02:24:03,843
I don't know, Uncle.

1337
02:24:10,350 --> 02:24:12,935
The little bee told
him everything.

1338
02:25:10,827 --> 02:25:13,829
Open, in the name
of the Emperor!

1339
02:25:14,664 --> 02:25:15,956
Proximo!

1340
02:25:16,833 --> 02:25:19,960
Open the gates, in the
name of the Emperor!

1341
02:25:20,795 --> 02:25:22,129
Proximo!

1342
02:25:24,341 --> 02:25:25,799
Open the gates!

1343
02:25:31,640 --> 02:25:33,933
Open the gates, Proximo.

1344
02:25:34,392 --> 02:25:36,644
Do you want to die, old man?

1345
02:25:37,854 --> 02:25:38,979
Here.

1346
02:25:39,564 --> 02:25:41,732
Everything is prepared.

1347
02:25:41,816 --> 02:25:44,276
It seems you have
won your freedom.

1348
02:25:44,361 --> 02:25:47,947
Proximo, are you in danger
of becoming a good man?

1349
02:25:53,036 --> 02:25:56,872
- Juba.
- All enemies of the Emperor die!

1350
02:25:57,415 --> 02:25:59,583
Open the gates!

1351
02:26:05,090 --> 02:26:07,049
Pull!

1352
02:26:09,177 --> 02:26:12,054
Move! Form a column on the left!

1353
02:26:15,850 --> 02:26:19,061
I only need moments, so do not
be careless with your lives.

1354
02:26:19,145 --> 02:26:21,605
If you don't want any part of
this, go back to your cells.

1355
02:26:21,690 --> 02:26:23,941
We'll wait here
for you, Maximus.

1356
02:26:24,025 --> 02:26:25,818
- Strength and honor.
- Strength and honor.

1357
02:26:25,902 --> 02:26:26,944
Go.

1358
02:26:27,821 --> 02:26:29,655
Strength and honor.

1359
02:26:32,284 --> 02:26:35,119
Aim. Arch your bows!

1360
02:27:42,228 --> 02:27:43,520
Shadows and dust.

1363
02:28:25,438 --> 02:28:26,688
Maximus!

1364
02:28:32,153 --> 02:28:33,570
I'm sorry.

1365
02:28:59,973 --> 02:29:01,348
It's done.

1366
02:29:08,314 --> 02:29:10,190
And what of my nephew?

1367
02:29:11,276 --> 02:29:13,277
And what of his mother?

1368
02:29:15,363 --> 02:29:17,906
Should they share
her lover's fate?

1369
02:29:19,617 --> 02:29:21,660
Or should I be merciful?

1370
02:29:24,372 --> 02:29:26,290
Commodus the Merciful.

1371
02:29:32,714 --> 02:29:35,048
Lucius will stay with me now.

1372
02:29:36,217 --> 02:29:38,010
And if his mother

1373
02:29:39,387 --> 02:29:41,513
so much as looks at me

1374
02:29:42,682 --> 02:29:45,184
in a manner that displeases me,

1375
02:29:47,145 --> 02:29:48,562
he will die.

1376
02:29:52,066 --> 02:29:55,319
If she decides to be noble,

1377
02:29:57,071 --> 02:29:59,156
and takes her own life,

1378
02:30:00,742 --> 02:30:02,201
he will die.

1379
02:30:05,830 --> 02:30:07,539
And as for you,

1380
02:30:10,335 --> 02:30:12,085
you will love me,

1381
02:30:12,921 --> 02:30:14,713
as I have loved you.

1382
02:30:16,299 --> 02:30:19,968
You will provide me with
an heir of pure blood,

1383
02:30:20,929 --> 02:30:22,763
so that Commodus

1384
02:30:23,348 --> 02:30:26,308
and his progeny will
rule for 1,000 years.

1385
02:30:30,939 --> 02:30:32,689
Am I not merciful?

1386
02:30:54,546 --> 02:30:57,172
Am I not merciful!

1387
02:31:09,394 --> 02:31:13,397
- Maximus! Maximus! Maximus!
- Maximus! Maximus! Maximus!

1388
02:31:40,842 --> 02:31:43,594
I'm a soldier. I obey.

1389
02:31:46,347 --> 02:31:50,601
Nothing happens to anyone that he
is not fitted by nature to bear.

1390
02:32:23,551 --> 02:32:24,095
Maximus.

1391
02:32:31,225 --> 02:32:33,060
They call for you.

1392
02:32:35,021 --> 02:32:38,273
The general who became a slave.

1393
02:32:39,525 --> 02:32:41,902
The slave who
became a gladiator.

1394
02:32:43,279 --> 02:32:46,073
The gladiator who
defied an emperor.

1395
02:32:48,076 --> 02:32:49,743
A striking story.

1396
02:32:50,912 --> 02:32:54,122
Now the people want to
know how the story ends.

1397
02:32:56,501 --> 02:32:58,752
Only a famous death will do.

1398
02:33:00,672 --> 02:33:03,215
And what could be more glorious

1399
02:33:03,591 --> 02:33:07,344
than to challenge the Emperor
himself in the great arena?

1400
02:33:09,681 --> 02:33:12,724
- You would fight me?
- Why not?

1401
02:33:13,810 --> 02:33:15,852
Do you think I'm afraid?

1402
02:33:16,771 --> 02:33:19,815
I think you have been
afraid all your life.

1403
02:33:19,899 --> 02:33:23,610
Unlike Maximus the invincible,
who knows no fear?

1404
02:33:29,367 --> 02:33:32,744
I knew a man who once said,
"Death smiles at us all."

1405
02:33:33,621 --> 02:33:36,123
"All a man can do
is smile back."

1406
02:33:37,917 --> 02:33:39,334
I wonder,

1407
02:33:39,961 --> 02:33:42,754
did your friend smile
at his own death?

1408
02:33:43,131 --> 02:33:44,631
You must know.

1409
02:33:47,552 --> 02:33:49,344
He was your father.

1410
02:33:53,224 --> 02:33:55,559
You loved my father, I know,

1411
02:33:57,061 --> 02:33:58,562
but so did I.

1412
02:34:00,189 --> 02:34:02,774
That makes us
brothers, doesn't it?

1413
02:34:05,403 --> 02:34:06,987
Smile for me now, brother.

1414
02:34:13,035 --> 02:34:15,871
Strap on his armor.
Conceal the wound.

1416
02:35:10,301 --> 02:35:12,260
Ring formation!

1418
02:37:04,040 --> 02:37:05,665
Quintus, sword.

1419
02:37:07,168 --> 02:37:08,960
Give me your sword.

1420
02:37:12,381 --> 02:37:14,382
Sword! Give me a sword!

1421
02:37:15,885 --> 02:37:19,387
Sheathe your swords.
Sheathe your swords!

1423
02:39:34,857 --> 02:39:36,191
Maximus.

1424
02:39:41,572 --> 02:39:42,864
Maximus.

1425
02:39:43,449 --> 02:39:44,783
Quintus.

1426
02:39:46,452 --> 02:39:47,911
Free my men.

1427
02:39:49,288 --> 02:39:51,998
Senator Gracchus is
to be reinstated.

1428
02:39:53,292 --> 02:39:55,376
There was a dream that was Rome.

1429
02:39:56,045 --> 02:39:57,921
It shall be realized.

1430
02:39:58,464 --> 02:40:01,049
These are the wishes
of Marcus Aurelius.

1431
02:40:02,134 --> 02:40:04,135
Free the prisoners. Go!

1432
02:40:28,911 --> 02:40:30,245
Maximus.

1433
02:40:32,123 --> 02:40:33,706
Lucius is safe.

1434
02:40:50,015 --> 02:40:51,432
Go to them.

1435
02:41:41,233 --> 02:41:42,650
You're home.

1436
02:42:09,303 --> 02:42:11,846
Is Rome worth one
good man's life?

1437
02:42:15,726 --> 02:42:17,518
We believed it once.

1438
02:42:20,731 --> 02:42:22,857
Make us believe it again.

1439
02:42:26,362 --> 02:42:28,446
He was a soldier of Rome.

1440
02:42:32,284 --> 02:42:33,701
Honor him.

1441
02:42:34,161 --> 02:42:36,329
Who will help me carry him?

1442
02:43:21,083 --> 02:43:22,750
Now we are free.

1443
02:43:29,133 --> 02:43:31,009
I will see you again.

1444
02:43:33,887 --> 02:43:35,346
But not yet.

1445
02:43:36,348 --> 02:43:36,892
Not yet.

1446
02:43:36,992 --> 02:43:41,992
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