169: Undermining Gladiator's Nobility
Stories Are Soul Food
Canon Press
4.8 • 787 Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Under duress, Brian admits that Gladiator (the original) is still his favorite movie, having stayed atop the BK Movie podium since Brian was a teenager. Nate attacks Brian for his bashfulness at recommending what is, in fact, an all-time great movie, and the guys have a pleasant reminiscence of Russell Crowe and 2000's Gladiator, remembering all the great parts and forgetting all the supporting actors' names. Unfortunately, all good things must come to an end, and it turns out they just released a NEW Gladiator, and Nate had watched it with his kids. You get to hear Nate's analysis of how the new Gladiator fails to emulate the old, along with his hypothesis for why Ridley Scott keep churning out poor quality movies from potentially amazing IP. You'll also hear Nate's director's take on the casting in Gladiator II, which is a single point of failure (well, maybe the CG baboons are the single point of failure). But the worst of Gladiator II is the effort spent undermining the nobility of Maximus.
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| 0:00.0 | Met a ghost of a king on the road when I first fell. |
| 0:04.3 | Fire burning to my knees to my knees I fell. |
| 0:07.6 | Made a ghost of a king on a row. |
| 0:09.8 | Today we're talking about sequels, but specifically Gladiator 2. |
| 0:13.1 | And just what made Gladiator 1 my favorite movie. |
| 0:17.5 | Is it still? |
| 0:18.6 | I mean, when I'm not trying to be cool, yeah. |
| 0:23.4 | Why? Why would that require you to not be cool i'm mostly joking but you're supposed to come up with a cool answer for a filmmaker |
| 0:27.7 | as it opposed to malick as opposed to something that's just straight up the middle giant historical |
| 0:32.1 | i don't know it's a pretty great movie it's a pretty gladiator i'm sorry you think russell crow |
| 0:36.9 | is really cool? |
| 0:38.6 | And you're like, well, yeah, I kind of do it. |
| 0:40.0 | Pretty good. |
| 0:41.9 | Yeah, and the part where they throw the head out at the beginning, I mean, that's, you can't |
| 0:45.4 | forget that. |
| 0:45.9 | That's cinema. |
| 0:47.1 | No, there's actually, there's a lot. |
| 0:48.2 | That's fantastic about a gladiator. And of course, Russell Crowe also talking about Ridley Scott's direction in that scene as he kind of looks |
| 0:56.5 | at a little bird, you know, they're on the battlefield. He's watching a little bird play. |
| 1:02.0 | And it's super cool. Yeah, it's good. It gives you chills. I mean, when... |
| 1:05.3 | Back when Ridley Scott had time to direct stuff. When he had constraints, is that what he had at that point? |
| 1:12.1 | I don't know. |
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