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Ancient Warfare Podcast

AW335 - Gladiator II

Ancient Warfare Podcast

The History Network

Society & Culture, Greece, Warfare, Ancient, Rome, History, Military

4.4631 Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

With the release of Ridley Scott's Gladiator II, the Ancient Warfare team have headed off to their local cinemas (well, almost all of the team) for a screening.

Will this be as influential on future historians as the original Gladiator movie?

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to another episode of the ancient warfare podcast.

0:08.7

My name is Jasper Ortiz.

0:09.9

I'm the editor of Ancient Warfare magazine.

0:11.6

And with me are Mark McCaffrey, Mark DeSantis, and Murray Don, who is my assistant editor for the magazine.

0:18.4

And because it's all the hot rage right now,

0:21.9

we're going to talk about Gladiator 2.

0:24.8

And I have to start off with a confession.

0:27.7

I haven't seen it yet.

0:30.4

So you guys are going to spoil it for me, probably.

0:35.1

And this is probably a spoiler warning that there are going to be spoilers coming up.

0:39.4

So if you want to see the movie and not have it spoiled for you, maybe wait listening this

0:44.5

episode until you have seen it.

0:47.5

And the first question, because I haven't seen it yet, is probably should I go see it?

0:52.5

Ooh, interesting one.

0:55.3

Look, visually.

0:56.3

The fact that you're not all going, yeah, why haven't you been yet?

0:58.8

Yeah, yeah.

0:58.9

Visually, it's stunning.

1:01.3

There are some interesting characters who are incredibly well acted.

1:04.6

I think Danzel Washington acts very well.

1:07.5

Paul Mescal acts well.

1:09.5

The two actors playing

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