Episode 137: Gladiator (with Tom van der Linden and Thomas Flight)

Beyond the Screenplay

Michael Tucker

Tv & Film

4.7 • 626 Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2022

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Part of the BTS team is joined by Tom Van der Linden and Thomas Flight, co-hosts of the podcast Cinema of Meaning, to discuss Gladiator: its many fascinating themes, the construction of Maximus as a protagonist, and what makes all the swordplay meaningful as well as thrilling.

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0:35.4	Hi, I'm Michael and welcome to Beyond the Screenplay.
0:38.8	The podcast for each episode, we do a conversational deep dive analysis into a film.
0:43.9	Today we are talking about Gladiator, directed by Ridley Scott, screenplay by David Franzoni, John Logan, and William Nicholson.
0:51.2	I'm joined by part of the Beyond the Screenplay team, Trisha Rand.
0:55.3	Hello, everyone. And also joining us today are fellow video essayists and podcasters, Tom Vinderlinden,
1:01.8	who you may know from his YouTube channel, like Stories of Old. Hello. Thanks for having me.
1:07.5	And Thomas Flight, who you may know from his YouTube channel, Thomas Flight.
1:11.5	Hi, happy to be here.
1:13.4	Excellent. Yes, welcome to the show. We're very excited to have you guys here.
1:16.7	We've been scheduling this for a long time, and I'm glad we finally made this happen.
1:20.8	We have several patrons that are big fans. Calke shout out.
1:25.1	So I think there are going to be people that are very excited that we have you guys here.
1:29.7	Nice.
1:31.0	So before we dive into Gladiator for our listeners, I want to say that our next episode is going to be on Alien, the original Alien, which I've now realized, Tricia, that we accidentally did a Ridley Scott trilogy.
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