Three minute run-time
Yes, I know it is fiction, but we can all use a boost to our moral every now and then.
These guys were all supposed to be dead-meat. The fix was in. The guy (dude in the red beanie) who purchased the guys who were supposed to lose probably bet against them.
The masks worn by the home-team partially blinded them. They could not see threats coming at them from oblique angles. The masks were intimidating but they came with a cost. There might be a lesson there.
The masks/helmets were there because in movies you can only show a certain amount of head trauma (decapitations, knife-in-skull, etc) without getting an X rating for violence. However, if the head is obscured...a motorcycle helmet, full face mask, etc....you can get away with as many decapitations and bullet-through-the-skull as you want.
ReplyDeleteGladiator is such a good movie. I need to rewatch it.
ReplyDeleteI might gently note - in passing - that gladiatorial combat at least in part came to an end not be revolution or warfare, but by the spread of Christianity
There is a degree of cruelty beyond the arranged fighting. Concentration camps... .GOV experimenting on people without their consent or even knowledge... Japanese bio experiments, Joe Mengele, and Tony Fauci with his beagles escalating to people for fun and profit.
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