Size Matters - The Biggest Ever Epics, Part 2
The big pictures are back courtesy of Messrs Scott, Leone and Coppola.
Gladiator
Hollywood used to make epics to give audiences what they couldn’t get on TV. But by the end of the 1980s, the genre was about as fashionable as Kajagoogoo. All of which made the success of Ridley Scott’s sword-and-sandal saga as surprising as it was welcome. The fall and rise of Roman general Maximus Decimus Meridius might boast computer-generated tigers and vast CGI sets but its success stems from its superior swordplay, its life-spanning love story and a truly tremendous leading turn.
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