He spends all his days singularly obsessed... planning the festival to honor your father. He neglects even the most fundamental task of government.
Gladiator
6.5s
- Still nothing? - Not a sign. How long has he been gone? Nearly two hours.
Gladiator
16.2s
Have fresh horses ready to take me to Ostia. My army is encamped there. By nightfall of the second day, I'll return at the head of 5,000 men. But the legions all have new commanders... loyal to Commodus. Let my men see me alive, and you shall see where their loyalties lie. This is madness.
Gladiator
1m18s
5,000 of my men are out there in the freezing mud. 3,000 of them are bloodied and cleaved. 2,000 will never leave this place. I will not believe that they fought and died for nothing. And what would you believe? They fought for you and for Rome. And what is Rome, Maximus? I've seen much of the rest of the world. It is brutal and cruel and dark. Rome is the light. Yet you have never been there. You have not seen what it has become. I am dying, Maximus. When a man sees his end... he wants to know there was some purpose to his life. How will the world speak my name in years to come? Will I be known as the philosopher? The warrior? The tyrant? Or will I be the Emperor who gave Rome back her true self? There was once a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish... it was so fragile. And I fear that it will not survive the winter. Maximus... let us whisper now... together, you and I.
Gladiator
1.4s
Better now?
Gladiator
1.3s
Well done.
Gladiator
6.9s
Figs, apples, pears. The soil, Marcus, black. Black like my wife's hair.
Gladiator
2.6s
Archers, draw!
Gladiator
1m19s
5,000 of my men are out there in the freezing mud. 3,000 of them are bloodied and cleaved. 2,000 will never leave this place. I will not believe that they fought and died for nothing. And what would you believe? They fought for you and for Rome. And what is Rome, Maximus? I've seen much of the rest of the world. It is brutal and cruel and dark. Rome is the light. Yet you have never been there. You have not seen what it has become. I am dying, Maximus. When a man sees his end... he wants to know there was some purpose to his life. How will the world speak my name in years to come? Will I be known as the philosopher? The warrior? The tyrant? Or will I be the Emperor who gave Rome back her true self? There was once a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish... it was so fragile. And I fear that it will not survive the winter. Maximus... let us whisper now... together, you and I.
Gladiator
1.3s
Red.
Gladiator
2.1s
Where have you been?
Gladiator
3.4s
It's an idea. Greatness.
Gladiator
2s
Maximus, he doesn't know.
Gladiator
5.7s
Then you must let the legions know... their treachery will not go unpunished.
Gladiator
9.4s
Don't often see you enjoying the pleasures of the vulgar crowd. I don't pretend to be a man of the people, Senator... but I do try to be a man for the people.