Word: coliseums
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...Harvard traveled down South to the Alexander Memorial Coliseum at the McDonald's Center in Atlanta to take on the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets (8-3) for the first meeting ever between the two teams...
...order to investigate you have to be able to step back far enough from something to see it for what it is. All of the most absurd things in history went largely unquestioned, because people were already indoctrinated in them. It would be something like going to the Coliseum if you were a Roman. The fact that people were getting killed and eaten by lions didn't seem strange to you; you grew up with that. Hip-hop's language and messages are normal now to people, normal to someone my son's age. I remember a time before that...
...agrees. Next thing he knows, Commodus has seized the throne and he's been condemned to die. Maximus is able to escape, but he winds up a slave in a rag-tag gladiator boot camp where the greatest thrill (aside from survival) is the chance to compete in the Coliseum. And that is exactly where Maximus, with thoughts of revenge dancing in his mind, is headed after he proves his worth on what essentially amounts to the minor league gladiator circuit...
...virtuoso (White Squall? GI Jane?), but this is one project in which his supposed visual prowess is on display full-force. Taking a page from the James Cameron playbook, Scott meticulously recreates the world of ancient Rome, capturing the most minute details from the bustling streets to the massive Coliseum. And the numerous gladiator battles are quite spectacular, capturing the split-second barbarity through a combination of the realist "skip-frame" technique from Saving Private Ryan and the furious, in-your-face editing style Oliver Stone employed in Any Given Sunday...
...kitchen table and staging a battle with toy soldiers and ketchup, was cause for some concern. Just as quickly as this context has been established, though, the boy flies through time and space, a la Alice in Wonderland, to the opening historical scene of the play, set in a coliseum. As the film goes on, the boy becomes as the eyes of the audience, observing the action with minimal emotion...