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...Spartacus is one of the biggest lies put on the screen," he says, referring to the classic film...
...imagined a sort of "I am Spartacus - No, I am Spartacus!" scene in singles bars all over town, legions of hopeful imposters insisting, "I am Lance!" I envisioned a barroomful of men wearing Lance masks like Groucho glasses and moustaches. Then I felt obscurely flattered: I thought, my charm is cloning itself - franchising itself! Finding new host bodies...
...evening two weeks ago, inspired by the movie Gladiator, the boys had grabbed a copy of Spartacus at the video store...
...there have been very successful movies--Titanic, The Mask of Zorro, Saving Private Ryan--that introduced classic genres to new audiences, employing modern writing and digital techniques. The Roman epic occupies a strange, special place in the heart of moviegoers. We love the good ones like Ben-Hur and Spartacus, but even the bad ones are guilty pleasures." Scott recalls seeing these epics in his youth. "I loved the costume drama of it all and remembered that world vividly," he says. "But I also knew you can't bring that to bear today. You've got to reinvent...
...sister (Connie Nielsen). And as wonderful as Crowe is, the detached nature of his character (mostly the fault of the script) hinders his ability to turn Maximus into a truly mythic hero. The great Hollywood epics all had a sense of sweeping emotional grandeur (when the rebels all yell "Spartacus!" it's a cheesy yet uplifting scene) which is noticeably absent from Scott's film, which is more of a relentless, almost mechanical, exercise in blood sports. The end result is a movie that's exciting yet empty, visually gorgeous yet emotionally barren. As big-budget action films go, Gladiator...