Gladiator: Did the producers tried to save money by stealing ideas

@umart13 (841)
Ireland
July 6, 2008 8:50pm CST
Gladiator was a powerful film, but there were two scenes in particular which showed that the producers were saving money and which take away from the film being a true classic. Did anybody else notice what was borrowed or stolen? UMart
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abhi_destar
@abhi_destar (764)
• India
7 Jul 08
No, I didn't notice any such thing. Gladiator was a true classic and will always remain so. Resemblances with some scenes of earlier movies doesn't mean that the producers "stole" them. I suppose the Oscar committee was more careful than you are.
umart13
@umart13 (841)
• Ireland
7 Jul 08
Hi abhi_destar, I think the storyline and the acting saves the movie and Hollywood was trying to create a good oldfashioned Epic-Movie. However, if you look behind the emperor (Joaquin Phoenix) when he his returning on his chariot to Rome, you will see the Brandenburg Gate, which Leni Riefenstahl had in her film Triumph of the Will. Regards Mart
hal9000
@hal9000 (8)
• Ireland
7 Jul 08
At the start of the film when the romans were fighting the germans. When the germans charged a soundtrack from the film Zulu was used as their battlecry.....cheapskates
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allen0187
@allen0187 (58444)
• Philippines
17 Jul 08
actually this was acknowledged by the film crew. check this bit of trivia in imdb: Among the chanting of the Germanic hordes at the beginning of the film are samples of the Zulu war chant from the film Zulu (1964). so i think that was on purpose in the film crew's part.
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