1 00:03:18,407 --> 00:03:19,449 Sir. 2 00:03:19,533 --> 00:03:20,784 General. 3 00:03:31,670 --> 00:03:32,796 Sir. 4 00:03:47,811 --> 00:03:49,479 Lean and hungry. 5 00:03:52,649 --> 00:03:55,360 - Still nothing? - Not a sign. 6 00:03:55,444 --> 00:03:58,321 - How long has he been gone? - Nearly two hours. 7 00:04:01,324 --> 00:04:03,076 Will they fight, sir? 8 00:04:03,160 --> 00:04:04,661 We shall know soon enough. 9 00:04:04,745 --> 00:04:07,289 Soldier, I ordered you to move those catapults forward. 10 00:04:07,372 --> 00:04:09,666 - They're out of range. - Range is good. 11 00:04:11,334 --> 00:04:14,755 - The danger to the cavalry... - Is acceptable. Agreed? 12 00:04:24,473 --> 00:04:25,557 They say no. 13 00:04:51,500 --> 00:04:54,044 People should know when they're conquered. 14 00:05:04,513 --> 00:05:06,306 Would you, Quintus? 15 00:05:07,224 --> 00:05:08,517 Would I? 16 00:05:25,242 --> 00:05:27,953 - Strength and honor. - Strength and honor. 17 00:05:33,583 --> 00:05:36,753 At my signal, unleash hell. 18 00:05:59,442 --> 00:06:00,986 Load the catapults. 19 00:06:01,862 --> 00:06:03,822 Infantry form up for advance. 20 00:06:05,282 --> 00:06:07,701 - Archers ready. - Archers! 21 00:06:07,784 --> 00:06:09,286 - Nock! - Nock! 22 00:06:33,059 --> 00:06:34,436 Fratres! 23 00:06:34,519 --> 00:06:36,354 - Maximus! - Maximus! 24 00:06:37,814 --> 00:06:41,902 Three weeks from now, I will be harvesting my crops. 25 00:06:41,985 --> 00:06:46,448 Imagine where you will be, and it will be so. 26 00:06:47,157 --> 00:06:50,493 Hold the line! Stay with me! 27 00:06:50,577 --> 00:06:53,246 If you find yourself alone, 28 00:06:53,330 --> 00:06:56,333 riding in green fields with the sun on your face, 29 00:06:57,542 --> 00:06:59,711 do not be troubled. 30 00:07:00,545 --> 00:07:04,174 For you are in Elysium, and you're already dead! 31 00:07:06,343 --> 00:07:08,011 Brothers, 32 00:07:09,387 --> 00:07:11,222 what we do in life 33 00:07:12,307 --> 00:07:13,934 echoes in eternity. 34 00:07:22,442 --> 00:07:23,735 Pull! 35 00:07:39,376 --> 00:07:41,378 SOLDIER: Cohorts ready, sir! 36 00:07:52,097 --> 00:07:54,391 Archers, ignite! 37 00:07:54,641 --> 00:07:57,268 - Ignite! - Ignite! 38 00:08:03,149 --> 00:08:05,819 CENTURION: Archers, draw! 39 00:08:09,280 --> 00:08:10,657 Loose! 40 00:08:39,811 --> 00:08:41,771 CENTURION: All right, men, ready! 41 00:08:47,652 --> 00:08:49,571 MAXIMUS: Hold the line! 42 00:08:57,829 --> 00:08:59,956 SOLDIER 1: Loose! 43 00:09:00,040 --> 00:09:01,499 SOLDIER 2: Reload! 44 00:09:06,546 --> 00:09:08,548 MAXIMUS: Hold the line! 45 00:09:08,631 --> 00:09:10,967 - Draw! - Loose! 46 00:09:13,511 --> 00:09:15,305 MAXIMUS: Stay with me! 47 00:09:20,643 --> 00:09:22,896 Stay with me! 48 00:09:50,840 --> 00:09:53,760 Roma victor! 49 00:12:26,746 --> 00:12:28,706 Roma victor! 50 00:13:10,957 --> 00:13:13,042 Do you think he's really dying? 51 00:13:14,460 --> 00:13:16,462 He's been dying for 10 years. 52 00:13:17,880 --> 00:13:20,967 If he weren't really dying, he wouldn't have sent for us. 53 00:13:21,050 --> 00:13:22,844 Maybe he just misses us. 54 00:13:22,927 --> 00:13:25,513 And the senators? He wouldn't have summoned them if... 55 00:13:25,596 --> 00:13:26,889 Peace, Commodus. 56 00:13:26,973 --> 00:13:28,266 After two weeks on the road, 57 00:13:28,349 --> 00:13:31,019 your incessant scheming is hurting my head. 58 00:13:38,443 --> 00:13:41,863 He's made his decision. He's going to announce it. 59 00:13:45,450 --> 00:13:47,410 He will name me. 60 00:13:50,246 --> 00:13:53,916 The first thing I shall do when... 61 00:13:56,711 --> 00:14:00,006 Is honor him with games worthy of His Majesty. 62 00:14:00,089 --> 00:14:04,927 For now, the first thing I shall do is have a hot bath. 63 00:14:06,679 --> 00:14:08,431 SOLDIER 1: Your Highness? 64 00:14:12,101 --> 00:14:14,228 We seem to be almost there, sir. 65 00:14:20,777 --> 00:14:22,612 - Sire. - Where's the Emperor? 66 00:14:22,695 --> 00:14:26,366 He's at the front, sire. They've been gone for 19 days. 67 00:14:26,449 --> 00:14:28,659 The wounded are still coming in. 68 00:14:28,743 --> 00:14:30,370 My horse. 69 00:14:30,453 --> 00:14:32,121 SOLDIER 3: My lord. 70 00:14:35,666 --> 00:14:36,751 Kiss? 71 00:15:12,703 --> 00:15:16,207 You have proved your valor yet again, Maximus. 72 00:15:18,376 --> 00:15:21,087 Let us hope, for the last time. 73 00:15:21,504 --> 00:15:23,756 There's no one left to fight, sire. 74 00:15:23,840 --> 00:15:26,509 There is always someone left to fight. 75 00:15:26,592 --> 00:15:29,512 How can I reward Rome's greatest general? 76 00:15:34,976 --> 00:15:36,519 Let me go home. 77 00:15:37,645 --> 00:15:38,688 Ah! 78 00:15:39,105 --> 00:15:40,314 Home. 79 00:15:59,083 --> 00:16:00,668 They honor you, Caesar. 80 00:16:00,751 --> 00:16:03,546 It's for you, Maximus. They honor you. 81 00:16:26,569 --> 00:16:29,238 Have I missed it? Have I missed the battle? 82 00:16:30,907 --> 00:16:32,700 You have missed the war. 83 00:16:32,783 --> 00:16:34,994 Father, congratulations. 84 00:16:35,620 --> 00:16:37,872 I shall sacrifice 100 bulls to honor your triumph. 85 00:16:37,955 --> 00:16:39,624 Save the bulls. 86 00:16:39,707 --> 00:16:42,168 Honor Maximus. He won the battle. 87 00:16:42,585 --> 00:16:44,921 - COMMODUS: General. - Highness. 88 00:16:45,922 --> 00:16:49,509 Rome salutes you, and I embrace you as a brother. 89 00:16:49,592 --> 00:16:51,385 It has been too long, my old friend. 90 00:16:51,469 --> 00:16:52,929 Highness. 91 00:16:53,012 --> 00:16:55,598 Here, Father. Take my arm. 92 00:16:57,183 --> 00:17:00,394 I think it is time for me to leave. 93 00:17:15,535 --> 00:17:18,871 So much for the glory of Rome. 94 00:18:48,044 --> 00:18:49,712 Magnificent battle. 95 00:19:13,653 --> 00:19:15,363 General. Still alive? 96 00:19:15,446 --> 00:19:16,739 Still alive. 97 00:19:16,822 --> 00:19:18,449 The gods must have a sense of humor. 98 00:19:18,532 --> 00:19:21,202 - QUINTUS: The gods must love you. - Valerius. 99 00:19:21,285 --> 00:19:24,163 Back to barracks, General? Or to Rome? 100 00:19:24,246 --> 00:19:27,333 Home. My wife, my son, the harvest. 101 00:19:27,958 --> 00:19:31,295 Maximus the farmer. I still have difficulty imagining that. 102 00:19:31,379 --> 00:19:35,007 You know, dirt cleans off a lot easier than blood, Quintus. 103 00:19:35,091 --> 00:19:37,176 - Here he is. - Highness. 104 00:19:37,259 --> 00:19:39,428 Senator Gaius, Senator Falco. 105 00:19:39,512 --> 00:19:42,390 Beware of Gaius. He'll pour a honeyed potion in your ear, 106 00:19:42,473 --> 00:19:46,060 and you'll wake up one day and all you'll say is, "Republic, republic, republic." 107 00:19:46,143 --> 00:19:48,813 Well, why not? Rome was founded as a republic. 108 00:19:48,896 --> 00:19:51,774 Yes, and in a republic the senate has the power. 109 00:19:51,857 --> 00:19:54,068 But Senator Gaius isn't influenced by that, of course. 110 00:19:54,151 --> 00:19:57,154 Where do you stand, General? Emperor or Senate? 111 00:19:57,238 --> 00:19:58,489 A soldier has the advantage 112 00:19:58,572 --> 00:20:01,992 of being able to look his enemy in the eye, Senator. 113 00:20:02,076 --> 00:20:06,080 Well, with an army behind you, you could be extremely political. 114 00:20:06,163 --> 00:20:09,291 I warned you. Now I shall save you. Senators. 115 00:20:19,135 --> 00:20:20,553 Maximus. 116 00:20:21,637 --> 00:20:24,140 I'm going to need good men like you. 117 00:20:26,267 --> 00:20:28,811 How may I be of service, Highness? 118 00:20:28,894 --> 00:20:31,939 You're a man who knows what it is to command. 119 00:20:32,022 --> 00:20:35,359 You give your orders, the orders are obeyed, and the battle is won. 120 00:20:35,443 --> 00:20:40,239 But these senators scheme, squabble and flatter and deceive. 121 00:20:40,740 --> 00:20:43,784 Maximus, we must save Rome from the politicians, my friend. 122 00:20:43,868 --> 00:20:46,996 Can I count on you when the time comes? 123 00:20:52,960 --> 00:20:55,755 Highness, when your father releases me, I intend to return home. 124 00:20:55,838 --> 00:20:59,008 Home? Well, no one's earned it more. 125 00:21:00,551 --> 00:21:04,346 Don't get too comfortable. I may call on you before long. 126 00:21:06,432 --> 00:21:09,018 Lucilla's here. Did you know? 127 00:21:09,518 --> 00:21:11,437 She's not forgotten you. 128 00:21:12,730 --> 00:21:15,065 And now, you're the great man. 129 00:21:27,369 --> 00:21:29,872 If only you had been born a man, 130 00:21:30,915 --> 00:21:33,209 what a Caesar you would have made. 131 00:21:34,877 --> 00:21:36,337 Father. 132 00:21:42,384 --> 00:21:44,345 You would have been strong. 133 00:21:44,428 --> 00:21:47,681 I wonder, would you have been just? 134 00:21:48,432 --> 00:21:51,101 I would have been what you taught me to be. 135 00:21:53,103 --> 00:21:54,647 How was your journey? 136 00:21:54,730 --> 00:21:58,484 Long. Uncomfortable. Why have I come? 137 00:21:59,068 --> 00:22:01,654 I need your help. With your brother. 138 00:22:01,987 --> 00:22:03,781 Of course. 139 00:22:03,864 --> 00:22:05,991 He loves you. He always has. 140 00:22:07,076 --> 00:22:08,244 And 141 00:22:10,120 --> 00:22:13,290 he will need you now, more than ever. 142 00:22:18,379 --> 00:22:20,256 Enough of politics. 143 00:22:20,506 --> 00:22:23,467 Let us pretend that you are a loving daughter, 144 00:22:24,051 --> 00:22:26,428 and I am a good father. 145 00:22:31,976 --> 00:22:34,728 This is a pleasant fiction, isn't it? 146 00:22:47,741 --> 00:22:49,201 MAN 1: Good morning to you. 147 00:23:02,423 --> 00:23:04,884 MAN 2: I need three more horses. 148 00:23:13,517 --> 00:23:16,937 One! Two! Three! 149 00:23:17,730 --> 00:23:18,939 Four! 150 00:23:19,023 --> 00:23:21,275 One! Two! 151 00:23:37,499 --> 00:23:39,418 MAXIMUS: You sent for me, Caesar? 152 00:23:44,173 --> 00:23:47,051 - Caesar? - Tell me again, Maximus. 153 00:23:48,135 --> 00:23:49,845 Why are we here? 154 00:23:51,180 --> 00:23:53,682 For the glory of the empire, sire. 155 00:23:54,141 --> 00:23:55,184 Yes. 156 00:23:57,227 --> 00:23:59,188 Yes, I remember. 157 00:24:02,274 --> 00:24:04,526 Do you see that map, Maximus? 158 00:24:05,361 --> 00:24:07,863 That is the world which I created. 159 00:24:08,739 --> 00:24:10,366 For 25 years, 160 00:24:10,866 --> 00:24:14,787 I have conquered, spilt blood, expanded the empire. 161 00:24:16,205 --> 00:24:19,959 Since I became Caesar, I've known four years without war. 162 00:24:20,042 --> 00:24:22,544 Four years of peace in 20. 163 00:24:22,878 --> 00:24:24,338 And for what? 164 00:24:31,720 --> 00:24:35,557 I brought the sword. Nothing more. 165 00:24:36,850 --> 00:24:38,143 Caesar, your life... 166 00:24:38,227 --> 00:24:40,813 Please. Please don't call me that. 167 00:24:41,063 --> 00:24:43,357 Come. Please. 168 00:24:44,149 --> 00:24:45,526 Come sit. 169 00:24:46,360 --> 00:24:49,071 Let us talk together now, 170 00:24:49,947 --> 00:24:52,074 very simply, as men. 171 00:24:52,741 --> 00:24:54,576 Well, Maximus, 172 00:24:56,912 --> 00:24:58,122 talk. 173 00:25:01,083 --> 00:25:04,086 Five thousand of my men are out there in the freezing mud. 174 00:25:04,169 --> 00:25:05,963 Three thousand of them are bloodied and cleaved. 175 00:25:06,046 --> 00:25:07,506 Two thousand will never leave this place. 176 00:25:07,589 --> 00:25:10,801 I will not believe that they fought and died for nothing. 177 00:25:10,884 --> 00:25:12,511 And what would you believe? 178 00:25:12,594 --> 00:25:16,432 They fought for you and for Rome. 179 00:25:16,515 --> 00:25:18,308 And what is Rome, Maximus? 180 00:25:20,477 --> 00:25:22,896 I've seen much of the rest of the world. 181 00:25:22,980 --> 00:25:26,984 It is brutal and cruel and dark. Rome is the light. 182 00:25:27,067 --> 00:25:28,986 Yet you have never been there. 183 00:25:29,069 --> 00:25:31,530 You have not seen what it has become. 184 00:25:31,613 --> 00:25:34,658 I am dying, Maximus. 185 00:25:35,284 --> 00:25:36,577 When a man sees his end, 186 00:25:36,660 --> 00:25:39,705 he wants to know there was some purpose to his life. 187 00:25:40,831 --> 00:25:44,001 How will the world speak my name in years to come? 188 00:25:44,084 --> 00:25:46,378 Will I be known as the philosopher? 189 00:25:46,462 --> 00:25:47,963 The warrior? 190 00:25:48,255 --> 00:25:49,673 The tyrant? 191 00:25:51,175 --> 00:25:55,804 Or will I be the Emperor who gave Rome back her true self? 192 00:25:56,805 --> 00:25:59,224 There was once a dream that was Rome. 193 00:25:59,308 --> 00:26:02,061 You could only whisper it. 194 00:26:02,144 --> 00:26:05,230 Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish, 195 00:26:05,314 --> 00:26:07,149 it was so fragile. 196 00:26:07,441 --> 00:26:11,153 And I fear that it will not survive the winter. 197 00:26:12,738 --> 00:26:14,156 Maximus, 198 00:26:15,032 --> 00:26:17,993 let us whisper now, 199 00:26:18,202 --> 00:26:19,953 together, you and I. 200 00:26:20,662 --> 00:26:22,164 You have a son. 201 00:26:23,665 --> 00:26:25,542 Tell me about your home. 202 00:26:31,757 --> 00:26:34,676 My house is in the hills above Trujillo. 203 00:26:36,011 --> 00:26:37,805 A very simple place. 204 00:26:38,222 --> 00:26:41,141 Pink stones that warm in the sun. 205 00:26:41,225 --> 00:26:44,728 A kitchen garden that smells of herbs in the day, 206 00:26:45,521 --> 00:26:47,397 jasmine in the evening. 207 00:26:49,066 --> 00:26:51,652 Through the gate is a giant poplar. 208 00:26:51,944 --> 00:26:54,780 Figs, apples, pears. 209 00:26:54,863 --> 00:26:58,450 The soil, Marcus, black. Black like my wife's hair. 210 00:26:59,743 --> 00:27:01,912 Grapes on the south slopes, olives on the north. 211 00:27:01,995 --> 00:27:04,248 Wild ponies play near my house. They tease my son. 212 00:27:04,331 --> 00:27:05,958 He wants to be one of them. 213 00:27:06,041 --> 00:27:07,835 When was the last time you were home? 214 00:27:07,918 --> 00:27:11,046 Two years, 264 days and this morning. 215 00:27:12,673 --> 00:27:15,968 I envy you, Maximus. It's a good home. 216 00:27:17,678 --> 00:27:19,388 Worth fighting for. 217 00:27:22,224 --> 00:27:24,351 There is one more duty 218 00:27:24,893 --> 00:27:27,646 that I ask of you before you go home. 219 00:27:29,565 --> 00:27:31,692 What would you have me do, Caesar? 220 00:27:31,775 --> 00:27:35,404 I want you to become the protector of Rome after I die. 221 00:27:36,572 --> 00:27:39,575 I will empower you to one end alone, 222 00:27:40,117 --> 00:27:43,579 to give power back to the people of Rome, 223 00:27:43,912 --> 00:27:46,999 and end the corruption that has crippled it. 224 00:27:53,255 --> 00:27:56,925 Will you accept this great honor that I have offered you? 225 00:27:58,260 --> 00:28:00,220 With all my heart, no. 226 00:28:02,764 --> 00:28:04,516 Maximus, 227 00:28:05,100 --> 00:28:08,020 that is why it must be you. 228 00:28:08,103 --> 00:28:10,189 But surely a prefect, a senator, 229 00:28:10,272 --> 00:28:12,983 somebody who knows the city, who understands her politics. 230 00:28:13,066 --> 00:28:16,028 But you have not been corrupted by her politics. 231 00:28:21,074 --> 00:28:24,661 - And Commodus? - Commodus is not a moral man. 232 00:28:25,621 --> 00:28:28,248 You have known that since you were young. 233 00:28:28,332 --> 00:28:30,292 Commodus cannot rule. 234 00:28:30,375 --> 00:28:32,753 He must not rule. 235 00:28:34,296 --> 00:28:37,090 You are the son that I should have had. 236 00:28:39,635 --> 00:28:42,638 Commodus will accept my decision. 237 00:28:44,932 --> 00:28:49,686 He knows that you command the loyalty of the army. 238 00:28:54,566 --> 00:28:56,151 I need some time, sire. 239 00:28:56,235 --> 00:28:57,694 Yes. 240 00:28:57,778 --> 00:29:01,323 By sunset, I hope you will have agreed. 241 00:29:02,407 --> 00:29:04,576 Now embrace me as my son. 242 00:29:07,996 --> 00:29:10,707 And bring an old man another blanket. 243 00:29:26,974 --> 00:29:29,434 - My father favors you now. - My lady. 244 00:29:30,018 --> 00:29:33,021 - It was not always so. - Many things change. 245 00:29:33,313 --> 00:29:36,525 Many things. Not everything. 246 00:29:39,403 --> 00:29:41,071 Maximus, stop. 247 00:29:44,616 --> 00:29:46,535 Let me see your face. 248 00:29:49,121 --> 00:29:51,790 - You seem upset. - I lost many men. 249 00:29:52,708 --> 00:29:55,043 What did my father want with you? 250 00:29:56,128 --> 00:29:59,089 To wish me well before I leave for home. 251 00:29:59,715 --> 00:30:01,216 You're lying. 252 00:30:01,550 --> 00:30:04,886 I could always tell when you were lying, because you were never any good at it. 253 00:30:04,970 --> 00:30:06,471 I never acquired your comfort with it. 254 00:30:06,555 --> 00:30:07,597 True. 255 00:30:07,681 --> 00:30:09,766 But then you never had to. 256 00:30:10,267 --> 00:30:12,978 Life is more simple for a soldier. 257 00:30:14,730 --> 00:30:16,982 Or do you think me heartless? 258 00:30:17,983 --> 00:30:20,736 I think you have a talent for survival. 259 00:30:26,742 --> 00:30:28,285 Maximus, stop. 260 00:30:30,579 --> 00:30:33,373 Is it really so terrible seeing me again? 261 00:30:33,457 --> 00:30:35,959 No. I'm tired from battle. 262 00:30:36,585 --> 00:30:39,379 It hurts you to see my father so fragile. 263 00:30:42,507 --> 00:30:46,928 Commodus expects that my father will announce his succession within days. 264 00:30:48,096 --> 00:30:51,475 Will you serve my brother as you served his father? 265 00:30:53,643 --> 00:30:55,812 I will always serve Rome. 266 00:30:57,731 --> 00:30:59,524 Do you know, 267 00:30:59,608 --> 00:31:02,110 I still remember you in my prayers. 268 00:31:03,153 --> 00:31:06,073 Oh, yes. I pray. 269 00:31:10,619 --> 00:31:13,955 I was sad to hear of your husband's death. I mourned him. 270 00:31:15,832 --> 00:31:18,668 - Thank you. - And I hear you have a son. 271 00:31:20,337 --> 00:31:22,756 Yes. Lucius. 272 00:31:24,549 --> 00:31:26,343 He'll be nearly eight years old. 273 00:31:26,426 --> 00:31:28,678 My son is also nearly eight. 274 00:31:31,473 --> 00:31:33,642 I thank you for your prayers. 275 00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:43,944 Ancestors, I ask for your guidance. 276 00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:48,824 Blessed Mother, come to me with the gods' desire for my future. 277 00:31:50,450 --> 00:31:54,246 Blessed Father, watch over my wife and son with a ready sword. 278 00:31:55,455 --> 00:31:58,333 Whisper to them, I live only to hold them again. 279 00:31:59,459 --> 00:32:01,670 Ancestors, I honor you, 280 00:32:02,838 --> 00:32:06,133 and will try to live with the dignity you have taught me. 281 00:32:29,030 --> 00:32:30,240 Cicero. 282 00:32:34,828 --> 00:32:35,954 Sir. 283 00:32:40,417 --> 00:32:42,961 Do you ever find it hard to do your duty? 284 00:32:45,714 --> 00:32:48,258 Sometimes I do what I want to do. 285 00:32:49,009 --> 00:32:51,553 The rest of the time, I do what I have to. 286 00:32:54,556 --> 00:32:57,434 We may not be able to go home, after all. 287 00:33:48,568 --> 00:33:51,363 Are you ready to do your duty for Rome? 288 00:33:54,533 --> 00:33:55,951 Yes, Father. 289 00:33:57,035 --> 00:33:59,120 You will not be emperor. 290 00:34:02,457 --> 00:34:04,793 Which wiser, older man is to take my place? 291 00:34:04,876 --> 00:34:07,420 My powers will pass to Maximus, 292 00:34:08,630 --> 00:34:10,382 to hold in trust, 293 00:34:10,465 --> 00:34:14,177 until the Senate is ready to rule once more. 294 00:34:15,762 --> 00:34:19,182 Rome is to be a republic again. 295 00:34:21,142 --> 00:34:23,728 - Maximus. - Yes. 296 00:34:29,818 --> 00:34:32,070 My decision disappoints you? 297 00:34:35,615 --> 00:34:37,659 You wrote to me once, 298 00:34:39,536 --> 00:34:41,955 listing the four chief virtues. 299 00:34:43,707 --> 00:34:45,083 Wisdom, 300 00:34:45,166 --> 00:34:46,626 justice, 301 00:34:46,710 --> 00:34:48,169 fortitude, 302 00:34:48,587 --> 00:34:50,380 and temperance. 303 00:34:52,507 --> 00:34:55,677 As I read the list, I knew I had none of them. 304 00:34:56,636 --> 00:34:59,097 But I have other virtues, Father. 305 00:35:00,307 --> 00:35:01,641 Ambition. 306 00:35:02,851 --> 00:35:05,854 That can be a virtue when it drives us to excel. 307 00:35:07,188 --> 00:35:10,275 Resourcefulness, courage. 308 00:35:11,359 --> 00:35:15,655 Perhaps not on the battlefield, but there are many forms of courage. 309 00:35:17,282 --> 00:35:20,535 Devotion to my family, 310 00:35:21,661 --> 00:35:23,038 to you. 311 00:35:24,539 --> 00:35:27,334 But none of my virtues were on your list. 312 00:35:29,586 --> 00:35:32,922 Even then it was as if you didn't want me for your son. 313 00:35:33,006 --> 00:35:34,382 Commodus, 314 00:35:35,258 --> 00:35:36,926 you go too far. 315 00:35:37,719 --> 00:35:40,722 I searched the faces of the gods 316 00:35:41,473 --> 00:35:45,852 for ways to please you, to make you proud. 317 00:35:46,728 --> 00:35:48,730 One kind word, 318 00:35:49,147 --> 00:35:51,066 one full hug, 319 00:35:51,232 --> 00:35:54,903 where you pressed me to your chest and held me tight, 320 00:35:56,071 --> 00:35:59,574 would have been like the sun on my heart for 1,000 years. 321 00:36:02,243 --> 00:36:04,037 What is it in me you hate so much? 322 00:36:04,120 --> 00:36:06,122 Shh... Commodus. 323 00:36:07,207 --> 00:36:09,292 All I've ever wanted 324 00:36:09,584 --> 00:36:13,838 was to live up to you, Caesar. 325 00:36:15,090 --> 00:36:17,759 - Father. - Commodus, 326 00:36:22,180 --> 00:36:24,265 your faults as a son 327 00:36:25,266 --> 00:36:28,603 is my failure as a father. 328 00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:40,782 Come. 329 00:36:44,327 --> 00:36:45,787 Father. 330 00:37:00,719 --> 00:37:03,430 I would butcher the whole world, 331 00:37:04,305 --> 00:37:06,808 if you would only have loved me! 332 00:37:44,471 --> 00:37:47,557 Maximus, the Emperor needs you. It's urgent. 333 00:37:53,021 --> 00:37:54,856 Lament with me, brother. 334 00:37:55,940 --> 00:37:57,901 Our great father is dead. 335 00:38:24,636 --> 00:38:26,221 MAXIMUS: How did he die? 336 00:38:27,514 --> 00:38:30,183 The surgeons say there was no pain. 337 00:38:30,266 --> 00:38:32,393 His breath gave out as he slept. 338 00:38:42,153 --> 00:38:43,404 MAXIMUS: Father. 339 00:38:46,074 --> 00:38:48,743 Your emperor asks for your loyalty, Maximus. 340 00:38:50,078 --> 00:38:51,704 Take my hand. 341 00:38:54,415 --> 00:38:56,251 I only offer it once. 342 00:39:10,431 --> 00:39:11,766 MAXIMUS: Quintus. 343 00:40:01,983 --> 00:40:03,484 Hail, Caesar. 344 00:40:04,444 --> 00:40:07,071 I must talk to the senators. I need their counsel. 345 00:40:07,155 --> 00:40:09,741 - Wake Gaius and Falco. - Gaius and Falco. 346 00:40:09,824 --> 00:40:12,035 - Sword. - Sword. 347 00:40:14,537 --> 00:40:17,457 Maximus, please be careful. That was not prudent. 348 00:40:17,540 --> 00:40:20,335 Prudent? The Emperor has been slain. 349 00:40:20,793 --> 00:40:23,296 The emperor died of natural causes. 350 00:40:25,048 --> 00:40:27,300 - Why are you armed, Quintus? - QUINTUS: Guards! 351 00:40:30,511 --> 00:40:32,680 Please don't fight, Maximus. 352 00:40:34,432 --> 00:40:36,726 I'm sorry. Caesar has spoken. 353 00:40:37,185 --> 00:40:38,978 Ride until dawn, 354 00:40:40,188 --> 00:40:41,773 and then execute him. 355 00:40:41,856 --> 00:40:44,275 Quintus, look at me. Look at me! 356 00:40:44,525 --> 00:40:47,445 Promise me that you will look after my family. 357 00:40:48,529 --> 00:40:51,199 Your family will meet you in the afterlife. 358 00:41:16,057 --> 00:41:17,308 SOLDIER: Kneel. 359 00:41:20,853 --> 00:41:23,231 MAXIMUS: Blessed Father, watch over my wife and son. 360 00:41:23,314 --> 00:41:26,401 Whisper to them that I live only to hold them again. 361 00:41:29,028 --> 00:41:31,406 At least give me a clean death. 362 00:41:33,116 --> 00:41:34,909 A soldier's death. 363 00:41:56,222 --> 00:41:59,392 The frost, sometimes it makes the blade stick. 364 00:42:20,038 --> 00:42:21,456 Praetorian! 365 00:43:41,202 --> 00:43:43,121 MARCUS AURELIUS: When was the last time you were home? 366 00:43:43,204 --> 00:43:46,207 Two years, 264 days and this morning. 367 00:43:47,792 --> 00:43:49,627 Blessed Father, watch over my wife and son with a ready sword. 368 00:43:49,710 --> 00:43:52,088 I will try to live with the dignity you have taught me. 369 00:43:52,171 --> 00:43:54,632 Whisper to them, I live only to hold them again. 370 00:43:54,715 --> 00:43:57,135 ...with a ready sword, for all else is dust and air. 371 00:43:57,218 --> 00:44:00,388 Whisper to them, I live only to hold them again. 372 00:44:00,471 --> 00:44:02,765 For all else is dust and air. 373 00:45:03,034 --> 00:45:05,036 Papal 374 00:47:49,116 --> 00:47:50,618 MAN: Don't die. 375 00:47:56,916 --> 00:47:58,584 JUBA: You'll meet them again. 376 00:48:00,628 --> 00:48:01,921 Not yet. 377 00:48:10,471 --> 00:48:14,225 No. They will clean it. Wait and see. 378 00:48:48,634 --> 00:48:50,010 Don't die. 379 00:48:50,803 --> 00:48:53,222 They'll feed you to the lions. 380 00:48:53,305 --> 00:48:55,599 They are worth more than we are. 381 00:49:05,609 --> 00:49:07,069 Better now? 382 00:49:08,195 --> 00:49:10,072 Clean. You see? 383 00:49:40,811 --> 00:49:43,647 SLAVE TRADER: Proximo! My old friend. 384 00:49:45,024 --> 00:49:48,110 Every day is a great day when you are here, 385 00:49:48,569 --> 00:49:52,740 but today is your most fortunate day. 386 00:49:55,367 --> 00:49:59,079 Those giraffes you sold me, they won't mate. 387 00:49:59,705 --> 00:50:03,626 They just walk around eating and not mating. 388 00:50:04,919 --> 00:50:07,838 You sold me queer giraffes. 389 00:50:08,714 --> 00:50:11,258 - I want my money back. - Not a chance. 390 00:50:15,012 --> 00:50:17,848 - I do special price for you. - On what? 391 00:50:19,934 --> 00:50:22,853 Have you seen my new stock? Come and see them. 392 00:50:36,784 --> 00:50:39,578 PROXIMO: Do any of them fight? I've got a match coming up. 393 00:50:39,662 --> 00:50:42,456 Some are good for fighting, others for dying. 394 00:50:42,540 --> 00:50:44,875 You need both, I think. 395 00:50:44,959 --> 00:50:46,168 Get up. 396 00:50:54,134 --> 00:50:55,803 PROXIMO: What's your trade? 397 00:50:56,470 --> 00:50:57,763 I was a hunter. 398 00:50:57,846 --> 00:51:01,559 No, I bought him from a salt mine in Carthage. 399 00:51:02,351 --> 00:51:03,727 Sit down. 400 00:51:07,856 --> 00:51:10,025 PROXIMO: Mark of the legion. 401 00:51:10,109 --> 00:51:11,068 Deserter. 402 00:51:11,151 --> 00:51:12,861 Maybe so, but who cares? 403 00:51:13,320 --> 00:51:14,446 He's a Spaniard. 404 00:51:14,530 --> 00:51:16,490 I'll take six. For 1,000. 405 00:51:16,574 --> 00:51:20,077 1,000? The Numidian alone is worth 2,000. 406 00:51:20,160 --> 00:51:22,246 PROXIMO: These slaves are rotten. 407 00:51:22,329 --> 00:51:25,499 It all adds to the flavor. No, no, no, wait! Wait! 408 00:51:26,000 --> 00:51:27,710 I can negotiate. 409 00:51:28,836 --> 00:51:33,007 I'll give you 2,000, and 4,000 for the beasts. 410 00:51:33,090 --> 00:51:35,217 That's 5,000 for an old friend. 411 00:51:52,860 --> 00:51:56,280 Come on! How long does it take to get into my own house? 412 00:51:56,363 --> 00:51:58,282 I am Proximo. 413 00:51:58,991 --> 00:52:01,535 I shall be closer to you for the next few days, 414 00:52:01,619 --> 00:52:03,829 which will be the last of your miserable lives, 415 00:52:03,912 --> 00:52:08,250 than that bitch of a mother that brought you screaming into this world. 416 00:52:08,542 --> 00:52:11,879 I did not pay good money for you for your company. 417 00:52:13,088 --> 00:52:16,300 I paid it so that I could profit from your death. 418 00:52:17,051 --> 00:52:20,804 And as your mother was there at your beginning, 419 00:52:21,805 --> 00:52:24,391 so I shall be there at your end. 420 00:52:25,893 --> 00:52:28,937 And when you die, and die you shall, 421 00:52:29,855 --> 00:52:32,775 your transition shall be to the sound of... 422 00:52:37,488 --> 00:52:38,947 Gladiators, 423 00:52:40,074 --> 00:52:41,617 I salute you. 424 00:52:46,372 --> 00:52:47,414 MAN: Red. 425 00:52:51,085 --> 00:52:52,419 Yellow. 426 00:52:53,545 --> 00:52:54,838 Yellow. 427 00:53:05,557 --> 00:53:06,684 PROXIMO: Good. 428 00:53:07,476 --> 00:53:08,852 - Red. - MAN: Red. 429 00:53:13,774 --> 00:53:15,067 Spaniard. 430 00:53:48,434 --> 00:53:50,769 That's enough for the moment! 431 00:53:51,103 --> 00:53:52,730 His time will come. 432 00:53:55,774 --> 00:53:56,817 Next. 433 00:54:10,164 --> 00:54:11,498 Spaniard, 434 00:54:13,000 --> 00:54:14,793 why don't you fight? 435 00:54:15,169 --> 00:54:16,628 We all have to fight. 436 00:54:16,712 --> 00:54:18,422 Well, I don't fight. 437 00:54:19,089 --> 00:54:22,301 I shouldn't be here, I'm a scribe, I write down words, 438 00:54:22,384 --> 00:54:24,261 and speak seven languages. 439 00:54:24,344 --> 00:54:25,387 Good. 440 00:54:26,346 --> 00:54:29,349 Tomorrow, you can scream in seven languages. 441 00:54:37,649 --> 00:54:40,986 HAGEN: Perhaps the scribe will be the one who wins his freedom. 442 00:54:41,987 --> 00:54:43,280 Freedom? 443 00:54:44,364 --> 00:54:46,200 What do I have to do? 444 00:54:46,617 --> 00:54:48,911 You go in the arena and you kill me. 445 00:54:48,994 --> 00:54:50,370 And him, 446 00:54:51,371 --> 00:54:53,081 and the Numidian, 447 00:54:53,165 --> 00:54:54,750 and the deserter. 448 00:54:56,376 --> 00:54:57,795 And 100 more. 449 00:54:57,878 --> 00:55:00,714 And when there's no more to fight, you're free. 450 00:55:01,381 --> 00:55:03,133 I can't do that. 451 00:55:04,176 --> 00:55:05,385 No? 452 00:55:11,642 --> 00:55:13,060 But I can. 453 00:55:28,575 --> 00:55:30,786 Is that the sign of your gods? 454 00:55:35,999 --> 00:55:38,085 Will that not anger them? 455 00:55:59,398 --> 00:56:01,066 The gods favor you. 456 00:56:01,441 --> 00:56:03,610 Red is the gods' color. 457 00:56:04,987 --> 00:56:07,155 You will need their help today. 458 00:56:46,528 --> 00:56:48,155 Proximo! 459 00:56:53,493 --> 00:56:55,662 Still leading with the German? 460 00:56:55,746 --> 00:56:57,831 PROXIMO: The crowd love a barbarian. 461 00:56:58,290 --> 00:57:00,208 Besides that, he's making me rich. 462 00:57:00,292 --> 00:57:02,920 Has that Numidian fought before? 463 00:57:03,754 --> 00:57:05,339 No, first time. 464 00:57:05,422 --> 00:57:08,383 MAN: And that one, laborer, soldier? 465 00:57:08,800 --> 00:57:10,052 He's a Spaniard. 466 00:57:10,135 --> 00:57:13,221 He might as well be a eunuch for what he brings to the ring. 467 00:57:14,181 --> 00:57:18,393 500 sestertii, the Numidian and Spaniard team makes it through. 468 00:57:18,477 --> 00:57:22,189 And 1,000, that the Numidian makes it through alone. 469 00:57:23,690 --> 00:57:26,818 Are you asking me to bet against my own man? 470 00:57:28,654 --> 00:57:30,155 It's unethical. 471 00:57:30,238 --> 00:57:32,115 What if I make it 2,000? 472 00:57:46,421 --> 00:57:49,466 Some of you are thinking you won't fight, 473 00:57:50,759 --> 00:57:52,052 some that you can't fight. 474 00:57:53,387 --> 00:57:56,890 They all say that until they're out there. 475 00:57:59,685 --> 00:58:00,852 Listen. 476 00:58:00,936 --> 00:58:03,855 - Kill! Kill! Kill! - Kill! Kill! Kill! 477 00:58:10,988 --> 00:58:13,699 Thrust this into another man's flesh, 478 00:58:14,116 --> 00:58:16,785 and they will applaud and love you for that. 479 00:58:16,868 --> 00:58:18,286 And you, 480 00:58:20,247 --> 00:58:22,207 you may begin to love them 481 00:58:23,041 --> 00:58:24,459 for that. 482 00:58:28,547 --> 00:58:32,050 Ultimately, we're all dead men. 483 00:58:34,594 --> 00:58:36,888 Sadly, we cannot choose how, 484 00:58:38,140 --> 00:58:40,934 but we can decide how we meet that end, 485 00:58:41,852 --> 00:58:44,354 in order that we are remembered 486 00:58:46,273 --> 00:58:47,524 as men. 487 00:58:47,607 --> 00:58:48,650 MAN 1: Come on! 488 00:58:51,611 --> 00:58:53,905 MAN 2: On the left, draw your shields! 489 00:58:54,948 --> 00:58:57,325 On the right, draw your swords! 490 00:58:57,617 --> 00:59:00,162 - Kill! Kill! Kill! - Kill! Kill! Kill! 491 00:59:01,288 --> 00:59:03,707 MAN 2: Pair them up, red with yellow. 492 00:59:08,754 --> 00:59:09,963 Next! 493 00:59:15,844 --> 00:59:16,928 Move! 494 01:02:34,292 --> 01:02:36,378 MAN: Usurper! 495 01:02:57,983 --> 01:03:00,694 - Go away! - MAN: You'll never rule us, Commodus! 496 01:03:31,099 --> 01:03:35,812 He enters Rome like a conquering hero. But what has he conquered? 497 01:03:36,104 --> 01:03:38,523 Give him time, Gracchus. He's young. 498 01:03:38,606 --> 01:03:40,900 I think he could do very well. 499 01:03:41,234 --> 01:03:43,194 GRACCHUS: For Rome, or for you? 500 01:03:49,492 --> 01:03:52,579 Go to your mother, Lucius. It's what she'd like. 501 01:03:59,044 --> 01:04:01,087 - LUCILLA: Lucius! - Mother! 502 01:04:03,381 --> 01:04:04,924 Hail, Caesar. 503 01:04:05,008 --> 01:04:06,509 Senators. 504 01:04:10,138 --> 01:04:13,058 Rome greets her new emperor. 505 01:04:13,141 --> 01:04:16,686 Your loyal subjects bid you welcome, Highness. 506 01:04:16,770 --> 01:04:18,605 Thank you, Falco. 507 01:04:18,688 --> 01:04:22,776 And for the loyal subjects, I trust they weren't too expensive. 508 01:04:22,859 --> 01:04:24,861 - Caesar. - Gracchus. 509 01:04:24,944 --> 01:04:27,447 All Rome rejoices in your return, Caesar. 510 01:04:27,530 --> 01:04:31,034 But there are many matters that require your attention. 511 01:04:33,495 --> 01:04:36,373 GRACCHUS: To order, please. To order. 512 01:04:36,831 --> 01:04:38,625 For your guidance, Caesar, 513 01:04:38,708 --> 01:04:41,503 the Senate has prepared a series of protocols 514 01:04:41,586 --> 01:04:44,672 to begin addressing the many problems in the city, 515 01:04:44,756 --> 01:04:48,843 beginning with basic sanitation for the Greek Quarter, 516 01:04:49,344 --> 01:04:52,972 to combat the plague which is already springing up there. 517 01:04:53,056 --> 01:04:54,099 So, if Caesar... 518 01:04:56,976 --> 01:04:58,895 Don't you see, Gracchus? 519 01:05:00,313 --> 01:05:02,607 That's the very problem, isn't it? 520 01:05:03,024 --> 01:05:05,693 My father spent all his time at study, 521 01:05:07,445 --> 01:05:10,824 at books of learning and philosophy. 522 01:05:11,825 --> 01:05:15,328 He spent his twilight hours reading scrolls from the Senate. 523 01:05:16,287 --> 01:05:19,499 And all the while, the people were forgotten. 524 01:05:20,125 --> 01:05:22,293 But the senate is the people, sire, 525 01:05:22,377 --> 01:05:25,922 chosen from among the people to speak for the people. 526 01:05:26,631 --> 01:05:30,218 I doubt many of the people eat so well as you do, Gracchus. 527 01:05:30,969 --> 01:05:33,430 Or have such splendid mistresses, Gaius. 528 01:05:33,513 --> 01:05:35,598 I think I understand my own people. 529 01:05:35,682 --> 01:05:39,185 Then perhaps Caesar will be so good as to teach us, 530 01:05:39,602 --> 01:05:42,230 out of his own extensive experience. 531 01:05:46,109 --> 01:05:47,652 I call it love. 532 01:05:48,236 --> 01:05:51,364 I am their father. The people are my children. 533 01:05:51,656 --> 01:05:54,159 And I shall hold them to my bosom and embrace them tightly. 534 01:05:54,242 --> 01:05:57,704 Have you ever embraced someone dying of plague, sire? 535 01:06:04,002 --> 01:06:06,629 No, but if you interrupt me again, 536 01:06:08,131 --> 01:06:09,466 I assure you that you shall. 537 01:06:09,549 --> 01:06:11,885 Senator, my brother is very tired. 538 01:06:12,886 --> 01:06:17,056 Leave your list with me. Caesar shall do all that Rome requires. 539 01:06:17,640 --> 01:06:22,562 My lady, as always, your lightest touch commands obedience. 540 01:06:29,694 --> 01:06:31,946 Who are they to lecture me? 541 01:06:32,238 --> 01:06:34,782 Commodus, the Senate has its uses. 542 01:06:34,866 --> 01:06:37,744 What uses? All they do is talk. 543 01:06:38,953 --> 01:06:43,500 It should be just you and me and Rome. 544 01:06:43,583 --> 01:06:46,920 Don't even think it. There's always been a Senate. 545 01:06:47,420 --> 01:06:49,088 Rome has changed. 546 01:06:49,172 --> 01:06:52,217 It takes an emperor to rule an empire. 547 01:06:52,550 --> 01:06:54,594 Of course, but leave the people their... 548 01:06:54,677 --> 01:06:56,054 Illusions? 549 01:06:57,680 --> 01:06:59,098 Traditions. 550 01:06:59,974 --> 01:07:02,769 My father's war against the barbarians. 551 01:07:03,353 --> 01:07:07,023 He said it himself, it achieved nothing. But the people loved him. 552 01:07:07,106 --> 01:07:08,983 The people always love victories. 553 01:07:09,067 --> 01:07:12,737 Why? They didn't see the battles. 554 01:07:14,072 --> 01:07:16,032 What do they care about Germania? 555 01:07:16,115 --> 01:07:18,451 They care about the greatness of Rome. 556 01:07:18,535 --> 01:07:20,453 "The greatness of Rome." 557 01:07:22,413 --> 01:07:24,207 Well, what is that? 558 01:07:26,918 --> 01:07:30,129 It's an idea. Greatness. 559 01:07:33,883 --> 01:07:37,303 - Greatness is a vision. - Exactly. A vision. 560 01:07:39,430 --> 01:07:41,349 Do you not see, Lucilla? 561 01:07:42,725 --> 01:07:46,688 I will give the people a vision of Rome, and they'll love me for it. 562 01:07:47,313 --> 01:07:51,734 And they'll soon forget the tedious sermonizing of a few dry old men. 563 01:08:03,121 --> 01:08:06,457 I will give the people the greatest vision of their lives. 564 01:08:57,675 --> 01:09:00,595 MAN: White and red wine for your drinking pleasure! 565 01:09:08,895 --> 01:09:10,063 Games. 566 01:09:12,357 --> 01:09:15,401 One hundred and fifty days of games. 567 01:09:15,902 --> 01:09:17,445 He's cleverer than I thought. 568 01:09:17,528 --> 01:09:21,074 Clever. The whole of Rome would be laughing at him, 569 01:09:21,908 --> 01:09:24,160 if they weren't so afraid of his Praetorians. 570 01:09:24,243 --> 01:09:27,038 Fear and wonder. A powerful combination. 571 01:09:28,456 --> 01:09:31,584 You really think the people are going to be seduced by that? 572 01:09:31,668 --> 01:09:34,754 I think he knows what Rome is. Rome is the mob. 573 01:09:35,421 --> 01:09:38,591 Conjure magic for them, and they'll be distracted. 574 01:09:39,175 --> 01:09:42,428 Take away their freedom, and still they'll roar. 575 01:09:42,970 --> 01:09:47,350 The beating heart of Rome is not the marble of the Senate. 576 01:09:47,433 --> 01:09:49,435 It's the sand of the Colosseum. 577 01:09:51,437 --> 01:09:53,481 He'll bring them death, 578 01:09:55,233 --> 01:09:57,610 and they will love him for it. 579 01:10:20,299 --> 01:10:22,385 All you do is Kill, kill, kill. 580 01:10:22,468 --> 01:10:24,887 The crowd don't want a butcher, they want a hero. 581 01:10:24,971 --> 01:10:27,014 We want them to keep coming back. 582 01:10:27,098 --> 01:10:31,269 So don't just hack them to pieces, remember you are an entertainer. 583 01:10:33,855 --> 01:10:35,231 Spaniard. 584 01:10:43,030 --> 01:10:44,574 So entertain! 585 01:11:49,680 --> 01:11:53,810 Are you not entertained? Are you not entertained? 586 01:11:56,103 --> 01:11:58,356 Is this not why you're here? 587 01:12:02,985 --> 01:12:05,988 Spaniard! Spaniard! Spaniard! 588 01:12:06,572 --> 01:12:10,451 - Spaniard! Spaniard! Spaniard! - Spaniard! Spaniard! Spaniard! 589 01:12:23,256 --> 01:12:25,007 What do you want? 590 01:12:27,552 --> 01:12:28,719 Girl? 591 01:12:29,762 --> 01:12:30,930 Boy? 592 01:12:31,848 --> 01:12:34,100 - You sent for me. - Yes, I did. 593 01:12:35,184 --> 01:12:38,271 You're good, Spaniard, but you're not that good. 594 01:12:38,354 --> 01:12:39,522 You could be magnificent. 595 01:12:39,605 --> 01:12:43,109 I'm required to kill, so I kill. That is enough. 596 01:12:43,943 --> 01:12:47,029 That's enough for the provinces, but not for Rome. 597 01:12:50,408 --> 01:12:54,328 The young emperor has arranged a series of spectacles 598 01:12:54,412 --> 01:12:58,583 to commemorate his father, Marcus Aurelius. 599 01:12:59,125 --> 01:13:01,085 I find that amusing, 600 01:13:01,419 --> 01:13:04,505 since it was Marcus Aurelius, the wise, 601 01:13:04,589 --> 01:13:08,050 the all-knowing Marcus Aurelius, that closed us down. 602 01:13:11,053 --> 01:13:15,182 So finally, after five years of scratching a living 603 01:13:15,266 --> 01:13:17,476 in flea-infested villages, 604 01:13:17,560 --> 01:13:20,605 we're finally going back to where we belong. 605 01:13:21,314 --> 01:13:22,899 The Colosseum. 606 01:13:25,151 --> 01:13:27,945 You should see the Colosseum, Spaniard. 607 01:13:29,280 --> 01:13:31,324 Fifty thousand Romans, 608 01:13:32,283 --> 01:13:36,120 watching every movement of your sword, 609 01:13:37,538 --> 01:13:40,041 willing you to make that killer blow. 610 01:13:41,208 --> 01:13:44,837 The silence before you strike and the noise afterwards. 611 01:13:45,838 --> 01:13:49,467 It rises. It rises up, 612 01:13:50,676 --> 01:13:52,303 like a storm. 613 01:13:53,095 --> 01:13:55,765 As if you were the thunder god himself. 614 01:13:55,848 --> 01:13:58,809 - You were a gladiator? - Yes, I was. 615 01:14:05,232 --> 01:14:07,443 You won your freedom? 616 01:14:07,526 --> 01:14:09,862 A long time ago, the Emperor 617 01:14:11,530 --> 01:14:13,616 presented me with a rudius. 618 01:14:13,699 --> 01:14:16,410 It's just a wooden sword. 619 01:14:18,120 --> 01:14:20,373 The symbol of your freedom. 620 01:14:22,541 --> 01:14:25,544 He touched me on the shoulder, and I was free. 621 01:14:26,921 --> 01:14:29,340 You knew Marcus Aurelius? 622 01:14:29,423 --> 01:14:33,678 I did not say I knew him. I said he touched me on the shoulder once. 623 01:14:34,303 --> 01:14:36,389 You asked me what I want. 624 01:14:37,723 --> 01:14:40,685 I, too, want to stand in front of the Emperor, 625 01:14:41,936 --> 01:14:43,354 as you did. 626 01:14:43,437 --> 01:14:46,857 Then listen to me. Learn from me. 627 01:14:47,733 --> 01:14:50,778 I wasn't the best because I killed quickly. 628 01:14:51,988 --> 01:14:54,657 I was the best because the crowd loved me. 629 01:14:55,741 --> 01:14:59,078 Win the crowd, and you'll win your freedom. 630 01:15:03,541 --> 01:15:05,418 I will win the crowd. 631 01:15:07,628 --> 01:15:11,090 I will give them something they've never seen before. 632 01:15:12,091 --> 01:15:15,094 So, Spaniard, we shall go to Rome together 633 01:15:15,761 --> 01:15:17,596 and have bloody adventures. 634 01:15:17,680 --> 01:15:19,473 And the great whore will suckle us 635 01:15:19,557 --> 01:15:22,143 until we are fat and happy and can suckle no more. 636 01:15:22,226 --> 01:15:23,686 And then, 637 01:15:24,770 --> 01:15:26,939 when enough men have died, 638 01:15:29,108 --> 01:15:31,569 perhaps you will have your freedom. 639 01:15:35,990 --> 01:15:38,325 Here. Use this. 640 01:16:02,058 --> 01:16:05,227 It's somewhere out there, my country. 641 01:16:06,312 --> 01:16:07,646 My home. 642 01:16:08,814 --> 01:16:10,983 My wife is preparing food. 643 01:16:11,942 --> 01:16:14,653 My daughters carry water from the river. 644 01:16:15,988 --> 01:16:18,032 Will I ever see them again? 645 01:16:19,325 --> 01:16:20,826 I think, no. 646 01:16:21,118 --> 01:16:23,579 Do you believe you'll see them again when you die? 647 01:16:23,662 --> 01:16:25,039 I think so. 648 01:16:25,664 --> 01:16:28,751 But then, I will die soon. 649 01:16:30,377 --> 01:16:32,838 They will not die for many years. 650 01:16:33,631 --> 01:16:35,299 I'll have to wait. 651 01:16:35,382 --> 01:16:37,551 But you would? Wait? 652 01:16:38,177 --> 01:16:39,553 Of course. 653 01:16:41,472 --> 01:16:42,848 You see, 654 01:16:44,016 --> 01:16:47,561 my wife and my son 655 01:16:49,271 --> 01:16:51,440 are already waiting for me. 656 01:16:51,524 --> 01:16:55,194 You'll meet them again. But not yet. 657 01:16:59,240 --> 01:17:00,616 Not yet. 658 01:17:02,201 --> 01:17:03,911 - Unless... - Not yet. 659 01:17:07,915 --> 01:17:09,208 Not yet. 660 01:17:22,096 --> 01:17:23,639 CHILD: There he is. 661 01:18:12,771 --> 01:18:13,898 MAN: Out. 662 01:18:15,107 --> 01:18:17,026 Move, go, out! 663 01:18:29,747 --> 01:18:32,249 Good to see you again, old friend. 664 01:18:37,588 --> 01:18:39,298 Bring me fortune. 665 01:18:43,886 --> 01:18:46,764 Have you ever seen anything like that before? 666 01:18:47,848 --> 01:18:50,434 I didn't know men could build such things. 667 01:19:00,402 --> 01:19:01,987 Win the crowd. 668 01:19:02,196 --> 01:19:04,531 MAN: Get inside. Move. 669 01:19:04,615 --> 01:19:05,908 Inside. 670 01:19:55,124 --> 01:19:57,876 He sleeps so well because he's loved. 671 01:20:00,796 --> 01:20:02,881 Come, brother. It's late. 672 01:20:06,468 --> 01:20:09,305 COMMODUS: I will make Rome the wonder of the ages. 673 01:20:12,099 --> 01:20:15,436 That is what Gracchus and his friends don't understand. 674 01:20:15,853 --> 01:20:19,064 All my desires are splitting my head to pieces. 675 01:20:26,113 --> 01:20:28,866 Commodus, drink this tonic. 676 01:20:38,417 --> 01:20:40,878 I think the time is almost right. 677 01:20:41,253 --> 01:20:44,173 I could announce the dissolution of the Senate 678 01:20:44,256 --> 01:20:46,342 at the celebration to honor our father. 679 01:20:46,425 --> 01:20:48,385 Do you think I should? 680 01:20:49,136 --> 01:20:51,055 Are the people ready? 681 01:20:53,182 --> 01:20:55,559 I think you need your rest now. 682 01:21:01,482 --> 01:21:03,317 Will you stay with me? 683 01:21:03,400 --> 01:21:05,819 Still afraid of the dark, brother? 684 01:21:12,576 --> 01:21:13,786 Still. 685 01:21:15,621 --> 01:21:16,914 Always. 686 01:21:18,624 --> 01:21:21,502 - Stay with me tonight. - You know I won't. 687 01:21:25,964 --> 01:21:27,508 Then kiss me. 688 01:21:36,308 --> 01:21:37,851 Sleep, brother. 689 01:22:30,654 --> 01:22:32,781 Having servants who are deaf and mute 690 01:22:32,865 --> 01:22:35,617 at least ensures I live a little longer. 691 01:22:37,411 --> 01:22:39,746 They're arresting scholars now. 692 01:22:39,830 --> 01:22:43,667 Anyone who dare speak out. Even satirists and chroniclers. 693 01:22:44,293 --> 01:22:46,211 And mathematicians. 694 01:22:47,421 --> 01:22:49,548 And all to feed the arena. 695 01:22:51,216 --> 01:22:53,635 The Senate did not approve martial law. 696 01:22:53,719 --> 01:22:56,555 This reign of terror is entirely the Praetorians. 697 01:22:57,723 --> 01:22:59,850 I'm afraid to go out after dark. 698 01:22:59,933 --> 01:23:03,479 You should be more afraid of your activities during the day. 699 01:23:03,562 --> 01:23:08,275 The Senate is full of his spies, led by that whore master, Falco. 700 01:23:09,610 --> 01:23:14,031 But what is in his mind? That's what I trouble myself with. 701 01:23:14,823 --> 01:23:17,743 He spends all his days singularly obsessed, 702 01:23:17,826 --> 01:23:20,662 planning the festival to honor your father. 703 01:23:20,746 --> 01:23:24,333 He neglects even the most fundamental task of government. 704 01:23:25,083 --> 01:23:27,294 So just what is he planning? 705 01:23:27,669 --> 01:23:29,296 GAIUS: And what pays for it? 706 01:23:29,379 --> 01:23:33,592 These daily games are costing a fortune, yet we have no new taxes. 707 01:23:34,343 --> 01:23:35,761 The future. 708 01:23:37,137 --> 01:23:39,181 The future pays for it. 709 01:23:40,641 --> 01:23:43,519 He's started selling the grain reserves. 710 01:23:43,602 --> 01:23:45,437 GAIUS: This can't be true. 711 01:23:46,063 --> 01:23:48,565 He's selling Rome's reserves of grain. 712 01:23:49,149 --> 01:23:52,069 The people will be starving in two years. 713 01:23:52,611 --> 01:23:54,112 I hope they're enjoying the games, 714 01:23:54,196 --> 01:23:57,574 because soon enough they'll be dead because of them. 715 01:23:57,908 --> 01:24:00,244 - Rome must know this. - And how? 716 01:24:00,744 --> 01:24:03,121 He's going to dissolve the Senate. 717 01:24:03,705 --> 01:24:07,292 And who will tell them before it's too late? You, Gracchus? 718 01:24:08,627 --> 01:24:10,128 You, Gaius. 719 01:24:10,212 --> 01:24:11,922 Will you make a speech on the floor of the Senate, 720 01:24:12,005 --> 01:24:13,757 denouncing my brother? 721 01:24:14,299 --> 01:24:16,843 And then see your family in the Colosseum? 722 01:24:17,803 --> 01:24:19,179 Who'd dare? 723 01:24:28,355 --> 01:24:31,400 I have been living in a prison of fear every day, 724 01:24:31,483 --> 01:24:34,069 because my son is heir to the throne. 725 01:24:39,658 --> 01:24:41,159 He must die. 726 01:24:45,497 --> 01:24:46,665 Quintus and the Praetorians 727 01:24:46,748 --> 01:24:49,293 would simply seize control for themselves. 728 01:24:49,376 --> 01:24:53,255 No. Cut off the head and the snake cannot strike. 729 01:24:53,338 --> 01:24:55,382 GRACCHUS: Lucilla, Gaius is right. 730 01:24:55,465 --> 01:24:59,595 Until we can neutralize the Praetorians, we can achieve nothing. 731 01:25:01,138 --> 01:25:02,639 So we do nothing? 732 01:25:02,723 --> 01:25:05,517 No, child. We keep our counsel. 733 01:25:06,518 --> 01:25:07,853 We prepare. 734 01:25:08,687 --> 01:25:13,483 As long as the people support him, we are voices without steel. 735 01:25:14,276 --> 01:25:15,694 We are air. 736 01:25:18,697 --> 01:25:21,491 But with every day that passes, he makes enemies. 737 01:25:21,575 --> 01:25:24,453 One day, he'll have more enemies than friends. 738 01:25:24,870 --> 01:25:27,831 And on that day, we will act. 739 01:25:28,415 --> 01:25:30,292 Then we will strike. 740 01:25:31,209 --> 01:25:32,961 But until then, 741 01:25:34,129 --> 01:25:35,714 we are docile. 742 01:25:36,173 --> 01:25:38,342 We are obedient. 743 01:25:39,926 --> 01:25:41,928 And we are treacherous. 744 01:25:50,562 --> 01:25:51,730 MAN: Come on! 745 01:26:00,572 --> 01:26:02,616 All right, that's enough. 746 01:26:25,180 --> 01:26:26,515 PROXIMO: The Emperor wants battles, 747 01:26:26,598 --> 01:26:28,767 and I don't want to sacrifice my best fighters. 748 01:26:28,850 --> 01:26:32,187 The crowd wants battles, so the Emperor gives them battles. 749 01:26:32,270 --> 01:26:35,857 - You get the battle of Carthage. - Massacre of Carthage. 750 01:26:37,818 --> 01:26:39,236 Well, why don't you go down to the prison, 751 01:26:39,319 --> 01:26:41,321 round up all the beggars and thieves? 752 01:26:41,405 --> 01:26:42,572 We've done that. 753 01:26:42,656 --> 01:26:45,033 If you want to give away the best gladiators 754 01:26:45,117 --> 01:26:46,284 in the whole of the empire, 755 01:26:46,368 --> 01:26:48,495 then I want double the rates. 756 01:26:48,578 --> 01:26:52,374 You'll get your contract rates, or you'll get your contract canceled. 757 01:26:52,457 --> 01:26:53,875 You don't like it? 758 01:26:53,959 --> 01:26:57,921 Then you can crawl back down that shit hole that you came from. 759 01:27:01,007 --> 01:27:03,176 MAN: Cassius, please. You can free us. 760 01:27:32,998 --> 01:27:36,126 Gladiator, are you the one they call the Spaniard? 761 01:27:36,209 --> 01:27:37,335 Yes. 762 01:27:38,128 --> 01:27:40,338 They said you were a giant. 763 01:27:40,422 --> 01:27:43,592 They said you could crush a man's skull with one hand. 764 01:27:43,675 --> 01:27:45,427 A man's? No. 765 01:27:46,762 --> 01:27:48,096 A boy's. 766 01:27:50,098 --> 01:27:53,643 - Do they have good horses in Spain? - Some of the best. 767 01:27:54,686 --> 01:27:57,773 This is Argento and this is Scarto. 768 01:27:59,191 --> 01:28:00,984 They were my horses. 769 01:28:01,902 --> 01:28:03,987 They were taken from me. 770 01:28:04,279 --> 01:28:07,574 I like you, Spaniard. I shall cheer for you. 771 01:28:08,116 --> 01:28:11,453 - They let you watch the games? - My uncle says it makes me strong. 772 01:28:11,536 --> 01:28:14,831 - And what does your father say? - My father is dead. 773 01:28:16,583 --> 01:28:18,668 Master Lucius, it is time. 774 01:28:19,920 --> 01:28:21,296 I have to go. 775 01:28:21,379 --> 01:28:22,964 Your name is Lucius? 776 01:28:25,091 --> 01:28:27,761 Lucius Verus, after my father. 777 01:28:58,416 --> 01:29:00,126 MAN: Lower! 778 01:29:05,257 --> 01:29:08,176 MAN 1: Claudius! CLAUDIUS: Yes? 779 01:29:08,260 --> 01:29:10,679 MAN 1: More shields! CLAUDIUS: All right. 780 01:29:29,781 --> 01:29:34,536 MAN 2: When the Emperor enters, raise your weapons, salute him, 781 01:29:34,619 --> 01:29:36,663 and then speak together. 782 01:29:37,455 --> 01:29:40,959 Face the Emperor and don't turn your back on him. 783 01:29:42,043 --> 01:29:44,880 Go, and die with honor. 784 01:30:39,976 --> 01:30:42,062 MAN: Hail, mighty Caesar! 785 01:30:45,273 --> 01:30:48,318 Caesar! Caesar! Caesar! Caesar! 786 01:30:48,401 --> 01:30:49,527 Caesar! Caesar! Caesar! Caesar! 787 01:30:52,530 --> 01:30:55,533 - We who are about to die salute you! - We who are about to die salute you! 788 01:30:57,243 --> 01:30:58,828 CASSIUS: On this day 789 01:30:59,537 --> 01:31:02,540 we reach back to hallowed antiquity 790 01:31:03,416 --> 01:31:07,087 to bring you a re-creation of the second fall 791 01:31:07,170 --> 01:31:09,214 of mighty Carthage! 792 01:31:12,926 --> 01:31:17,347 On the barren plain of Zama 793 01:31:17,973 --> 01:31:21,059 there stood the invincible armies 794 01:31:21,434 --> 01:31:24,062 of the barbarian Hannibal. 795 01:31:24,771 --> 01:31:27,941 Ferocious mercenaries and warriors 796 01:31:28,024 --> 01:31:30,402 from all brute nations, 797 01:31:30,485 --> 01:31:34,781 bent on merciless destruction, 798 01:31:35,657 --> 01:31:37,033 conquest. 799 01:31:37,951 --> 01:31:41,997 Your emperor is pleased to give you 800 01:31:42,080 --> 01:31:45,125 the barbarian horde! 801 01:31:53,466 --> 01:31:55,468 Anyone here been in the army? 802 01:31:55,552 --> 01:31:58,471 Yes. I served with you at Vindobona. 803 01:31:59,431 --> 01:32:01,099 You can help me. 804 01:32:02,392 --> 01:32:04,936 Whatever comes out of these gates, 805 01:32:05,687 --> 01:32:09,482 we've got a better chance of survival if we work together. 806 01:32:09,566 --> 01:32:11,276 Do you understand? 807 01:32:13,403 --> 01:32:15,447 If we stay together, we survive. 808 01:32:15,530 --> 01:32:18,658 The Emperor is pleased to bring you the legionnaires 809 01:32:18,742 --> 01:32:22,328 of Scipio Africanus! 810 01:32:33,131 --> 01:32:34,841 To the death! 811 01:32:38,636 --> 01:32:41,222 - Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! - Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! 812 01:32:45,101 --> 01:32:46,644 MAXIMUS: Stay close. 813 01:32:52,650 --> 01:32:54,527 Come together! 814 01:32:55,820 --> 01:32:59,908 Stay close. Staggered columns! 815 01:33:13,129 --> 01:33:15,173 MAN: You don't have a chance. 816 01:33:26,518 --> 01:33:29,062 Lock your shields. Stay as one. 817 01:33:30,563 --> 01:33:32,148 Hold! 818 01:33:34,192 --> 01:33:37,195 Hold! As one! 819 01:33:40,115 --> 01:33:41,449 Well done. 820 01:33:53,336 --> 01:33:57,173 Hold. Down low! 821 01:34:02,971 --> 01:34:04,180 Yes! 822 01:34:16,276 --> 01:34:17,527 Hagen! 823 01:34:41,634 --> 01:34:45,180 This column to the chariot! This column stay with me! 824 01:34:48,808 --> 01:34:50,185 Quickly! 825 01:34:50,852 --> 01:34:53,605 - Get out there. - Hurry! 826 01:35:34,812 --> 01:35:35,980 Maximus! 827 01:35:48,201 --> 01:35:50,620 Single column! Single column! 828 01:36:35,915 --> 01:36:37,333 We win! 829 01:36:42,714 --> 01:36:45,216 My history's a little hazy, Cassius, 830 01:36:46,050 --> 01:36:48,970 but shouldn't the barbarians lose the battle of Carthage? 831 01:36:49,053 --> 01:36:50,805 Yes, sire. 832 01:36:52,724 --> 01:36:54,100 Forgive me, sire. 833 01:36:54,183 --> 01:36:56,894 No, I rather enjoy surprises. 834 01:36:57,687 --> 01:36:58,813 Who is he? 835 01:36:58,896 --> 01:37:01,899 They call him the Spaniard, sire. 836 01:37:04,402 --> 01:37:06,321 I think I'll meet him. 837 01:37:06,404 --> 01:37:07,739 Yes, sire. 838 01:37:09,949 --> 01:37:11,868 Hail to the barbarians! 839 01:37:26,799 --> 01:37:30,219 MAN: Forward! Arms at ready! 840 01:37:43,775 --> 01:37:45,443 Drop your weapons. 841 01:37:49,447 --> 01:37:52,408 Gladiator, the Emperor has asked for you. 842 01:37:52,992 --> 01:37:55,244 I am at the Emperor's service. 843 01:38:21,938 --> 01:38:24,065 Rise. Rise. 844 01:38:33,408 --> 01:38:35,660 Your fame is well deserved, Spaniard. 845 01:38:35,743 --> 01:38:38,246 I don't think there's ever been a gladiator to match you. 846 01:38:38,329 --> 01:38:41,249 As for this young man, he insists you are Hector reborn. 847 01:38:41,332 --> 01:38:42,917 Or was it Hercules? 848 01:38:44,335 --> 01:38:48,172 Why doesn't the hero reveal himself and tell us all your real name? 849 01:38:50,216 --> 01:38:51,843 You do have a name. 850 01:38:52,635 --> 01:38:54,512 My name is Gladiator. 851 01:38:57,807 --> 01:39:00,977 How dare you show your back to me? Slave! 852 01:39:02,353 --> 01:39:05,690 You will remove your helmet and tell me your name. 853 01:39:17,452 --> 01:39:19,954 My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, 854 01:39:20,329 --> 01:39:22,290 commander of the armies of the north, 855 01:39:22,373 --> 01:39:24,709 general of the Felix Legions, 856 01:39:24,792 --> 01:39:28,087 loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius, 857 01:39:29,505 --> 01:39:31,674 father to a murdered son, 858 01:39:32,133 --> 01:39:34,427 husband to a murdered wife, 859 01:39:34,760 --> 01:39:38,514 and I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next. 860 01:39:45,521 --> 01:39:46,898 Arms! 861 01:39:59,994 --> 01:40:03,331 MAN: Live! Live! Live! Live! 862 01:40:03,414 --> 01:40:06,626 - Live! Live! Live! Live! - Live! Live! Live! Live! 863 01:40:50,628 --> 01:40:53,339 SOLDIER: Arms, at rest! 864 01:41:45,850 --> 01:41:50,313 - Maximus! Maximus! Maximus! - Maximus! Maximus! Maximus! 865 01:42:38,402 --> 01:42:39,570 Father. 866 01:43:53,936 --> 01:43:55,813 Why is he still alive? 867 01:43:57,064 --> 01:43:58,566 I don't know. 868 01:43:59,066 --> 01:44:00,651 He shouldn't be alive. 869 01:44:01,485 --> 01:44:02,903 It vexes me. 870 01:44:04,655 --> 01:44:06,449 I'm terribly vexed. 871 01:44:17,668 --> 01:44:19,587 I did what I had to do. 872 01:44:20,337 --> 01:44:24,383 If Father had had his way, the empire would have been torn apart. 873 01:44:24,467 --> 01:44:26,135 You do see that. 874 01:44:26,510 --> 01:44:27,678 Yes. 875 01:44:32,475 --> 01:44:35,686 What did you feel when you saw him? 876 01:44:37,813 --> 01:44:39,440 I felt nothing. 877 01:44:41,400 --> 01:44:43,944 He wounded you deeply, didn't he? 878 01:44:44,987 --> 01:44:47,198 No more than I wounded him. 879 01:44:51,702 --> 01:44:53,996 They lied to me in Germania. 880 01:44:55,623 --> 01:44:57,708 They told me he was dead. 881 01:44:59,710 --> 01:45:02,296 If they lie to me, they don't respect me. 882 01:45:02,379 --> 01:45:05,716 If they don't respect me, how can they ever love me? 883 01:45:07,051 --> 01:45:09,428 Then you must let the legions know 884 01:45:09,512 --> 01:45:12,598 their treachery will not go unpunished. 885 01:45:13,432 --> 01:45:14,892 Poor sister. 886 01:45:15,309 --> 01:45:17,770 I wouldn't want to be your enemy. 887 01:45:18,979 --> 01:45:20,731 What will you do? 888 01:45:33,702 --> 01:45:35,037 This way. 889 01:46:10,406 --> 01:46:13,868 Rich matrons pay well to be pleasured by the bravest champions. 890 01:46:13,951 --> 01:46:16,453 I knew your brother would send assassins. 891 01:46:16,954 --> 01:46:18,581 I didn't realize he would send his best. 892 01:46:21,208 --> 01:46:23,294 Maximus, he doesn't know. 893 01:46:24,253 --> 01:46:27,381 My family was burnt and crucified while they were still alive. 894 01:46:27,464 --> 01:46:30,009 - I knew nothing... - Don't lie to me! 895 01:46:36,473 --> 01:46:38,225 I wept for them. 896 01:46:38,309 --> 01:46:42,146 As you wept for your father? As you wept for your father? 897 01:46:42,229 --> 01:46:45,816 I have been living in a prison of fear since that day. 898 01:46:46,317 --> 01:46:50,154 To be unable to mourn your father for fear of your brother. 899 01:46:51,030 --> 01:46:54,241 To live in terror every moment of every day, 900 01:46:54,325 --> 01:46:57,119 because your son is heir to the throne. 901 01:46:58,996 --> 01:47:00,456 I have wept. 902 01:47:01,790 --> 01:47:04,627 My son was innocent. 903 01:47:05,461 --> 01:47:07,504 So is mine. 904 01:47:09,506 --> 01:47:12,593 Must my son die, too, before you'll trust me? 905 01:47:14,053 --> 01:47:17,014 What does it matter if I trust you or not? 906 01:47:17,890 --> 01:47:20,935 The gods have spared you. Don't you understand? 907 01:47:21,018 --> 01:47:24,480 Today I saw a slave become more powerful than the emperor of Rome. 908 01:47:24,563 --> 01:47:26,357 The gods have spared me? 909 01:47:26,440 --> 01:47:29,902 I am at their mercy, with the power only to amuse a mob. 910 01:47:29,985 --> 01:47:31,528 That is power. 911 01:47:32,029 --> 01:47:33,155 The mob is Rome. 912 01:47:33,238 --> 01:47:36,867 And while Commodus controls them, he controls everything. 913 01:47:37,201 --> 01:47:38,744 Listen to me. 914 01:47:39,286 --> 01:47:42,414 My brother has enemies, most of all in the Senate. 915 01:47:42,498 --> 01:47:44,750 But while the people follow him, 916 01:47:44,833 --> 01:47:47,878 no one would dare stand up to him until you. 917 01:47:48,837 --> 01:47:51,131 They oppose him, yet they do nothing. 918 01:47:51,215 --> 01:47:54,969 There are some politicians who have dedicated their lives to Rome. 919 01:47:55,052 --> 01:47:56,804 One man above all. 920 01:47:57,888 --> 01:48:00,975 If I can arrange it, will you meet him? 921 01:48:01,308 --> 01:48:03,227 Do you not understand? 922 01:48:03,477 --> 01:48:07,690 I may die in this cell tonight, or in the arena tomorrow. I am a slave! 923 01:48:07,773 --> 01:48:10,442 What possible difference can I make? 924 01:48:10,734 --> 01:48:12,987 This man wants what you want. 925 01:48:13,070 --> 01:48:15,280 Then have him kill Commodus! 926 01:48:17,908 --> 01:48:19,702 I knew a man once, 927 01:48:20,619 --> 01:48:21,912 a noble man. 928 01:48:22,913 --> 01:48:25,791 A man of principle who loved my father, 929 01:48:26,750 --> 01:48:28,836 and my father loved him. 930 01:48:30,796 --> 01:48:32,965 This man served Rome well. 931 01:48:37,302 --> 01:48:39,013 That man is gone. 932 01:48:40,180 --> 01:48:42,307 Your brother did his work well. 933 01:48:42,391 --> 01:48:44,059 Let me help you. 934 01:48:49,982 --> 01:48:53,068 Yes, you can help me. 935 01:48:56,405 --> 01:49:00,117 Forget you ever knew me, never come here again. 936 01:49:03,787 --> 01:49:06,540 Guard! The lady is finished with me. 937 01:49:34,985 --> 01:49:36,653 What's your name? 938 01:49:39,656 --> 01:49:41,241 Julian Crassus. 939 01:49:46,747 --> 01:49:47,998 Name? 940 01:49:49,291 --> 01:49:50,793 Marcus, sire. 941 01:49:51,710 --> 01:49:53,420 COMMODUS: My father's name. 942 01:50:00,928 --> 01:50:03,097 They must have known of Maximus' escape, 943 01:50:03,180 --> 01:50:06,016 when they found the bodies of the four men. 944 01:50:06,475 --> 01:50:09,061 They thought it was a barbarian raid. 945 01:50:10,104 --> 01:50:13,273 These are good men, sire. Loyal to the Emperor. 946 01:50:20,614 --> 01:50:22,324 SOLDIER: Load your arrows! 947 01:50:29,957 --> 01:50:31,875 Prepare to fire! 948 01:50:52,396 --> 01:50:55,691 Then perhaps it was you who knew, 949 01:50:56,525 --> 01:50:58,235 and never told me. 950 01:50:58,485 --> 01:51:00,737 - I didn't know. - You didn't know? 951 01:51:02,239 --> 01:51:05,075 But a general is always in control. 952 01:51:06,451 --> 01:51:10,122 Always in command, isn't he? 953 01:51:11,665 --> 01:51:13,125 Yes, Caesar. 954 01:51:27,055 --> 01:51:29,766 Then give the command. Say it. 955 01:51:46,658 --> 01:51:47,784 Fire. 956 01:52:23,028 --> 01:52:24,363 HAGEN: Maximus. 957 01:52:25,113 --> 01:52:28,242 You commanded legions? You had many victories? 958 01:52:29,117 --> 01:52:31,328 - Yes. - In Germania? 959 01:52:33,247 --> 01:52:34,998 In many countries. 960 01:52:36,583 --> 01:52:37,918 MAN: General. 961 01:53:27,009 --> 01:53:28,885 You have a great name. 962 01:53:30,387 --> 01:53:33,432 He must kill your name before he kills you. 963 01:53:42,399 --> 01:53:43,734 Yes, at the far end. 964 01:53:43,817 --> 01:53:45,736 - Senator Gaius. - Hello. 965 01:53:46,236 --> 01:53:48,196 Senator Gracchus. 966 01:53:49,781 --> 01:53:53,201 Don't often see you enjoying the pleasures of the vulgar crowd. 967 01:53:53,285 --> 01:53:56,413 I don't pretend to be a man of the people, Senator, 968 01:53:56,496 --> 01:53:58,999 but I do try to be a man for the people. 969 01:54:15,265 --> 01:54:17,768 Caesar! Caesar! Caesar! Caesar! 970 01:54:17,851 --> 01:54:20,520 Caesar! Caesar! Caesar! Caesar! 971 01:54:25,025 --> 01:54:26,651 CASSIUS: People of Rome! 972 01:54:28,945 --> 01:54:31,406 On the fourth day of Antioch, 973 01:54:32,032 --> 01:54:36,411 we can celebrate the 64th day of the games. 974 01:54:37,037 --> 01:54:41,291 And in his majestic charity, 975 01:54:42,042 --> 01:54:46,254 the Emperor has deigned this day to favor the people of Rome 976 01:54:46,838 --> 01:54:50,258 with an historical final match. 977 01:54:51,051 --> 01:54:55,639 Returning to the Colosseum today, after five years in retirement, 978 01:54:57,057 --> 01:55:00,519 Caesar is pleased to bring you 979 01:55:00,602 --> 01:55:04,398 the only undefeated champion 980 01:55:04,481 --> 01:55:06,441 in Roman history, 981 01:55:06,525 --> 01:55:11,446 the legendary Tigris of Gaul! 982 01:55:33,009 --> 01:55:36,179 He knows too well how to manipulate the mob. 983 01:55:36,263 --> 01:55:38,974 Marcus Aurelius had a dream that was Rome, Proximo. 984 01:55:39,057 --> 01:55:41,852 This is not it. This is not it! 985 01:55:41,935 --> 01:55:44,771 Marcus Aurelius is dead, Maximus. 986 01:55:45,605 --> 01:55:48,191 We mortals are but shadows and dust. 987 01:55:48,859 --> 01:55:50,986 Shadows and dust, Maximus! 988 01:55:51,069 --> 01:55:54,948 CASSIUS: Representing the training lyceum of Antonius Proximo, 989 01:55:55,031 --> 01:55:58,702 Caesar is proud to give you 990 01:55:58,785 --> 01:56:02,622 Aelius Maximus! 991 01:56:15,427 --> 01:56:17,804 They embrace him like he's one of their own. 992 01:56:17,888 --> 01:56:21,808 The mob is fickle, brother. He'll be forgotten in a month. 993 01:56:24,561 --> 01:56:27,397 No, much sooner than that. 994 01:56:29,316 --> 01:56:31,109 It's been arranged. 995 01:56:49,628 --> 01:56:52,589 We who are about to die salute you. 996 01:56:55,926 --> 01:56:57,719 MAN 1: We're with you, Maximus! 997 01:57:40,303 --> 01:57:42,097 MAN 2: Fight on, finish it! 998 01:58:10,333 --> 01:58:12,002 Pull, pull! 999 01:58:44,367 --> 01:58:45,910 Loose! Loose! 1000 01:59:14,022 --> 01:59:16,107 - Gut him! - Kill! 1001 01:59:17,567 --> 01:59:21,154 - Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! - Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! 1002 01:59:41,591 --> 01:59:43,635 - Kill! - Kill! 1003 02:00:21,506 --> 02:00:23,717 MAN: Maximus the Merciful! 1004 02:00:32,892 --> 02:00:36,396 CROWD: Maximus! Maximus! Maximus! 1005 02:00:36,479 --> 02:00:38,648 Maximus! Maximus! Maximus! 1006 02:00:45,864 --> 02:00:48,491 SOLDIER: Forward, arms at ready! 1007 02:01:18,480 --> 02:01:20,857 What am I going to do with you? 1008 02:01:22,025 --> 02:01:25,487 You simply won't die. 1009 02:01:30,241 --> 02:01:32,619 Are we so different, you and 1? 1010 02:01:33,745 --> 02:01:36,664 You take life when you have to, as I do. 1011 02:01:38,041 --> 02:01:41,711 I have only one more life to take. Then it is done. 1012 02:01:42,253 --> 02:01:44,005 Then take it now. 1013 02:01:57,060 --> 02:01:59,062 They tell me your son 1014 02:01:59,854 --> 02:02:03,775 squealed like a girl when they nailed him to the cross. 1015 02:02:05,902 --> 02:02:07,570 And your wife 1016 02:02:08,822 --> 02:02:10,740 moaned like a whore 1017 02:02:11,866 --> 02:02:16,412 when they ravaged her again and again 1018 02:02:17,747 --> 02:02:19,165 and again. 1019 02:02:24,420 --> 02:02:28,174 The time for honoring yourself will soon be at an end, 1020 02:02:32,762 --> 02:02:34,138 Highness. 1021 02:02:48,403 --> 02:02:51,364 CROWD: Maximus! Maximus! Maximus! 1022 02:03:01,666 --> 02:03:04,544 General! General! 1023 02:03:06,045 --> 02:03:07,463 General! General! 1024 02:03:09,507 --> 02:03:11,301 - General! - Cicero! 1025 02:03:18,766 --> 02:03:20,268 - General! - Where are you camped? 1026 02:03:20,351 --> 02:03:21,644 Ostia. 1027 02:03:28,109 --> 02:03:31,070 - We love you, Maximus! - Praise the victor! 1028 02:03:31,154 --> 02:03:33,656 Tell the men their general lives. Find me. 1029 02:03:33,823 --> 02:03:35,617 - Move along! - Find me! 1030 02:04:01,476 --> 02:04:03,436 JUBA: Can they hear you? 1031 02:04:07,023 --> 02:04:10,526 - Who? - Your family, in the afterlife. 1032 02:04:13,029 --> 02:04:15,365 - Yes. - What do you say to them? 1033 02:04:19,243 --> 02:04:20,703 To my boy, 1034 02:04:22,538 --> 02:04:25,083 I tell him I will see him again soon, 1035 02:04:25,166 --> 02:04:28,753 and to keep his heels down when he's riding his horse. 1036 02:04:30,046 --> 02:04:31,547 To my wife, 1037 02:04:34,050 --> 02:04:36,177 that is not your business. 1038 02:04:43,851 --> 02:04:46,729 And now they love Maximus for his mercy. 1039 02:04:48,106 --> 02:04:51,651 So I can't just kill him, or it makes me even more unmerciful. 1040 02:04:52,986 --> 02:04:57,240 The whole thing is like some great nightmare. 1041 02:04:58,491 --> 02:05:00,326 FALCO: He is defying you. 1042 02:05:00,410 --> 02:05:03,788 His every victory is an act of defiance. 1043 02:05:03,871 --> 02:05:07,458 The mob sees this, and so do the Senate. 1044 02:05:08,251 --> 02:05:11,129 Every day he lives, they grow bolder. 1045 02:05:12,672 --> 02:05:14,424 - Kill him. - No. 1046 02:05:16,300 --> 02:05:18,761 I will not make a martyr of him. 1047 02:05:25,893 --> 02:05:28,354 When I went to the Senate today, 1048 02:05:28,438 --> 02:05:32,900 I purposefully told them about using the grain reserves to pay for the games. 1049 02:05:34,819 --> 02:05:36,988 And did you note what happened? 1050 02:05:37,071 --> 02:05:40,283 - Nothing. - Exactly. Nothing. 1051 02:05:41,284 --> 02:05:43,619 Not a single word of protest. 1052 02:05:43,703 --> 02:05:47,331 Even the insolent Senator Gracchus was silent as a mouse. 1053 02:05:47,415 --> 02:05:48,583 Why? 1054 02:05:50,293 --> 02:05:54,005 I have been told of a certain sea snake 1055 02:05:54,088 --> 02:05:58,134 which has a very unusual method of attracting its prey. 1056 02:05:58,593 --> 02:06:02,305 It will lie at the bottom of the ocean as if wounded. 1057 02:06:03,306 --> 02:06:05,641 Then its enemies will approach, 1058 02:06:05,725 --> 02:06:08,811 and yet it will lie quite still. 1059 02:06:09,145 --> 02:06:12,940 And then its enemies will take little bites of it, 1060 02:06:13,024 --> 02:06:16,319 and yet it remains still. 1061 02:06:19,530 --> 02:06:20,698 So, 1062 02:06:22,033 --> 02:06:23,826 we will lie still, 1063 02:06:24,535 --> 02:06:27,872 and let our enemies come to us and nibble. 1064 02:06:29,040 --> 02:06:31,292 Have every senator followed. 1065 02:06:48,935 --> 02:06:50,686 Cicero, my old friend. 1066 02:06:50,770 --> 02:06:52,647 I thought perhaps I'd seen you for the last time. 1067 02:06:52,730 --> 02:06:55,274 - I thought you were dead. - Close. 1068 02:06:55,358 --> 02:06:56,984 How long have the men been in Ostia? 1069 02:06:57,068 --> 02:06:58,402 All winter. 1070 02:06:58,736 --> 02:07:02,031 - And how do they look? - Fat and bored. 1071 02:07:02,740 --> 02:07:05,785 - Who's in command? - Some fool from Rome. 1072 02:07:07,411 --> 02:07:09,247 How soon do you think they could be ready to fight? 1073 02:07:09,330 --> 02:07:11,124 For you, tomorrow. 1074 02:07:12,583 --> 02:07:15,086 I need you to do something for me. 1075 02:07:19,715 --> 02:07:21,134 MAN: Come, see, witness. 1076 02:07:21,217 --> 02:07:24,262 If you haven't been in the arena, you can see the show here. 1077 02:07:24,345 --> 02:07:27,974 Giant Maximus is defeating our emperor, Commodus. 1078 02:07:28,057 --> 02:07:30,685 What are we to do? He's just defying everyone, 1079 02:07:30,768 --> 02:07:32,436 by doing this to him, they do... 1080 02:07:33,688 --> 02:07:35,022 My goodness! 1081 02:07:36,816 --> 02:07:40,403 MAN: He got him, he's defeated. SOLDIER: Give way! 1082 02:07:46,492 --> 02:07:49,078 My lady? I served your father at Vindobona. 1083 02:07:49,162 --> 02:07:50,705 SOLDIER: Back. CICERO: My lady. 1084 02:07:50,788 --> 02:07:53,207 I served your father at Vindobona. 1085 02:07:53,291 --> 02:07:54,375 Back! 1086 02:07:54,458 --> 02:07:57,670 And I served General Maximus. I serve him still. 1087 02:07:59,172 --> 02:08:00,756 Stop. Stop. 1088 02:08:01,299 --> 02:08:02,466 SOLDIER: Stop! 1089 02:08:03,384 --> 02:08:04,802 LUCILLA: Stand back. 1090 02:08:06,095 --> 02:08:09,140 The general sends word, he will meet your politician. 1091 02:08:10,850 --> 02:08:14,145 - For your loyalty, soldier. - Thank you, my lady. 1092 02:08:23,905 --> 02:08:25,239 LUCILLA: Leave us. 1093 02:08:30,953 --> 02:08:32,663 Senator Gracchus. 1094 02:08:46,469 --> 02:08:47,762 General. 1095 02:08:48,846 --> 02:08:51,599 I hope my coming here today is evidence enough 1096 02:08:51,682 --> 02:08:54,769 that you can trust me. 1097 02:08:59,065 --> 02:09:01,525 - The Senate is with you? - The Senate? 1098 02:09:03,027 --> 02:09:05,738 Yes. I can speak for them. 1099 02:09:06,364 --> 02:09:09,700 You can buy my freedom and smuggle me out of Rome? 1100 02:09:10,076 --> 02:09:11,535 GRACCHUS: To what end? 1101 02:09:12,995 --> 02:09:15,331 Get me outside the city walls. 1102 02:09:15,915 --> 02:09:19,794 Have fresh horses ready to take me to Ostia. My army is encamped there. 1103 02:09:19,877 --> 02:09:23,214 By nightfall of the second day, I shall return at the head of 5,000 men. 1104 02:09:23,297 --> 02:09:25,549 But the legions all have new commanders, 1105 02:09:25,633 --> 02:09:27,051 loyal to Commodus. 1106 02:09:27,134 --> 02:09:30,304 Let my men see me alive, and you shall see where their loyalties lie. 1107 02:09:30,388 --> 02:09:32,056 This is madness. 1108 02:09:32,723 --> 02:09:36,060 No Roman army has entered the capital in 100 years. 1109 02:09:36,143 --> 02:09:38,396 I will not trade one dictatorship for another! 1110 02:09:38,479 --> 02:09:42,024 The time for half measures and talk is over, Senator. 1111 02:09:42,566 --> 02:09:45,653 And after your glorious coup, what then? 1112 02:09:46,862 --> 02:09:50,491 You'll take your 5,000 warriors and leave? 1113 02:09:50,574 --> 02:09:52,118 I will leave. 1114 02:09:52,618 --> 02:09:54,662 The soldiers will stay for your protection, 1115 02:09:54,745 --> 02:09:56,414 under the command of the Senate. 1116 02:09:56,539 --> 02:09:57,707 So, 1117 02:09:58,040 --> 02:10:02,253 once all of Rome is yours, you'll just give it back to the people? 1118 02:10:03,629 --> 02:10:04,630 Tell me why. 1119 02:10:10,761 --> 02:10:13,931 Because that was the last wish of a dying man. 1120 02:10:16,976 --> 02:10:18,853 I will kill Commodus. 1121 02:10:20,771 --> 02:10:23,858 The fate of Rome I leave to you. 1122 02:10:25,609 --> 02:10:27,903 Marcus Aurelius trusted you. 1123 02:10:29,739 --> 02:10:31,782 His daughter trusts you. 1124 02:10:35,786 --> 02:10:37,455 I will trust you. 1125 02:10:37,872 --> 02:10:39,915 But we have little time. 1126 02:10:40,458 --> 02:10:42,209 Give me two days, 1127 02:10:43,002 --> 02:10:45,254 and I will buy your freedom. 1128 02:10:45,880 --> 02:10:47,214 And you, 1129 02:10:48,758 --> 02:10:50,343 you stay alive, 1130 02:10:51,844 --> 02:10:53,512 or I'll be dead. 1131 02:10:55,473 --> 02:10:57,058 Now we must go. 1132 02:11:24,126 --> 02:11:27,713 PROXIMO: He'll be waiting for you. Stand at the foot of the colossus. 1133 02:11:27,797 --> 02:11:29,382 He'll find you. 1134 02:12:13,551 --> 02:12:15,010 It won't work. 1135 02:12:15,970 --> 02:12:18,097 The Emperor knows too much. 1136 02:12:18,848 --> 02:12:19,849 And as for me, 1137 02:12:22,184 --> 02:12:24,228 it's becoming dangerous. 1138 02:12:25,521 --> 02:12:27,773 You'll be paid on my return. 1139 02:12:29,859 --> 02:12:31,652 I give you my word. 1140 02:12:31,902 --> 02:12:34,989 Your word? What if you don't return? 1141 02:12:36,240 --> 02:12:39,201 Do you remember what it was to have trust, Proximo? 1142 02:12:39,285 --> 02:12:40,536 Trust? 1143 02:12:44,790 --> 02:12:46,542 Who am I to trust? 1144 02:12:47,126 --> 02:12:50,296 - I will kill Commodus. - Why would I want that? 1145 02:12:51,088 --> 02:12:52,798 He makes me rich. 1146 02:12:57,928 --> 02:13:00,764 I know that you are a man of your word, General. 1147 02:13:02,516 --> 02:13:05,102 I know that you would die for honor. 1148 02:13:06,437 --> 02:13:08,397 You would die for Rome. 1149 02:13:09,440 --> 02:13:12,568 You would die for the memory of your ancestors. 1150 02:13:12,651 --> 02:13:14,945 But I, on the other hand, 1151 02:13:17,656 --> 02:13:19,492 I'm an entertainer. 1152 02:13:22,995 --> 02:13:24,205 Guard! 1153 02:13:29,043 --> 02:13:31,629 He killed the man who set you free. 1154 02:13:40,804 --> 02:13:42,640 Praetorians, master. 1155 02:13:48,812 --> 02:13:49,980 Halt! 1156 02:14:55,129 --> 02:14:56,922 COMMODUS: Where have you been? 1157 02:14:57,381 --> 02:14:58,966 I sent for you. 1158 02:15:00,551 --> 02:15:02,219 Please, brother. 1159 02:15:07,975 --> 02:15:09,852 What's troubling you? 1160 02:15:12,271 --> 02:15:14,648 Does Gracchus have a new lover? 1161 02:15:16,442 --> 02:15:17,943 I don't know. 1162 02:15:19,945 --> 02:15:22,072 I thought you'd seen him. 1163 02:15:22,906 --> 02:15:25,409 He infects everyone like a putrid fever. 1164 02:15:27,202 --> 02:15:30,414 For the health of Rome, the Senate must be bled. 1165 02:15:30,831 --> 02:15:32,875 And he will bleed, too. 1166 02:15:33,751 --> 02:15:35,127 Very soon. 1167 02:15:36,629 --> 02:15:38,297 But not tonight. 1168 02:15:53,312 --> 02:15:56,231 Do you remember what our father said once? 1169 02:15:57,566 --> 02:15:59,234 "It's a dream, 1170 02:16:01,111 --> 02:16:03,030 "a frightful dream, 1171 02:16:05,574 --> 02:16:06,909 "life is." 1172 02:16:09,620 --> 02:16:11,705 Do you think that's true? 1173 02:16:12,456 --> 02:16:13,957 I don't know. 1174 02:16:17,544 --> 02:16:19,088 I think it is. 1175 02:16:21,840 --> 02:16:24,593 And I have only you to share it with. 1176 02:17:02,172 --> 02:17:03,799 Open your mouth. 1177 02:17:41,086 --> 02:17:42,880 You know I love you. 1178 02:17:44,965 --> 02:17:46,550 And I love you. 1179 02:18:23,212 --> 02:18:24,755 Out. Get out! 1180 02:18:25,964 --> 02:18:27,216 Move! 1181 02:18:31,887 --> 02:18:33,931 Congratulations, General. 1182 02:18:34,014 --> 02:18:36,809 You've got very persuasive friends. 1183 02:18:42,815 --> 02:18:45,317 My brother has had Gracchus arrested. 1184 02:18:45,400 --> 02:18:48,862 We daren't wait any longer. We must leave tonight. 1185 02:18:48,946 --> 02:18:52,574 Proximo will come at midnight and take you to the gate. 1186 02:18:53,242 --> 02:18:56,912 Your servant, Cicero, will be waiting there with horses. 1187 02:18:58,914 --> 02:19:01,208 - You have done all this? - Yes. 1188 02:19:02,417 --> 02:19:04,127 You risk too much. 1189 02:19:05,087 --> 02:19:07,089 I have much to pay for. 1190 02:19:09,508 --> 02:19:11,718 You have nothing to pay for. 1191 02:19:11,802 --> 02:19:14,888 You love your son. You're strong for him. 1192 02:19:18,100 --> 02:19:20,435 I am tired of being strong. 1193 02:19:22,396 --> 02:19:26,608 My brother hates all the world, and you most of all. 1194 02:19:27,109 --> 02:19:30,237 - Because your father chose me. - No. 1195 02:19:31,530 --> 02:19:33,782 Because my father loved you. 1196 02:19:37,703 --> 02:19:40,122 And because I loved you. 1197 02:19:42,708 --> 02:19:44,376 A long time ago. 1198 02:19:49,131 --> 02:19:51,258 Was I very different then? 1199 02:19:57,806 --> 02:19:59,558 You laughed more. 1200 02:20:03,645 --> 02:20:06,064 I have felt alone all my life, 1201 02:20:07,357 --> 02:20:09,026 except with you. 1202 02:20:12,112 --> 02:20:13,488 I must go. 1203 02:20:14,156 --> 02:20:15,282 Yes. 1204 02:20:43,769 --> 02:20:44,978 LUCIUS: There. 1205 02:20:56,531 --> 02:20:58,033 And I got you. 1206 02:21:01,078 --> 02:21:02,996 Isn't it late to be playing legionnaire? 1207 02:21:03,080 --> 02:21:05,165 I'm not a legionnaire. 1208 02:21:05,499 --> 02:21:08,085 - Not a legionnaire? - I'm a gladiator. 1209 02:21:09,378 --> 02:21:10,837 A gladiator? 1210 02:21:11,546 --> 02:21:14,216 Gladiators only fight in the games. 1211 02:21:14,299 --> 02:21:17,719 Wouldn't you rather be a great Roman warrior like Julius Caesar? 1212 02:21:17,803 --> 02:21:20,389 I'm Maximus, the savior of Rome! 1213 02:21:23,225 --> 02:21:25,060 The savior of Rome? 1214 02:21:33,068 --> 02:21:34,778 And who said that? 1215 02:21:43,620 --> 02:21:45,205 Where's Lucius? 1216 02:21:46,415 --> 02:21:48,834 He's with the Emperor, my lady. 1217 02:21:51,753 --> 02:21:53,463 LUCIUS: She couldn't. COMMODUS: Yes, she did. 1218 02:21:53,547 --> 02:21:55,757 She took it from a basket, 1219 02:21:57,175 --> 02:22:00,929 and pressed it to her breast, right here above her heart. 1220 02:22:02,556 --> 02:22:05,767 - LUCIUS: It bit her in the breast? - Yes. 1221 02:22:06,435 --> 02:22:10,397 You see, Lucius, sometimes royal ladies 1222 02:22:10,897 --> 02:22:14,860 behave very strangely and do very odd things in the name of love. 1223 02:22:14,943 --> 02:22:17,529 - I think it's silly. - So do I. 1224 02:22:19,614 --> 02:22:20,949 Sodol. 1225 02:22:21,491 --> 02:22:23,577 Sister, join us. 1226 02:22:24,202 --> 02:22:25,954 I've been reading to dear Lucius. 1227 02:22:26,038 --> 02:22:28,040 LUCIUS: I've been reading, too. COMMODUS: Yes. 1228 02:22:28,123 --> 02:22:32,461 He's a very clever little boy. He'll make a grand emperor one day. 1229 02:22:34,004 --> 02:22:36,423 We've been reading about the great Mark Antony, 1230 02:22:36,506 --> 02:22:37,841 and his adventures in Egypt. 1231 02:22:37,924 --> 02:22:40,469 And the queen killed herself with a snake. 1232 02:22:40,552 --> 02:22:43,889 And just wait until you hear what happened to our ancestors. 1233 02:22:43,972 --> 02:22:45,807 If you're very good, 1234 02:22:45,891 --> 02:22:49,686 tomorrow night, I'll tell you the story of Emperor Claudius. 1235 02:22:49,770 --> 02:22:51,480 He was betrayed 1236 02:22:52,689 --> 02:22:54,816 by those closest to him. 1237 02:22:56,693 --> 02:22:58,445 By his own blood. 1238 02:22:59,780 --> 02:23:02,240 They whispered in dark corners 1239 02:23:02,324 --> 02:23:04,785 and went out late at night, 1240 02:23:04,868 --> 02:23:08,205 and conspired, and conspired. 1241 02:23:10,832 --> 02:23:14,669 But the Emperor Claudius knew that they were up to something. 1242 02:23:14,795 --> 02:23:17,339 He knew they were busy little bees. 1243 02:23:19,299 --> 02:23:22,344 And one night he sat down with one of them, 1244 02:23:23,136 --> 02:23:25,138 and he looked at her, 1245 02:23:25,889 --> 02:23:27,432 and he said, 1246 02:23:28,600 --> 02:23:31,186 "Tell me what you've been doing, 1247 02:23:31,853 --> 02:23:33,563 "busy little bee. 1248 02:23:35,857 --> 02:23:38,944 "Or I shall strike down those dearest to you. 1249 02:23:40,112 --> 02:23:43,156 "You shall watch as I bathe in their blood." 1250 02:23:46,868 --> 02:23:49,287 And the Emperor was heartbroken. 1251 02:23:51,373 --> 02:23:53,583 The little bee had wounded him more deeply 1252 02:23:53,667 --> 02:23:56,378 than anyone else could ever have done. 1253 02:23:58,505 --> 02:24:01,383 What do you think happened then, Lucius? 1254 02:24:02,008 --> 02:24:03,844 I don't know, Uncle. 1255 02:24:10,350 --> 02:24:12,936 The little bee told him everything. 1256 02:25:10,827 --> 02:25:13,830 Open, in the name of the Emperor! 1257 02:25:14,664 --> 02:25:15,957 Proximo! 1258 02:25:16,833 --> 02:25:19,961 Open the gates, in the name of the Emperor! 1259 02:25:20,795 --> 02:25:22,130 Proximo! 1260 02:25:24,341 --> 02:25:25,800 Open the gates! 1261 02:25:31,640 --> 02:25:33,934 Open the gates, Proximo. 1262 02:25:34,392 --> 02:25:36,645 Do you want to die, old man? 1263 02:25:37,854 --> 02:25:38,980 Here. 1264 02:25:39,564 --> 02:25:41,733 Everything is prepared. 1265 02:25:41,816 --> 02:25:44,277 It seems you have won your freedom. 1266 02:25:44,361 --> 02:25:47,948 Proximo, are you in danger of becoming a good man? 1267 02:25:53,036 --> 02:25:56,873 - Juba. - All enemies of the Emperor die! 1268 02:25:57,415 --> 02:25:59,584 Open the gates! 1269 02:26:05,090 --> 02:26:07,050 Pull! 1270 02:26:09,177 --> 02:26:12,055 Move! Form a column on the left! 1271 02:26:15,850 --> 02:26:19,062 I only need moments, so do not be careless with your lives. 1272 02:26:19,145 --> 02:26:21,606 If you don't want any part of this, go back to your cells. 1273 02:26:21,690 --> 02:26:23,942 We'll wait here for you, Maximus. 1274 02:26:24,025 --> 02:26:25,819 - Strength and honor. - Strength and honor. 1275 02:26:25,902 --> 02:26:26,945 HAGEN: Go. 1276 02:26:27,821 --> 02:26:29,656 Strength and honor. 1277 02:26:32,284 --> 02:26:35,120 SOLDIER: Aim. Arch your bows! 1278 02:27:42,228 --> 02:27:43,521 Shadows and dust. 1279 02:28:25,438 --> 02:28:26,689 Maximus! 1280 02:28:32,153 --> 02:28:33,571 I'm sorry. 1281 02:28:59,973 --> 02:29:01,349 It's done. 1282 02:29:08,314 --> 02:29:10,191 And what of my nephew? 1283 02:29:11,276 --> 02:29:13,278 And what of his mother? 1284 02:29:15,363 --> 02:29:17,907 Should they share her lover's fate? 1285 02:29:19,617 --> 02:29:21,661 Or should I be merciful? 1286 02:29:24,372 --> 02:29:26,291 Commodus the Merciful. 1287 02:29:32,714 --> 02:29:35,049 Lucius will stay with me now. 1288 02:29:36,217 --> 02:29:38,011 And if his mother 1289 02:29:39,387 --> 02:29:41,514 so much as looks at me 1290 02:29:42,682 --> 02:29:45,185 in a manner that displeases me, 1291 02:29:47,145 --> 02:29:48,563 he will die. 1292 02:29:52,066 --> 02:29:55,320 If she decides to be noble, 1293 02:29:57,071 --> 02:29:59,157 and takes her own life, 1294 02:30:00,742 --> 02:30:02,202 he will die. 1295 02:30:05,830 --> 02:30:07,540 And as for you, 1296 02:30:10,335 --> 02:30:12,086 you will love me, 1297 02:30:12,921 --> 02:30:14,714 as I have loved you. 1298 02:30:16,299 --> 02:30:19,969 You will provide me with an heir of pure blood, 1299 02:30:20,929 --> 02:30:22,764 so that Commodus 1300 02:30:23,348 --> 02:30:26,309 and his progeny will rule for 1,000 years. 1301 02:30:30,939 --> 02:30:32,690 Am I not merciful? 1302 02:30:54,546 --> 02:30:57,173 Am I not merciful! 1303 02:31:09,394 --> 02:31:13,398 - Maximus! Maximus! Maximus! - Maximus! Maximus! Maximus! 1304 02:31:40,842 --> 02:31:43,595 I'm a soldier. I obey. 1305 02:31:46,347 --> 02:31:50,602 Nothing happens to anyone that he is not fitted by nature to bear. 1306 02:32:23,551 --> 02:32:24,844 Maximus. 1307 02:32:25,887 --> 02:32:27,221 Maximus. 1308 02:32:28,222 --> 02:32:29,515 Maximus. 1309 02:32:31,225 --> 02:32:33,061 They call for you. 1310 02:32:35,021 --> 02:32:38,274 The general who became a slave. 1311 02:32:39,525 --> 02:32:41,903 The slave who became a gladiator. 1312 02:32:43,279 --> 02:32:46,074 The gladiator who defied an emperor. 1313 02:32:48,076 --> 02:32:49,744 A striking story. 1314 02:32:50,912 --> 02:32:54,123 Now the people want to know how the story ends. 1315 02:32:56,501 --> 02:32:58,753 Only a famous death will do. 1316 02:33:00,672 --> 02:33:03,216 And what could be more glorious 1317 02:33:03,591 --> 02:33:07,345 than to challenge the Emperor himself in the great arena? 1318 02:33:09,681 --> 02:33:12,725 - You would fight me? - Why not? 1319 02:33:13,810 --> 02:33:15,853 Do you think I'm afraid? 1320 02:33:16,771 --> 02:33:19,816 I think you have been afraid all your life. 1321 02:33:19,899 --> 02:33:23,611 Unlike Maximus the Invincible, who knows no fear? 1322 02:33:29,367 --> 02:33:32,745 I knew a man who once said, "Death smiles at us all. 1323 02:33:33,621 --> 02:33:36,124 "All a man can do is smile back." 1324 02:33:37,917 --> 02:33:39,335 I wonder, 1325 02:33:39,961 --> 02:33:42,755 did your friend smile at his own death? 1326 02:33:43,131 --> 02:33:44,632 You must know. 1327 02:33:47,552 --> 02:33:49,345 He was your father. 1328 02:33:53,224 --> 02:33:55,560 You loved my father, I know, 1329 02:33:57,061 --> 02:33:58,563 but so did I. 1330 02:34:00,189 --> 02:34:02,775 That makes us brothers, doesn't it? 1331 02:34:05,403 --> 02:34:06,988 Smile for me now, brother. 1332 02:34:13,035 --> 02:34:15,872 Strap on his armor. Conceal the wound. 1333 02:35:10,301 --> 02:35:12,261 SOLDIER: Ring formation! 1334 02:37:04,040 --> 02:37:05,666 COMMODUS: Quintus, sword. 1335 02:37:07,168 --> 02:37:08,961 Give me your sword. 1336 02:37:12,381 --> 02:37:14,383 Sword! Give me a sword! 1337 02:37:15,885 --> 02:37:19,388 Sheathe your swords. Sheathe your swords! 1338 02:39:34,857 --> 02:39:36,192 QUINTUS: Maximus. 1339 02:39:41,572 --> 02:39:42,865 Maximus. 1340 02:39:43,449 --> 02:39:44,784 Quintus. 1341 02:39:46,452 --> 02:39:47,912 Free my men. 1342 02:39:49,288 --> 02:39:51,999 Senator Gracchus is to be reinstated. 1343 02:39:53,292 --> 02:39:55,377 There was a dream that was Rome. 1344 02:39:56,045 --> 02:39:57,922 It shall be realized. 1345 02:39:58,464 --> 02:40:01,050 These are the wishes of Marcus Aurelius. 1346 02:40:02,134 --> 02:40:04,136 Free the prisoners. Go! 1347 02:40:28,911 --> 02:40:30,246 Maximus. 1348 02:40:32,123 --> 02:40:33,707 Lucius is safe. 1349 02:40:50,015 --> 02:40:51,433 Go to them. 1350 02:41:41,233 --> 02:41:42,651 You're home. 1351 02:42:09,303 --> 02:42:11,847 Is Rome worth one good man's life? 1352 02:42:15,726 --> 02:42:17,519 We believed it once. 1353 02:42:20,731 --> 02:42:22,858 Make us believe it again. 1354 02:42:26,362 --> 02:42:28,447 He was a soldier of Rome. 1355 02:42:32,284 --> 02:42:33,702 Honor him. 1356 02:42:34,161 --> 02:42:36,330 Who will help me carry him? 1357 02:43:21,083 --> 02:43:22,751 Now we are free. 1358 02:43:29,133 --> 02:43:31,010 I will see you again. 1359 02:43:33,887 --> 02:43:35,347 But not yet. 1360 02:43:36,348 --> 02:43:37,683 Not yet.