Ridley Scott, being contemporary and innovative is one of many film directors who have a certain style that is ever present throughout their films. Gladiator and Hannibal two of Scott's best movies do not share plot summary yet they encompass similar techniques to achieve their desired look. In two different scenes Scott incorporates similar lighting, camera movement, angles and music to tell the stories of both the characters of Maximus and Clarise. This work looks at each of the techniques used in the four scenes and how they compare and contrast.
Scott is considered one the best directors around and one who expresses his ideas through not only the plot but also in the way the plot takes place. He enjoys using many different kind of camera angles especially cross cutting and quick cutting. Crosscutting is when in a scene the camera moves back and forth over the shoulder of tow people who are engaging in a conversation or some sort of action. Scott uses this in his films because he likes to use different ideas or themes that involve close action. Quick cutting, which is mostly noticeable in Gladiator, is when there is a lot of action in one scene and the camera moves back and forth really quickly in order to catch all of the action. This attempts to make the action look like it is moving much faster than it really is. Scott uses both of these techniques throughout both movies and achieves his goal of completing to excellent movies. .
Gladiator was truly one of the best films of the year, in 2001. It's about a Roman general who was to be the successor to the Caesar. The Caesar's son kills his father and attempts the same fate for the general. The general escapes but is captured by a band of nomads and is forced into slavery. He is made to fight in the gladiator arena and his skill eventually brings him to the Coliseum. The Romans begin to love and support him, giving him a foothold to overthrow the crooked Caesar.
During this time Hannibal learned alot about the army. ... When Hannibal's father and older brother died in 229 and 226, Hannibal was elected commander-in-chief of the Carthaginian army. ... Hannibal came up with a dangerous plan. ... Hannibal became a consul in the government. ... In closing, Hannibal was a smart and strong general. ...
Hannibal's march into Italy is legendary. ... Their confidence is understandable, Hannibal was in Spain. ... In 212 BC the tides were turning against Hannibal. ... In 196 BC Hannibal became chief magistrate of Carhage. ... Hannibal escaped to Crete, then onto Bithynia. ...
Maximus and other slaves are trained to fight as a Gladiators. ... The money is another reason that some men became gladiators. ... The gladiators also held a lot of sex appeal to the ladies watching. ... There were even women that became gladiators. ... Gladiators got the same treatment. ...
Gladiator Essay The movie Gladiator is a story about the Roman Empire back in 160 A.D. ... He was sold to Proximo to fight as a gladiator. ... He was not Spanish and he was never a gladiator. ... Back in the Roman empire gladiators were real. ... This was true in both the Gladiator movie and Roman history. ...
With the rise of Hannibal and with him Carthage, Rome turned to a young general named Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus to put an end to Hannibal's terror. Unlike his predecessors Scipio studied Hannibal and used Hannibal's own strategy to out maneuver the Carthaginian army. ... While in the valley, Hannibal gave orders for his forces to attack. ... Hannibal sailed from Italy with his army in tact. ... Scipio employed the same strategy Hannibal had used in Cannae. ...
They did not send any help, and Saguntum fell to Hannibal. ... Yet we see no disorganization of Hannibal's forces until Zama.11 This can only go to credit Hannibal's innate sense of leading men and the loyalty that he instilled in them. ... Whilst Flaminius was just marching through, Hannibal attacked. ... His reasoning was that if you didn't fight Hannibal he could not beat you, so Fabius merely followed Hannibal and maintained a military presence. ... This was the greatest victory for Hannibal. ...
Rome gave Carthage and ultimatum - either give up Hannibal, or go to war. ... This control would have given Rome a choice over where the war would be fought, a choice Hannibal couldn"t let them make. ... Realizing that Hannibal probably planned to cross the Alps, Scipio quickly returned to northern Italy to await him.... The countermeasures Hannibal had to employ to keep the tribes at bay caused huge amounts of casualties. ... This left Rome completely uncovered, but Hannibal did not march on the capital. ...
Paper 2: "Gladiator- Evaluation The film Gladiator, by Ridley Scott is a blockbuster hit for more reasons than one. ... Maximus is then sold to gladiator-turned-impresario Proximo and forced to fight as a gladiator. ... Maximus then returns to Rome as a gladiator with the vile intentions of seeking revenge. ... Others have stated that it would have been more convincing for the Romans to be speaking with a French accent vs. an English. ... I would argue that Gladiator is an exciting film to watch. ...
A prime example is a movie called "Hannibal" that depicts a psychopath, who murders and then consumes his victim's body parts in explicit and gruesome details, not necessarily in that order either. ... Any night of the week, the average viewer can see levels of violence approaching, even exceeding the Roman Gladiator's games. ...
