1. - Sir. - General.Copy !req
2. Sir.Copy !req
3. Lean and hungry.Copy !req
4. - Still nothing? - Not a sign.Copy !req
5. - How long has he been gone? - Nearly two hours.Copy !req
6. - Will they fight, sir? - We shall know soon enough.Copy !req
7. Soldier, I ordered you to move those catapults forward.Copy !req
8. - They're out of range. - Range is good.Copy !req
9. The danger to the cavalry— Is acceptable. Agreed?Copy !req
10. They say no.Copy !req
11. Steady! Steady!Copy !req
12. People should know when they're conquered.Copy !req
13. Would you, Quintus?Copy !req
14. Would I?Copy !req
15. - Strength and honor. - Strength and honor.Copy !req
16. At my signal, unleash hell.Copy !req
17. Load the catapults.Copy !req
18. Infantry form up for advance.Copy !req
19. - Archers ready. - Archers!Copy !req
20. - Nock! - Nock!Copy !req
21. Fratres!Copy !req
22. Maximus!Copy !req
23. Three weeks from now, I will be harvesting my crops.Copy !req
24. Imagine where you will be, and it will be so.Copy !req
25. Hold the line! Stay with me!Copy !req
26. If you find yourself alone...Copy !req
27. riding in green fields with the sun on your face...Copy !req
28. do not be troubled.Copy !req
29. For you are in Elysium, and you're already dead!Copy !req
30. Brothers...Copy !req
31. what we do in life...Copy !req
32. echoes in eternity.Copy !req
33. Pull!Copy !req
34. Pull! Pull!Copy !req
35. Catapults ready, sir!Copy !req
36. Archers, ignite!Copy !req
37. - Ignite! - Ignite!Copy !req
38. Archers, draw!Copy !req
39. Loose!Copy !req
40. Loose!Copy !req
41. All right, men, ready!Copy !req
42. Hold the line!Copy !req
43. Draw! Loose!Copy !req
44. Loose! Loose!Copy !req
45. Reload!Copy !req
46. Hold the line!Copy !req
47. Draw! Loose!Copy !req
48. Stay with me!Copy !req
49. Stay with me!Copy !req
50. Roma victor!Copy !req
51. Roma victor!Copy !req
52. Do you think he's really dying?Copy !req
53. He's been dying for ten years.Copy !req
54. If he weren't really dying, he wouldn't have sent for us.Copy !req
55. Maybe he just misses us.Copy !req
56. And the senators? He wouldn't have summoned them if-Copy !req
57. Peace, Commodus.Copy !req
58. After two weeks on the road, your incessant scheming is hurting my head.Copy !req
59. He's made his decision.Copy !req
60. He's going to announce it.Copy !req
61. He will name me.Copy !req
62. The first thing I shall do...Copy !req
63. when-Copy !req
64. is honor him with games worthy of His Majesty.Copy !req
65. For now, the first thing I shall do is have a hot bath.Copy !req
66. Your Highness?Copy !req
67. We seem to be almost there, sir.Copy !req
68. - Sire. - Where's the emperor?Copy !req
69. He's at the front, sire. They've been gone for 19 days.Copy !req
70. The wounded are still coming in.Copy !req
71. My horse.Copy !req
72. My lord.Copy !req
73. Kiss?Copy !req
74. You have proved your valor yet again, Maximus.Copy !req
75. Let us hope for the last time.Copy !req
76. There's no one left to fight, sire.Copy !req
77. There is always someone left to fight.Copy !req
78. How can I reward Rome's greatest general?Copy !req
79. Let me go home.Copy !req
80. Ah. Home.Copy !req
81. They honor you, Caesar.Copy !req
82. It's for you, Maximus. They honor you.Copy !req
83. Have I missed it? Have I missed the battle?Copy !req
84. You have missed the war.Copy !req
85. Father, congratulations.Copy !req
86. I shall sacrifice a hundred bulls to honor your triumph.Copy !req
87. Save the bulls.Copy !req
88. Honor Maximus. He won the battle.Copy !req
89. - General. - Highness.Copy !req
90. Rome salutes you, and I embrace you as a brother.Copy !req
91. It has been too long, my old friend.Copy !req
92. - Highness. - Here, Father.Copy !req
93. Take my arm.Copy !req
94. I think it is time for me to leave.Copy !req
95. So much for the glory of Rome.Copy !req
96. Magnificent battle.Copy !req
97. - General. - Still alive?Copy !req
98. - Still alive. - The gods must have a sense of humor.Copy !req
99. - The gods must love you. - Valerius.Copy !req
100. Back to barracks, General? Or to Rome?Copy !req
101. Home. My wife, the son, the harvest.Copy !req
102. Maximus the farmer. I still have difficulty imagining that.Copy !req
103. You know, dirt cleans off a lot easier than blood, Quintus.Copy !req
104. - Here he is. - Highness.Copy !req
105. Senator Gaius, Senator Falco.Copy !req
106. Beware of Gaius. He'll pour a honeyed potion in your ear...Copy !req
107. and you'll wake up one day and all you'll say is, "Republic, republic."Copy !req
108. Well, why not? Rome was founded as a republic.Copy !req
109. Yes, and in a republic the senate has the power.Copy !req
110. But Senator Gaius isn't influenced by that, of course.Copy !req
111. Where do you stand, General? Emperor or senate?Copy !req
112. A soldier has the advantage of being able...Copy !req
113. to look his enemy in the eye, Senator.Copy !req
114. Well, with an army behind you, you could be extremely political.Copy !req
115. I warned you. Now I shall save you. Senators.Copy !req
116. Maximus.Copy !req
117. I'm going to need good men like you.Copy !req
118. How may I be of service, Highness?Copy !req
119. You're a man who knows what it is to command.Copy !req
120. You give your orders, the orders are obeyed and the battle is won.Copy !req
121. But these senators scheme and squabble and flatter and deceive.Copy !req
122. Maximus, we must save Rome from the politicians, my friend.Copy !req
123. Can I count on you when the time comes?Copy !req
124. Highness, when your father releases me, I intend to return home.Copy !req
125. Home? Well, no one's earned it more.Copy !req
126. Don't get too comfortable. I may call on you before long.Copy !req
127. Lucilla's here. Did you know?Copy !req
128. She's not forgotten you.Copy !req
129. And now you're the great man.Copy !req
130. If only you had been born a man.Copy !req
131. What a caesar you would have made!Copy !req
132. Father.Copy !req
133. You would have been strong.Copy !req
134. I wonder, would you have been just?Copy !req
135. I would have been what you taught me to be.Copy !req
136. How was your journey?Copy !req
137. Long. Uncomfortable. Why have I come?Copy !req
138. I need your help. With your brother.Copy !req
139. Of course.Copy !req
140. He loves you. He always has.Copy !req
141. And...Copy !req
142. he will need you now more than ever.Copy !req
143. Enough of politics.Copy !req
144. Let us pretend that you are a loving daughter...Copy !req
145. and I am a good father.Copy !req
146. This is a pleasant fiction, isn't it?Copy !req
147. Good morning.Copy !req
148. I need three more horses.Copy !req
149. Two! Three!Copy !req
150. Four!Copy !req
151. One! Two!Copy !req
152. You sent for me, Caesar?Copy !req
153. - Caesar? - Tell me again, Maximus.Copy !req
154. Why are we here?Copy !req
155. For the glory of the empire, sire.Copy !req
156. Ah, yes.Copy !req
157. Ah, yes, I remember.Copy !req
158. Do you see that map, Maximus?Copy !req
159. That is the world which I created.Copy !req
160. For 25 years...Copy !req
161. I have conquered, spilt blood, expanded the empire.Copy !req
162. Since I became caesar, I've known four years without war.Copy !req
163. Four years of peace in 20.Copy !req
164. And for what?Copy !req
165. I brought the sword. Nothing more.Copy !req
166. Caesar, your life-Copy !req
167. Please. Please don't call me that.Copy !req
168. Come. Please.Copy !req
169. Come sit.Copy !req
170. Let us talk together now-Copy !req
171. very simply- as men.Copy !req
172. Maximus, talk.Copy !req
173. Five thousand of my men are out there in the freezing mud.Copy !req
174. Three thousand of them are bloodied and cleaved.Copy !req
175. Two thousand will never leave this place.Copy !req
176. I will not believe that they fought and died for nothing.Copy !req
177. And what would you believe?Copy !req
178. They fought for you and for Rome.Copy !req
179. And what is Rome?Copy !req
180. I've seen much of the rest of the world.Copy !req
181. It is brutal and cruel and dark. Rome is the light.Copy !req
182. Yet you have never been there.Copy !req
183. You have not seen what it has become.Copy !req
184. I am dying, Maximus.Copy !req
185. When a man sees his end...Copy !req
186. he wants to know there was some purpose to his life.Copy !req
187. How will the world speak my name in years to come?Copy !req
188. Will I be known as the philosopher?Copy !req
189. The warrior?Copy !req
190. The tyrant?Copy !req
191. Or will I be the emperor who gave Rome back her true self?Copy !req
192. There was once a dream that was Rome.Copy !req
193. You could only whisper it.Copy !req
194. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish...Copy !req
195. it was so fragile.Copy !req
196. And I fear that it will not survive the winter.Copy !req
197. Maximus...Copy !req
198. let us whisper now...Copy !req
199. together, you and I.Copy !req
200. You have a son.Copy !req
201. Tell me about your home.Copy !req
202. My house is in the hills above Trujillo. A very simple place.Copy !req
203. Pink stones that warm in the sun.Copy !req
204. A kitchen garden that smells of herbs in the day...Copy !req
205. jasmine in the evening.Copy !req
206. Through the gate is a giant poplar.Copy !req
207. Figs, apples, pears.Copy !req
208. The soil, Marcus- black. Black like my wife's hair.Copy !req
209. Grapes on the south slopes, olives on the north.Copy !req
210. Wild ponies play near my house. They tease my son. He wants to be one.Copy !req
211. - Remember the last time you were home? - Two years, 264 days and this morning.Copy !req
212. I envy you, Maximus.Copy !req
213. It's a good home. Worth fighting for.Copy !req
214. There is one more duty...Copy !req
215. that I ask of you before you go home.Copy !req
216. What would you have me do, Caesar?Copy !req
217. I want you to become the protector of Rome after I die.Copy !req
218. I will empower you to one end alone-Copy !req
219. to give power back to the people of Rome...Copy !req
220. and end the corruption that has crippled it.Copy !req
221. Will you accept this great honor that I have offered you?Copy !req
222. With all my heart, no.Copy !req
223. Maximus...Copy !req
224. that is why it must be you.Copy !req
225. But surely a prefect, a senator...Copy !req
226. somebody who knows the city, who understands her politics.Copy !req
227. But you have not been corrupted by her politics.Copy !req
228. - And Commodus? - Commodus is not a moral man.Copy !req
229. You have known that since you were young.Copy !req
230. Commodus cannot rule.Copy !req
231. He must not rule.Copy !req
232. You are the son that I should have had.Copy !req
233. Commodus will accept my decision.Copy !req
234. He knows that you command the loyalty of the army.Copy !req
235. I need some time, sire.Copy !req
236. Yes.Copy !req
237. By sunset, I hope you will have agreed.Copy !req
238. Now embrace me as my son.Copy !req
239. And bring an old man another blanket.Copy !req
240. - My father favors you now. - My lady.Copy !req
241. - It was not always so. - Many things change.Copy !req
242. Many things. Not everything.Copy !req
243. Maximus, stop.Copy !req
244. Let me see your face.Copy !req
245. - You seem upset. - I lost many men.Copy !req
246. What did my father want with you?Copy !req
247. To wish me well before I leave for home.Copy !req
248. You're lying.Copy !req
249. I could always tell when you were lying because you were never any good at it.Copy !req
250. - I never acquired your comfort with it. - True.Copy !req
251. But then you never had to.Copy !req
252. Life is more simple for a soldier.Copy !req
253. Or do you think me heartless?Copy !req
254. I think you have a talent for survival.Copy !req
255. Maximus, stop.Copy !req
256. Is it really so terrible seeing me again?Copy !req
257. No. I'm tired from battle.Copy !req
258. It hurts you to see my father so fragile.Copy !req
259. Commodus expects that my father will announce his succession within days.Copy !req
260. Will you serve my brother as you served his father?Copy !req
261. I will always serve Rome.Copy !req
262. Do you know...Copy !req
263. I still remember you in my prayers.Copy !req
264. Oh, yes. I pray.Copy !req
265. I was sad to hear of your husband's death. I mourned him.Copy !req
266. - Thank you. - And I hear you have a son.Copy !req
267. Yes. Lucius.Copy !req
268. He'll be nearly eight years old.Copy !req
269. My son is also nearly eight.Copy !req
270. I thank you for your prayers.Copy !req
271. Ancestors, I ask for your guidance.Copy !req
272. Blessed Mother, come to me with the gods' desire for my future.Copy !req
273. Blessed Father, watch over my wife and son with a ready sword.Copy !req
274. Whisper to them I live only to hold them again.Copy !req
275. Ancestors, I honor you...Copy !req
276. and will try to live with the dignity you have taught me.Copy !req
277. Cicero.Copy !req
278. Sir.Copy !req
279. You don't find it hard to do your duty?Copy !req
280. Sometimes I do what I want to do.Copy !req
281. The rest of the time I do what I have to.Copy !req
282. We may not be able to go home after all.Copy !req
283. Are you ready to do your duty for Rome?Copy !req
284. Yes, Father.Copy !req
285. You will not be emperor.Copy !req
286. Which wiser, older man is to take my place?Copy !req
287. My powers will pass to Maximus...Copy !req
288. to hold in trust...Copy !req
289. until the senate is ready to rule once more.Copy !req
290. Rome is to be a republic again.Copy !req
291. - Maximus. - Yes.Copy !req
292. My decision disappoints you?Copy !req
293. You wrote to me once...Copy !req
294. listing the four chief virtues.Copy !req
295. Wisdom, justice...Copy !req
296. fortitude...Copy !req
297. and temperance.Copy !req
298. As I read the list, I knew I had none of them.Copy !req
299. But I have other virtues, Father.Copy !req
300. Ambition.Copy !req
301. That can be a virtue when it drives us to excel.Copy !req
302. Resourcefulness. Courage.Copy !req
303. Perhaps not on the battlefield, but...Copy !req
304. there are many forms of courage.Copy !req
305. Devotion to my family...Copy !req
306. and to you.Copy !req
307. But none of my virtues were on your list.Copy !req
308. Even then it was as if you didn't want me for your son.Copy !req
309. You go too far.Copy !req
310. I searched the faces of the gods...Copy !req
311. for ways to please you, to make you proud.Copy !req
312. One kind word...Copy !req
313. one full hug...Copy !req
314. where you pressed me to your chest and held me tight...Copy !req
315. would have been like the sun on my heart for a thousand years.Copy !req
316. What is it in me you hate so much?Copy !req
317. All I've ever wanted...Copy !req
318. was to live up to you, Caesar.Copy !req
319. - Father. - Commodus.Copy !req
320. Your fault as a son...Copy !req
321. is my failure as a father.Copy !req
322. Come.Copy !req
323. Father.Copy !req
324. I would butcher the whole world...Copy !req
325. if you would only have loved me!Copy !req
326. Maximus, the emperor needs you. It's urgent.Copy !req
327. Lament with me, brother. Our great father is dead.Copy !req
328. How did he die?Copy !req
329. The surgeons say there was no pain.Copy !req
330. His breath gave out as he slept.Copy !req
331. Father.Copy !req
332. Your emperor asks for your loyalty, Maximus.Copy !req
333. Take my hand.Copy !req
334. I only offer it once.Copy !req
335. Quintus.Copy !req
336. Hail, Caesar.Copy !req
337. I must talk to the senators. I need their counsel.Copy !req
338. Wake Gaius and Falco.Copy !req
339. - Sword. - Sword.Copy !req
340. Maximus, please be careful. That was not prudent.Copy !req
341. Prudent? The emperor has been slain.Copy !req
342. The emperor died of natural causes.Copy !req
343. - Why are you armed, Quintus? - Guards!Copy !req
344. Please don't fight, Maximus.Copy !req
345. I'm sorry. Caesar has spoken.Copy !req
346. Ride until dawn...Copy !req
347. and then execute him.Copy !req
348. Quintus, look at me. Look at me!Copy !req
349. Promise me that you will look after my family.Copy !req
350. Your family will meet you in the afterlife.Copy !req
351. Kneel.Copy !req
352. Blessed Father, watch over my wife and son.Copy !req
353. Whisper to them that I live only to hold them again.Copy !req
354. At least give me a clean death.Copy !req
355. A soldier's death.Copy !req
356. The frost, sometimes it makes the blade stick.Copy !req
357. Praetorian!Copy !req
358. - Remember the last time you were home? - Two years, 264 days and this morning.Copy !req
359. Blessed Father, watch over my wife and son with a ready sword.Copy !req
360. Whisper to them I live only to hold them again, for all else is dust and air.Copy !req
361. Whisper to them I live only to hold them again...Copy !req
362. for all else is dust and air.Copy !req
363. Papa! Papa!Copy !req
364. Don't die.Copy !req
365. You'll meet them again.Copy !req
366. Not yet.Copy !req
367. No. They will clean it. Wait and see.Copy !req
368. Don't die.Copy !req
369. They'll feed you to the lions.Copy !req
370. They are worth more than we are.Copy !req
371. Better now?Copy !req
372. Clean. You see?Copy !req
373. Proximo!Copy !req
374. My old friend.Copy !req
375. Every day is a great day when you are here...Copy !req
376. but today is your most fortunate day.Copy !req
377. Those giraffes you sold me...Copy !req
378. they won't mate.Copy !req
379. They just walk around eating...Copy !req
380. and not mating.Copy !req
381. You sold me...Copy !req
382. queer giraffes.Copy !req
383. - I want my money back. - Not a chance.Copy !req
384. I do special price for you.Copy !req
385. On what?Copy !req
386. Have you seen my new stock? Come and see them.Copy !req
387. Do any of them fight? I've got a match coming up.Copy !req
388. Some are good for fighting, others for dying.Copy !req
389. You need both, I think.Copy !req
390. Get up.Copy !req
391. What's your trade?Copy !req
392. I was a hunter.Copy !req
393. I bought him from a salt mine in Carthage.Copy !req
394. Sit down.Copy !req
395. Mark of the legion.Copy !req
396. - Deserter. - Maybe so. But who cares?Copy !req
397. - He's a Spaniard. - I'll take six.Copy !req
398. - For one thousand. - One thousand?Copy !req
399. The Numidian alone is worth 2,000.Copy !req
400. These slaves are rotten.Copy !req
401. It all adds to the flavor.Copy !req
402. Wait, wait. Wait!Copy !req
403. I can negotiate.Copy !req
404. I'll give you 2,000...Copy !req
405. and four for the beasts.Copy !req
406. That's 5,000 for an old friend.Copy !req
407. Come on! How long does it take to get into my own house?Copy !req
408. I am Proximo.Copy !req
409. I shall be closer to you for the next few days...Copy !req
410. which will be the last of your miserable lives...Copy !req
411. than that bitch of a mother that brought you screaming into this world.Copy !req
412. I did not pay good money for you for your company.Copy !req
413. I paid it so that I could profit from your death.Copy !req
414. And as your mother was there at your beginning...Copy !req
415. so I shall be there at your end.Copy !req
416. And when you die, and die you shall...Copy !req
417. your transition shall be to the sound of-Copy !req
418. Gladiators...Copy !req
419. I salute you.Copy !req
420. - Red. - Red.Copy !req
421. Yellow.Copy !req
422. Yellow.Copy !req
423. Good.Copy !req
424. - Red. - Red.Copy !req
425. Spaniard.Copy !req
426. That's enough for the moment!Copy !req
427. His time will come.Copy !req
428. Next.Copy !req
429. Spaniard.qCopy !req
430. Why don't you fight?Copy !req
431. We all have to fight.Copy !req
432. Is that the sign of your gods?Copy !req
433. Will that not anger them?Copy !req
434. The gods favor you.Copy !req
435. Red is the gods' color.Copy !req
436. You will need their help today.Copy !req
437. Proximo!Copy !req
438. Still leading with the German, hmm?Copy !req
439. The crowd love a barbarian.Copy !req
440. Besides that, he's made me rich...Copy !req
441. Has that Numidian fought before?Copy !req
442. Nope. First time..Copy !req
443. And that one? Laborer? Soldier?Copy !req
444. He's a Spaniard. He might as well be a eunuch, for what he brings to the ring..Copy !req
445. 500 sesterti that the Numidian and Spaniard team makes it through..Copy !req
446. And 1000 if the Numidian makes it through alone.Copy !req
447. Are you asking me to bet against my own man?Copy !req
448. - It's unethical. - What if I make it 2000?Copy !req
449. Some of you are thinking you won't fight...Copy !req
450. and some that you can't fight.Copy !req
451. They all say that...Copy !req
452. until they're out there.Copy !req
453. Listen.Copy !req
454. Kill! Kill! Kill!Copy !req
455. Thrust this into another man's flesh.Copy !req
456. They will applaud and love you for that.Copy !req
457. And you-Copy !req
458. you may begin to love them...Copy !req
459. for that.Copy !req
460. Ultimately...Copy !req
461. we're all dead men.Copy !req
462. Sadly, we cannot choose how, but...Copy !req
463. we can decide how we meet that end...Copy !req
464. in order that we are remembered...Copy !req
465. as men.Copy !req
466. On the left, draw your shields!Copy !req
467. On the right, draw your swords!Copy !req
468. Kill! Kill! Kill!Copy !req
469. Pair them up- red with yellow.Copy !req
470. Next!Copy !req
471. Move it!Copy !req
472. - Go away! - You'll never rule us, Commodus!Copy !req
473. He enters Rome like a conquering hero. But what has he conquered?Copy !req
474. Give him time, Gracchus. He's young.Copy !req
475. I think he could do very well.Copy !req
476. For Rome, or for you?Copy !req
477. Go to your mother, Lucius. It's what she'd like.Copy !req
478. Lucius!Copy !req
479. Mother!Copy !req
480. Hail, Caesar.Copy !req
481. Senators.Copy !req
482. Rome greets her new emperor.Copy !req
483. Your loyal subjects bid you welcome, Highness.Copy !req
484. Thank you, Falco.Copy !req
485. And for the loyal subjects, I trust they weren't too expensive.Copy !req
486. - Caesar. - Gracchus.Copy !req
487. All Rome rejoices in your return, Caesar.Copy !req
488. There are many matters that require your attention.Copy !req
489. To order, please! To order!Copy !req
490. For your guidance, Caesar, the senate has prepared a series of protocols...Copy !req
491. to begin addressing the many problems in the city...Copy !req
492. beginning with basic sanitation for the Greek quarter...Copy !req
493. to combat the plague which is already springing up there.Copy !req
494. So, if Caesar-Copy !req
495. Don't you see, Gracchus?Copy !req
496. That's the very problem, isn't it?Copy !req
497. My father spent all his time at study...Copy !req
498. at books of learning and philosophy.Copy !req
499. He spent his twilight hours reading scrolls from the senate.Copy !req
500. And all the while the people were forgotten.Copy !req
501. But the senate is the people, sire...Copy !req
502. chosen from among the people to speak for the people.Copy !req
503. I doubt many of the people eat so well as you do, Gracchus...Copy !req
504. or have such splendid mistresses, Gaius.Copy !req
505. I think I understand my own people.Copy !req
506. Then perhaps Caesar will be so good as to teach us...Copy !req
507. out of his own extensive experience.Copy !req
508. I call it love.Copy !req
509. I am their father.Copy !req
510. The people are my children.Copy !req
511. I shall hold them to my bosom and embrace them tightly.Copy !req
512. Have you ever embraced someone dying of plague, sire?Copy !req
513. No, but if you interrupt me again...Copy !req
514. I assure you that you shall.Copy !req
515. Senator, my brother is very tired.Copy !req
516. Leave your list with me.Copy !req
517. Caesar shall do all that Rome requires.Copy !req
518. My lady, as always...Copy !req
519. your lightest touch commands obedience.Copy !req
520. Who are they to lecture me?Copy !req
521. Commodus, the senate has its uses.Copy !req
522. What uses? All they do is talk.Copy !req
523. It should be just...Copy !req
524. you and me...Copy !req
525. and Rome.Copy !req
526. Don't even think it.Copy !req
527. There's always been a senate.Copy !req
528. Rome has changed.Copy !req
529. It takes an emperor to rule an empire.Copy !req
530. Of course, but leave the people their-Copy !req
531. Illusions?Copy !req
532. Traditions.Copy !req
533. My father's war against the barbarians-Copy !req
534. He said it himself: it achieved nothing. But the people loved him.Copy !req
535. The people always love victories.Copy !req
536. Why?Copy !req
537. They didn't see the battles.Copy !req
538. What do they care about Germania?Copy !req
539. They care about the greatness of Rome.Copy !req
540. The greatness of Rome.Copy !req
541. Well, what is that?Copy !req
542. It's an idea-Copy !req
543. greatness.Copy !req
544. Greatness is a vision.Copy !req
545. Exactly. A vision.Copy !req
546. Do you not see, Lucilla?Copy !req
547. I will give the people a vision of Rome, and they will love me for it.Copy !req
548. And they'll soon forget the tedious sermonizing of a few dry old men.Copy !req
549. I will give the people the greatest vision of their lives.Copy !req
550. White and red wine for your drinking pleasure!Copy !req
551. Games.Copy !req
552. One hundred and fifty days of games.Copy !req
553. He's cleverer than I thought.Copy !req
554. Clever.Copy !req
555. The whole of Rome would be laughing at him...Copy !req
556. if they weren't so afraid of his praetorian.Copy !req
557. Fear and wonder- a powerful combination.Copy !req
558. You really think the people are going to be seduced by that?Copy !req
559. I think he knows what Rome is.Copy !req
560. Rome is the mob.Copy !req
561. Conjure magic for them, and they'll be distracted.Copy !req
562. Take away their freedom, and still they'll roar.Copy !req
563. The beating heart of Rome...Copy !req
564. is not the marble of the senate.Copy !req
565. It's the sand of the Colosseum.Copy !req
566. He'll bring them death...Copy !req
567. and they will love him for it.Copy !req
568. All you do is kill, kill, kill.Copy !req
569. Crowd don't want a butcher. They want a hero..Copy !req
570. You want them to keep coming back,Copy !req
571. so don't just hack them to pieces. Remember you are an entertainer.Copy !req
572. Spaniard.Copy !req
573. So entertain!Copy !req
574. Are you not entertained?Copy !req
575. Are you not entertained?Copy !req
576. Is this not why you are here?Copy !req
577. Spaniard! Spaniard!Copy !req
578. What do you want?Copy !req
579. Girl?Copy !req
580. Boy?Copy !req
581. You sent for me.Copy !req
582. Yes, I did.Copy !req
583. You're good, Spaniard, but you're not that good.Copy !req
584. You could be magnificent.Copy !req
585. I'm required to kill, so I kill.Copy !req
586. That is enough.Copy !req
587. That's enough for the provinces, but not for Rome.Copy !req
588. The young emperor...Copy !req
589. has arranged a series of spectacles...Copy !req
590. to commemorate his father...Copy !req
591. Marcus Aurelius.Copy !req
592. I find that amusing...Copy !req
593. since it was Marcus Aurelius-Copy !req
594. the wise, the all-knowing Marcus Aurelius-Copy !req
595. that closed us down.Copy !req
596. So, finally, after five years of scratching a living...Copy !req
597. in flea-infested villages...Copy !req
598. we're finally going back to where we belong-Copy !req
599. the Colosseum.Copy !req
600. Oh, you should see the Colosseum, Spaniard.Copy !req
601. Fifty thousand Romans...Copy !req
602. watching every movement of your sword...Copy !req
603. willing you to make that killer blow.Copy !req
604. The silence before you strike...Copy !req
605. and the noise afterwards.Copy !req
606. It rises.Copy !req
607. It rises up like-Copy !req
608. like a storm...Copy !req
609. as if you were the thunder god himself.Copy !req
610. You were a gladiator?Copy !req
611. Yes, I was.Copy !req
612. You won your freedom?Copy !req
613. A long time ago, the emperor...Copy !req
614. presented me with a rudis.Copy !req
615. It's just a wooden sword.Copy !req
616. The symbol of your freedom.Copy !req
617. He touched me on the shoulder, and I was free.Copy !req
618. You knew Marcus Aurelius?Copy !req
619. I did not say I knew him. I said he touched me on the shoulder once.Copy !req
620. You asked me what I want.Copy !req
621. I, too, want to stand in front of the emperor...Copy !req
622. as you did.Copy !req
623. Then listen to me.Copy !req
624. Learn from me.Copy !req
625. I wasn't the best because I killed quickly.Copy !req
626. I was the best because the crowd loved me.Copy !req
627. Win the crowd...Copy !req
628. and you'll win your freedom.Copy !req
629. I will win the crowd.Copy !req
630. I will give them something they've never seen before.Copy !req
631. So, Spaniard, we shall go to Rome together...Copy !req
632. and have bloody adventures...Copy !req
633. and the great whore will suckle us...Copy !req
634. until we are fat and happy and can suckle no more.Copy !req
635. And then...Copy !req
636. when enough men have died...Copy !req
637. perhaps you will have your freedom.Copy !req
638. Here. Use this.Copy !req
639. It's somewhere out there-Copy !req
640. my country...Copy !req
641. my home.Copy !req
642. My wife is preparing food.Copy !req
643. My daughters carry water from the river.Copy !req
644. Will I ever see them again?Copy !req
645. I think no.Copy !req
646. Do you believe you'll see them again when you die?Copy !req
647. I think so.Copy !req
648. But then...Copy !req
649. I will die soon.Copy !req
650. They will not die for many years.Copy !req
651. I'll have to wait.Copy !req
652. But you would wait?Copy !req
653. Of course.Copy !req
654. You see...Copy !req
655. my wife...Copy !req
656. and my son...Copy !req
657. are already waiting for me.Copy !req
658. You'll meet them again.Copy !req
659. But not yet.Copy !req
660. Not yet, unless-Copy !req
661. Not yet.Copy !req
662. Not yet.Copy !req
663. There. There it is.Copy !req
664. Out.Copy !req
665. Go! Go! Out!Copy !req
666. Good to see you again, old friend.Copy !req
667. Bring me fortune.Copy !req
668. Have you ever seen anything like that before?Copy !req
669. I didn't know men could build such things.Copy !req
670. Win the crowd.Copy !req
671. Get inside! Move!Copy !req
672. Inside!Copy !req
673. He sleeps so well because he's loved.Copy !req
674. Come, brother. It's late.Copy !req
675. I will make Rome the wonder of the ages.Copy !req
676. That is what Gracchus and his friends don't understand.Copy !req
677. All my desires are splitting my head to pieces.Copy !req
678. Drink this tonic.Copy !req
679. I think the time is almost right.Copy !req
680. I could announce the dissolution of the senate...Copy !req
681. at the celebration to honor our father.Copy !req
682. Do you think I should?Copy !req
683. Are the people ready?Copy !req
684. I think you need your rest now.Copy !req
685. Will you stay with me?Copy !req
686. Still afraid of the dark, brother?Copy !req
687. Still.Copy !req
688. Always.Copy !req
689. - Stay with me tonight. - You know I won't.Copy !req
690. Then kiss me.Copy !req
691. Sleep, brother.Copy !req
692. Having servants who are deaf or mute at least ensures I live a little longer.Copy !req
693. They are arresting scholars, now.Copy !req
694. Anyone who dare speak out.Copy !req
695. Even satirists and chroniclers.Copy !req
696. And mathematicians.Copy !req
697. And all to feed the arena.Copy !req
698. The Senat did not approve martial law.Copy !req
699. This reign of terror is entirely the PraetoriansCopy !req
700. I'm afraid to go out after dark.Copy !req
701. You should be more afraid of your activities during the day.Copy !req
702. The Senat is full of his spies.Copy !req
703. And led by that whoremaster, Falco.Copy !req
704. - But what is in his mind? - That's what I trouble myself with.Copy !req
705. He spends all his days singularly obsessedCopy !req
706. planning the festival to honor your father.Copy !req
707. He neglects even the fundamental task of government.Copy !req
708. So just what is he planning?Copy !req
709. And what pays for it?Copy !req
710. These daily games are costing a fortune, yet we have no new taxes.Copy !req
711. The future.Copy !req
712. The future pays for it.Copy !req
713. He's started selling the grain reserves.Copy !req
714. This can't be true.Copy !req
715. He's selling Rome's reserves of grain.Copy !req
716. The people will be starving in two years.Copy !req
717. I hope they're enjoying the games,Copy !req
718. because soon enough they'll be dead because of them.Copy !req
719. - Rome must know this. - And how?Copy !req
720. He's going to disolve the Senate.Copy !req
721. And who will tell them before it's too late? You, Gracchus?Copy !req
722. You, Gaius?Copy !req
723. Will you make a speech on the floor of the Senate denouncing my brother,Copy !req
724. and then see your family in the Coliseum?Copy !req
725. Who'd dare?Copy !req
726. I have been living in a prison of fear every dayCopy !req
727. because my son is heir to the throne.Copy !req
728. He must die.Copy !req
729. Quintus and the Preatorians would simply seize control for themselves.Copy !req
730. No. Cut off the head and the snake cannot strike.Copy !req
731. Lucilla, Gaius is right.Copy !req
732. Until we can neutralize the Preatorians we can achieve nothing.Copy !req
733. - So we do nothing? - No, child.Copy !req
734. We keep our council.Copy !req
735. We prepare.Copy !req
736. As long as the people support him, we are voices without steel.Copy !req
737. We are air.Copy !req
738. But with everyday that passes, he makes enemiesCopy !req
739. One day, he'll have more enemies than friends.Copy !req
740. And on that day we will act.Copy !req
741. Then we will strike.Copy !req
742. But until then,Copy !req
743. we are docile.Copy !req
744. We are obedient...Copy !req
745. and we are treacherous.Copy !req
746. Come on!Copy !req
747. Take me.Copy !req
748. All right, that's enough.Copy !req
749. The emperor wants battles, and I don't want to sacrifice my best fighters.Copy !req
750. The crowd wants battles, so the emperor gives them battles.Copy !req
751. - And you get the battle of Carthage. - The massacre of Carthage.Copy !req
752. Why don't you go down to the prison, round up all the beggars and thieves?Copy !req
753. We've done that.Copy !req
754. If you want to give away the best gladiators in the whole of the empire...Copy !req
755. then I want double the rates.Copy !req
756. You'll get your contract rates, or you'll get your contract canceled.Copy !req
757. You don't like it?Copy !req
758. Then you can crawl back down that shithole that you came from.Copy !req
759. Cassius, please! Cassius!Copy !req
760. Gladiator, are you the one they call the Spaniard?Copy !req
761. Yes.Copy !req
762. They said you were a giant.Copy !req
763. They said you could crush a man's skull with one hand.Copy !req
764. A man's? No.Copy !req
765. A boy's.Copy !req
766. - They have good horses in Spain? - Some of the best.Copy !req
767. This is Argento...Copy !req
768. and this is Scarto.Copy !req
769. They were my horses.Copy !req
770. They were taken from me.Copy !req
771. I like you, Spaniard. I shall cheer for you.Copy !req
772. - They let you watch the games? - My uncle says it makes me strong.Copy !req
773. - And what does your father say? - My father is dead.Copy !req
774. Master Lucius, it is time.Copy !req
775. I have to go.Copy !req
776. Your name is Lucius?Copy !req
777. Lucius Verus, after my father.Copy !req
778. Lower!Copy !req
779. Claudius!Copy !req
780. - Yes? - More shields!Copy !req
781. When the emperor enters...Copy !req
782. raise your weapons, salute him...Copy !req
783. and then speak together.Copy !req
784. Face the emperor...Copy !req
785. and don't turn your back on him.Copy !req
786. Go, and die with honor.Copy !req
787. Hail, mighty Caesar!Copy !req
788. Caesar! Caesar! Caesar! Caesar!Copy !req
789. We who are about to die salute you!Copy !req
790. On this day...Copy !req
791. we reach back to hallowed antiquity...Copy !req
792. to bring you are-creation...Copy !req
793. of the second fall of mighty Carthage!Copy !req
794. On the barren plain of Zama...Copy !req
795. there stood the invincible armies...Copy !req
796. of the barbarian Hannibal.Copy !req
797. Ferocious mercenaries and warriors...Copy !req
798. from all brute nations...Copy !req
799. bent on merciless...Copy !req
800. destruction...Copy !req
801. conquest.Copy !req
802. Your emperor...Copy !req
803. is pleased to give you...Copy !req
804. the barbarian horde!Copy !req
805. Anyone here been in the army?Copy !req
806. Yes. I served with you at Vindobona.Copy !req
807. You can help me.Copy !req
808. Whatever comes out of these gates...Copy !req
809. we've got a better chance of survival if we work together.Copy !req
810. Do you understand?Copy !req
811. If we stay together, we survive.Copy !req
812. The emperor is pleased to bring you the legionnaires...Copy !req
813. of Scipio Africanus!Copy !req
814. To the death!Copy !req
815. Kill! Kill! Kill!Copy !req
816. Stay close!Copy !req
817. Come together!Copy !req
818. Staggered columns! Staggered columns!Copy !req
819. - Soon all your men will be slain. - You don't have a chance.Copy !req
820. Lock your shields! Stay as one!Copy !req
821. Hold!Copy !req
822. Hold!Copy !req
823. As one!Copy !req
824. Well done!Copy !req
825. Hold!Copy !req
826. Down low! Down low!Copy !req
827. Yes!Copy !req
828. Hagen!Copy !req
829. This column to the chariot! This column stay with me!Copy !req
830. Quickly!Copy !req
831. - Get out there! - Hurry!Copy !req
832. Maximus!Copy !req
833. Single column! Single column!Copy !req
834. We win!Copy !req
835. My history's a little hazy, Cassius...Copy !req
836. but shouldn't the barbarians lose the battle of Carthage?Copy !req
837. Yes, sire.Copy !req
838. Forgive me, sire.Copy !req
839. No, I rather enjoy surprises.Copy !req
840. Who is he?Copy !req
841. They call him the Spaniard, sire.Copy !req
842. - I think I'll meet him. - Yes, sire.Copy !req
843. Hail to the barbarians!Copy !req
844. Forward! Arms at ready!Copy !req
845. Drop your weapons.Copy !req
846. Gladiator, the emperor has asked for you.Copy !req
847. I am at the emperor's service.Copy !req
848. Rise. Rise.Copy !req
849. Your fame is well deserved, Spaniard.Copy !req
850. I don't think there's ever been a gladiator to match you.Copy !req
851. As for this young man, he insists you are Hector reborn. Or was it Hercules?Copy !req
852. Why doesn't the hero reveal himself and tell us all your real name?Copy !req
853. You do have a name?Copy !req
854. My name is Gladiator.Copy !req
855. How dare you show your back to me?Copy !req
856. Slave!Copy !req
857. You will remove your helmet and tell me your name.Copy !req
858. My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius...Copy !req
859. commander of the armies of the north...Copy !req
860. general of the Felix Legions...Copy !req
861. loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius...Copy !req
862. father to a murdered son...Copy !req
863. husband to a murdered wife...Copy !req
864. and I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.Copy !req
865. Arms!Copy !req
866. Live! Live! Live! Live!Copy !req
867. Guards, at rest!Copy !req
868. Maximus! Maximus! Maximus! Maximus!Copy !req
869. Why is he still alive?Copy !req
870. I don't know.Copy !req
871. He shouldn't be alive.Copy !req
872. It vexes me.Copy !req
873. I'm terribly vexed.Copy !req
874. I did what I had to do.Copy !req
875. If Father had had his way, the empire would have been torn apart.Copy !req
876. You do see that?Copy !req
877. What did you feel when you saw him?Copy !req
878. I felt nothing.Copy !req
879. He wounded you deeply, didn't he?Copy !req
880. No more than I wounded him.Copy !req
881. They lied to me in Germania.Copy !req
882. They told me he was dead.Copy !req
883. If they lie to me, they don't respect me.Copy !req
884. If they don't respect me, how can they ever love me?Copy !req
885. Then you must let the legions know...Copy !req
886. their treachery...Copy !req
887. will not go unpunished.Copy !req
888. Poor sister.Copy !req
889. I wouldn't want to be your enemy.Copy !req
890. What will you do?Copy !req
891. This way.Copy !req
892. Rich matrons pay well to be pleasured by the bravest champions.Copy !req
893. I knew your brother would send assassins.Copy !req
894. I didn't realize he would send his best.Copy !req
895. Maximus, he doesn't know.Copy !req
896. My family was burnt and crucified while they were still alive.Copy !req
897. I knew nothing— Don't lie to me!Copy !req
898. I wept for them.Copy !req
899. As you wept for your father? As you wept for your father?Copy !req
900. I have been living in a prison of fear since that day.Copy !req
901. To be unable to mourn your father for fear of your brother.Copy !req
902. To live in terror every moment of every day...Copy !req
903. because your son is heir to the throne.Copy !req
904. Oh, I have wept.Copy !req
905. My son...Copy !req
906. was innocent.Copy !req
907. So is mine.Copy !req
908. Must my son die, too, before you'll trust me?Copy !req
909. What does it matter if I trust you or not?Copy !req
910. The gods have spared you. Don't you understand?Copy !req
911. Today I saw a slave become more powerful than the emperor of Rome.Copy !req
912. The gods have spared me?Copy !req
913. I am at their mercy, with the power only to amuse the mob.Copy !req
914. That is power.Copy !req
915. The mob is Rome, and while Commodus controls them, he controls everything.Copy !req
916. Listen to me.Copy !req
917. My brother has enemies, most of all in the senate.Copy !req
918. But while the people follow him...Copy !req
919. no one would dare stand up to him until you.Copy !req
920. They oppose him, yet they do nothing.Copy !req
921. There are some politicians who have dedicated their lives to Rome.Copy !req
922. One man above all.Copy !req
923. If I can arrange it, will you meet him?Copy !req
924. Do you not understand?Copy !req
925. I may die in this cell tonight, or in the arena tomorrow.Copy !req
926. I am a slave!Copy !req
927. What possible difference can I make?Copy !req
928. This man wants what you want.Copy !req
929. Then have him kill Commodus!Copy !req
930. I knew a man once...Copy !req
931. a noble man, a man of principle...Copy !req
932. who loved my father...Copy !req
933. and my father loved him.Copy !req
934. This man served Rome well.Copy !req
935. That man is gone.Copy !req
936. Your brother did his work well.Copy !req
937. Let me help you.Copy !req
938. Yes...Copy !req
939. you can help me.Copy !req
940. Forget you ever knew me...Copy !req
941. and never come here again.Copy !req
942. Guard! The lady is finished with me.Copy !req
943. What's your name?Copy !req
944. Julian Crassus.Copy !req
945. Name?Copy !req
946. Marcus, Sire.Copy !req
947. My father's name...Copy !req
948. They must have known of Maximus' escape when they found the bodies of the four men.Copy !req
949. They thought it was a barbarian raid.Copy !req
950. These are good men Sire, loyal to the Emperor.Copy !req
951. Then perhaps it was you who knew and never told me.Copy !req
952. I didn't know.Copy !req
953. You didn't know?Copy !req
954. But a general is always in control, always in command, isn't he?Copy !req
955. Yes Caesar.Copy !req
956. Then give the command! Say it!Copy !req
957. Fire!Copy !req
958. Maximus.Copy !req
959. You commanded legions? You had many victories?Copy !req
960. In Germania?Copy !req
961. In many countries.Copy !req
962. General!Copy !req
963. You have a great name.Copy !req
964. He must kill your name before he kills you.Copy !req
965. Yes, at the far end.Copy !req
966. - Senator Gaius. - Hello.Copy !req
967. Senator Gracchus.Copy !req
968. Don't often see you enjoying the pleasures of the vulgar crowd.Copy !req
969. I don't pretend to be a man of the people, Senator...Copy !req
970. but I do try to be a man for the people.Copy !req
971. Caesar! Caesar! Caesar! Caesar!Copy !req
972. People of Rome!Copy !req
973. On the fourth day of Antioch...Copy !req
974. we can celebrate the 64th day of the games.Copy !req
975. And in his majestic charity...Copy !req
976. the emperor has deigned this day to favor the people of Rome...Copy !req
977. with an historical final match.Copy !req
978. Returning to the Colosseum today, after five years in retirement...Copy !req
979. Caesar is pleased to bring you...Copy !req
980. the only undefeated champion...Copy !req
981. in Roman history...Copy !req
982. the legendary Tigris...Copy !req
983. of Gaul!Copy !req
984. He knows too well how to manipulate the mob.Copy !req
985. Marcus Aurelius had a dream that was Rome.Copy !req
986. This is not it. This is not it!Copy !req
987. Marcus Aurelius is dead, Maximus.Copy !req
988. We mortals are but shadows and dust.Copy !req
989. Shadows and dust, Maximus!Copy !req
990. Representing the training lyceum of Antonius Proximo...Copy !req
991. Caesar is proud to give you...Copy !req
992. Aelius Maximus!Copy !req
993. They embrace him like he's one of their own.Copy !req
994. The mob is fickle, brother. He'll be forgotten in a month.Copy !req
995. No, much sooner than that.Copy !req
996. It's been arranged.Copy !req
997. We who are about to die salute you.Copy !req
998. We're with you, Maximus!Copy !req
999. Pull! Pull! Pull!Copy !req
1000. Loose! Loose!Copy !req
1001. - Gut him! - Kill! Kill!Copy !req
1002. Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill!Copy !req
1003. Kill! Kill!Copy !req
1004. Maximus the Merciful!Copy !req
1005. Forward, guards! On battery!Copy !req
1006. What am I going to do with you?Copy !req
1007. You simply won't...Copy !req
1008. die.Copy !req
1009. Are we so different, you and I?Copy !req
1010. You take life when you have to...Copy !req
1011. as I do.Copy !req
1012. I have only one more life to take. Then it is done.Copy !req
1013. Then take it now.Copy !req
1014. They tell me your son...Copy !req
1015. squealed like a girl...Copy !req
1016. when they nailed him to the cross...Copy !req
1017. and your wife...Copy !req
1018. moaned like a whore...Copy !req
1019. when they ravaged her...Copy !req
1020. again and again...Copy !req
1021. and again.Copy !req
1022. The time for honoring yourself will soon be at an end...Copy !req
1023. Highness.Copy !req
1024. General!Copy !req
1025. General!Copy !req
1026. - General! - Cicero!Copy !req
1027. - Where are you camped? - Ostia.Copy !req
1028. - We love you, Maximus! - Praise the victor!Copy !req
1029. Tell the men their general lives. Find me.Copy !req
1030. - Move along! - Find me!Copy !req
1031. Can they hear you?Copy !req
1032. Who?Copy !req
1033. Your family, in the afterlife.Copy !req
1034. - Oh, yes. - What do you say to them?Copy !req
1035. To my boy...Copy !req
1036. I tell him I will see him again soon...Copy !req
1037. and to keep his heels down when he is riding his horse.Copy !req
1038. To my wife...Copy !req
1039. that is not your business.Copy !req
1040. And now they love Maximus for his mercy.Copy !req
1041. So I can't just kill him, or it makes me even more unmerciful.Copy !req
1042. The whole thing is like some great nightmare.Copy !req
1043. He is defying you.Copy !req
1044. His every victory is an act of defiance.Copy !req
1045. The mob sees this, and so do the senate.Copy !req
1046. Every day he lives, they grow bolder.Copy !req
1047. - Kill him. - No.Copy !req
1048. I will not make a martyr of him.Copy !req
1049. When I went to the Senate, today,Copy !req
1050. I told them about using the grain reserves to pay for the games.Copy !req
1051. And did you note what happend?Copy !req
1052. - Nothing. - Exactly.Copy !req
1053. Nothing.Copy !req
1054. But a single word of protest.Copy !req
1055. Even the insolent senator Gracchus was silent as a mouse.Copy !req
1056. Why?Copy !req
1057. I have been told...Copy !req
1058. of a certain sea snake...Copy !req
1059. which has a very unusual method of attracting its prey.Copy !req
1060. It will lie at the bottom of the ocean as if wounded.Copy !req
1061. Then its enemies will approach...Copy !req
1062. and yet it will lie quite still.Copy !req
1063. Then its enemies will take little bites of it...Copy !req
1064. and yet it remains still.Copy !req
1065. So...Copy !req
1066. we will lie still...Copy !req
1067. and let our enemies come to us and nibble.Copy !req
1068. Have every senator followed.Copy !req
1069. Cicero, my old friend. I thought perhaps I'd seen you for the last time.Copy !req
1070. - I thought you were dead. - Close.Copy !req
1071. - How long have the men been in Ostia? - All winter.Copy !req
1072. - And how do they look? - Fat and bored.Copy !req
1073. - Who's in command? - Some fool from Rome.Copy !req
1074. How soon could they be ready to fight?Copy !req
1075. For you, tomorrow.Copy !req
1076. I need you to do something for me.Copy !req
1077. Come see. If you haven't been in the arena, you can see the show here.Copy !req
1078. Giant Maximus is defeating our emperor Commodus.Copy !req
1079. What are we to do? He's defying everyone.Copy !req
1080. My goodness!Copy !req
1081. - He got him! He's defeated! - Give way! Give way!Copy !req
1082. My lady? I served your father at Vindobona.Copy !req
1083. - Back. - My lady.Copy !req
1084. I served your father at Vindobona.Copy !req
1085. Back!Copy !req
1086. And I served General Maximus. I serve him still.Copy !req
1087. Stop.Copy !req
1088. Stop.Copy !req
1089. Stand back.Copy !req
1090. The general sends word he will meet your politician.Copy !req
1091. For your loyalty, soldier.Copy !req
1092. Thank you, my lady.Copy !req
1093. Leave us.Copy !req
1094. Senator Gracchus.Copy !req
1095. General.Copy !req
1096. I hope my coming here today is evidence enough...Copy !req
1097. that you can trust me.Copy !req
1098. - The senate is with you? - The senate?Copy !req
1099. Yes. I can speak for them.Copy !req
1100. You can buy my freedom and smuggle me out of Rome?Copy !req
1101. To what end?Copy !req
1102. Get me outside the city walls.Copy !req
1103. Have fresh horses ready to take me to Ostia.Copy !req
1104. My army is encamped there.Copy !req
1105. By nightfall of the second day, I shall return at the head of 5,000 men.Copy !req
1106. But the legions all have new commanders...Copy !req
1107. loyal to Commodus.Copy !req
1108. Let my men see me alive and you shall see where their loyalties lie.Copy !req
1109. This is madness.Copy !req
1110. No Roman army has entered the capital in a hundred years.Copy !req
1111. I will not trade one dictatorship for another!Copy !req
1112. The time for half measures and talk is over, Senator.Copy !req
1113. And after your glorious coup, what then?Copy !req
1114. You'll take your 5,000 warriors and leave?Copy !req
1115. I will leave.Copy !req
1116. The soldiers will stay for your protection...Copy !req
1117. under the command of the senate.Copy !req
1118. So...Copy !req
1119. once all of Rome is yours, you'll just give it back to the people?Copy !req
1120. Tell me why.Copy !req
1121. Because that was the last wish of a dying man.Copy !req
1122. I will kill Commodus.Copy !req
1123. The fate of Rome I leave to you.Copy !req
1124. Marcus Aurelius trusted you.Copy !req
1125. His daughter trusts you.Copy !req
1126. I will trust you.Copy !req
1127. But we have little time.Copy !req
1128. Give me two days...Copy !req
1129. and I will buy your freedom.Copy !req
1130. And you-Copy !req
1131. you stay alive...Copy !req
1132. or I'll be dead.Copy !req
1133. Now we must go.Copy !req
1134. He'll be waiting for you. Stand at the foot of the Colossus. He'll find you.Copy !req
1135. It won't work.Copy !req
1136. The emperor knows too much.Copy !req
1137. And as for me...Copy !req
1138. it's becoming dangerous.Copy !req
1139. You'll be paid on my return.Copy !req
1140. I give you my word.Copy !req
1141. Your word? What if you don't return?Copy !req
1142. Do you remember what it was to have trust, Proximo?Copy !req
1143. Trust?Copy !req
1144. Who am I to trust?Copy !req
1145. - I will kill Commodus. - Why would I want that?Copy !req
1146. He makes me rich.Copy !req
1147. Oh, I-Copy !req
1148. I know that you are a man of your word, General.Copy !req
1149. I know that you would die for honor.Copy !req
1150. You would die for Rome.Copy !req
1151. You would die for the memory of your ancestors.Copy !req
1152. But I, on the other hand-Copy !req
1153. I'm an entertainer.Copy !req
1154. Guard!Copy !req
1155. He killed the man who set you free.Copy !req
1156. Praetorians, master.Copy !req
1157. Halt!Copy !req
1158. Where have you been?Copy !req
1159. I sent for you.Copy !req
1160. Please, brother.Copy !req
1161. What's troubling you?Copy !req
1162. Does Gracchus have a new lover?Copy !req
1163. I don't know.Copy !req
1164. I thought you'd seen him.Copy !req
1165. He infects everyone like a putrid fever.Copy !req
1166. For the health of Rome, the senate must be bled.Copy !req
1167. And he will bleed too.Copy !req
1168. Very soon.Copy !req
1169. But not tonight.Copy !req
1170. Do you remember what our father said once?Copy !req
1171. "It's a dream...Copy !req
1172. a frightful dream-Copy !req
1173. life is."Copy !req
1174. Do you think that's true?Copy !req
1175. I don't know.Copy !req
1176. I think it is.Copy !req
1177. And I have only you to share it with.Copy !req
1178. Open your mouth.Copy !req
1179. You know I love you.Copy !req
1180. And I love you.Copy !req
1181. Out. Get out!Copy !req
1182. Move!Copy !req
1183. Congratulations, General.Copy !req
1184. You've got very persuasive friends.Copy !req
1185. My brother's had Gracchus arrested.Copy !req
1186. We daren't wait any longer. We must leave tonight.Copy !req
1187. Proximo will come at midnight and take you to the gate.Copy !req
1188. Your servant, Cicero, will be waiting there with horses.Copy !req
1189. You have done all this?Copy !req
1190. Yes.Copy !req
1191. You risk too much.Copy !req
1192. I have much to pay for.Copy !req
1193. You have nothing to pay for.Copy !req
1194. You love your son. You're strong for him.Copy !req
1195. I am tired of being strong.Copy !req
1196. My brother hates all the world, and you most of all.Copy !req
1197. - Because your father chose me. - No.Copy !req
1198. Because my father loved you.Copy !req
1199. And because I loved you.Copy !req
1200. A long time ago.Copy !req
1201. Was I very different then?Copy !req
1202. You laughed more.Copy !req
1203. I have felt alone all my life...Copy !req
1204. except with you.Copy !req
1205. I must go.Copy !req
1206. Yes.Copy !req
1207. There. There.Copy !req
1208. And I got you.Copy !req
1209. Isn't it late to be playing legionnaire?Copy !req
1210. I'm not a legionnaire.Copy !req
1211. - Not a legionnaire? - I'm a gladiator.Copy !req
1212. A gladiator?Copy !req
1213. Gladiators only fight in the games.Copy !req
1214. Wouldn't you rather be a great Roman warrior like Julius Caesar?Copy !req
1215. I'm Maximus, the savior of Rome!Copy !req
1216. The savior of Rome?Copy !req
1217. And who said that?Copy !req
1218. Where's Lucius?Copy !req
1219. He's with the emperor.Copy !req
1220. - She couldn't. - Yes, she did.Copy !req
1221. She took it from a basket...Copy !req
1222. and pressed it to her breast, right here above her heart.Copy !req
1223. It bit her in the breast?Copy !req
1224. Yes.Copy !req
1225. You see, Lucius, sometimes royal ladies...Copy !req
1226. behave very strangely and do very odd things in the name of love.Copy !req
1227. I think it's silly.Copy !req
1228. So do I.Copy !req
1229. So do I.Copy !req
1230. Sister, join us.Copy !req
1231. I've been reading to dear Lucius.Copy !req
1232. - I've been reading too. - Yes.Copy !req
1233. He's a very clever little boy. He'll make a grand emperor one day.Copy !req
1234. We've been reading about the great Mark Antony and his adventures in Egypt.Copy !req
1235. And the queen killed herself with a snake.Copy !req
1236. And just wait until you hear what happened to our ancestors.Copy !req
1237. If you're very good, tomorrow night I'll tell you the story of Emperor Claudius.Copy !req
1238. He was betrayed...Copy !req
1239. by those closest to him...Copy !req
1240. by his own blood.Copy !req
1241. They whispered in dark corners...Copy !req
1242. and went out late at night...Copy !req
1243. and conspired...Copy !req
1244. and conspired.Copy !req
1245. But the Emperor Claudius knew that they were up to something.Copy !req
1246. He knew they were busy little bees.Copy !req
1247. And one night he sat down with one of them...Copy !req
1248. and he looked at her...Copy !req
1249. and he said...Copy !req
1250. "Tell me what you've been doing...Copy !req
1251. busy little bee...Copy !req
1252. or I shall strike down those dearest to you.Copy !req
1253. You shall watch as I bathe in their blood."Copy !req
1254. And the emperor was heartbroken.Copy !req
1255. The little bee had wounded him more deeply...Copy !req
1256. than anyone else could ever have done.Copy !req
1257. What do you think happened then, Lucius?Copy !req
1258. I don't know, Uncle.Copy !req
1259. The little bee told him everything.Copy !req
1260. Open, in the name of the emperor!Copy !req
1261. Proximo!Copy !req
1262. Open the gates, in the name of the emperor!Copy !req
1263. Open the gates!Copy !req
1264. Open the gates, Proximo.Copy !req
1265. Do you want to die, old man?Copy !req
1266. Here.Copy !req
1267. Everything is prepared.Copy !req
1268. It seems you have won your freedom.Copy !req
1269. Are you in danger of becoming a good man?Copy !req
1270. - Juba. - All enemies of the emperor die!Copy !req
1271. Open the gates!Copy !req
1272. Pull!Copy !req
1273. Move! Form a column on the left!Copy !req
1274. I only need moments, so do not be careless with your lives.Copy !req
1275. If you don't want any part of this, go back to your cells.Copy !req
1276. We'll wait here for you, Maximus.Copy !req
1277. - Strength and honor. - Go.Copy !req
1278. Strength and honor.Copy !req
1279. Aim. Arch your bows!Copy !req
1280. Shadows and dust.Copy !req
1281. I'm sorry.Copy !req
1282. It's done.Copy !req
1283. And what of my nephew?Copy !req
1284. And what of his mother?Copy !req
1285. Should they share her lover's fate?Copy !req
1286. Or should I be merciful?Copy !req
1287. Commodus the Merciful.Copy !req
1288. Lucius will stay with me now.Copy !req
1289. And if his mother...Copy !req
1290. so much as looks at me...Copy !req
1291. in a manner that displeases me...Copy !req
1292. he will die.Copy !req
1293. If she decides...Copy !req
1294. to be noble...Copy !req
1295. and takes her own life...Copy !req
1296. he will die.Copy !req
1297. And as for you...Copy !req
1298. you will love me...Copy !req
1299. as I loved you.Copy !req
1300. You will provide me with an heir...Copy !req
1301. of pure blood...Copy !req
1302. so that Commodus and his progeny...Copy !req
1303. will rule for a thousand years.Copy !req
1304. Am I not merciful?Copy !req
1305. Am I not merciful?Copy !req
1306. I'm a soldier, I obey.Copy !req
1307. Nothing happens to anyone that he is not fit by nature to bear.Copy !req
1308. They call for you.Copy !req
1309. The general...Copy !req
1310. who became a slave.Copy !req
1311. The slave who became a gladiator.Copy !req
1312. The gladiator who defied an emperor.Copy !req
1313. A striking story.Copy !req
1314. Now the people want to know how the story ends.Copy !req
1315. Only a famous death will do.Copy !req
1316. And what could be more glorious...Copy !req
1317. than to challenge the emperor himself in the great arena?Copy !req
1318. You would fight me?Copy !req
1319. Why not?Copy !req
1320. Do you think I'm afraid?Copy !req
1321. I think you have been afraid all your life.Copy !req
1322. Unlike Maximus the Invincible, who knows no fear?Copy !req
1323. I knew a man who once said, "Death smiles at us all.Copy !req
1324. All a man can do is smile back."Copy !req
1325. I wonder.Copy !req
1326. Did your friend smile at his own death?Copy !req
1327. You must know.Copy !req
1328. He was your father.Copy !req
1329. You loved my father, I know...Copy !req
1330. but so did I.Copy !req
1331. That makes us brothers, doesn't it?Copy !req
1332. Smile for me now, brother.Copy !req
1333. Strap on his armor. Conceal the wound.Copy !req
1334. Ring formation!Copy !req
1335. Quintus, sword.Copy !req
1336. Give me your sword.Copy !req
1337. Sword! Give me a sword!Copy !req
1338. Sheathe your swords.Copy !req
1339. Free my men.Copy !req
1340. Senator Gracchus is to be reinstated.Copy !req
1341. There was a dream that was Rome.Copy !req
1342. It shall be realized.Copy !req
1343. These are the wishes of Marcus Aurelius.Copy !req
1344. Free the prisoners. Go!Copy !req
1345. Lucius is safe.Copy !req
1346. Go to them.Copy !req
1347. You're home.Copy !req
1348. Is Rome worth one good man's life?Copy !req
1349. We believed it once.Copy !req
1350. Make us believe it again.Copy !req
1351. He was a soldier of Rome.Copy !req
1352. Honor him.Copy !req
1353. Who will help me carry him?Copy !req
1354. Now we are free.Copy !req
1355. I will see you again.Copy !req
1356. But not yet.Copy !req
1357. Not yet.Copy !req
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