1. - Sir.
- General.Copy !req
2. - General.
- Sir.Copy !req
3. General.Copy !req
4. - Sir.
- General.Copy !req
5. General.Copy !req
6. - Sir.Copy !req
7. Lean and hungry.Copy !req
8. - Still nothing?
- Not a sign.Copy !req
9. - How long has he been gone?
- Nearly two hours.Copy !req
10. - Will they fight, sir?
- We shall know soon enough.Copy !req
11. Soldier, I ordered you
to move those catapults forward.Copy !req
12. - They're out of range.
- Range is good.Copy !req
13. - The danger to the cavalry-
- It is acceptable. Agreed?Copy !req
14. They say no.Copy !req
15. - Steady! Steady!Copy !req
16. People should know
when they're conquered.Copy !req
17. Would you, Quintus?
Would l?Copy !req
18. Strength and honor.Copy !req
19. - Strength and honor.
- Strength and honor.Copy !req
20. At my signal,
unleash hell.Copy !req
21. Load the catapults.Copy !req
22. Infantry form up
for advance.Copy !req
23. - Archers ready.
- Archers!Copy !req
24. - Knock!
- Knock!Copy !req
25. - Patres!
- Maximus!Copy !req
26. Three weeks from now,
I will be harvesting my crops.Copy !req
27. Imagine where you will be,
and it will be so.Copy !req
28. Hold the line!
Stay with me!Copy !req
29. If you find yourself alone,Copy !req
30. riding in green fields
with the sun on your face,Copy !req
31. do not be troubled.Copy !req
32. For you are in Elysium,
and you're already dead!Copy !req
33. Brothers,Copy !req
34. what we do in life...Copy !req
35. echoes in eternity.Copy !req
36. - Pull!Copy !req
37. Pull! Pull!Copy !req
38. Catapults ready, sir!Copy !req
39. Archers, ignite!Copy !req
40. - Ignite!
- Ignite!Copy !req
41. Archers, draw!Copy !req
42. Loose!Copy !req
43. Loose!Copy !req
44. Aah!Copy !req
45. Aah!Copy !req
46. - Aah!
- Aah!Copy !req
47. All right, men, ready!Copy !req
48. Hold the line!Copy !req
49. Draw! Loose!Copy !req
50. Loose! Loose!Copy !req
51. Reload!Copy !req
52. Hold the line!Copy !req
53. Draw! Loose!Copy !req
54. Stay with me!Copy !req
55. Stay with me!Copy !req
56. Roma Victor!Copy !req
57. Aah!Copy !req
58. Aah!Copy !req
59. Aah!Copy !req
60. Aah!Copy !req
61. Aah!Copy !req
62. Aah!Copy !req
63. Aah!Copy !req
64. Aah!Copy !req
65. Roma Victor!Copy !req
66. Do you think
he's really dying?Copy !req
67. He's been dying
for ten years.Copy !req
68. If he weren't really dying,
he wouldn't have sent for us.Copy !req
69. Maybe he just
misses us.Copy !req
70. And the senators?
He wouldn't have summoned them if-Copy !req
71. Peace, Commodus.Copy !req
72. After two weeks on the road, your
incessant scheming is hurting my head.Copy !req
73. He's made
his decision.Copy !req
74. He's going to announce it.Copy !req
75. He will name me.Copy !req
76. The first thing I shall do...Copy !req
77. when-Copy !req
78. is honor him with games
worthy of His Majesty.Copy !req
79. For now, the first thing
I shall do is have a bath.Copy !req
80. - Your Highness?Copy !req
81. We seem to be almost there, sir.Copy !req
82. - Sire.
- Where's the Emperor?Copy !req
83. He's at the front, sire.
They've been gone for 19 days.Copy !req
84. The wounded are
still coming in.Copy !req
85. My horse.Copy !req
86. Mylord.Copy !req
87. Kiss?Copy !req
88. You have proved
your valor...Copy !req
89. yet again, Maximus.Copy !req
90. Let us hope
for the last time.Copy !req
91. There's no one
left to fight, sire.Copy !req
92. Ah. There is always
someone left to fight.Copy !req
93. How can I reward
Rome's greatest general?Copy !req
94. Let me go home.Copy !req
95. Ah. Home.Copy !req
96. Whoa! Whoa!Copy !req
97. They honor you, Caesar.Copy !req
98. It's for you, Maximus.
They honor you.Copy !req
99. Have I missed it?
Have I missed the battle?Copy !req
100. You have
missed the war.Copy !req
101. Father, congratulations.Copy !req
102. I shall sacrifice a hundred bulls
to honor your triumph.Copy !req
103. Save the bulls.Copy !req
104. Honor Maximus.
He won the battle.Copy !req
105. - General.
- Highness.Copy !req
106. Rome salutes you,
and I embrace you as a brother.Copy !req
107. It has been too long,
my old friend.Copy !req
108. - Highness.
- Here, Father.Copy !req
109. Take my arm.Copy !req
110. I think it is time
for me to leave.Copy !req
111. So much for
the glory of Rome.Copy !req
112. Magnificent battle.Copy !req
113. - General.
- Still alive?Copy !req
114. - Still alive.
- The gods must have a sense of humor.Copy !req
115. - The gods must love you.
- Valerius.Copy !req
116. Back to barracks, General?
Or to Rome?Copy !req
117. Home. My wife,
the son, the harvest.Copy !req
118. Maximus the farmer.
I still have difficulty imagining that.Copy !req
119. You know, dirt cleans off a lot
easier than blood, Quintus.Copy !req
120. - Here he is.
- Highness.Copy !req
121. Senator Gaius,
Senator Falco.Copy !req
122. Beware of Gaius. He'll pour a honeyed
potion in your ear...Copy !req
123. Well, why not?
Rome was founded as a republic.Copy !req
124. Yes, and in a republic
the senate has the power.Copy !req
125. But Senator Gaius isn't
influenced by that, of course.Copy !req
126. Where do you stand, General?
Emperor or senate?Copy !req
127. Well, with an army behind you,
you could be extremely political.Copy !req
128. I warned you.
Now I shall save you. Senators.Copy !req
129. Maximus.Copy !req
130. I'm going to need
good men like you.Copy !req
131. How may I be of service,
Highness?Copy !req
132. You're a man who knows
what it is to command.Copy !req
133. You give your orders, the orders
are obeyed and the battle is won.Copy !req
134. But these senators scheme
and squabble and flatter and deceive.Copy !req
135. Maximus, we must save Rome
from the politicians, my friend.Copy !req
136. Can I count on you...
when the time comes?Copy !req
137. Highness, when your father releases me,
I intend to return home.Copy !req
138. Home?
Well, no one's earned it more.Copy !req
139. Don't get too comfortable.
I may call on you before long.Copy !req
140. Lucilla's here.
Did you know?Copy !req
141. She's not forgotten you.Copy !req
142. And now you're
the great man.Copy !req
143. If only you
had been born a man.Copy !req
144. What a caesar
you would have made.Copy !req
145. Father.Copy !req
146. You would have
been strong.Copy !req
147. I wonder,
would you have been just?Copy !req
148. I would have been
what you taught me to be.Copy !req
149. Oh.Copy !req
150. How was your journey?Copy !req
151. Long. Uncomfortable.
Why have I come?Copy !req
152. I need your help.
With your brother.Copy !req
153. Of course.Copy !req
154. He loves you.
He always has.Copy !req
155. And...Copy !req
156. he will need you now
more than ever.Copy !req
157. Enough of politics.Copy !req
158. Let us pretend that you
are a loving daughter...Copy !req
159. and I am a good father.Copy !req
160. This is a pleasant fiction,
isn't it?Copy !req
161. Good morning.Copy !req
162. I need three more horses.Copy !req
163. Two! Three!Copy !req
164. Four!Copy !req
165. One! Two!Copy !req
166. You sent for me, Caesar?Copy !req
167. Caesar?Copy !req
168. Tell me again, Maximus.Copy !req
169. Why are we here?Copy !req
170. For the glory
of the Empire, sire.Copy !req
171. Ah, yes.Copy !req
172. Ah, yes, I remember.Copy !req
173. Do you see that map,
Maximus?Copy !req
174. That is the world
which I created.Copy !req
175. For25years...Copy !req
176. I have conquered, spilt blood,
expanded the Empire.Copy !req
177. Since I became caesar,
I've known four years without war.Copy !req
178. Four years of peace in 20.Copy !req
179. And for what?Copy !req
180. I brought the sword.
Nothing more.Copy !req
181. Caesar, your life-Copy !req
182. Please.
Please don't call me that.Copy !req
183. Come. Please.Copy !req
184. Come sit.Copy !req
185. Let us talk together now-Copy !req
186. very simply-as men.Copy !req
187. Maximus... talk.Copy !req
188. Five thousand of my men
are out there in the freezing mud.Copy !req
189. Three thousand of them
are bloodied and cleaved.Copy !req
190. Two thousand will never
leave this place.Copy !req
191. I will not believe that they
fought and died for nothing.Copy !req
192. And what would you
believe, Maximus?Copy !req
193. They fought for you...
and for Rome.Copy !req
194. And what is Rome,
Maximus?Copy !req
195. I've seen much of
the rest of the world.Copy !req
196. It is brutal and cruel and dark.
Rome is the light.Copy !req
197. Yet you have
never been there.Copy !req
198. You have not seen
what it has become.Copy !req
199. I am dying, Maximus.Copy !req
200. When a man sees his end,Copy !req
201. he wants to know there was
some purpose this life.Copy !req
202. How will the world speak my name
in years to come?Copy !req
203. Will I be known
as the philosopher?Copy !req
204. The warrior?
The tyrant?Copy !req
205. Or will I be the emperor who
gave Rome back her true self?Copy !req
206. There was once a dream
that was Rome.Copy !req
207. You could only
whisper it.Copy !req
208. Anything more than a whisper
and it would vanish.Copy !req
209. It was so fragile.Copy !req
210. And I fear that it will not
survive the winter.Copy !req
211. Maximus,Copy !req
212. Let us whisper now,Copy !req
213. together, you and l.Copy !req
214. You have a son.Copy !req
215. Tell me about your home.Copy !req
216. My house is in the hills above Tiujillo.
A very simple place.Copy !req
217. Pinkstones
that warm in the sun.Copy !req
218. A kitchen garden that
smells of herbs in the day,Copy !req
219. jasmine in the evening.Copy !req
220. Through the gate
is a giant poplar.Copy !req
221. Figs, apples, pears.Copy !req
222. The soil, Marcus-
black.Copy !req
223. - Black like my wife's hair.Copy !req
224. Grapes on the south slopes,
olives on the north.Copy !req
225. Wild ponies play near my house.
They tease my son.Copy !req
226. - He wants to be one of them.
- Remember the last time you were home?Copy !req
227. Two years, 264 days,
and this morning.Copy !req
228. I envy you, Maximus.Copy !req
229. It's a good home.
Worth fighting for.Copy !req
230. There is one more duty...Copy !req
231. that I ask of you
before you go home.Copy !req
232. What would you
have me do, Caesar?Copy !req
233. I want you to become
the protector of Rome after I die.Copy !req
234. I will empower you
to one end alone.Copy !req
235. To give power back
to the people of Rome...Copy !req
236. and end the corruption
that has crippled it.Copy !req
237. Will you accept this great honor
that I have offered you?Copy !req
238. With all my heart, no.Copy !req
239. Maximus,Copy !req
240. that is why
it must be you.Copy !req
241. But surely a prefect,
a senator,Copy !req
242. somebody who knows the city,
who understands her politics.Copy !req
243. But you have not been
corrupted by her politics.Copy !req
244. - And Commodus?
- Commodus is not a moral man.Copy !req
245. You have known that
since you were young.Copy !req
246. Commodus cannot rule.Copy !req
247. He must not rule.Copy !req
248. You are the son
that I should have had.Copy !req
249. Commodus will accept
my decision.Copy !req
250. He knows that you command
the loyalty of the army.Copy !req
251. I- I need
some time, sire.Copy !req
252. Yes.Copy !req
253. By sunset,
I hope you will have agreed.Copy !req
254. Now embrace me as my son.Copy !req
255. And bring an old man
another blanket.Copy !req
256. - My father favors you now.
- My lady.Copy !req
257. It was not always so.Copy !req
258. Many things change.Copy !req
259. Many things.
Not everything.Copy !req
260. Maximus, stop.Copy !req
261. Let me see your face.Copy !req
262. Hmm. You seem upset.Copy !req
263. I lost many men.Copy !req
264. What did my father
want with you?Copy !req
265. To wish me well
before I leave for home.Copy !req
266. You're lying.Copy !req
267. I could always tell when you were lying
because you were never any good at it.Copy !req
268. - I never acquired your comfort with it.
- True.Copy !req
269. But then you never had to.Copy !req
270. Life is more simple
for a soldier.Copy !req
271. Or do you
think me heartless?Copy !req
272. I think you have
a talent for survival.Copy !req
273. Maximus, stop.Copy !req
274. Is it really so terrible
seeing me again?Copy !req
275. No. I'm tired
from battle.Copy !req
276. It hurts you to see
my father so fragile.Copy !req
277. Commodus expects that my father will
announce his succession within days.Copy !req
278. Will you serve my brother
as you served his father?Copy !req
279. I will always serve Rome.Copy !req
280. Do you know,Copy !req
281. I still remember you
in my prayers.Copy !req
282. Oh, yes. I pray.Copy !req
283. I was sad to hear
of your husband's death. I mourned him.Copy !req
284. - Thank you.
- And I hear you have a son.Copy !req
285. Yes. Lucius.Copy !req
286. He'll be nearly
eight years old.Copy !req
287. My son is also
nearly eight.Copy !req
288. I thank you
for your prayers.Copy !req
289. Ancestors, I ask for your guidance.Copy !req
290. Blessed mother, come tome
with the gods' desire for my future.Copy !req
291. Blessed father, watch over
my wife and son with a ready sword.Copy !req
292. Whisper to them I live
only to hold them again.Copy !req
293. Ancestors, I honor you...Copy !req
294. and will try to live with
the dignity you have taught me.Copy !req
295. Cicero.Copy !req
296. Sir.Copy !req
297. You don't find it hard
to do your duty?Copy !req
298. Sometimes I do
what I want to do.Copy !req
299. The rest of the time
I do what I have to.Copy !req
300. We may not be able
to go home after all.Copy !req
301. Are you ready to do
your duty for Rome?Copy !req
302. Yes, Father.Copy !req
303. You will not be emperor.Copy !req
304. Which wiser,
older man is to take my place?Copy !req
305. My powers
will pass to Maximus...Copy !req
306. to hold
in trust...Copy !req
307. until the Senate
is ready to rule once more.Copy !req
308. Rome is to be
a republic again.Copy !req
309. - Maximus.
- Yes.Copy !req
310. My decision
disappoints you?Copy !req
311. You wrote to me once,Copy !req
312. Listing the four chief virtues.Copy !req
313. Wisdom, justice,Copy !req
314. fortitude and temperance.Copy !req
315. As I read the list,
I knew I had none of them.Copy !req
316. But I have other virtues, Father.Copy !req
317. Ambition.Copy !req
318. That can be a virtue
when it drives us to excel.Copy !req
319. Resourcefulness.
Courage.Copy !req
320. Perhaps not on
the battlefield, but...Copy !req
321. there are many forms of courage.Copy !req
322. Devotion-
to my family...Copy !req
323. and to you.Copy !req
324. But none of my virtues
were on your list.Copy !req
325. Even then it was as if
you didn't want me for your son.Copy !req
326. Oh, Commodus.Copy !req
327. You go too far.Copy !req
328. I search the faces
of the gods...Copy !req
329. for ways to please you,
to make you proud.Copy !req
330. One kind word,Copy !req
331. one full hug...Copy !req
332. where you pressed me
to your chest and held me tight,Copy !req
333. would have been like the sun
on my heart for a thousand years.Copy !req
334. - What is it in me you hate so much?
- Shah, Commodus.Copy !req
335. All I've ever wanted...Copy !req
336. was to live up to you,
Caesar.Copy !req
337. Father.Copy !req
338. Commodus.Copy !req
339. Your faults as a son...Copy !req
340. is my failure as a father.Copy !req
341. Come.Copy !req
342. Father.Copy !req
343. I would butcher
the whole world...Copy !req
344. if you would
only love me!Copy !req
345. Maximus, the Emperor needs you.
It's urgent.Copy !req
346. Lament with me, brother.
Our great father is dead.Copy !req
347. How did he die?Copy !req
348. The surgeons say there was no pain.Copy !req
349. His breath gave out
as he slept.Copy !req
350. Father.Copy !req
351. Your emperor asks
for your loyalty, Maximus.Copy !req
352. Take my hand.Copy !req
353. I only offer it once.Copy !req
354. Quintus.Copy !req
355. Hail, Caesar.Copy !req
356. I must go to the senators.
I need their counsel.Copy !req
357. - Wake Gaius and Falco.
- Gaius and Falco.Copy !req
358. - Sword.
- Sword.Copy !req
359. Maximus, please be careful.
That was not prudent.Copy !req
360. Prudent?
The Emperor has been slain.Copy !req
361. The Emperor died of natural causes.Copy !req
362. - Why are you armed, Quintus?
- Guards!Copy !req
363. Please don't fight,
Maximus.Copy !req
364. I'm sorry. Caesar has spoken.Copy !req
365. Ride until dawn...
and then execute him.Copy !req
366. Quintus, look at me.
Look at me!Copy !req
367. Promise me that you will
look after my family.Copy !req
368. Your family will meet you
in the afterlife.Copy !req
369. - No!Copy !req
370. Kneel.Copy !req
371. Blessed Father,
watch over my wife and son.Copy !req
372. - Whisper to them that I live
only to hold them again.Copy !req
373. At least give me
a clean death.Copy !req
374. A soldier's death.Copy !req
375. The frost, sometimes it makes
the blade stick.Copy !req
376. Praetorian!Copy !req
377. Hyah! Hyah!Copy !req
378. Remember the last time you were home?Copy !req
379. Two years, 264 days, and this morning.Copy !req
380. Blessed Father, watch over my
wife and son with a ready sword.Copy !req
381. Whisper to them I live only
to hold them again.Copy !req
382. For all else is dust and air,
and I live only to hold them again.Copy !req
383. For all else is dust and air.Copy !req
384. - Mama, isoldati!Copy !req
385. - Papa! Papa!Copy !req
386. Hyah! Hyah!Copy !req
387. - Don't die.Copy !req
388. - You'll meet them again.Copy !req
389. - Not yet.Copy !req
390. No! They will clean it.
Wait and see.Copy !req
391. Don't die.Copy !req
392. They'll feed you
to the lions.Copy !req
393. They are worth more
than we are.Copy !req
394. Better now?Copy !req
395. Clean. You see?Copy !req
396. Proximo!Copy !req
397. My old friend.Copy !req
398. Every day is a great day
when you are here.Copy !req
399. Today...
is your most fortunate day.Copy !req
400. Those giraffes
you sold me...Copy !req
401. they won't mate.Copy !req
402. They just walk around
eating and not mating.Copy !req
403. You sold me...
queer giraffes.Copy !req
404. - I want my money back.
- Not a chance.Copy !req
405. - I do special price for you.
- On what?Copy !req
406. Have you seen my new stock?
Come and see them.Copy !req
407. Do any of them fight?
I've got a match coming up.Copy !req
408. Some are good for fighting,
others for dying.Copy !req
409. You need both, I think.Copy !req
410. Get up!Copy !req
411. - What's your trade?
- I was a hunter.Copy !req
412. Oh, no. I bought him
from a salt mine in Carthage.Copy !req
413. Sit down!Copy !req
414. Mark of the legion.Copy !req
415. - Deserter.
- Maybe so. But who cares?Copy !req
416. - He's a Spaniard.
- I'll take six...Copy !req
417. - for 1,000.
- 1,000?Copy !req
418. The Numidian alone
is worth 2,000!Copy !req
419. These slaves
are rotten.Copy !req
420. It all adds to the flavor.
No. No, no, no. Wait-Wait.Copy !req
421. Wait! Can negotiate.Copy !req
422. I'll give you 2,000...
and four for the beasts.Copy !req
423. That's 5,000
for an old friend.Copy !req
424. Come on! How long does it take
to get into my own house?Copy !req
425. I am Proximo!Copy !req
426. I shall be closer to you
for the next few days,Copy !req
427. which will be last of your miserable
lives, than that bitch of a mother...Copy !req
428. - that brought you screaming
into this world!Copy !req
429. I did not pay good money
for you for your company!Copy !req
430. - I paid it so that I could
profit from your death.Copy !req
431. And as your mother
was there at your beginning,Copy !req
432. so I shall be there
at your end.Copy !req
433. - And when you die, and die you shall,Copy !req
434. your transition shall be
to the sound of-Copy !req
435. Gladiators, I salute you.Copy !req
436. - Red!
- Red.Copy !req
437. - Yellow!Copy !req
438. Yellow.Copy !req
439. Hyah!Copy !req
440. Good.Copy !req
441. - Red.
- Red!Copy !req
442. Spaniard!Copy !req
443. - Uhh.Copy !req
444. That's enough
for the moment!Copy !req
445. His time will come.Copy !req
446. Next!Copy !req
447. Spaniard, why don't you fight?Copy !req
448. We all have to fight.Copy !req
449. Is that the sign
of your gods?Copy !req
450. Will that not anger them?Copy !req
451. The gods favor you.Copy !req
452. Red is the gods' color.Copy !req
453. You will need
their help today.Copy !req
454. Some of you are thinking
you won't fight.Copy !req
455. Some that you can't fight.Copy !req
456. They all say that,
until they're out there.Copy !req
457. - Listen.
- Kill. Kill. Kill.Copy !req
458. Kill. Kill. Kill.Copy !req
459. Thrust this
into another man's flesh,Copy !req
460. and then they will applaud
and love you for that.Copy !req
461. You-Copy !req
462. You may begin
to love them...Copy !req
463. for that.Copy !req
464. Ultimately,
we're all dead men.Copy !req
465. Sadly, we cannot
choose how, but...Copy !req
466. we can decide how
we meet that end...Copy !req
467. in order that
we are remembered...Copy !req
468. as men.Copy !req
469. On the left,
draw your shields!Copy !req
470. On the right,
draw your swords!Copy !req
471. - Kill. Kill-Copy !req
472. Pair them up-
red with yellow.Copy !req
473. Next!Copy !req
474. Next!Copy !req
475. - Hyah! Hyah!Copy !req
476. - Go away!Copy !req
477. He enters Rome
like a conquering hero.Copy !req
478. But what
has he conquered?Copy !req
479. Give him time, Gracchus.
He's young.Copy !req
480. I think he could do very well.Copy !req
481. For Rome or for you?Copy !req
482. Go to your mother, Lucius.
It's what she'd like.Copy !req
483. - Lucius!
- Mother!Copy !req
484. - Hail, Caesar.
- Senators.Copy !req
485. Rome greets
her new emperor.Copy !req
486. Your loyal subjects
bid you welcome, Highness.Copy !req
487. Thank you, Falco.
And for the loyal subjects,Copy !req
488. - I trust they weren't too expensive.
- Caesar.Copy !req
489. There are many matters
that require your attention.Copy !req
490. - To order! To order!Copy !req
491. For your guidance, Caesar, the Senate
has prepared a series of protocols...Copy !req
492. to begin addressing
the many problems in the city.Copy !req
493. Beginning with basic sanitation
for the Greek quarter...Copy !req
494. to combat the plague which is already
springing up there.Copy !req
495. - So, if Caesar-
- Shah.Copy !req
496. Don't you see, Gracchus?Copy !req
497. That's the very problem,
isn't it?Copy !req
498. My father spent
all his time at study...Copy !req
499. of books and learning
and philosophy.Copy !req
500. He spent his twilight hours
reading scrolls from the Senate.Copy !req
501. And all the while,
the people have forgotten-Copy !req
502. But the Senate
is the People, sire.Copy !req
503. Chosen from among the people...
to speak for the people.Copy !req
504. I doubt that many of the people
eat so well as you do, Gracchus.Copy !req
505. Or have such splendid mistresses, Gaius.
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.
The people are my children.Copy !req
510. And I shall hold them to my bosom
and embrace them tightly.Copy !req
511. Have you ever embraced someone
dying of plague, sire?Copy !req
512. No, but if you interrupt me again,
I assure you that you shall.Copy !req
513. Senator, my brother
is very tired.Copy !req
514. Leave your list with me.Copy !req
515. Caesar shall do
all that Rome requires.Copy !req
516. My lady, as always,
your lightest touch commands obedience.Copy !req
517. Who are they
to lecture me?Copy !req
518. Commodus, the Senate has its uses.Copy !req
519. What uses?
All they do is talk.Copy !req
520. It should be just...
you and me...Copy !req
521. - and Rome.
- Don't even think it!Copy !req
522. There's always
been a Senate.Copy !req
523. Rome has changed.
It takes an emperor...Copy !req
524. - to rule an empire.
- Of course, but leave the people their-Copy !req
525. Illusions.Copy !req
526. Traditions.Copy !req
527. My father's war
against the barbarians-Copy !req
528. He said it himself,
it achieved nothing.Copy !req
529. - But the people loved him.
- The people always love victories.Copy !req
530. Why? They didn't see the battles.Copy !req
531. - What do they care about Germania?
- They care about the greatness of Rome.Copy !req
532. The greatness of Rome.Copy !req
533. Well, what is that?Copy !req
534. It's an idea-
greatness.Copy !req
535. - Greatness is a vision.
- Exactly. A vision.Copy !req
536. Do you not see, Lucilla?Copy !req
537. I will give the people a vision of Rome,
and they'll love me for it.Copy !req
538. And they'll soon forget the tedious
sermonizing of a few dry, old men.Copy !req
539. I will give the people
the greatest vision of their lives.Copy !req
540. Vino, vino, vino! Red and white wine
for your drinking pleasure!Copy !req
541. Games.Copy !req
542. 150 days of games.Copy !req
543. - He's cleverer than I thought.
- Oh, clever.Copy !req
544. The whole of Rome would
be laughing at him...Copy !req
545. if they weren't so afraid
of his Praetorians.Copy !req
546. Fear and wonder-
a powerful combination.Copy !req
547. You really think the people
are going to be seduced by that?Copy !req
548. I think he knows what Rome is.
Rome is the mob.Copy !req
549. Conjure magic for them,
and they'll be distracted.Copy !req
550. Take away their freedom
and still they'll roar.Copy !req
551. The beating heart
of Rome...Copy !req
552. is not the marble
of the Senate.Copy !req
553. It's the sand
of the Colosseum.Copy !req
554. He'll bring them death,Copy !req
555. and they will
love him for it.Copy !req
556. Spaniard! Spaniard!
Spaniard! Spaniard!Copy !req
557. Spaniard.Copy !req
558. Guard!Copy !req
559. - Are you not entertained?Copy !req
560. Are you not entertained?Copy !req
561. Is this not why you are here?Copy !req
562. Spaniard! Spaniard!
Spaniard! Spaniard!Copy !req
563. Spaniard! Spaniard! Spaniard! Spaniard!Copy !req
564. Spaniard! Spaniard! Spaniard!Copy !req
565. Spaniard! Spaniard!
Spaniard! Spaniard!Copy !req
566. What do you want?Copy !req
567. Huh?Copy !req
568. Girl?Copy !req
569. Boy?Copy !req
570. - You sent for me?
- Yes, I did.Copy !req
571. You're good, Spaniard,
but you're not that good.Copy !req
572. - You could be magnificent.
- I'm required to kill, so I kill.Copy !req
573. That is enough.Copy !req
574. That's enough for the provinces,
but not for Rome.Copy !req
575. - The young emperor...Copy !req
576. has arranged
a series of spectacles...Copy !req
577. to commemorate his father,
Marcus Aurelius.Copy !req
578. I find that amusing...Copy !req
579. since it was Marcus Aurelius-Copy !req
580. the wise, the all-knowing
Marcus Aurelius-Copy !req
581. - that closed us down.Copy !req
582. So, finally, after five years
of scratching a living...Copy !req
583. in flea-infested
villages,Copy !req
584. we're finally going back
to where we belong-Copy !req
585. the Colosseum.Copy !req
586. Oh, you should see
the Colosseum, Spaniard.Copy !req
587. Fifty-thousand Romans...Copy !req
588. watching...
every movement of your sword,Copy !req
589. willing you to make
that killer blow.Copy !req
590. The silence before you strike...Copy !req
591. and the noise afterwards,Copy !req
592. it rises-
it rises up like-Copy !req
593. Like th-
Like- Like a storm...Copy !req
594. as if you were
the thunder god himself.Copy !req
595. - You were a gladiator?
- Yes, I was.Copy !req
596. You won your freedom?Copy !req
597. A long time ago,
the emperor...Copy !req
598. presented me
with a rudius.Copy !req
599. It's just a wooden sword.Copy !req
600. The symbol of your freedom.
He-Copy !req
601. - He touched me on the shoulder,
and I was free.Copy !req
602. - You knew Marcus Aurelius?
- I did not say I knew him.Copy !req
603. I said he touched me
on the shoulder once.Copy !req
604. You asked me what I want.Copy !req
605. I, too, want to stand
in front of the emperor...Copy !req
606. as you did.Copy !req
607. Then, listen to me.
Learn from me.Copy !req
608. I wasn't the best
because I killed quickly.Copy !req
609. I was the best
because the crowd loved me.Copy !req
610. Win the crowd,
and you'll win your freedom.Copy !req
611. I will win the crowd.Copy !req
612. So, Spaniard,
we shall go to Rome together...Copy !req
613. and have bloody adventures!Copy !req
614. And the great whore
will suckle us until we are...Copy !req
615. fat and happy and
can suckle no more.Copy !req
616. And then,Copy !req
617. when enough men have died,Copy !req
618. perhaps you will
have your freedom.Copy !req
619. Here. Use this.Copy !req
620. It's somewhere out there-Copy !req
621. my country, my home.Copy !req
622. My wife is preparing food.Copy !req
623. My daughters carry
water from the river.Copy !req
624. Will I ever
see them again?Copy !req
625. I think no.Copy !req
626. Do you believe you'll see
them again when you die?Copy !req
627. I think so.Copy !req
628. But then, I will die soon.Copy !req
629. They will not die
for many years.Copy !req
630. - I'll have to wait.
- But you would... wait.Copy !req
631. Of course.Copy !req
632. You see,Copy !req
633. my wife...
and my son...Copy !req
634. are already
waiting for me.Copy !req
635. You'll meet them again.Copy !req
636. But not yet.Copy !req
637. Not yet. Unless-Copy !req
638. Not yet.Copy !req
639. Not yet.Copy !req
640. Out!Copy !req
641. Go, go. Out!Copy !req
642. Good to see you again,
old friend.Copy !req
643. Bring me fortune.Copy !req
644. Have you ever seen
anything like that before?Copy !req
645. - I didn't know men
could build such things.Copy !req
646. Win the crowd.Copy !req
647. Get Inside! Move. Inside.Copy !req
648. He sleeps so well
because he's loved.Copy !req
649. Come, brother.
It's late.Copy !req
650. I will make Rome
the wonder of the ages.Copy !req
651. That is what Gracchus
and his friends don't understand.Copy !req
652. All my desires are splitting
my head to pieces.Copy !req
653. Commodus,
drink this tonic.Copy !req
654. I think the time
is almost right.Copy !req
655. I could announce
the dissolution of the Senate...Copy !req
656. at the celebration
to honor our father.Copy !req
657. You think I should?Copy !req
658. Are the people ready?Copy !req
659. I think you need
your rest now.Copy !req
660. - Will you stay with me?
- Still afraid of the dark, brother?Copy !req
661. Still. Always.Copy !req
662. - Stay with me tonight?
- You know I won't.Copy !req
663. Then, kiss me.Copy !req
664. Sleep, brother.Copy !req
665. Come on now.
Get out of the way!Copy !req
666. I want you. I want you.
I want you so-Copy !req
667. All right, Let him pass!Copy !req
668. - Sixty!Copy !req
669. - 500!Copy !req
670. The emperor wants battles, and I don't
want to sacrifice my best fighters.Copy !req
671. The crowd wants battles,
so the emperor gives them battles.Copy !req
672. And you get
the battle of Carthage.Copy !req
673. The massacre of Carthage.
Guten tag.Copy !req
674. We've done that.Copy !req
675. I want double the rates.Copy !req
676. You'll get your contract rates,
or you'll get your contract cancelled.Copy !req
677. You don't like it?Copy !req
678. Then you can crawl back down
that shithole that you came from.Copy !req
679. - Cassius, please! Please, Cassius!Copy !req
680. Gladiator, are you the one
they call the Spaniard?Copy !req
681. - Yes.
- They said you were a giant.Copy !req
682. They said you could
crush a man's skull with one hand.Copy !req
683. A man's? No.Copy !req
684. A boy's.Copy !req
685. - They have good horses in Spain?
- Some of the best.Copy !req
686. This is Argento,
and this is Scarto.Copy !req
687. They were my horses.Copy !req
688. - They were taken from me.
- I like you, Spaniard.Copy !req
689. - I shall cheer for you.
- They let you watch the games?Copy !req
690. - My uncle says it makes me strong.
- And what does your father say?Copy !req
691. My father's dead.Copy !req
692. Master Lucius, it is time.Copy !req
693. - I have to go.
- Your name is Lucius?Copy !req
694. Lucius Verus,
after my father.Copy !req
695. Lower!Copy !req
696. - Claudius! More shields!
- Yes, sir.Copy !req
697. When the emperor enters,Copy !req
698. raise your weapons,
salute him and then speak together!Copy !req
699. Face the emperor and don't
turn your back on him!Copy !req
700. Go, and die with honor!Copy !req
701. Hail, mighty Caesar!Copy !req
702. Caesar! Caesar! Caesar!Copy !req
703. Caesar! Caesar! Caesar!Copy !req
704. And we who are about to die, salute you!Copy !req
705. On this day,Copy !req
706. we reach back
to hallowed antiquity...Copy !req
707. to bring you a recreation
of the second fall...Copy !req
708. of mighty Carthage!Copy !req
709. On the barren
plain of Zama,Copy !req
710. there stood
the invincible armies...Copy !req
711. of the barbarian, Hannibal.Copy !req
712. Ferocious mercenaries and warriors...Copy !req
713. from all brute nations...Copy !req
714. bent on merciless...Copy !req
715. destruction, conquest.Copy !req
716. Your emperor
is pleased to give you...Copy !req
717. the barbarian horde!Copy !req
718. I served
with you at Vindobona.Copy !req
719. You can help me.Copy !req
720. Whatever comes
out of these gates,Copy !req
721. we've got a better chance
of survival if we work together.Copy !req
722. Do you understand?Copy !req
723. If we stay together,
we survive.Copy !req
724. I'm pleased to bring you
the legionnaires...Copy !req
725. of Scipio Africanus!Copy !req
726. To the death!Copy !req
727. - Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill!Copy !req
728. Stay close!Copy !req
729. Come together!Copy !req
730. - Staggered columns!Copy !req
731. Staggered columns!Copy !req
732. Soon all your men
will be slain.Copy !req
733. You don't have a chance!Copy !req
734. Lock your shields! Stay as one!Copy !req
735. As one! As one!Copy !req
736. Hold!Copy !req
737. Hold!Copy !req
738. - As one!
- As one!Copy !req
739. Well done!Copy !req
740. Hyah! Hyah!Copy !req
741. Hold!Copy !req
742. Diamond! Diamond!Copy !req
743. - Yes!Copy !req
744. - Haken!Copy !req
745. This column to the chariots!
This column...Copy !req
746. - stay with me!Copy !req
747. Quickly!Copy !req
748. - Get out there!
- Hurry!Copy !req
749. Maximus!Copy !req
750. Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh.Copy !req
751. Single column!
Single column!Copy !req
752. Single column! Single column!Copy !req
753. - We win!Copy !req
754. My history's
a little hazy, Cassius.Copy !req
755. But shouldn't the barbarians
lose the battle of Carthage?Copy !req
756. Uh, yes, sire.Copy !req
757. Um, forgive me, sire.Copy !req
758. No, I rather
enjoy surprises.Copy !req
759. - Who is he?
- They call him the Spaniard, sire.Copy !req
760. - I think I'll meet him.
- Yes, sire.Copy !req
761. Hail to the barbarians!Copy !req
762. Forward! Arms at ready!Copy !req
763. Drop your weapons!Copy !req
764. Gladiator, the emperor
has asked for you.Copy !req
765. I'm at the emperor's service.Copy !req
766. Rise. Rise.Copy !req
767. Your fame is well deserved,
Spaniard.Copy !req
768. I don't think there's ever
been a gladiator to match you.Copy !req
769. As for this young man,
he insists you are Hector reborn.Copy !req
770. Or was it Hercules?Copy !req
771. Why doesn't the hero reveal himself
and tell us all your real name?Copy !req
772. - You do have a name?
- My name is Gladiator.Copy !req
773. - How dare you show your back to me?Copy !req
774. Slave!Copy !req
775. You will remove your helmet
and tell me your name.Copy !req
776. My name is
Maximus Decimus Meridius,Copy !req
777. commander of the armies
of the north,Copy !req
778. general of the Felix Legions,Copy !req
779. Loyal servant to the true emperor,
Marcus Aurelius,Copy !req
780. father to a murdered son,Copy !req
781. husband to a murdered wife...Copy !req
782. and I will have my vengeance...
in this life or the next.Copy !req
783. Arms!Copy !req
784. Live! Live! Live!
Live! Live! Live!Copy !req
785. Live! Live! Live!
Live! Live! Live!Copy !req
786. Live! Live! Live!Copy !req
787. Live! Live!
Live! Live!Copy !req
788. Guards, at rest!Copy !req
789. Maximus! Maximus!
Maximus! Maximus!Copy !req
790. Maximus! Maximus! Maximus!Copy !req
791. Maximus! Maximus! Maximus!Copy !req
792. Why is he still alive?Copy !req
793. I don't know.Copy !req
794. He shouldn't be alive.Copy !req
795. It vexes me.Copy !req
796. I'm terribly vexed.Copy !req
797. I did what I had to do.Copy !req
798. If Father had had his way,
the empire would have been torn apart.Copy !req
799. You do see that?Copy !req
800. Yes.Copy !req
801. What did you feel...
when you saw him?Copy !req
802. I felt nothing.Copy !req
803. He wounded you deeply,
didn't he?Copy !req
804. No more than
I wounded him.Copy !req
805. They lied to me in Germania.Copy !req
806. They told me he was dead.Copy !req
807. If they lie to me,
they don't respect me.Copy !req
808. If they don't respect me,
how can they ever love me?Copy !req
809. Then you must
let the legions know...Copy !req
810. their treachery
will not go unpunished.Copy !req
811. Poor sister, I wouldn't
want to be your enemy.Copy !req
812. What will you do?Copy !req
813. This way!Copy !req
814. Rich matrons pay well to be pleasured
by the bravest champions.Copy !req
815. I knew your brother
would send assassins.Copy !req
816. I didn't realize
he would send his best.Copy !req
817. Maximus,
he doesn't know.Copy !req
818. My family was burned and crucified
while they were still alive.Copy !req
819. - I knew nothing-
- Don't lie to me!Copy !req
820. - I wept for them.
- As you wept for your father?Copy !req
821. As you wept for
your father?Copy !req
822. I have been living in
a prison of fear since that day.Copy !req
823. To be unable to mourn your father
for fear of your brother.Copy !req
824. To live in terror
every moment of every day...Copy !req
825. because your son
is heir to the throne.Copy !req
826. Oh, I have wept.Copy !req
827. My son was innocent.Copy !req
828. So is mine.Copy !req
829. Must my son die, too,
before you will trust me?Copy !req
830. What does it matter
if I trust you or not?Copy !req
831. The gods have spared you.
Don't you understand?Copy !req
832. Today I saw a slave become
more powerful than the emperor of Rome.Copy !req
833. The gods
have spared me?Copy !req
834. I am at their mercy,
with the power only to amuse a mob!Copy !req
835. That is power.
The mob is Rome.Copy !req
836. And while Commodus controls them,
he controls everything.Copy !req
837. Listen to me.Copy !req
838. My brother has enemies,
most of all in the senate.Copy !req
839. But while
the people follow him,Copy !req
840. no one would dare
stand up to him until you.Copy !req
841. They oppose him,
yet they do nothing.Copy !req
842. There are some politicians
who have dedicated their lives to Rome.Copy !req
843. One man above all.Copy !req
844. If I can arrange it,
will you meet him?Copy !req
845. Do you not understand?Copy !req
846. I may die in this cell tonight,
or in the arena tomorrow. I am a slave!Copy !req
847. What possible
difference can I make?Copy !req
848. This man wants
what you want.Copy !req
849. Then have him
kill Commodus!Copy !req
850. I knew a man once,Copy !req
851. a noble man,
a man of principle...Copy !req
852. who loved
my father.Copy !req
853. And my father
loved him.Copy !req
854. This man
served Rome well.Copy !req
855. That man is gone.Copy !req
856. Your brother
did his work well.Copy !req
857. Let me help you.Copy !req
858. Yes, you can help me.Copy !req
859. Forget you ever knew me...Copy !req
860. and never
come here again.Copy !req
861. Guard! The lady has finished with me.Copy !req
862. Maximus?Copy !req
863. You commanded legions?
You had many victories?Copy !req
864. - Yes.
- In Germania?Copy !req
865. In many countries.Copy !req
866. General.Copy !req
867. You have a great name.Copy !req
868. He must kill your name
before he kills you.Copy !req
869. Yes, at the far end.Copy !req
870. - Senator Gaius.
- Hello.Copy !req
871. Senator Gracchus.Copy !req
872. Don't often see you enjoying
the pleasures of the vulgar crowd.Copy !req
873. I don't pretend to be a man
of the people, Senator.Copy !req
874. But I do try to be a man
for the people.Copy !req
875. Caesar! Caesar! Caesar!Copy !req
876. Caesar! Caesar!Copy !req
877. Caesar! Caesar! Caesar!Copy !req
878. People of Rome!Copy !req
879. On the fourth day
of Antioch,Copy !req
880. we can celebrate
the 64th day of the games.Copy !req
881. And, in his
majestic charity,Copy !req
882. the Emperor has deigned this day
to favor the people of Rome...Copy !req
883. with an historical
final match.Copy !req
884. Returning to the Colosseum today...Copy !req
885. after five years
in retirement, Caesar...Copy !req
886. is pleased to bring you
the only...Copy !req
887. undefeated champion...Copy !req
888. - Yah! Yah!
- in Roman history,Copy !req
889. the legendary Tigris of Gaul!Copy !req
890. Whoa! Whoa!Copy !req
891. He knows too well
how to manipulate the mob.Copy !req
892. Marcus Aurelius had a dream
that was Rome, Proximo.Copy !req
893. This is not it!
This is not it!Copy !req
894. Marcus Aurelius is dead,
Maximus.Copy !req
895. We mortals are but
shadows and dust.Copy !req
896. - Shadows and dust, Maximus!Copy !req
897. Representing the training
lyceum of Antonius Proximo,Copy !req
898. Caesar is proud
to give you...Copy !req
899. Aelius Maximus!Copy !req
900. Maximus! Maximus! Maximus!Copy !req
901. Maximus! Maximus!Copy !req
902. They embrace him like
he's one of their own.Copy !req
903. The mob is fickle, brother.
He'll be forgotten in a month.Copy !req
904. Maximus! Maximus!Copy !req
905. No, much sooner
than that.Copy !req
906. It's been arranged.Copy !req
907. Maximus! Maximus! Maximus!Copy !req
908. We who are about to die salute you.Copy !req
909. We're with you, Maximus!Copy !req
910. Come on, finish it!Copy !req
911. - No!
- Pull! Pull!Copy !req
912. - Aah!Copy !req
913. Yeah!Copy !req
914. Loose! Loose!
Loose! Loose!Copy !req
915. Aah!Copy !req
916. Aah!Copy !req
917. Get him!
Kill him!Copy !req
918. Kill! Kill!
Kill! Kill!Copy !req
919. Kill! Kill!
Kill! Kill!Copy !req
920. Kill! Kill!
Kill! Kill!Copy !req
921. Kill! Kill!
Kill! Kill!Copy !req
922. Kill! Kill!
Kill! Kill!Copy !req
923. Kill! Kill!
Kill! Kill!Copy !req
924. Kill! Kill!
Kill! Kill!Copy !req
925. - Kill! Kill!
- Kill! Kill!Copy !req
926. - Kill!
- Kill!Copy !req
927. Kill! Kill!
Kill! Kill!Copy !req
928. Kill! Kill!
Kill! Kill!Copy !req
929. Kill! Kill!
Kill! Kill!Copy !req
930. Kill! Kill!
Kill! Kill!Copy !req
931. Kill! Kill!
Kill! Kill!Copy !req
932. Kill! Kill!
Kill! Kill!Copy !req
933. Maximus!
Maximus the Merciful!Copy !req
934. Maximus the Merciful!Copy !req
935. Maximus the Merciful!Copy !req
936. Maximus! Maximus!Copy !req
937. Maximus! Maximus!Copy !req
938. Maximus! Maximus!
Maximus!Copy !req
939. Maximus! Maximus!
Maximus!Copy !req
940. Forward, guards! On battery!Copy !req
941. Maximus! Maximus!Copy !req
942. Maximus! Maximus! Maximus!Copy !req
943. Maximus!
Maximus!Copy !req
944. What am I going
to do with you?Copy !req
945. You simply won't...Copy !req
946. die.Copy !req
947. Are we so different,
you and l?Copy !req
948. You take life
when you have to...Copy !req
949. as I do.Copy !req
950. I have only one more life to take.
Then it is done.Copy !req
951. Then take it now.Copy !req
952. They tell me your son...Copy !req
953. squealed like a girl...Copy !req
954. when they nailed him
to the cross.Copy !req
955. And your wife...
moaned like a whore...Copy !req
956. when they ravaged her...Copy !req
957. again and again...Copy !req
958. and again.Copy !req
959. The time for honoring yourself
will soon be at an end.Copy !req
960. Highness.Copy !req
961. Maximus! Maximus! Maximus!Copy !req
962. Maximus! Maximus! Maximus!Copy !req
963. Maximus! Maximus!
Maximus! Maximus!Copy !req
964. General! General!Copy !req
965. General!Copy !req
966. - General! General!
- Get back!Copy !req
967. - General!
- Cicero!Copy !req
968. Maximus! Maximus!Copy !req
969. - General!Copy !req
970. - General.
- Where are you camped?Copy !req
971. - Ostia.
- Maximus! Maximus!Copy !req
972. Maximus! Maximus!
Maximus! Maximus!Copy !req
973. - We love you, Maximus!
- Praise the victor!Copy !req
974. Tell the men their general lives.
Find me.Copy !req
975. - Move along!
- Find me!Copy !req
976. Maximus! Maximus!
Maximus! Maximus!Copy !req
977. Can they hear you?Copy !req
978. Who?Copy !req
979. Your family,
in the afterlife.Copy !req
980. - Oh, yes.
- What do you say to them?Copy !req
981. To my boy,Copy !req
982. I tell him I will
see him again soon.Copy !req
983. To keep his heels down
when he's riding his horse.Copy !req
984. To my wife-Copy !req
985. That is not
your business.Copy !req
986. And now they love Maximus
for his mercy.Copy !req
987. So I can't just kill him,
or it makes me even more unmerciful!Copy !req
988. The whole thing's
like some crazed nightmare.Copy !req
989. He is defying you.Copy !req
990. His every victory
is an act of defiance.Copy !req
991. The mob sees this,
and so do the senate.Copy !req
992. Every day he lives,
they grow bolder.Copy !req
993. - Kill him.
- No.Copy !req
994. I will not make
a martyr of him.Copy !req
995. I have been told...Copy !req
996. of a certain sea snake...Copy !req
997. which has a very unusual method
of attracting its prey.Copy !req
998. It will lie at the bottom
of the ocean as if wounded.Copy !req
999. Then its enemies
will approach,Copy !req
1000. and yet it will
lie quite still.Copy !req
1001. And then its enemies
will take little bites of it,Copy !req
1002. and yet it remains...Copy !req
1003. still.Copy !req
1004. So,Copy !req
1005. we will lie still...Copy !req
1006. and let our enemies
come to us and nibble.Copy !req
1007. Have every senator followed.Copy !req
1008. Maximus.Copy !req
1009. Cicero, my old friend.Copy !req
1010. I thought perhaps
I'd seen you for the last time.Copy !req
1011. - I thought you were dead.
- Close.Copy !req
1012. How long have the men
been in Ostia?Copy !req
1013. - All winter.
- And how do they look?Copy !req
1014. Fattened and bored.Copy !req
1015. Who's in command?Copy !req
1016. Some fool from Rome.Copy !req
1017. I need you to
do something for me.Copy !req
1018. Come see. Witness.Copy !req
1019. If you haven't been in the arena,
you can see the show here.Copy !req
1020. Giant Maximus is defeating
our Emperor Commodus. What are we to do?Copy !req
1021. He's defying everyone.
What will we do?Copy !req
1022. - Ah! Look at that!Copy !req
1023. - Oh, he got him!Copy !req
1024. Give way! Give way!Copy !req
1025. Give way!Copy !req
1026. Three casks of red wine.Copy !req
1027. My lady?
I served your father at Vindobona.Copy !req
1028. - Back.
- Mylady.Copy !req
1029. I served your father
at Vindobona.Copy !req
1030. - Back!
- And I served the General Maximus.Copy !req
1031. I serve him still.Copy !req
1032. Stop.Copy !req
1033. - Stop.
- Stop!Copy !req
1034. Stand back.Copy !req
1035. The General sends word.
He will meet your politician.Copy !req
1036. - For your loyalty, soldier.
- Thank you, my lady.Copy !req
1037. Hup!Copy !req
1038. Leave us.Copy !req
1039. Senator Gracchus.Copy !req
1040. General.Copy !req
1041. I hope my coming here today
is evidence enough that...Copy !req
1042. you can trust me.Copy !req
1043. - The senate is with you?
- The senate?Copy !req
1044. Yes. I can speak for them.Copy !req
1045. You can buy my freedom
and smuggle me out of Rome?Copy !req
1046. To what end?Copy !req
1047. Get me outside
the city walls.Copy !req
1048. Have fresh horses ready to take me
to Ostia. My army's encamped there.Copy !req
1049. By nightfall of the second day,
I shall return at the head of5,000 men.Copy !req
1050. But the legions all have new commanders
loyal to Commodus.Copy !req
1051. Let my men see me alive, and you
shall see where their loyalties lie.Copy !req
1052. This is madness.Copy !req
1053. I will not trade
one dictatorship for another!Copy !req
1054. The time for half-measures
and talk is over, Senator.Copy !req
1055. And after your glorious coup,
what then?Copy !req
1056. You'll take your
5,000 warriors and leave?Copy !req
1057. I will leave.Copy !req
1058. So, once all
of Rome is yours,Copy !req
1059. you'll just give it
back to the people?Copy !req
1060. Tell me why.Copy !req
1061. Because that was the
last wish of a dying man.Copy !req
1062. I will kill Commodus.Copy !req
1063. The fate of Rome
I leave to you.Copy !req
1064. Marcus Aurelius trusted you.Copy !req
1065. His daughter trusts you.Copy !req
1066. I will trust you.Copy !req
1067. But we have little time.Copy !req
1068. Give me two days...Copy !req
1069. and I will buy your freedom.Copy !req
1070. And you-Copy !req
1071. You stay alive.Copy !req
1072. Or I'll be dead.Copy !req
1073. Now we must go.Copy !req
1074. It won't work.Copy !req
1075. The Emperor
knows too much.Copy !req
1076. And as for me,Copy !req
1077. it's becoming dangerous.Copy !req
1078. You will be paid
on my return.Copy !req
1079. - I give you my word.Copy !req
1080. Your word?
What if you don't return?Copy !req
1081. Do you remember what it was
to have trust, Proximo?Copy !req
1082. Trust?Copy !req
1083. Who am I to trust?Copy !req
1084. I will kill Commodus.Copy !req
1085. Why would I want that?Copy !req
1086. He makes me rich.Copy !req
1087. Oh, l-Copy !req
1088. I know that you are
a man of your word, General.Copy !req
1089. I know that you
would die for honor.Copy !req
1090. You would
die for Rome.Copy !req
1091. You would die for
the memory of your ancestors.Copy !req
1092. But l,
on the other hand-Copy !req
1093. I'm an entertainer.Copy !req
1094. Hmm? Guard!Copy !req
1095. He killed the man
who set you free.Copy !req
1096. Praetorians, master.Copy !req
1097. Halt!Copy !req
1098. Where have you been?Copy !req
1099. I sent for you.Copy !req
1100. Please, brother.Copy !req
1101. What's troubling you?Copy !req
1102. Does Gracchus
have a new lover?Copy !req
1103. I don't know.Copy !req
1104. I thought you'd seen him.Copy !req
1105. He infects everyone
like a putrid fever.Copy !req
1106. For the health of Rome,
the senate must be bled.Copy !req
1107. And he will bleed, too.Copy !req
1108. Very soon.Copy !req
1109. But not tonight.Copy !req
1110. Do you remember what
our father said once?Copy !req
1111. "It's a dream-Copy !req
1112. a frightful dream-Copy !req
1113. Life is."Copy !req
1114. Do you think that's true?Copy !req
1115. I don't know.Copy !req
1116. I think it is.Copy !req
1117. And I have only you
to share it with.Copy !req
1118. Open your mouth.Copy !req
1119. You know I love you.Copy !req
1120. And I love you.Copy !req
1121. Out. Get out!Copy !req
1122. Move!Copy !req
1123. Congratulations, General.Copy !req
1124. You've got very...
persuasive friends.Copy !req
1125. My brother's had
Gracchus arrested.Copy !req
1126. We daren't wait any longer.
We must leave tonight.Copy !req
1127. Proximo will come at midnight
and take you to the gate.Copy !req
1128. Your servant, Cicero,
will be waiting there with horses.Copy !req
1129. You have done all this?Copy !req
1130. - Yes.
- You risk too much.Copy !req
1131. I have much to pay for.Copy !req
1132. You have nothing to pay for.Copy !req
1133. You love your son.
You're strong for him.Copy !req
1134. I am tired of being strong.Copy !req
1135. My brother hates all the world,Copy !req
1136. and you most of all.Copy !req
1137. - Because your father chose me.
- No.Copy !req
1138. Because my father loved you.Copy !req
1139. And because I loved you.Copy !req
1140. A long time ago.Copy !req
1141. Was I very different then?Copy !req
1142. You laughed more.Copy !req
1143. I have felt alone
all my life,Copy !req
1144. except with you.Copy !req
1145. I must go.Copy !req
1146. Yes.Copy !req
1147. There. There.Copy !req
1148. - There. There. There.
There. There. There.Copy !req
1149. There. There. There.Copy !req
1150. There. There. There.Copy !req
1151. - There. There. There. There.Copy !req
1152. And I've got you.Copy !req
1153. Isn't it late
to be playing legionnaire?Copy !req
1154. I'm not a legionnaire.Copy !req
1155. - Not a legionnaire?
- I'm a gladiator.Copy !req
1156. A gladiator?
Gladiators only fight in the games.Copy !req
1157. Wouldn't you rather be...Copy !req
1158. a great Roman warrior
like Julius Caesar?Copy !req
1159. I'm Maximus,
the savior of Rome!Copy !req
1160. The savior of Rome?Copy !req
1161. And who said that?Copy !req
1162. Where's Lucius?Copy !req
1163. He's with the Emperor, my lady.Copy !req
1164. - She couldn't.
- Yes, she did.Copy !req
1165. She took it from a basket
and pressed it to her breast,Copy !req
1166. right here
above her heart.Copy !req
1167. It bit her in the breast?Copy !req
1168. Yes.Copy !req
1169. You see, Lucius,
sometimes royal ladies...Copy !req
1170. behave very strangely and do
very odd things in the name of love.Copy !req
1171. I think it's silly.Copy !req
1172. So do l.Copy !req
1173. So do l.Copy !req
1174. Sister, join us.Copy !req
1175. I've been reading
to dear Lucius.Copy !req
1176. - I've been reading too.
- Yes.Copy !req
1177. He's a very clever
little boy.Copy !req
1178. He'll make a grand
emperor one day.Copy !req
1179. We've been reading about the great
Mark Antony and his adventures in Egypt.Copy !req
1180. The queen killed herself
with a snake.Copy !req
1181. And just wait until you hear what
happened to our ancestors.Copy !req
1182. If you're very good,Copy !req
1183. tomorrow night I'll tell you
the story of Emperor Claudius.Copy !req
1184. He was betrayed...Copy !req
1185. by those closest to him.Copy !req
1186. By his own blood.Copy !req
1187. They whispered in dark corners...Copy !req
1188. and went out
late at night...Copy !req
1189. and conspired...Copy !req
1190. and conspired.Copy !req
1191. But the Emperor Claudius
knew that they were up to something.Copy !req
1192. He knew they were
busy little bees.Copy !req
1193. And one night he sat down
with one of them...Copy !req
1194. and he looked at her...Copy !req
1195. and he said,Copy !req
1196. "Tell me what you've been doing,Copy !req
1197. busy little bee,Copy !req
1198. or I shall strike down
those dearest to you.Copy !req
1199. You shall watch
as I bathe in their blood. "Copy !req
1200. And the Emperor
was heartbroken.Copy !req
1201. The little bee had
wounded him more deeply...Copy !req
1202. than anyone else
could ever have done.Copy !req
1203. And what do you think
happened then, Lucius?Copy !req
1204. I don't know, Uncle.Copy !req
1205. The little bee
told him everything.Copy !req
1206. Open, in the name of the Emperor!Copy !req
1207. Proximo!Copy !req
1208. Open the gates in the name
of the Emperor!Copy !req
1209. - Proximo!Copy !req
1210. Open the gates!Copy !req
1211. Open the gates, Proximo!Copy !req
1212. Do you want to die, old man?Copy !req
1213. Here.Copy !req
1214. Everything is prepared.Copy !req
1215. - It seems you've won your freedom.
- Proximo,Copy !req
1216. are you in danger
of becoming a good man?Copy !req
1217. Ha!Copy !req
1218. - Juba.
- All enemies of the Emperor die!Copy !req
1219. Open the gates!
The Emperor commands!Copy !req
1220. Pull!Copy !req
1221. Move! Two columns on the left!Copy !req
1222. I only need moments,
so do not be careless with your lives.Copy !req
1223. If you don't want any part of this,
go back to your cells.Copy !req
1224. We'll wait here for you,
Maximus.Copy !req
1225. - Strength and honor.
- Go!Copy !req
1226. Strength and honor.Copy !req
1227. Aim! Break the bars!Copy !req
1228. Shadows and dust.Copy !req
1229. Aah!Copy !req
1230. - Maximus!Copy !req
1231. I'm sorry.Copy !req
1232. No!Copy !req
1233. It's done.Copy !req
1234. And what of my nephew?Copy !req
1235. And what of his mother?Copy !req
1236. Should they share
her lover's fate?Copy !req
1237. Or should
I be merciful?Copy !req
1238. Commodus the Merciful.Copy !req
1239. Lucius will stay with me now.Copy !req
1240. And if his mother...Copy !req
1241. so much as looks at me...Copy !req
1242. in a manner that displeases me,Copy !req
1243. he will die.Copy !req
1244. If she decides...Copy !req
1245. to be noble...Copy !req
1246. and takes her own life,Copy !req
1247. he will die.Copy !req
1248. And as for you,Copy !req
1249. you will love me...Copy !req
1250. as I loved you.Copy !req
1251. You will provide me
with an heir...Copy !req
1252. of pure blood...Copy !req
1253. so that Commodus
and his progeny...Copy !req
1254. will rule for
a thousand years.Copy !req
1255. Am I not merciful?Copy !req
1256. Am I not merciful?Copy !req
1257. Maximus! Maximus!Copy !req
1258. Maximus! Maximus!
Maximus!Copy !req
1259. Maximus! Maximus!Copy !req
1260. Maximus! Maximus!Copy !req
1261. Maximus! Maximus!Copy !req
1262. Maximus! Maximus!
Maximus! Maximus!Copy !req
1263. Maximus! Maximus!Copy !req
1264. Maximus! Maximus!Copy !req
1265. Maximus! Maximus!Copy !req
1266. Maximus! Maximus!Copy !req
1267. Maximus! Maximus!Copy !req
1268. Maximus! Maximus!Copy !req
1269. Maximus! Maximus! Maximus!Copy !req
1270. Maximus! Maximus!Copy !req
1271. Maximus! Maximus!Copy !req
1272. Maximus.Copy !req
1273. Maximus.Copy !req
1274. Maximus.Copy !req
1275. They call for you.Copy !req
1276. The general
who became a slave.Copy !req
1277. The slave
who became a gladiator.Copy !req
1278. The gladiator
who defied an emperor.Copy !req
1279. A striking story.Copy !req
1280. Now the people want to know
how the story ends.Copy !req
1281. Only a famous death will do.Copy !req
1282. And what could be
more glorious...Copy !req
1283. than to challenge the Emperor
himself in the great arena?Copy !req
1284. You would fight me?Copy !req
1285. Why not?
Do you think I'm afraid?Copy !req
1286. I think you have been afraid
all your life.Copy !req
1287. Unlike Maximus the Invincible,
who knows no fear?Copy !req
1288. I knew a man who once said,
" Death smiles at us all.Copy !req
1289. All a man can do
is smile back."Copy !req
1290. I wonder.Copy !req
1291. Did your friend
smile at his own death?Copy !req
1292. You must know.Copy !req
1293. He was your father.Copy !req
1294. You loved my father,
I know.Copy !req
1295. But so did l.Copy !req
1296. That makes us brothers,
doesn't it?Copy !req
1297. Smile for me now, brother.Copy !req
1298. - Strap on his armor.Copy !req
1299. Conceal the wound.Copy !req
1300. Maximus! Maximus!Copy !req
1301. Maximus! Maximus!Copy !req
1302. Ring formation!Copy !req
1303. Ring formation!Copy !req
1304. Off with his head, Maximus!Copy !req
1305. - Aah!Copy !req
1306. Maximus! Maximus! Maximus!Copy !req
1307. Quintus, sword!Copy !req
1308. Give me your sword!Copy !req
1309. Sword! Give me a sword!Copy !req
1310. - Sheathe your swords!Copy !req
1311. Sheathe yours words!Copy !req
1312. Maximus.Copy !req
1313. - Maximus.
- Quintus.Copy !req
1314. Free my men.Copy !req
1315. Senator Gracchus
is to be reinstated.Copy !req
1316. There was a dream
that was Rome.Copy !req
1317. It shall be realized.Copy !req
1318. These are the wishes
of Marcus Aurelius.Copy !req
1319. Free the prisoners!
Go!Copy !req
1320. Maximus!Copy !req
1321. Lucius is safe.Copy !req
1322. Go to them.Copy !req
1323. You're home.Copy !req
1324. Is Rome worth
one good man's life?Copy !req
1325. We believed it once.Copy !req
1326. Make us
believe it again.Copy !req
1327. He was a soldier of Rome.Copy !req
1328. Honor him.Copy !req
1329. Who will help me carry him?Copy !req
1330. Now we are free.Copy !req
1331. I will see you again.Copy !req
1332. But not yet.Copy !req
1333. Not yet.Copy !req