The King Arthur myth remains a tantalizing conundrum for filmmakers in the 21st century. Note we are keeping this just to the movies released in the 2000s, but rest assured that if we included the final dregs of the early 2010s, Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood would be near the very bottom.
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So with Gladiator turning 20 this summer, we felt it only fitting to rank the movies of that era from their worst to best. For a brief time in this century, bronze breastplates instead of capes were the costume of choice for Hollywood’s biggest leading men. Throughout the 2000s and early 2010s, muscular movie stars crossed swords, medieval chainmail was adorned, and Greco sandals were fitted. Then came Gladiator (and to a lesser extent Braveheart five years earlier), and the bloated Hollywood historical epic was back.
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Kirk Douglas’ Spartacus and Charlton Heston’s Ben-Hur were the superheroes of the early ‘60s, before the genre’s popularity receded to camp TV miniseries ignominy. ĭecades before Russell Crowe and Ridley Scott reawakened that whisper to a mighty roar, historical war epics, from swords and sandals beefcake cinema to Napoleonic and Revolutionary melodramas, were the order of the day in Hollywood. But he could just as easily be speaking about the beauty and grandeur of the historical epics which inspired Gladiator.
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You could only whisper it, anything more than a whisper and it would vanish.” These were the words spoken by Richard Harris at his most regal in Gladiator, adding some blockbuster poeticism to the democratic ideals of the Roman republic-a dream lost long before Gladiator begins.