How realistic is the movie Gladiator? The box office hit Gladiator is driven by a Hollywood plot but retains a large amount of factual information. A lot of the characters names they used did exist but were not historically correct. The story-line of the movie was one created for the movie however it is quite realistically portrayed. The basic plot starts with the Spaniard general of the Roman army, Maximus, leading his loyal troops to …showed first 75 words of 869 total…

…showed last 75 words of 869 total…fist meant mercy. This story, of course has a love story, intense action, and a secret plot considering it’s a Hollywood film. But many parts of it are realistic historical facts. In is not impractical for this to have actually happened. The character are a little off base to reality but how each of them acted is fairly close to the truth. Overall, I would say that the facts are remotely accurate. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**