Gladiator (2000 film) Gladiator (2000 film) Gladiator is a 2000 epic historical drama film directed by Ridley Scott and written by David Franzoni, John Logan, and William Nicholson. The film was jointly produced and released by DreamWorks Pictures and Universal Pictures. It stars Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Ralf Möller, Oliver Reed (in his final role), Djimon Hounsou, Derek Jacobi, John Shrapnel, and Richard Harris. Crowe portrays Hispano-Roman general Maximus Decimus Meridius, who is betrayed when Commodus, the ambitious son of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, murders his father and seizes the throne. Reduced to slavery, Maximus rises through the ranks of the gladiatorial
Bi Gan (film director) he had. As a high school student, he considered what to do in the future and what major to choose in college. Film became a choice only after he saw "Quill" (クイール "Kuîru"), a 2004 film directed by the Japanese director Yōichi Sai. As a result, he entered the Department of Screenwriting and Directing at Shanxi Institute of Media to major in Television Production. It was during his college time that Bi watched Andrei Tarkovsky's "Stalker", and felt the unusual charm of cinema, "cinema can be different [from the mainstream films]; you can make what you like. What I had