Gladiator (
Latin pronunciation: [glaːdiatọɾ]) is a
2000 historical epic film directed by
Ridley Scott, starring
Russell Crowe,
Joaquin Phoenix,
Connie Nielsen,
Ralf Möller,
Oliver Reed,
Djimon Hounsou,
Derek Jacobi,
John Shrapnel and
Richard Harris. Crowe portrays the loyal
Roman General Maximus Decimus Meridius, who is betrayed when the
Emperor's ambitious son,
Commodus, murders his father and seizes the throne.
Reduced to slavery,
Maximus rises through the ranks of the gladiatorial arena to avenge the murder of his family and his Emperor.
Released in the
United States on May 5, 2000, Gladiator was a box office success, receiving positive reviews, and was credited with briefly reviving the historical epic. The film was nominated for and won multiple awards, particularly five
Academy Awards in the
73rd Academy Awards including
Best Picture. Although there have been talks of both a prequel and sequel, as of
2012, no production has begun.
Gladiator is the original soundtrack of the
2000 film of the same name. The original score and songs were composed by
Hans Zimmer and
Lisa Gerrard and was released in 2000, entitled Gladiator:
Music From the
Motion Picture. The
Lyndhurst Orchestra performing the score was conducted by
Gavin Greenaway.
The
album won the
Golden Globe Award for
Best Original Score and was also nominated for the
Academy Award and
BAFTA Award for Best Score ("
Anthony Asquith Award for
Film Music").
The Oscar-nominated score was composed by Hans Zimmer and Lisa Gerrard, and conducted by Gavin Greenaway. Lisa Gerrard's vocals are similar to her own work on
The Insider score.[42]
The music for many of the battle scenes has been noted as similar to
Gustav Holst's "
Mars:
The Bringer of War", and in June
2006, the Holst
Foundation sued Hans Zimmer for allegedly copying the late Gustav Holst's work.[43][44] Another close musical resemblance occurs in the scene of Commodus's triumphal entry into
Rome, accompanied by music clearly evocative of two sections—the
Prelude to
Das Rheingold and
Siegfried's
Funeral March from Götterdämmerung—from
Wagner's Ring of the Nibelungs.
The "German" war chant in the opening scene was borrowed from the 1964 film
Zulu, one of Ridley Scott's favorite movies. On
February 27,
2001, nearly a year after the first soundtrack's release, Decca produced Gladiator: More Music From the Motion Picture. Then, on
September 5,
2005, Decca produced Gladiator:
Special Anniversary Edition, a two-CD pack containing both the above mentioned releases. Some of the music from the film was featured in the
NFL playoffs in
January 2003 before commercial breaks and before and after half-time
.[45] In
2003,
Luciano Pavarotti released a recording of himself singing a song from the film and said he regretted turning down an offer to perform on the soundtrack.[46]
The Soundtrack is one of the best selling film scores of all time, and also among the most popular.
for more information please see the following links:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0172495/combined
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladiator_(2000_film)#Music
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladiator_(soundtrack)
- published: 09 Jan 2012
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