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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gam3rBlake, post: 7705672, member: 115909&quot;]Well I understand why they up the age of Commodus.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;It’s probably so viewers today take it more seriously since watching a 16 year old as Emperor in a movie or show would be hard for people today to take seriously even if it’s historically accurate.</p><p><br /></p><p>Like in the movie Gladiator they were going to have advertisements in the Colliseum but they took it out because they felt people would think it was made up even though it’s also historically accurate.</p><p><br /></p><p>Gladiator had much bigger inaccuracies though. Like the fact that the Germanic tribes the Romans were fighting were wearing outfits from the Stone Age despite the movie taking place in the 2nd century.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>But it was still a good movie and seeing it as a kid is what first piqued my interest in Ancient Roman history just like 300 piqued my interest in Greek History even though both of them had ALOT of historical inaccuracies.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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