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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gam3rBlake, post: 7941961, member: 115909&quot;]Yeah. I understand why they dramatize some things to keep the audience interested, but its not like increasing the age of Marcus Aurelius is more interesting or appealing to the audience. I don&#039;t think anyone would care if he was 58 or 68 or 78 so I don&#039;t get why they changed his age at all.</p><p><br /></p><p>One thing that I am sure ALL of us (who have seen Gladiator) noticed was that at the beginning of the movie Marcus Aurelius is killed...by Commodus. Seriously. I think THAT is a case of trying to keep the audience interested and making them have a dislike of Commodus right from the start. But for those of us who love history it was so bizarre seeing Commodus there suffocating Marcus Aurelius with a pillow. Or that scene where Marcus Aurelius is talking to Crowe&#039;s character Maximus Decimus Meridius and he tells him he wants to &quot;return Rome back to a Republic&quot; when Marcus Aurelius had no intentions to do so and wanted Commodus to succeed him.</p><p><br /></p><p>So there was no reason for Commodus to kill Aurelius and he definitely didn&#039;t intend on returning Rome to a Republic.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m pretty sure Commodus was strangled by Narcissus in the bath tub but the movie has Russell Crowe&#039;s character slaying him in the arena.</p><p><br /></p><p>Like I said I loved the movie as a kid and as a movie that inspired me to learn more about Ancient Rome it will always have a special place in my heart. But knowing what I know about Ancient Rome now it&#039;s so bizarre to watch all that weird stuff happen.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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