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16.05.2010 [guardian] - Ten years ago, Ridley Scott retrieved the Roman imperial epic from the 36 years of neglect that followed the failure of Anthony Mann's The Fall of the Roman Empire. Recognising that what sank Mann's movie was its elegance, careful pacing and world-weary sophistication, Scott's Gladiator began with a ferocious pitched battle in Germania that established its hero, Maximus, as a (...) (...)and the anointing of a weak successor. Scott's reworking of the Robin Hood legend begins in a similar fashion with a succession of
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