Prepare for glory and leather briefs. There are a lot of reasons that 300 is a unique film–dramatic cinematography, dynamic fight choreography, excessive use of leather tighties–but probably one of the least cited reasons is the historical accuracy. Wait, what? Historically accurate? Actually, yes–the story of Leonidas, and his 300 Spartans is true. At least, […]
Archival Footage: Gladiator
The general who didn’t really exist. The emperor who liked to pretend he was a gladiator, and went kind of crazy. Maximus… Maximus… was fictional. No matter how handsome Russell Crowe would lead us to believe he was, he simply did not exist. The naughty emperor, Commodus, however, was all too real, and it’s worth […]