During an interview with Empire, Russell Crowe said that the idea of the death of Maximus in the finals of the Gladiator came to director Ridley Scott only during filming. Closer to the completion of work on the picture Scott realized that the hero, who lost his wife and son, nothing to do among the living.
I remember Ridley approached me and says: "Judging by what everything goes, I do not see the reason why you have to survive. This character lives in order to take revenge on his wife and child. As soon as the revenge happens, what should he do? " And I'm kidding: "Yes, of course, it's not a pizzeriety to open it in the Coliseum." Indeed, he will have only one desire - to meet his wife in the afterlife and apologize that he was not near, when it is necessary. Everything,
- told the actor.
Also Crow revealed the secret of one of the key scenes of the film. During a meeting in the arena with Commod, the culprit of the death of the Maximus family, the main character takes his helmet to meet the enemy face to face. And this scene was not so easy to remove:
In the helmet full of static electricity. Every time I shot him, the hair got up end. I removed slowly, I took off quickly that I just did, but every time static electricity turned me into some telepusik. The output was a major plan: when I turn to the commodity, then in the frame only forehead and chin, the hair is not visible.
The film "Gladiator" received 11 nominations for Oscar and won in five of them, including the "best film". Studio Paramount and Ridley Scott plan to remove the continuation of the film, where the main character will become Lucius, the son of Lucill. The script will write Peter Craig ("Hungry Games: Soyuza-Meshnik," Bad Guys Forever ").