(He turns and walks away.)ĬOMMODUS: How dare you show your back to me?! Slave! You will remove your helmet and tell me your name. I don’t believe there’s ever been a gladiator that matched you… Why doesn’t the hero reveal himself and tell us all your real name? (Maximus is silent.) You do have a name? After a remarkable display of courage and a stunning upset, the emperor comes down into the arena to meet the valiant gladiator, whose identity remains hidden behind his helmet.ĬOMMODUS: Your fame is well deserved, Spaniard. Ultimately he is taken to Rome to perform in the Colosseum before the emperor Commodus (who of course believes that Maximus is long dead). He more than survives he becomes a champion. That fate is normally a death sentence, but this is Maximus, a valiant fighter. Maximus escapes, but too late to save his family.Ĭaptured by slave traders, he is sold as a gladiator. He sentences Maximus to immediate execution and his wife and son to crucifixion and burning. The emperor’s foul son Commodus learns of his father’s plan to make Maximus emperor in his place, but before Marcus can pronounce his successor, Commodus strangles his father. He is the commander of the Roman armies, a general loved by his men and by the aging emperor Marcus Aurelius. In the movie Gladiator, set in the second century A.D., the hero is a warrior from Spain called Maximus. When it comes to our question, we need the latter. There’s knowledge about and knowledge of. Adam didn’t know about Eve he knew her intimately, through flesh-and-blood experience at a very deep level. The way “Adam knew his wife” and she gave birth to a child. I mean a deep knowing, the kind of knowing that comes when you have been there, entered in, experienced firsthand in an unforgettable way.
I don’t mean that the thought has passed through your cerebral cortex and you’ve given it intellectual assent, the way you know about the Battle of Waterloo or the ozone layer - the way most men “know” God or the truths of Christianity.
He needs to know he’s got what it takes.Īnd I don’t mean “know” in the modernistic, rationalistic sense.
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