Ridley Scott’s sole Best Picture winner is his filmography’s odd man out.
has inspired sci-fi horror for decades.
Opening on an icy, desaturated Germany, we join Maximus , a general in the Roman army who is very, very loosely based on real-life historical figure Marcus Nonius Macrinus. Maximus is a gruff, growling, utilitarian sort who thinks only of finishing his brutal colonial conquest and then returning to his idyllic farm where his perfect wife and son await the obvious tragic death that is totally about to befall them.
The premise of the movie is completely nuts when you write it out that way, but despite that and the movie’s two-and-a-half-hour runtime ,feels fleet and simple. It’s lavishly composed, written to give every actor down to the bit players no fewer than one memorable character beat, and it’s utter lack of subtlety makes it extremely easy to understand. On the former two points, it is very much in keeping with Scott’s filmography—on the latter, it is a departure.
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