REVIEW: ESPN’s two-part film 'The American Gladiators Documentary' explores what happened to the musclebound fighters on the show, and its mystery co-creator.
, whose simple title intentionally belies a story rife with irony and wickedly sharp turns that ends up interrogating the filmmaking process itself. Director Benjamin Berman turns what was widely derided as barbaric spectacle into fodder for postmodern tragicomedy. This is a witty, mischievous, inventive but ultimately quite sad work, a worthy entry in ESPN’s enduring and consistently intelligent doc series.
. They jousted with pugil sticks. They rolled around in metal spheres, knocking each other silly. If it looked dangerous, it was. “Many of these games were not safe for humans to play,” oneproducer says in the film, which makes clear that serious injuries were plentiful, as was pain pillTo which Ferraro tells Berman: “You can’t get glory unless you go through a little bit of pain.” There was no medical plan on, and financial compensation and job security were minimal. But steroids weren’t.
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