We decided to compare how the historical figures of the past centuries looked like according to film directors, artists, and ...

Ridley Scott’s Gladiator ruled the 00s with $465.4M at the box office. Its most brutal moment? Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix) murdering his father, Emperor Marcus Aurelius (Richard Harris). Aurelius chose ...

A great hero needs a great villain. That’s exactly what Russell Crowe’s Maximus had in Gladiator. Joaquin Phoenix‘s Commodus was a slimy, conniving monster who made our skin crawl. We still hate him ...

Gladiator was a unique success for Ridley Scott that seemed to single-handedly revitalize the “sword and sandals” epic genre decades after it was deemed to be dead. Gladiator succeeded not just ...

If you decide to rank the villains that Joaquin Phoenix (Joker) played across his career, you’re bound to put Gladiator’s Commodus somewhere. However, the modern classic’s director Ridley Scott might ...

Three zodiacal signs-the Bull, the Capricorn and the Scorpion-are carved on the globe at the base of the Conservatori portrait of Commodus in which the Emperor is represented in the guise of Hercules.

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