The behind-the-scenes production of gladiators

Mark Siemers, the protagonist of the film, is based on the Roman general Mark Linus, and the story told in the film is also based on Mark Linus' experience, but the screenwriter of the film adds a fictional event: Maximus was imprisoned and exiled to North Africa after Marcus Aurili was murdered by his son. The scene of a Roman gladiator standing in the middle of the arena waiting for the king to decide whether to live or die comes from the work Pohris Versault by the French academic painter Jean-Leon Gerome.

Scene construction

The central landscape of the Roman Empire in the film was built by 200 British technicians and 100 Maltese craftsmen in 19 weeks. The Colosseum is the central building of this place. After seeing the real Colosseum, director ridley scott thought that the Colosseum used for filming was too small, so the production designer of the film expanded the Colosseum according to the works of British and French romantic painters. The construction of the arena completely followed the original, but due to the limitation of time and space, the crew could not complete a complete full-scale replica, so the architectural team of artistic director arthur max only built the first floor of the original three-story building structure, with a circumference of only one-third of the real thing, and the rest was completed by CGI technology.

Clothing modeling

In order to conform to the characteristics of the times, the dresses and clothes worn by the actors in the film, as well as the modeling of gladiators, all refer to the style of ancient Rome. Connie Nielsen's skirt is almost hand-woven with pure silk. The shoes worn by the actors in the film are all handmade in Rome, and the jewelry worn by the actors is specially made by British jewelers.

Shooting process

In the film, the scene of Maximus leading the troops to fight against the German army was shot in the forest near Farnham, England. The filming of this scene lasted for 4 days. Under the supervision of special effects director Neil Cobod, archers and archers fired 65,438+06,000 flaming arrows and 65,438+00,000 conventional arrows. Because the photographer and camera truck couldn't catch up with the horses rushing down the steep slope and through the forest, the director of photography, John Mathieson, installed the camera on a steel pipe similar to a monorail, so that the camera moving along the terrain could capture the scenes needed for shooting in time.

post production

The jubilant scene of the Colosseum in ancient Rome was made by computer. First, the photographer of the crew filmed the real actions of the extras, and then the personnel of the special effects team copied and distributed their images to the two-dimensional cards of each seat with the computer imaging system, so that the special effects team could make the Colosseum in ancient Rome present a cheering scene.