Crowe begins the video interview very positively about “Gladiator,” nevertheless. Whereas he might have had trepidation, he recollects his first time seeing the movie with an enormous crowd and recalling their pleasure, in addition to their outrage when his character was killed on the finish. He knew it was going to be an enormous hit.
However throughout manufacturing, Crowe was not so thrilled. Principally as a result of the screenplay, credited to John Logan, David Franzoni, and William Nicholson, merely wasn’t excellent. He knew he was in a position to headline a serious studio launch, however he acknowledged that the dialogue was horrible. In his phrases:
“I used to be assured about my skills as a number one man. What I wasn’t assured about with ‘Gladiator’ was the world that was surrounding me. On the core of what we had been doing was an important idea however the script, it was garbage, absolute garbage. And it had all these types of unusual sequences.”
He recollects a scene whereby chariot racers had been depicted driving automobiles emblazoned with then-modern product placement logos, like olive oil producers. It might have been correct to the movie’s A.D. 180 timeframe, however Crowe thought it will look too up to date for audiences in 2000. It took Scott to speak Crowe out of abandoning the movie altogether. Crowe mentioned:
“That is all true nevertheless it’s simply not going to ring proper to a contemporary viewers. They are going to go, ‘What the f*** is all this?’ The vitality round what we had been doing was very fractured. I did suppose a pair occasions, ‘Possibly my best choice is simply to get on a aircraft and get out of right here.’ It was my continued conversations with Ridley that kind of gave me religion.”