Sentences with phrase «gladiatorial games»

There are challenges, from a journey through a maze to a hedonistic forest leader with an army of topless women who holds gladiatorial games in which participants must face a hydra manipulated by his hand.

Free from all pretense of constraint by historical fact, the writing team of David Franzoni, John Logan, and William Nicholson crafted a simple but stirring action - adventure yarn cloaked in the pomp of the Roman Empire and the grizzly spectacle of gladiatorial games.

I know that analogy may be a bit of a stretch, but the goal of the two is to manipulate the citizens with fear and desperation, yet mask it all with gladiatorial games like Roman Caesars.

«Miscenius Ampilatus makes [this] in Salonae» reads a baking mold found in modern - day Croatia that was used to make bread or cakes sold during gladiatorial games.

It's almost as if this second chapter to the immensely popular «Hunger Games» franchise is trying to simulate the spectacle of «Ben - Hur,» what with the chariots, arena - based gladiatorial games, and the Roman / Grecian designations (including Octavia, Flavius, Caesar, and Plutarch).

Sam Flynn (Garrett Hedlund), the tech - savvy 27 - year - old son of Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges), looks into his father's disappearance and finds himself pulled into the same world of fierce programs and gladiatorial games where his father has been living for 25 years.

Hiding in a pile of bodies, Milo manages to escape death until he is caught and sold into slavery where he becomes a fan - favourite at the local gladiatorial games and is thus moved to Pompeii's much more extravagant games.

That journey takes him back to Asgard, where we last left Loki (Tom Hiddleston) in charge pretending to be their father, Odin (Anthony Hopkins), and then finally to Sakaar, a new planet where a weird being named the Grandmaster (Jeff Goldblum) holds a very popular gladiatorial game.

And then one comes upon the Colosseum where for over 400 years, from 80 AD, respective Roman Emperors staged their barbaric gladiatorial games to entertain packed houses of 70,000 Roman citizens.

So ingrained were gladiatorial games in Roman culture that senior government officials dug into their own pockets and emptied public purses to stage them.

You'll need to take on opponents in a series of gladiatorial games to win your freedom, save your friends, and maybe, just maybe, make it back to your own world!

The planet is ruled by the Grandmaster who entertains himself and his people with gladiatorial games.

Indeed, we see Augustine employing this notion much earlier in the Confessions; for instance, when he describes how his friend Alypius, as a young man come to Rome to study law, had been captivated by the crude and vicious spectacle of the gladiatorial games.

Whether one considers the cessation of the gladiatorial games in the days of the early church, the ending of savage bestial games in Wilberforce's day, or the banning of dueling in the nineteenth century, Christians have often led the culture in critical analysis of its pastimes.

A hard - drinking mercenary with a troubled past, she was once an Asgardian warrior but now works for The Grandmaster capturing contenders for his gladiatorial games.

A clumsy attempt to stop her ascension results in Thor being pushed out of the Bifrost and crash - landing on the planet Sakaar, where he is promptly captured by a local «recruiter» (Tessa Thompson) and delivered to the Grandmaster (Jeff Goldblum) to fight in gladiatorial games for amusement.

With the exception of the costume design, there's been very little sexing up of the setting to appeal to modern audiences which means the gladiatorial games come complete with all the goofy pageantry.

Author Suzanne Collins has said that her inspirations for The Hunger Games came from a variety of sources, including the ancient Greek myth of Theseus, Roman gladiatorial games, contemporary TV, her father's experiences in the Vietnam War, and news footage of the Iraq War.