Sentences with phrase «rise as a gladiator»

Not exact matches

Maximus» incognito return to Rome to fight in the Colosseum (in front of the new emperor, Commodus), his quick rise to fame as the town's winningest warrior, and his big showdown with his old adversary fill the last act of Gladiator — as do a dazzling display of old - time Roman crowd scenes and stadium acts conjured with computerized magic that would have slayed old sandal - movie showmen like William Wyler and Cecil B. DeMille.

Taken just as a list of actors, without considering the actual movies, this would be a pretty plausible roll - call for any year's Best Actor nominations: two prior winners (Crowe for «Gladiator» along with two other nominations, Firth for «The King's Speech» plus a nod for «A Single Man»); one two - time nominee who has bizarrely never won (Fiennes, nommed in support for «Schindler's List» and in the lead for «The English Patient»); a character actor of long - standing reputation and popularity (Turturro); and a rising star whose meteoric ascent to bankable leading man suggests his Oscar is only a matter of when, not if (Hardy).

The ancient Greek Mollossian war dogs gave rise to several tough strains of dogs, including dogs that specialized as gladiators.