hannahe.43999
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This script is simply beautiful. One day, I hope that Mr. Franzoni will see my work and use it - with the hopeful perks of gaining another Academy Award for Best Picture.

I don't think he needs to do more historical events or remakes of movies that have been made a million times (Robin Hood and King Arthur are good examples. There are only a million of those two movies hanging around - in cartoon form as well.) You can only remake a movie so many times before people just stop watching the new ones all together due to knowing what is bound to happen. I think what he is in need of doing is changing things up entirely.

Making historical events come to life is mesmerizing and it does hold a certain beauty at its core for those that love history (such as myself). With Gladiator, there was nothing to base this movie off of (no legends, no prior movies made, no books written about it - nothing.) and he had to create the characters himself, add in the fact that gladiators did exist, and make everything from scratch.

When a script that you have personally made (with the help of a few others) is brought to life in front of your very eyes, it has the ability to touch the hearts of the audience in a way that no remake of a movie possibly could ever do. The struggles of a man that is not only out for revenge, but is wanting to get home - but he is purely fiction... that is when you catch the audience's attention.

He needs to go back and rewatch his own creation of Gladiator to strike a flame inside of him to regain that true passion that has not already been written by another.

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