| Aries Walker |
08-28-2012 01:51 AM |
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Originally Posted by Fairplay
(Post 8858521)
Back in the day when the Roman Coliseum was the place to see and be seen those Romans would put everything from lions, tigers, leopards, elephants, hippos and rhinos in the ring with the Gladiators.
Could you imagine the poor sap going against any one of them? Take your pick, doesn't matter much, your time on earth will be measured in seconds now. Not days and years. My goodness that would be brutal.
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Well, technically they weren't gladiators if they went against animals - they were either outright sacrifices, or what they called bestiarii, pit fighters specialized in fighting animals. Gladiators just fought each other. I know; nitpick, nitpick, nitpick.
There was supposed to be a Maximus vs. a rhino scene in Gladiator, but they cut it because I suppose it was one fight too many. They storyboarded it, though, and those show up on the DVD. It would have been sweet; I think he defeated it by having it get its horn stuck in the wooden wall. They also had a throwing-the-Christians-to-the-lions scene, which they actually shot, but then they cut it because they said the lions looked too listless and bored. |
I learned some stuff about hippos today
(https://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?t=262895)