Christopher Nolan revealed his favorite movie of 2024 is Ridley Scott’S Gladiator II. While I enjoyed the film, it didn’t make my top 10 favorite films of the year.
Nolan shared his insights with Variety writing the following:
“In Ridley Scott’s first GladiatorMassimo asks us: “Didn’t you have fun?” and we confront the truth about why we will visit the Colosseum through a film. Scott knows we’re not there to delve into Roman culture; we are there to see our dark desires from a comfortable distance.
“But he is too experienced a director to be caught drawing parallels with our time. Let the world of Gladiator II speak for itself, showing us once again who we are by simply inviting us to enjoy the crazy inflationary ride.
“Why are there sharks in the Colosseum? Because we demand them, and Scott gives them to us masterfully. As it reveals how games are used to manipulate public opinion, we can’t help but see the shadows of our public arena cast on the sand.
“Like the best long-awaited sequels, Gladiator II it has to be a remake and a sequel at the same time, and it’s a testament to Scott’s brilliance that he manages to balance the individual pathos of the original with the expansionist demands of the sequel’s central theme, bringing with him a lifetime of experience in control of the tone.
“Scott raises the bar with his action staging: his incredible, multi-camera, hyper-attentive staging (so different from the original) masterfully transforms the action into clear, stunning sequence after sequence.
“The effect is not just to entertain, but to guide us towards awareness of the film’s themes. Few directors have ever worked so invisibly on multiple levels. In the films of Blade Runner TO Thelma and Louise TO Gladiator IIthe visual density of Scott’s art serves as a foil to its underlying thematic clarity.
“For all his success, Scott’s contribution to the evolution of cinematic storytelling has never been adequately recognized. The visual innovations that he and his fellow directors from 1970s British adland brought to cinema were often dismissed as superficial, but critics of the time missed the point: the sumptuous cinematography and meticulous design brought new depth to the language visual of films, at the mise-en. -scene that could tell us what the worlds they represent could be like.
“This has never been clearer than in the masterful opening shot of Gladiator IIwhere Paul Mescal’s hand gently cradles the wheat harvested from the swaying corn of the original film.
What did you think about? Gladiator II!? Is this one of your favorite films of the year?
by Joey Paur
Source: Geek Tyrant
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