Are You Not Entertained?

here's something weird that I remembered about myself yesterday. because, you know, there's never enough weird things about me as is. always got to be more...

back when gladiator came out, i couldn't quite wrap my mind around it. for some reason, i thought that all movies were only ever about the present time. or, at the utmost most, movies could only be based in a time that could still be faked thanks to buildings or settings that were still around - like the patriot, which also came out that year. but there was no way in my mind that a movie could be based in a time as long ago as the height of the roman empire - i thought that if anything gladiator had to be some sort of weird movie about a man who thought he was a gladiator and was trying to recreate roman times in the present.

i didn't actually see gladiator until a long time later, and then when i finally did it just blew my mind. s'probably why it's one of my favourite movies now...