What a pity: Gladiator 2 was released digitally just a few weeks ago, and history buffs are already tired of breaking spears over it. And it’s not the fighting sharks in the Colosseum, not the armored rhinoceros, or even the blatant historical reinterpretation of the characters that are to blame. Who would have thought that the main “villain” of Ridley Scott’s film would be an ordinary vegetable.
Imagine: the 3rd century AD, the sun gently illuminates the Mediterranean coast, the breeze rustles the bay leaves, and Paul Mescal’s character walks between the pumpkin patches.
“The third century AD. Pumpkins are grown on the Mediterranean coast. The same pumpkin that Spanish colonists first brought from Mexico in the 16th century. Gladiator 2 was a failure from the very first minute of viewing,” lament experts online.
The creators of Gladiator 2 seem to want to spice up the antique atmosphere with Halloween notes.
This historical incident "blew up" the Internet.
"Gladiator 2 was a failure from the very first minute of viewing," historians complain, turning off the film faster than Jugurtha was captured by the Romans (and this, by the way, happened 300 years before the events of the film!).
After this, other absurdities of the film no longer cause such indignation. For example, the scene where sharks "walk" around the flooded Colosseum, and Roman legionnaires for some reason encase a fighting rhinoceros in armor, was perceived by viewers with humor. But the pumpkin... the pumpkin was the first and last straw.
We can only hope that the third part will not begin with Lucius, sitting on the balcony of the palace, sipping pumpkin latte.
