a white guy with an Australian accent is a Spaniard?
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npanou — 11 years ago(August 29, 2014 08:22 PM)
Exactly, this film is set a thousand years before the Muslims invaded and did enough beep to dilute the bloodline. Not sayign any one race is superior or anything like that, but regardless, i could buy Crowe as a modern Spaniard easily, even more so as an ancient one.
It's terrifying how many people get confused between Hispanics and Spaniards.
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doowopfan — 12 years ago(March 07, 2014 02:50 PM)
I'll agree to an extent. Like Inigo Montoya being a Spaniard but not looking Spanish in The Princess Bride. He at least sounded the part. Russel Crowe didn't even try, looks or sounds.
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ecuelles — 11 years ago(May 04, 2014 04:46 AM)
Well the fact they called him "Spaniard" is not even correct because Spain as it is didn't even exist yet, nor did they speak Spanish as they do now.so Russel Crowe didn't need to speak with a Spanish accent..it would have been silly really. If they would have chosen Antonio Banderas it wouldn't have worked because he is obvious modern Spanish. I think Russel Crowe did a great job portraying a Roman originating from a Roman province that now is Spain. By the waynot all Spanish are dark haired Latin lovers.they actually are and probably were quite diverse and can range from the typical dark-haired type to blond haired and everything in between.
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treach33 — 11 years ago(August 29, 2014 01:28 PM)
Like Inigo Montoya being a Spaniard but not looking Spanish in The Princess Bride. He at least sounded the part.
Spaniard- "I don't think that word is what you think it means", Inigo Montoya
~What if this is as good as it gets?!~
- "I don't think that word is what you think it means", Inigo Montoya
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Kalustratus — 12 years ago(March 09, 2014 01:12 PM)
I think the Spanish you and many people are talking about on this thread were the people that interbred with the Moors after their conquest of Spain which began in the year 712AD. These dark skinned Spaniards didn't exist at the time Gladiator is set so I don't see a problem with RC playing a lighter skinned Spaniard.
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Kalustratus — 12 years ago(March 09, 2014 08:14 PM)
To be honest with most of the characters in this movie having English accents I don't think Russle's mild Aussie twang was a problem. Lucilla and Juba seemed to have the most authentic accents out of everyone and do we even know what Spaniards sounded like in that period? Visigoths ruled before the Moors and before them it was Vandals and Suebi, all these bar the moors were Germanic tribes.
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martinusx — 12 years ago(March 11, 2014 03:28 AM)
I think the accent doesn't realy matter in this case. He should have spoken Latin with the then common accent in Spain. If you speak English then an accent doesn't matter. And besides, Maximus talking like "You, seor Emperore, areh aaaa wizze man-e' would ruin it me thinks
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Shade2 — 11 years ago(May 28, 2014 07:29 AM)
During this time, as someone else has pointed out, the darker skinned Moors were several centuries away from invading, and the Romans had well established colonies in Hispania at the time Gladiator is set. The Emperor Hadrian famously came from one such colony in Spain and was ridiculed for his accent.
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Cult_of_Kibner — 11 years ago(July 30, 2014 10:04 PM)
That explains the skin tone. What about the accent?
The accent means nothing. You might as well ask why he's speaking English.
And could they have just made Maximus something else?
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irishaspaddyspig — 12 years ago(March 17, 2014 01:42 PM)
The native Spanish are mix of Mediterranean and Nordic.Caucasian.
'"White" refers to people having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa."
US Census 2000
There are 4 basic races:
Caucasoid
Mongoloid
Negroid
Australoid
Read this
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/list-of-human-races.html
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fbplayer1064 — 11 years ago(April 12, 2014 04:45 PM)
I'll never understand why people think people from Spain look like Mexicans or South Americans. The people from Central and South American are dark because the natives that the Europeans mated with were darker people. I've lived in Spain. They are white peopleIf you want to know what people of this time looked like take a look at people who live in Aragon, gasp! they are white
Also there is nobody on the planet that speaks Latin natively anymore so we have no idea about their accents.