So...
...when Antoninus and Spartacus were forced to fight, why didn't Spartacus do what Draba did- attack Crassus directly? Where Draba failed, Spartacus may have succeeded.
shareSpartacus was just inches from certain death and just got his A$$ kicked by Draba. I'm sure there were concussion protocols in place. π«ξ°
Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded. Yogi Berra
No, I mean in the fight at the end of the movie. Instead of killing his friend Antoninus (Tony Curtiss,) why didn't he go for Crassus? He might even had said to Curtiss, "When I give the word, let's rush Crassus together, and take him down!" They might have been killed in the attempt, but it would have been a better death for both of them.
shareWell, in REAL life Spartacus died on the battlefield and all surviving slaves were crucified. The Romans had LOTS of experiences controlling captured prisoners of wars and wouldn't let too many of them near weapons. You just watched a MOVIE ending of the story of Spartacus. ππππ
Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded. Yogi Berra
in real life very little is known about spartacus -- even the ancient historians contradicted each other; one story has it that his body was never found.
besides, this movie is not about the real spartacus, and the studio fully admits it at the end: "the characters and events depicted in this photoplay are fictitious. any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental."
Because Spartacus and Crassus are historic figures and this film wasn't made by Tarantino. They went a little overboard with a Hollywood ending but they weren't going to go that overboard.
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