Although Gladiator I and II have made over $900 million combined, Russell Crowe said that the sequel film “failed” to ignite audiences in the same way as the original, because it lacked a “moral core,” according to Deadline.
In a recent interview at the Taormina Film Festival, Crowe recalled that he kept pushing back as the studio tried to give sex scenes to his character, Maximus, in the first film. However, Crowe didn’t think it would work for the story.
"This is a story about a man who’s avenging the death of his wife and his child,” Crowe said. “There cannot be a moment on that journey where he stops and has sex with somebody. It doesn’t make any sense… that destroys the journey.”
Crowe said that they kept sending him letters, but he stuck to his “guns.” They agreed that this was “the moral core of the film.”
“On the surface, Gladiator is a movie for men, but if it was a movie for men, it would be about revenge,” Crowe said. “But it’s not about revenge. It’s a movie for women because it’s about vengeance, and this is a subtle difference, but it is a difference. I needed the character to stay on that track.”
“So for them, in a second movie to destroy that moral center, it’s very interesting because the second movie barely took the same box office that the first movie took but that’s 20 years later, and when you apply how much of a change there’s been on the value of a dollar, they failed, and they failed because they didn’t understand why it was successful, because it had a moral core,” Crowe continued.
Crowe spoke at the Taormina Film Festival to receive the International Achievement Award. His new action thriller, Bear Country, also premiered at the festival, which stars Crowe as a nightclub owner. It was adapted from the 2010 Thomas Perry novel Strip and is set for international release on August 26.
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