#brooo your gifs are always mind boggling to me
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and I just think it’s important that Maximus, a man distinctly of the earth and soil and dust, a man strongly connected with the ground and everything related to it, is introduced by watching a bird — a creature of the sky and air. the bird flies away, which symbolizes that a part of Maximus is always far away, always longing to to be with his family. and I think it foreshadows his death somehow in the way his soul is ultimately not of this world, but the next. and I just have a lot of feelings about that
Gladiator (2000)
#i am bewitched obsessed spellbound awestruck#now THIS is how you introduce a character#forever obsessed with this opening scene#ridley and russell were insane for this#maximus?? deadly fighter and fearsome general???#he’s birdwatching#dreaming of his son’s laugh and his wife’s hair#he is so beautiful here#every day i look at his face and wonder how one person can be so perfect#the lighting here is incredible as well#the way it catches in his hair and beard and cape while his face is slightly shaded#the sheer intensity of his gaze?#the piercing eyes and steady expression?#the hint of a smile when the bird flies off because a piece of his soul goes with it?#yeah sort of losing my mind over this#brooo your gifs are always mind boggling to me#they are true works of art#and maximus is the ultimate subject#what a stunning and captivating man#the one love of my heart and the one fire of my desire#eternally burning for him and also weeping for him#yearning longing aching desiring pining and wasting away#gladiator
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