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Have you ever heard someone’s name and thought to yourself, “now that’s a name!” It was a name so powerful that no matter how hard you tried you couldn’t get rid of the name. I am drawn to a movie from the early turn of the millennium that won multiple Academy Awards including best picture and best actor; the movie in question is Gladiator. The main character is played by Russell Crowe the star of the recent controversial film Noah. In the movie Crowe’s character is certainly a man to look up to and a man who indeed has a powerful name; his name is Maximus. I am assuming considering the age of the movie most of you are familiar with the plot line so I’m not worried about having to post a spoiler alert. Maximus served the Roman Empire as a general of the armies of the North. The murderous new Caesar Commodus sends Maximus away to be killed because of his knowledge of Commodus’ evil deed in killing his own father. After narrowly escaping death at the hands