Gladiator Allusions

It was really interesting to see how much of other movies the movie Gladiator alludes to.  I think the main one would be Spartacus since the story line is almost the same.  Both movies had similar characters and very similar locations.  Some of the characters that I saw resemblances were of Commodus and Nero they are both very interesting complex characters in my opinion and for both of movies were the driving force for me to finish watching these movies because with Quo Vadis I just wanted to see Nero die or some one to humiliate him and tell him how awful his singing was.  With Gladiator I just wanted to see Commodus die because he was so cruel to Maximus and he killed his father in the movie.  It was a real shame that in real life Commodus did not die fighting with The Spaniard.  I felt like when I found out that the story of Jack and Rose from Titanic was not real, it was a sad day for me.  Another character that were very similar was Juba and Draba I thought that they were almost the same character that I was watching except Juba does not die in Gladiator and he actually becomes really good friends with Maximus.  The most important character that had the same characteristics as Spartacus was Maximus.  I thought that I was just watching a much better remake of Spartacus.  Even though they were both very similar I liked Gladiator a lot more than Spartacus.