With such thin stories each week, it’s small wonder that sex and violence are used to take up the slack. So, one gets an episode about Spartacus’ lessons at gladiator school and another episode about his fights in “the pit,” a place brutal enough to make professional wrestling look like ballet. Unlike those efforts, a TV series requires a lot more story. It was retold in 2004 in a USA film starring Goran Visnjic. The story became a book by Howard Fast and then a Stanley Kubrick film in 1960 starring Kirk Douglas. He also was a good enough tactician to organize and lead a slave revolt that took the empire two years to crush. What little is known about the real Spartacus is that he was a Roman slave trained as a gladiator. 'Joy Ride' Director Responds to Critic Claiming the Film "Targets White People"
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