American Rhetoric: Movie Speech from Gladiator - Proximo Addresses his Gladiators for the First Time

American Rhetoric: Movie Speech

"Gladiator" (2000)

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Proximo Addresses his New Crop of Gladiators

I am Proximo.

I shall be closer to you for the next few days -- which will be the last of your miserable lives -- than that bitch of a mother that brought you screaming into this world.

I did not pay good money for you for your company!

I paid it so that I could profit from your death.

And as your mother was there at your beginning,

so I shall be be there at your end.

And when you die

-- and die you shall! --

your transition shall be to

the sound of [clapping]

Gladiators:

I salute you.

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