Gladiator
Date: May 5, 2000
This Movie is sampled in What More Can I Say performed by Jay-Z
The intro has a sampled monologue by Russell Crowe from the film Gladiator.
Gladiator is about the loyal General Maximus Decimus Meridius, who is betrayed when the Emperor's ambitious son, Commodus, murders his father and seizes the throne. Reduced to slavery, Maximus rises through the ranks of the gladiatorial arena to avenge the murder of his family and his Emperor.