SOLDIER : Drop your weapons. Gladiator the Emperor has asked for you.
MAXIMUS : I’m at the Emperor (1) service.
EMPEROR : Rise, rise. Your fame is well (2) deserved, Spaniard. I don’t think there’s ever been a gladiator to match you. As for this young man, he insists that you’re Hector (3) reborn. Or was it Hercules ? Why doesn’t the hero (4) reveal himself and tell us all your real name ? You do have a name.
MAXIMUS : My name’s Gladiator.
EMPEROR : How dare you show your (5) back to me ? Slave ! You will remove your (6) helmet and tell me your name.
MAXIMUS : My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, (7) commander of the armies of the north, general of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true Emperor, Marcus Aurelius, father to a (8) murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. I will have my (9) vengeance in this life or the next.
SOLDIER : Arms!

CROWD : Live ! Live ! Live ! Live ! Live ! Live!