Last time, I talked about some of the ways the script for Gladiator (2000) was formed during production on the movie. Today I want to delve even deeper, into the ways in which director Ridley Scott employs subtext in Gladiator to tell a story beneath the dialogue, visually. And then I want to showcase the ingenious ways production managed to bring actor Oliver Reed back from the dead to finish up the narrative, after he tragically passed away three weeks before the end of the shoot.