braveheart.
gladiator leached off braveheart: the murder of their wives (and son), their peaceful lives uprooted, heroic revenge upon their malefactors, the beckoning hereafter, mystical
allusions to eternal peace upon death, the reunion with their wives in heaven.
all these themes appeard first in braveheart and were then lifted with little modification for gladiator. gladiator added a son, a finer pedigree, greater
material wealth, and a few more trifling details.