Which came first - Pirates of the Caribbean, or Gladiator?
From one of our website visitors...
This isn't really a question, but an FYI. I have a musical ear and loved the James Bond article. It got me thinking about how often there is a stepwise progression regarding music and the final product.
Experience has taught me NEVER to throw away a musical idea. It can later morph into something phenomenal with the right inspiration.
Case in point: Go to 5:37 - a little past the middle. Sounds familiar?
Now this at 2:21...
And last, the classic up tempo modded version..
Cheers,
Roland
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David Mellor is CEO and Course Director of Audio Masterclass. David has designed courses in audio education and training since 1986 and is the publisher and principal writer of Adventures In Audio.
@chrisfrap: 2025 HERE , The legionaires of SCIPIO AFRICANUUUUUSSS
@danchrisman5778: Hugely based on Holst’s “Mars, the Bringer of War” from about 1:45 to 5:30, when it morphs into what would later become the Pirates of the Caribbean theme for about thirty seconds 😂
@richardque1036: Great sound track,first thing come to my mind was richard wagner.
@scottm8292: 5:37
@MostafaJraif-rl5pi: 5:37 روعة الروعة قمة الإبداع
@dazediss6629: The crack head wobbling down the street with the “Gladiator” music will never get old! 😂
@kamilboinski780: The Best moment starts 4:45 , Genius !
@Em-tf3bd: 3:59 you can literally feel the noise, the heat, the fear, the bloodlust from the crowd as they go out into the arena for the first time.. such amazing music
@jocelioribeiro3467: ❤️🔥👏❤️🔥👏🔥
@АннаНикулина-в8э: Желчекаменная болезнь...
@kylethomas9240: 6:35
@oberstul1941: SINGLE COLUMN! Single column!
@elishawilson5342 replies to @oberstul1941: AS ONE
@MikeJones-qn1gz: A people should know when they have been conquered...
@theobolt250: That demanding voice... shivers. 😉
@enesatas3378: "hazır.. Hazır.. Çok iyi"
@simounobrien9096: 5:51 The moment when one of my favorite lines of the movie came "MAXIMUS!!!"
@thesteministwitch5589: Anyone else getting serious Holst vibes here? This is almost exactly Mars from the Planets.
@theologn: 5:37 "Hello. This is the Dennis Prager Show. I'm Dennis Prager."
@jilailya6642: Meilleure musique de tout les temps.
A chaque fois des frissons , les émotions de ma première de Gladiator. Le 22 mai 2000 , date gravée à jamais.
@aalap1: 5.37 outstanding! Masterpiece! And I can hear Maximus shouting "single column! single column"
@zoxyy.1x replies to @aalap1: How?
@leonelarturo8766: míreme a los ojos oenegés ustedes ganan cantidad de plata Claro que algunas miserias los lo desparraman entre los pobres eso es verdad Pero mayormente se hacen ricos las cosas claras quieres un poco de idea desgraciados ahora Mire mi demonios Irene por qué no hacen convenios con los gobiernos para que cuando se le quite una casa una Hacienda una mansión o lotes grandes barcos Yo qué sé tantas cosas se le quitan a los corruptos eso podría ser utilizado como albergues asilos comedores populares hospedajes para los mendigos o sea en vez de que el gobierno esté vendiendo y después la plata repartiendo entre sus corruptos que llegue a una ong pero no para el dueño de la ong sino simplemente afuera se le pondrá esto pertenece al pueblo con documento incluso incluido no al dueño de la ong no para el pueblo esta casa pertenece a los mendigos esta casa pertenece a los asilados a los a las viudas Yo qué sé tantas cosas y con documento escrito así podrían hacer un montón de cosas y tener este establecimiento locales y casa aparatos esta pobre gente hay que usar la cabeza y la tortas insectos humanos que no son dignos de mi
@CCJJ160Channels: 4:37 - “DIAMOND! DIAMOND!”
@bradgrady7497: The part at 5:37 is what won the awards I feel. The rest is almost exactly like Mars: Bringer of War.
@alexojideagu replies to @bradgrady7497: The Holst foundation sued Zimmer
@NicQuattromani replies to @bradgrady7497: "Vaguely similar tune with similar instruments" =/= "Almost exactly like Holst's Mars."
People keep saying Hans Zimmer copied Holst, and I'm just not seeing it. Same with some of the original Star Wars soundtrack.
@mothfur3374: 5:33 personal use
@charlietheanteater3918: #Piratesofthecoliseum
5:37
@PoloSud-Est: My history is a little hazy Cassius, but shouldn't the barbarians lose the battle of Carthage?
@wolfschanzemusikundvideo6455: Normies come for 5:37. I came for 2:53 - 4:22
@julzyboy8960 replies to @wolfschanzemusikundvideo6455: Lol Exactly! Thank you.
@themarvelousjoe1501: I came here for 2:54
@andrewberrocal2281: 5:56 Comudus: Ohhhhhhhhh
@gabrielmolina8880 replies to @andrewberrocal2281: Andrew&Olga haha 😆
@davidperezzarate1559: An important influence of Gustav Holst from the planets, Mars the bringer of war
@f2tzeyrox389: Epic music
@f2tzeyrox389 replies to @f2tzeyrox389: Nique
@Ferruccio_Guicciardi: "You can help me. Whatever comes out of these gates, we have a better chance of survival if we work together. Do you understand? We stay together, we survive". - Maximus
@elishawilson1429 replies to @Ferruccio_Guicciardi: AS ONE
@lekorrigan4487: Un chef d'oeuvre musical !!!
@koprolity2172: idacy na smierc pozdrawiaja cie. innymi slowy, masz wpierdol
@Perkelenaattori: "The legionnaires of Scipio Africaaaanuuuus!"
@gabrielmolina8880 replies to @Perkelenaattori: Perkelenaattori the way u spelled it looks like Africa anus
@soulreaper5510 replies to @Perkelenaattori: @@gabrielmolina8880 thats how it was spelled africanus
@TheLaship: 2:54 Gustav Holst anyone ?
@themarvelousjoe1501 replies to @TheLaship: Bringer of War
@alexojideagu replies to @TheLaship: The Holst foundation sued Zimmer
@edforc3769: ROMA VICTOR
@sherifsaad7540: قدمنا لنسف ارضكم أرضا وشعبا فى كل مكان ولننظر الترك
@sherifsaad7540: أوذى موسى وداود وعيسى وطمس الله على زينتكم وطوينا الكتب من بعد مافدى ميكائيل شريف بن نفيسة روح مريم من روح جبرائيل روح ميكائيل فدتهم الملائكة وفداهم شيوخ وملوك الجن ومالايحصى من الجنود والارواح
@solarsnake: The best part is when he leaves the arena and the other gladiators start chanting his name. The general gave them a fighting chance and they won.
@charlesatkins5413: It’s the Dennis Prager show!
@quantummath replies to @charlesatkins5413: :)))
@Hero101010: This was inspired by Holst's Mars. There's no denying it
@solmithras7527: I like the nod to Gustav Holst's Mars before moving on to his usual tunes.
@nikolaykoryagin368: Охренительная Музыка...Здоровья Ханцу Циммеру
@thodorisiasonidis7230: Amazing soundtrack, one of the best of all time, but this song of it, it is my favorite, amazing composition! Always good to hear it : )
@JIMHENDERSON1: My history is a little hazy but shouldn't the barbarians LOSE the Battle of Carthage?
@killuminatii1: 5:37 almost jumped off my chair to attack something..
@porschedemon1 replies to @killuminatii1: absolutely! I would run through a wall for Maximus at this moment.
@giorgiocarera9266 replies to @killuminatii1: @@porschedemon1 ueeieuefueeu
@pacojriv1231 replies to @killuminatii1: Same feeling
@94Tremolo: 60 people didn't perform the single column formation!
@MASSEFFECTfan101: "THE BARBARIAN..HORDE!!"
@serlaws: 6:33 - 7:00 Tom Brady on final play of an epic comeback to beat the Atlanta Falcons 7:05 Tom Brady get trophy from Roger Goodell
@drking6521: 17 anos atrás e ainda consegue tirar arrepios!
@Raider8784: This is the music you play on Black Friday as a retail employee
@lyndseyboulton1445: X RB
@vedranmazuranmarjanovic8285: 5:37.....epic
@AlChi29125 replies to @vedranmazuranmarjanovic8285: Commodus: "Woo~hoo"
@cecilieh.h.nielsen5861: 9:17😻
@sviatiborofficial: This just brings tears to my eyes.
@chrisfrap replies to @sviatiborofficial: only men understand this music aura of the bloody battles {dont want to sound cringe}
@incantouk6504: Well, i'll look again Gladiator tonight.
It was only the 28th time so it's not a problem:-)
@Espelocin104: um dos melhores filmes que já vi na vida....
@lleoux replies to @Espelocin104: O MELHOR FIL ME DE TODOS
@drking6521 replies to @Espelocin104: Ele está dentre os meus melhores, o conde de monte cristo, gladiador, o ultimo dos moicanos e três homens em conflito.
@Boifeicasempre: I don't know why they always put emperor Commodus has the last emperor, in movies, like if it was a change back to the old republic. It never happened, Commodus got killed, and they elected another emperor to succed him, Septimius Severus, who ruled 18 years until his death. Roman empire never ceased to have emperors until its fall in 476 (at the West), and 1453 (at its eastern part). They did it at the 60's movie "The fall of the Roman empire", with Christopher Plummer doing Commodus, and they did it in this movie. By the way, Commodus is always pictured has a psicopatic lunatic, like Nero, and he wasn't, yes he was mad but he wasn't psico, he was just an incompetent emperor. In this movie they put him killing his father to be emperor, because his father will not appoint him has his successor. In realityCommodus never wanted to be emperor, it was Marcus Aurelius who wanted his son to be his sucessor, and the senate who pressed him to be emperor, he didn't want it because he knew he had no competence to be emperor. Hollywood always being inacurate.
@unlogik1 replies to @Boifeicasempre: Boifeicasempre get a life. its a movie
@Boifeicasempre replies to @Boifeicasempre: Jori Rucinski Lol, it's just a commet, don't get offended biatch!!!!!!!!!!
@realitycheckineffect replies to @Boifeicasempre: Thanks for the historical info. appreciated. Nevermind that dingleberry. He probably doesn't care about facts, just wants to be entertained.
@akarchannel1891 replies to @Boifeicasempre: i agree with u. hollywood loves to change our history facts.
@henriducard2946 replies to @Boifeicasempre: Commodus fits well into the story, because of his infamous gladiator endeavors so they borrowed him and his father the wise Marcus Aurelius. It's not supposed to be a documentary.
@Senbaek: Guys, you gotta admit, best part's 9:17. The thrills, the motivation, the power, the freedom!!!! WE ARE GONNA STAND OUR STEP TONIGHT, FOR WE WON'T SURRENDER! WE FIGHT FOR THE ONE ON OUR LEFT, FOR THE ONE ON OUR RIGHT, FOR OUR COUNTRY, OUR FAMILIES, FOR GLORY AND HISTORY, TONIGHT WE DINE IN HELL!!!
@SandorDaroci: epic, best film ever !!!
@_Phantasy_: 5:37-6:04 AWESOME AND AMAZING!!
@AdamNorse: You misspelled the title of the video friend.
@quantummath replies to @AdamNorse: Thanks a lot Adam, just corrected it, I can't believe that after two years, this is the first time someone has mentioned that!
all the best
AMG
Adam Åberg
@quantummath replies to @AdamNorse: :)))) lol
Julius CaesarII
@quantummath replies to @AdamNorse: av jag ska säga .... tack så mycket för din kommentar!
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@kevinjohnson7197: We mere mortals are but shadows and dust
@TecHipRock: Simba vs. Oscar soundtrack sounds very familiar with the middle of this song. :D
Hans Zimmer's signature is written in all of his music. Lol
@KONNEENNMANOFFERMOY: ..the music complements the film,that's as it should be.A great movie with a great musical score.Thanks for sharing.
@TheDirtysouthfan: A couple things bothered me about the movie, but the worst one is what bothers me about nearly all media portrayals of Rome namely the British accents. They should at least be speaking with Italian accents, the ancestors of the modern British at the time were the enemies of Rome and hell they were killing them in the beginning. It's a remnant of the olden days of theater. In Shakespeare's time when they performed Caesar they would not dress up in clothes that Romans would wear but rather what contemporary British aristocrats would wear. The actor playing Caeser would resemble Henry the 8th more than he would Caeser. As people became educated they knew that wasn't true but the accents remain. It just makes me feel like the British are trying to claim some ancestry from the Romans. To me it's stupid, it's like having a WWII film and having Churchill speak in a German accent.
@unlogik1 replies to @TheDirtysouthfan: its not a documentary, so go look for you historical correctness somewhere else
@antred11 replies to @TheDirtysouthfan: Nonsense. Italian accents would have been the height of ridiculousness. A relatively neutral British accent is definitely the most sensible choice, unless they were going to outright have all the dialog in Latin ... but then few of us would be able to understand anything without subtitles.
@SkipperPlaysTW replies to @TheDirtysouthfan: The only reason British (Southern English to be precise) accents play in the majority of historical contextual films is purely because it is considered to be a neutral accent compared to the rest of the English speaking world (this can of course be debated but it is the most widely accepted accent in the language as neutral) and thus it makes it easier to understand what the people are saying to an English speaking audience.
@SkipperPlaysTW replies to @TheDirtysouthfan: Oh and another point you make: "the ancestors of the modern British at the time" that in itself shows the naivety of your comment. Modern British citizens range from a whole variety of ethnicity and background. Some people living in Britain today have ancestors who trace back to the Romans, others the Saxons (not from Britain until the dark ages) and Normans (who were vikings beforehand) and since then large groups of people have migrated in over the years. In fact, in England at least, a very, very, very small percentage of people hail ancestry to the Iceni, Celts, Druids or Gallic tribes.
@cyqry replies to @TheDirtysouthfan: SkipperPlaysTW I think by "modern British at the time", he meant the Britons at the time the movie is set. Using the word "modern" was a bad choice. That said, the Britons of the time would have had the same accent that Modern Britons have, they'd be closer to the Germanic tribes you heard in the very beginning of the film... both in accent and behaviour.
You're right though, every "British" person can trace their lineage back to tonnes of different nations, its also interesting to note that this is how the "English" language was formed as well. In chronological order, it would probably be something along the lines of:
-Celts (our base)
-Romans (conquest and occupation)
-Celts/Romans would interbreed for some time, creating a Celt-Roman crossbreed.
-Saxons and Vikings (Germans and Scandanavians respectively) would invade from both the South/East and North at around the same time (hence the diversity between North/South cultures/languages).
-Then 1066 we would gain our French influences. The Normans would invade from the south, further dividing the cultures. You could say that these were Roman-based but centuries have passed and they've developed their own culture and language.
Our culture is literally just a giant mixing pot of Latins, Germans, Scandanavians, Celts and Frenchmen.
@lazonafantasma5527: 5:53 se párese al de piratas del caribe
@mirfalltkeinnameein3425: you can hear that hans zimmer also compoosed the pirates of the carribean music
@TheAngryHippie replies to @mirfalltkeinnameein3425: HES A PIRATE. NO HES DOCKING.
@CGIadviser replies to @mirfalltkeinnameein3425: @@TheAngryHippie "what are you doing?"
@Invinciblez18: 10:14...MAXIMUS MAXIMUS MAXIMUS
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@HastoMedia: Take a look at my channel HASTOMEDIA to listen to my song SURVIVE in respect to this wonderful film music.
@HastoMedia: I like the movie and especially the music very much.
@johnathanlannister8516: few movies like this one
@longof99: 5:37
@jameswanantony replies to @longof99: you dam right!
@longof99 replies to @longof99: AR .modelmakers YES, AR!
@_Phantasy_ replies to @longof99: Can't stop listening to this amazing piece :-)
@longof99 replies to @longof99: AR .modelmakers made it my ringtone
@cecilieh.h.nielsen5861 replies to @longof99: Yass
@reithay: depois dessa..., fui até malhar!
@truthseeker508: yeh British are still here
@TheKrazyk2010: 9:18-end, i teared up
@cheungyh96: I come for 9:17
@BruceWayne-ki9qx: NO! ITS NOT! 9:20 is
@Tobbo2: Maximus Maximus Maximus Maximus Maximus Maximus Maximus!
@elliotademe5827: xD at the pic around 6:40 I can't stop hearing a voice in my head saying, ''Jedi powers'' ;) Yet still epic hehe, thanks for uploading mate. I Appreciate it.
@TheMexican1821: You bet :D!!!!!!!!
@ThePeopleneedhelp: I WILL HAVE MY REVENGE ..In this life or the next :0
@chrisving91: Agreed... A strong part itself. Guess Hans Zimmer understood this when he made the theme song for The Pirates of the Caribbean! Funny how composers use their ideas several times.
@theobolt250 replies to @chrisving91: Aha! You noticed it to. Half and half I expect Jack Sparrow to prop up in order to parley with the troops of Africanus. 😄