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 Maximus... Maximus... Maximus...
 They call for you.
 The general who became a slave.
 The slave who became a gladiator.
 The gladiator who defied an emperor.
 striking story.
 Now the people want to know how the story ends.
 Only a famous death will do.
 And what could be more glorious... than to challenge the Emperor himself in the great arena?

 [ Maximus ]
 You would fight me?

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 Why not?
 Do you think I'm afraid?

 [ Maximus ]
 I think you have been afraid all your life.

 [bad word] ]
 Unlike Maximus the Invincible, who knows no fear?

 [ Maximus ]
 I knew a man who once said,
 "Death smiles at us all.
 All a man can do is smile back."

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 I wonder... did your friend smile at his own death?

 [ Maximus ]
 You must know.
 He was your father.