20 Things You Somehow Missed In Gladiator

18. The Germanic Army Used A War Chant From Another Movie

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Before the movie that opens the battle begins, the large Germanic barbarian army are chanting to psyche themselves for the coming fight.

They must have been involved in a cultural exchange at some point, because some of the background noise to this chant is exactly the same as what was used in the 1964 film Zulu, which took place in South Africa in 1879!

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