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Centurion 2 film12/23/2023 ![]() There he is tortured and interrogated by the Pict King Gorlacon ( Ulrich Thomsen) for information on Roman troop movements ( Centurion 10:05-11:46). Dias, meanwhile had been taken to a Pict village. The unprepared legionaries were massacred, save for Centurion Dias ( Centurion 3:58-6:50).Īround this time, the general of the Legio IX Hispania stationed at York, Titus Flavius Virilus ( Dominic West), receives a dispatch from Governor Julius Agricola ( Paul Freeman) ordering the 9th Legion to prepare for war ( Centurion 6:51-10:02). Centurion Quintus Dias ( Michael Fassbender) was stationed at the Roman outpost of Inch-Tuth-Il, located in modern Scotland, when a Pict war-band attacked the outpost under the cover of darkness. The story is told in retrospect by the main character and opens with his narration, “My name is Quintus Dias, I am a soldier of Rome, and this is neither the beginning nor the end of my story,” before flashing back two weeks ( Centurion 3:00-3:57). Slowly it focuses on a lone figure running for his life, stumbling along the snowy mountaintop. The film opens a harsh and foreboding landscape of crags and ice-covered valleys. It is in this harsh climate that the movie Centurion(2010) is set. Rome’s frontiers were hotbeds of uprisings and rebellions that could only be snuffed out by the full might of the Roman military. In AD 117, Rome controlled most of the known world, but it could not control everything.
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