Pale - Lucilla and Taka (Gladiator & The Last Samurai)

A tribute to two, magnificently-portrayed women from two of my favourite films: The Last Samurai and Gladiator. The song is “Pale“ by Within Temptation. Lucilla (Connie Nielson) is the sister of the ruthless Emperor Commodus (Pheonix) and strained heroine struggling with her love for Maximus (Crowe) in Ridley Scott’s “GLADIATOR“. Taka (Koyuki) is the wife of a fallen samurai warrior that Nathan Algren (Cruise) killed in self-defense during battle, and she struggles with her own emotions as the American ca