Where are the movies depicting Black classical cultures? The movie-viewing public is actually short changed when the full history of the world is left out. Denzel Washington is certainly a draw in the current Gladiator II movie. He's such a good actor that his current arms-dealer, impresario role is unsettling, I'm told. But of course Denzel is so talented he'd redeem his good-guy image in the character of the greatest pharaoh of them all, Ramses the Great (also known as Ramses II).