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Originally Posted by baddog
This is the most misinterpretted hand sign in history.
Thumbs down meant to spare the gladiators life.
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According to Internet Movie Database from the movie "Gladiator", you are wrong (or you maybe right).
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0172495/goofs
"Incorrectly regarded as goofs: There is much debate over the actual gestures used to signal what we now know as "thumbs up"; the only reliable documentation refers to "turning the thumb" without saying which way."