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The filming took 94 days.
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The crew initially hoped to film scenes of human and elephant fighting in India, but the elephants in India lacked good training, so they had to switch to Thailand.
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Colin Farrell broke his arm and injured his ankle during filming.
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Val Kilmer gained 50 pounds for the film, and it took 1 hour to put on makeup every day.
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Brad Pitt was the original candidate to play, but he refused because of concerns about the role.
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The first person to play Philip was Sean Connery.
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Heath Ledger was also considered to play Alexander the Great.
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The accent of the Macedonian soldiers in the film does not match that of the Greeks, because historically these Macedonians came from remote hill tribes, so they have a Celtic accent in the film, which is of course similar to that of Aristotle and other fine Greeks. People's British accents are very different, but many people don't understand that this is a deliberate design.
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In the Battle of Gaugamela, the Persian army wore black uniforms, but in fact it should be yellow and light purple.
Alexander behind the scenes gags
2022-01-26 08:17
Extended Reading
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[first lines]
Old Ptolemy: Our world is gone now. Smashed by the wars. Now I am the keeper of his body, embalmed here in the Egyptian ways. I followed him as Pharaoh, and have now ruled 40 years. I am the victor. But what does it all mean when there is not one left to remember - the great cavalry charge at Gaugamela, or the mountains of the Hindu Kush when we crossed a 100,000-man army into India? He was a god, Cadmos. Or as close as anything I've ever seen.
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Old Ptolemy: All men reach and fall...
[takes sand in his hand and lets it slip through his fingers]
Old Ptolemy: reach and fall...