God? people?

Yasmeen 2022-04-22 07:01:14

After reading it, I looked through the comments and found out that there are two versions of this film, and the one I watched was the director's extended version, which lasted three and a half hours. I feel that the story is very procrastinated... All kinds of wonderful pictures have been reduced to footnotes of historical stories. I'm a little curious what the cinema version is like?
All that is known about Alexander the Great is his legendary life, military talent, and the super empire he built. But the film did not show his talents in military, political, and governing. Rather, he emphasized that he was a melancholy, lifelong guilt-ridden, slightly morbid mortal. Perhaps as a mortal close to a god, two thousand years later, he is now a god. So, when I was making a movie, I couldn't help but want to show the side of others... What else should I say? Continue to perfect a fairy tale? Digression, it seems that the gods created by history like to knock down the altar and show their human side... Meiyue, dig out the true side of human nature... I wonder if this is the best choice?

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Extended Reading
  • Sylvan 2022-03-24 09:01:40

    final cut version, 214min. The war scenes are very awesome, and the costumes, art, and music are exquisite.

  • Laury 2022-03-24 09:01:40

    In the sequence of Stone's works, this one is really not good

Alexander quotes

  • Philotas: [during the battle of Gaugamela] Alexander! My father's lost! They've overrun the flanks, they're into the baggage trains!

    Hephaistion: Parmenion's crumbling!

    Ptolemy: Alexander, if you chase him you risk losing your army here!

    Alexander: And if we capture him we gain an empire!

    [yelling after Darius]

    Alexander: You can run till the ends of the earth, you coward! But you'll never run far enough!

  • Young Alexander: [trying to break in a horse Phillip has said could not be ridden] You don't like your shadow, do you? It's like a dark spirit coming up to get you. But you see? That's us. It's just a trick of Apollo, the god of sun. Shh. I'll show you how to outwit him. You and me, together. Shh. Bucephalus, that'll what I'll call you. Strong and stubborn. Bucephalus and Alexander. Come, now, let's ride together.