2014.12.16

Providenci 2022-03-21 09:01:44

For Alexander's description, I have seen the earliest and most classic elaboration in Wells' "World History Outline", which has a complete chapter on the split personality and contradictions that accompanied him from the beginning of his childhood.
This movie was underestimated. It was suppressed too early in the same-sex topic, and the content was somewhat lacking. For example, the stirrups did not exist at that time, so the cavalry had to dismount and fight on foot during combat. The advantage was only in mobility.
In addition, the first time I saw this movie was in 2006, but the first comment was this year. I was a freshman in 2006, and now I have been working for 2 years after my master's degree. I have to sigh that
human nature is so divided, but we don't want to admit it. The film still shines decades later, and within a decade it will be back in the spotlight.

Director Stone has tried his best to restore the history. For example, the Greeks had to slaughter cows and take their internal organs before the battle. The Greek royal family valued yellow and purple. The Macedonian phalanx and equipment tried to restore history as much as possible. The narrative of Ptolemy I. Even the many gay topics in the film were very normal in the Greek world at that time. The description of Darius II is also quite true. Actually, this is more of a historical documentary than a commercial

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Extended Reading
  • Bell 2022-03-21 09:01:44

    I like Hephaistion. Their homosexuality is pure. Little Alexander was so cute.

  • Dennis 2022-01-26 08:17:07

    I don’t have much impression, except for the one who dances

Alexander quotes

  • Old Ptolemy: The truth is never simple and yet it is. The truth is we did kill him. By silence we consented... because we couldn't go on. But by Ares, what did we have to look forward to but to be discarded in the end like Cleitus? After all this time, to give away our wealth to Asian sycophants we despised? Mixing the races? Harmony? Oh, he talked of these things. I never believe in his dream. None of us did. That's the truth of his life. The dreamers exhaust us. They must die before they kill us with their blasted dreams.

  • Alexander: [after Philip's assassination]

    Alexander: How could you behave so shamelessly in public?

    Olympias: Because it was meant to be.

    Alexander: This is not how I wanted to become king!

    Olympias: No one blames you.

    Alexander: They blame me already! Behind my back, in secret!

    Olympias: Slander is not power.

    Alexander: Shame is? Who killed my father? Tell me! Tell me or shall I put you on trial for his murder?

    Olympias: Pausanias.

    Alexander: He had help! Did you help him?

    Olympias: [not convincingly] No. Never. Why? Why would I?