O'r da fekken Elysian fields lads, O'r da fekken plane of death and loife and on dear Erie will ya go wit me to fekken India and help me stomp dees fekken gypos into dust so I can take dare' fekken elephants and gold for me empire. And the 'taters.
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shit movie
kino movie
Alexander III looked and sounded exactly like this.
Don't insult russian monarch like this.
His son is bad enough.
He would be perfect casting if he was 2 inches shorter and had heterochromia. Probably as close as you can get with a well known professional actor
bait
>The outward appearance of Alexander is best represented by the statues of him which Lysippus made, and it was by this artist alone that Alexander himself thought it fit that he should be modelled. 2 For those peculiarities which many of his successors and friends afterwards tried to imitate, namely, the poise of the neck, which was bent slightly to the left, and the melting glance of his eyes, this artist has accurately observed. 3 Apelles, however, in painting him as wielder of the thunder-bolt, did not reproduce his complexion, but made it too dark and swarthy. Whereas he was of a fair colour, as they say, and his p233 fairness passed into ruddiness on his breast particularly, and in his face. 4 Moreover, that a very pleasant odour exhaled from his skin and that there was a fragrance about his mouth and all his flesh, so that his garments were filled with it, this we have read in the Memoirs of Aristoxenus.
>Moreover, that a very pleasant odour exhaled from his skin and that there was a fragrance about his mouth and all his flesh, so that his garments were filled with it, this we have read in the Memoirs of Aristoxenus
Can I get a zest check
Greeks were zestyyy
He looks kind of like Elvis.
and the pint o harp
That whole movie was crap. They should’ve had Elijah wood play Alexander. They need a cuter more boyish type. Jared Leto was great for hephaestion. Roxane should’ve been played by a hapa like Olivia munn. Philip should’ve been played by Gerard butler. Jolie was good as Olympia. Bagoas should’ve been played by an actual troony or hijra. They left out 70% of the story of his life. It needed a better soundtrack.
>Philip should’ve been played by Gerard butler
Philip literally looked like Kilmer.
>They should’ve had Elijah wood play Alexander
this idea is so bad that I'm convinced you must run a major studio
heh
Aiieeee
He was kino personified
Good thread. Happy Father's Day
fuak
>a fricking paddy as alexander the great
oliver stone is a terrible director and a cia asset
Do you not see?
hmm
In the First Book of Maccabees it's written that Alexander the Great "made many wars, and won many strongholds, and slew the kings of the earth, and went through to the ends of the earth, and took spoils of many nations, insomuch that the earth was quiet before him." Uncharacteristically for the Bible, there is no moral judgment offered on the way Alexander chose to pass his time. Maybe this is because there couldn't be. There are certain people whose lives are so vastly out of scale with the rest of humanity, whether for good or evil, that the conventional verdicts seem foolish. Alexander, like Genghis Khan or Napoleon, was born to be a world wrecker. He single-handedly brought down the timeless empires of pagan antiquity and turned names like Babylon and Persia into exotic, dim legends. His influence was so dramatic and pervasive that people were still talking about him as the dominant force in the world centuries after he was dead. The writers of the Apocrypha knew that he was somehow responsible for the circumstances that led to the Maccabean revolt, even though he'd never set foot in Judea. The Romans knew that their empire was possible only because it was built out of the wreckage Alexander had left behind him in the Middle East. We know that Western civilization is arranged the way it is in large part because Alexander destroyed the civilizations that came before it.
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But why had he done it? The author of Maccabees received no divine insight on that score. Nobody did. Even the people who actually knew Alexander were baffled by him. According to all the biographies and versified epics about him that have survived from the ancient world, his friends and subordinates found him almost impossible to read. He never talked about what he wanted or whether there was any conquest that would finally satisfy him; he never revealed the cause of the unappeasable sense of grievance that led him to take on the kings of the earth. Yet his peculiar manner led a lot of people in his entourage to think that he was somehow in touch with divine forces. He frequently had an air of trancelike distraction, as though his brilliant military strategies were dictated by some mysterious inner voice, and he had a habit of staring not quite at people but just over their shoulder, as though he were picking up some ethereal presence in the room invisible to everybody else. But even without these signs, people were bound to think that he was fulfilling a god's unknowable whims. After all, what he was doing made no sense in human terms: it was global destruction for its own sake, and what mortal could possibly want that?
2/2
Why the frick did the movie not convey this?
The movie is meant to be a character study so we have to see Alexander's inner world and not his sigma poker face like his contemporaries might have seen, also this is highly embellished we have accounts of him drinking himself stupid and spazzing out like when he killed Kleitos so it's not as if he was some unreadable enigma to his inner circle.
>actors using patty accentrs for roles in classical antiquity is bad
>actors using bong accents for roles in classical antiquity is perfectly fine
I have immense love for this film. The theatrical version sucks dick and I think I prefer Final to Ultimate. I love everything about this film from Farrel's performance, to the score, the dramatic script, and set design.
For me it's Philip's assassination scene, the directing and the score are so majestic here