Anders Heintz
A Fixture
Well after spending slightly over 3 hours at the movies last night watching Alexander, I have to say that I was very disapointed. For such a great historical leader they sure trashed it pretty good.
If you are going to go see the movie, I reccomend not to read up on Alexander berfore, sure, they showed some of the main events, but they left a lot of events out of the movie, that really captures who Alexander was as a person. Events that showed what kind of leader he was, how quick to think he was when something impossible was at hand such as crossing huge rivers and unbelivable mountains. I really did not get anywhere near as close a picture of him from the moive as from Valerio Massimo Manfredi's superb trilogy about Alexander the Great. But then again, most movies are not as good as the books.
The depiction of Alexander's closest companions was a complete miss (again, to me based on Manfredi's trilogy). Hephestion was depicted as long haired, femenine, 'girly man', Permenion the great general was depicted as a sinewy old fragile man who looked like he might cool over at any moment.
The best character was probably Alexanders mother, played by Angelina Jolee (sp?), she gave the impression of a mystical woman, maddly in love with Alexander and full of hate and contempt for Philip.
After all the hype and with such an awesome subject, I personally feel they trashed the whole Alexandre myth, and left a huge void instead of filling one. Someone needs to make another Alexander movie which is atleast as good and entertaining as Gladiator, and with Alexanders awesome feats in life that should have been an easy task.
Too bad they made this film as now we have to wait 10 years or better to make a version that would be worth acctually buying on DVD.
Highly disapointed!
If you are going to go see the movie, I reccomend not to read up on Alexander berfore, sure, they showed some of the main events, but they left a lot of events out of the movie, that really captures who Alexander was as a person. Events that showed what kind of leader he was, how quick to think he was when something impossible was at hand such as crossing huge rivers and unbelivable mountains. I really did not get anywhere near as close a picture of him from the moive as from Valerio Massimo Manfredi's superb trilogy about Alexander the Great. But then again, most movies are not as good as the books.
The depiction of Alexander's closest companions was a complete miss (again, to me based on Manfredi's trilogy). Hephestion was depicted as long haired, femenine, 'girly man', Permenion the great general was depicted as a sinewy old fragile man who looked like he might cool over at any moment.
The best character was probably Alexanders mother, played by Angelina Jolee (sp?), she gave the impression of a mystical woman, maddly in love with Alexander and full of hate and contempt for Philip.
After all the hype and with such an awesome subject, I personally feel they trashed the whole Alexandre myth, and left a huge void instead of filling one. Someone needs to make another Alexander movie which is atleast as good and entertaining as Gladiator, and with Alexanders awesome feats in life that should have been an easy task.
Too bad they made this film as now we have to wait 10 years or better to make a version that would be worth acctually buying on DVD.
Highly disapointed!
So, who did Alexander in - the guy by the grassy knoll or one of Nixon's aides? :lol:
