An unremarkable failed commercial film

Pinkie 2022-04-20 09:01:39

I feel that this film is a bit injustice. I can't help but say that it was shot with great care and the cast is too strong, but I really can't say it's good-looking. Maybe the director wanted to express too many things and finally adopted the narrative method of segmented flashbacks. At the expense of the rhythm of the film, the whole film looks more like watching a documentary. In this regard, I have to compare it with another big-headed work of the same period, "Kingdom of Heaven", in the rhythm control and the scenes of war scenes In terms of composition, Ridley Scott's skills are more old-fashioned, but there are still many characters and scenes in the film that are impressive. Alexander's ambition and fragility make the beautiful man Bagos, Persia also eclipsed. The magnificence of civilization, the magnificence of Asian peaks, and the suffocation of the Indian jungle all make people feel like they are on the scene, and the color and art are also quite interesting. South Asian rainforest; although there are so many excellent elements, but unfortunately the director failed to combine them well, making this film only like Coppola's Apocalypse Now an unwillingly ordinary film in most people's painful viewing impressions work.

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  • Polly 2022-03-24 09:01:40

    The first impression after watching it is that it is very long. . . Not bad~~ The Roman guy is so handsome~ Eh~ How do you see a man and a man ambiguous~ I'm rotten~

  • Theron 2022-03-22 09:01:38

    1. Three and a half hours of final cut. The bad impression of watching the 175-minute version from many years ago has been swept away. Another masterpiece ruined by editing. This final version is definitely the best of the epic waves of the early 2000s; 2. It adopts the narrative perspective of old Ptolemy's memories, which is very clever. On the one hand, it gives legitimacy to the jumping timeline; Lemmy's deconstruction of the self-narrative at the end of the credits reinforces Alexander's greatness and tragedy. In addition, it also gives the audience a chance to have a glimpse of the sights of Alexandria in the Ptolemaic era; 3. From the four major battles of Alexander's life, Gaolamiga and Hydaspeis are selected, one end to the other, and the coverage is good , is also enough to shape the complex relationship between Alexander and the generals. The textual research is in place, the battle scenes are grand and bloody, and the visual impact is very strong; 4. The best casting is Jared Leto's Hephaistion and the famous horse race Fleurs who has made a name for himself in history. The imagination popped up in front of you. 5. There is no dwarfing of Alexander to ordinary people to express his tragedy. The most powerful thing in this film is precisely the tragedy it presents, which is unique to Alexander.

Alexander quotes

  • [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.

  • Old Ptolemy: All men reach and fall...

    [takes sand in his hand and lets it slip through his fingers]

    Old Ptolemy: reach and fall...