If you want to understand the movie, or really want to understand Alexander, you should read the book first.

Bettye 2022-04-20 09:01:39

The 3-hour director's cut version is also difficult to clearly show Alexander's short and wonderful life, but the details are well grasped. The production team is still willing to spend money, and the narration is also necessary.

Olympias' room is a bit too modern, and the hair color is wrong.

The male protagonist can't be chosen well, although it can be seen that he has tried his best.
I don't know if it's because he didn't think about the characters enough, or if Alexander's character is too special and difficult to describe.
In short, because of him, there is really no way to give the movie five stars.

If there is no background knowledge reserve, plus flashbacks, many people generally do not understand it, so it is understandable that it is below three points.

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Extended Reading
  • Wellington 2022-01-26 08:17:07

    Alexander was very clever since he was a child. He was taught in Aristotle. He was granted the post of governor of the capital when he was a little longer. He was appointed as the commander-in-chief of the Macedonian army for his merits in putting down the bandits. Integrating Eastern and Western cultures, encouraging inter-ethnic marriages, advocating equal status among ethnic groups, speaking of Greek thoughts and laws spreading across the country, creating a Hellenistic era culture, but he was only 33 years old when he died

  • Nadia 2022-01-26 08:17:07

    All kinds of BL novels you know are on sale. Alexander and Hefei are simply Greek versions of Reinhardt and Gilfried. I bet that every time Alexander thought about Hefei when he went to someone else, but he and Hefei just didn't get involved, and the only kiss scene was deleted! Bagoas is gentle and knows how to advance and retreat. This kind of role is actually very distressing, but the shape is too blind, and it is about to turn me into toner.

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...