This movie really deserves a higher score, really. If you want to watch it, you must watch the full version. The theatrical version has been reduced a lot, and it is not a little bit worse than the full version.
To be honest, there are a lot of things about this movie that touched me, such as the way Olympias collapsed when she saw the eagle and the snake fighting. In my eyes, she is really a very complicated woman. It seemed that she hated Philip, but I always felt that she should have loved Philip, so she hated him so much, and she did the same to Philip. Because I personally feel that a lot of this movie is based on Mary Renault's "Fire in Heaven" (purely personal opinion), and there are also many detailed descriptions in "Fire in Heaven" that she and Philip are Emotional. On the other hand, for Alexander, she must have a great maternal love, but it can also be seen that she is taking advantage of him. For example, she said: "My belly is my revenge." (Is that what it said?) and she wrote to Alexander asking Alexander to take her to Babylon, accusing Antipater of wrongdoing She is not good. In fact, she has always thought that when her son becomes a king, she can rule under the curtain, and she also calls herself "Queen of Babylon".
There is also a very inconspicuous woman, Cleopatra Eurydice, who has only appeared two or three times, especially compared to Olympias. right). But I really think she is very pitiful, a girl of fifteen or sixteen, not to mention whether she feels honored to marry Philip, who is in her forties... This girl is completely a victim, she may not have done anything bad However, standing on the opposite side of Olympias is doomed to a tragic fate. Immediately after Philip's death, she and her two children were executed.
Of course, I am most impressed by Hephaistion. At the beginning of the deployment before the battle of Gaugamela, his and Alexander's eyes showed a little intimacy (that's how I feel anyway), and sure enough, the two of them got together at night to sue each other (it feels like as long as these two people leave When we get together, we will tell our hearts ヾ(´∀｀.ヾ)), and the emperor said that he would follow Hephaistion to Hades, which is really touching, and he did it. After all, it’s a movie, it can’t be too long (although it’s already very long…), many things have not been filmed, such as crossing the desert, such as Hephaistion’s funeral, such as the mass wedding of Macedonian nobles and Persian noble ladies. Alexander married the sister of his wife Stantella (that is, the Princess of Thousand Roses, Alexander still married her) to Hephaistion, so that their children could be related by blood. Alexander tried hard to merge Persian and Greek, almost all Macedonians were against it, only Hephaistion supported him and so on. And after Hephaistion's death, he forbade music, slaughtered the city as a sacrifice, ordered everyone to cut their hair, even the horses had to shave their manes and put their own hair into Hephaistion's hands. Almost emptied the entire treasury, extinguished the sacred fire of the Babylonian temple (only the death of the king can do this), built a temple for Hephaestion, prayed to the gods to make Hephaestion a god, although only the hero's Location. The whole person is like crazy. It took two months just to get him back to Babylon, and a month later (five months later) Alexander also died. Perhaps the two cannot be separated, and neither can live alone.
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