After watching "The Persian Boy", my mood was not stable. Because I was obsessed with Hephaistion, I went crazy for a few days and brought Alexander down. The first time I watched it for three nights, I found that I was purely looking for abuse. Tears were a mess. When I was extremely depressed, I still felt that I was watching too fast, and I read the book and the movie carefully and carefully for a second time. I also made up for some stories of Greek mythology, Achilles, Patroclus, Heracles, Dionysus....
The relationship between Alexander & Hephaistion is well known, I have no interest in entanglement with some people whether they are gay or not, this does not affect Alexander will always be a great man in history, lovers or best friends, it is irrefutable that they are The relationship between life and death is indeed a relationship between life and death. The love of the soul is like Achilles & Patroclus. If someone insists that the love of a lover is not the same as the love of a close friend, please do so. Marrying two sisters, making the two cousins, connecting the blood by having children ("children of dreams"), "then we'll grow old together and watch our new world from the terrace..." I can't imagine What could be more romantic than this, I was really shocked by this. Achilles & Patroclus may be a myth, but Alexander & Hephaistion is real and unique in history because such heroes are no longer needed in this era.
I believe that the director Oliver Stone must be looking for a balance between the great man's ambition to conquer the world and the fragility of human nature. He used the lens of constantly switching history. This is why people with zero foundation can't understand it. "Youth", I will be like those who thought it sucked back then, I don't know what the film is talking about. And there is no doubt that the whole film is also filled with American-style preaching, instilling the audience with their self-righteous universal values. I also believe that the director should have also seen several works about Alexander by Mary Renault, the author of "The Persian Boy", so the filmed scenes are very close to her novels, but there are some discrepancies in many places. This is the second time I rewatched it. Books and Movies.
Although I actually watched Hephaistion, it was amazing to see Hephaistion in the film for the first time, before I had any idea about the character. Those beautiful eyes, smoky makeup, those affectionate eyes when looking at my lover, Alexander's words "I am nothing without you" when he died, and the grief and madness that fell into irrationality, I should have used a pack of tissues, It's a gluttonous feast for rotten women. I really like the angelic faces of childhood and teenage Alexander, such a beautiful doll. The dance of the Persian eunuch Bagoas made me bloody. Although he looks beautiful among men, he "keeps the figure of a teenager for life" ("The Persian Boy"). The skeleton of this actor is too big... ...The most unbearable thing is Alexander's wife Roxane. If you look for an Oedipus complex, you can't find such an ugly actor. After all, Alexander is the first time she sees her and wants to marry a great beauty with peerless beauty. , not this kind of stuff... Otherwise, don't ask Angelina Jolie to play his mother, save it so hard to find a similar beauty (suddenly think of the two mothers and daughters of Tymoshenko in Ukraine, they are beautiful like two sisters...) .
Yuan Tao, the translator of "The Persian Boys" who has long admired Hephaistion, told me that there are few historical records of Hephaistion, because he died young, and the generals who survived to fight for the empire certainly tried their best to downplay him and exaggerate their own deeds. It also reminded me that the same author's novel "Fire in Heaven" has more descriptions, but there are also book reviews that ridicule that the character is not full, and it is Alexander's yes man. We naturally have a common objection to this. He should be a very manly person, with strong abilities, as well as his own character and opinion. Otherwise, he would not have become Alexander's heart-to-heart lover, but he would be hated by everyone. he is. Yes, hate him, envy him, but fear him, envy him. Even from these fragmentary and understated historical materials of the novel, it has been unable to cover up his brilliant light. As a lover and close friend, he exists by Alexander's side and no one can replace him.
But when I watched the movie for the second time, I started to be picky. The actor's appearance is beautiful, but there should be a little distance from the real Hephaistion. One is the height problem. He should be taller and more handsome than Alexander. This is a handsome handsome man recognized by all legends; It's my personal subjective problem... I'm a little "suffered", he should be a more manly "attack" type, this actor plays... a bit pitiful little Shou... Seeing those beautiful, gentle, innocent and affectionate eyes , I just want to ask "Can you be more manly?" The third is, maybe the director was influenced by "Fire in Heaven" and turned him into a shadow of Alexander, maybe to highlight Alexander, but obliterated him true personality. Having said that, when I watched it for the second time, I thought I would still cry, but in the end I found it easy, knowing that I was finally relieved. So far, the torture that has tortured me for more than half a month has ended.
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