Alexander movie looks Cast-Tastic

Wow, I was looking up some information on the new movie Alexander that opens in November. I knew that Colin Farrel was in it, but I has NO IDEA the rest of the cast was so strong. Look at this list:

alexander.jpgColin Farrell …. Alexander
Jared Leto …. Hephaestion
Anthony Hopkins …. Ptolemy
Rosario Dawson …. Roxanne
Angelina Jolie …. Olympias
Val Kilmer …. Philip

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25 thoughts on “Alexander movie looks Cast-Tastic

  1. do yall kno the persian lover of alexander in the movie. like whats his real name…the pretty boy…not the one he’s in love with, but the other one he supposedly sleeps with in the movie. i have been trying to figure out his real name…or well his name in the movie…???

  2. I think that the film was good but Alexander isn’t The Great he is The MACEDONIAN because Macedonia isn’t Greece.In that time Greece was ocuppied from Macedonia and Alexander

  3. From what i’ve read of the greek history, love between two men (as in love, rather than sex) was praised as being beautiful and useful i suppose, because it meant they fought for each other with a passion, were more loyal, and basically made a better army.
    The whole sex idea on its own was frowned upon, it was seen as ‘giving in’ and having no self control etc.

    I saw the film on saturday and thought it was wonderful. I know it was unimportant what sexuality Alexander was (did ‘sexuality’ as such even exist then?) but i think their relationship was touching in the fact that everyone else betrayed him except Hephaestion. I think it added to, rather than detracted from, a plotline that otherwise would have been a bit boring. “March on country, kill inhabitants, keep going, kill next country, keep going, get slaughtered graphically”/

    But all together i thought the film one of the best i’ve seen in a long time, despite all the bad reviews its got. But hey thats just me :)

  4. …as i read bout all that comments above .., why kind a gay thing makes such a big deal ?? i love that movie .and thats a great romance between alexander and hephasestion .,i heard that alexander was a god of war ( nick given to him )., but why oliver put only a few scene about that .., i hope i’ll see a lot .

  5. I haven’t seen the movie. I am going to see it prepared for the fluff everyone seems to be calling it on, but also half-expecting just a wee bit more woven into Oliver Stone’s narrative, between the lines and between the cuts – as is his custom. I have more to say than that, of course: I have my own two cents to offer, one being a correction, the other a clarification. Simply put, there is value in preserving facts and events in this world, Ladies and Gentlemen: 1) Alexander was Greek. There is both hard archeological evidence (maps and philosophers of the era discussing the definition of Hellenism – the proper word for Greek – in their writings include Macedonia) and the following common-sensical observations: √¢‚Ǩ¬¢ The language that was spoken in Macedonia was Greek. √¢‚Ǩ¬¢ Last time I checked, Aristotle was Greek. To those who will say “the Romans imported Greek teachers – does that make them Greek?” I say: check again. Aristotle never left the very area he was born in to do anything. Said area? Central Macedonia. (also happens to be in present-day Greece) √¢‚Ǩ¬¢ The language, religion and culture spread as a result of Alexander’s conquests was Greek. √¢‚Ǩ¬¢ Every single name used in this movie, at least as far as the characters stated above – happens to have a (Greek) meaning – as Greek names will √¢‚Ǩ¬¢ Now, I don’t know how else you can define ethnicity/race than through language, customs/culture & religion. So QED to you Mike. With that out of the way, on with that clarification: 2) Noone can dispute that bisexuality was more acceptable in Ancient Greece than it is today. (one could dispute the claim that Alexander was bisexual, but that is beyond my interest here) However, to use the term homosexuality in its modern “get out the lube” sense is a rather daft and uninformed argument. The popular culture in Ancient Greece was one that exalted heroism, honor and intelligence; to the Greeks these were male virtues. In short, we have a male-centric culture. (In major cities there existed what were called “gymnasiums” where men trained together and competed in sports – gasp!- half naked. There was an ongoing dialogue in art and science around aesthetics wherein the proportions of a young, toned, healthy and athletic male body were found to be the utmost in divine expression on earth and recreated in sculpture as such.) But none of these things, however “gay” they sound to our American, squeamish ears were considered so at the time: In other words, yes, sensuality was more diffuse. But homophilophilia (a word dating to antiquity meaning “love of the same sex”) was a term reserved for, well, you guessed it: homosexuals. They did exist, but as a part differentiated from the whole. To say it was prevalent can be disproven, not mentioning that it ignores the origin of those damn armies. At its height (as far as moral acceptance) what did exist was – coinciding with the height of excess and might of the Athenian reign over the ancient world – a slothenly and spoiled upper class with too much time (and money) on its hands. There surfaced a culture of “bring on the 15 y.o. boys” which, however, still met with public moral outrage. The source of this information is Plato√¢‚ǨÀús Symposium, wherein a group of just such rich men discuss the nature of love, and defend/rationalize their practices. Defend their practices? Hmm. Now why would someone defend something, let me see here… Ironically, that work – which can be traced as the single greatest source of Greece’s “bad name” for homosexuality – is the one in which homosexuality is deemed unnatural and thus an obstacle to true love. A conclusion which Aristotle – Plato’s student and Alexander’s tutor – agreed with and further validated through his own writings.

  6. I finally watched “Alexander” tonight and came away from it feeling rather dirty. This was no epic- it was gay soft porn! Not only was this bad history, but Stone ruined a movie that had tremendous potential by spending so much time, on what he has concluded, were Alexander’s homosexual obsessions And yes- even supposing that bisexuality exists, this movie showed Alexander as a homosexual who practiced hereosexual sex as a means to an end (to provide himself with an heir). Dispicable movie- not worth seeing. My conclusion will be proven by its short stay in the theaters… coming to a Blockbuster Video near you. Just give it a couple of months.

  7. Okay, I haven’t seen the movie and will this Saturday. But, Alexander existed so long ago and whether he was gay or not, only Alexander can answer. And that’s impossible. Movies are usually taken in the writers and directors veiws. They apparently veiwed Alexander as a bisexual. He was married and he love Hephaestion (as from what I heard). That’s just how the writers and Oliver Stone saw it. And we who did not live the time of Alexander truely have no say.

  8. Well, I just saw the movie at a preview and it’s made apparent that Alexander loved his “friend” Hephaestion. There’s also another scene where he invites a persian slave into his bed. Alexander had wives because he knew he had to have an heir to his throne. He was gay…get over it.

  9. Alexander the Great’s Main lover was Haphaestion, played by Jared Leto. They were pretty tight, regardless. Unfortunately the move won’t have any love scenes between them…

  10. Let us not forget that Alexander was Macedonian not Greek, and this movie has made a big mistake in its history. Alexander was king of Macedon(Macedonia) which is and always was a seperate country from Greece. Those damn history thieves (greeks) even got to Oliver Stone.

  11. Let us not forget that Alexander was Macedonian not Greek, and this movie has made a big mistake in its history. Alexander was king of Macedon(Macedonia) which is and always was a seperate country from Greece. Those damn history thieves (greeks) even got to Oliver Stone.

  12. Alexander was not gay – as in exclusively male lovers. He was bisexual. The Greeks considered it the purest form of love. Nick (above) is right in that he married Roxanne. After his death, one of his generals Perdiccas married his sister and became king of Macedon. The empire divided itself with Ptolemy taking Egypt; Selecus taking India, Parthia and much of the Eastern empire; and Perdiccas taking Macedon and the Western empire. As it happened the generals were fighting all the time and Perdiccas was soon deposed by a man by the name of Cassander.

    Perdiccas had earlier deposed of Roxanne and Alexander (the son).

  13. Alexander was not gay – as in exclusively male lovers. He was bisexual. The Greeks considered it the purest form of love. Nick (above) is right in that he married Roxanne. After his death, one of his generals Perdiccas married his sister and became king of Macedon. The empire divided itself with Ptolemy taking Egypt; Selecus taking India, Parthia and much of the Eastern empire; and Perdiccas taking Macedon and the Western empire. As it happened the generals were fighting all the time and Perdiccas was soon deposed by a man by the name of Cassander.

    Perdiccas had earlier deposed of Roxanne and Alexander (the son).

  14. Alexander was’nt gay he married Roxanne, and had a child who also was named Alexander. After his Death, probably by hus generals, took over his empire and did’nt want anything to do with Roxanne or His child. I dont know where you get he was gay.

  15. Don’t know where you’re getting your history Sartorius, but everything I’ve ever read – and I did a course on the man in university – says he was as gay as gay can be. He brought his young male lovers with him on campaign and after building the largest empire the world had seen to that point allowed it to be shattered into pieces because he never produced an heir, largely because doing so would’ve meant hetero sex and he was not at all interested. If he’d have liked the ladies at all he’d have preserved his empire.

    Anyway … not a chance they’re going to really deal with the gay subtext in this – just like they didn’t in Troy – so it doesn’t really matter …

  16. The great what? The greatest ego of all time, that’s what. He believed that if he slaughtered his way to the edge of the world, there he would meet God, his father, and they would be united in unimaginable power. He didn’t make it. 4th century B.C.
    He was a real GAY man.

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