2004 Directed by Oliver Stone
Alexander, the King of Macedonia, leads his legions against the giant Persian Empire. After defeating the Persians, he leads his army across the then known world, venturing farther than any westerner had ever gone, all the way to India.
Colin Farrell Angelina Jolie Val Kilmer Jared Leto Jonathan Rhys Meyers Anthony Hopkins Jessie Kamm Christopher Plummer Connor Paolo Patrick Carroll Peter Williamson Morgan Christopher Ferris Robert Earley Aleczander Gordon John Kavanagh Gary Stretch Rosario Dawson Féodor Atkine Toby Kebbell Fiona O'Shaughnessy Laird Macintosh Francisco Bosch Neil Jackson Rory McCann Raz Degan Joseph Morgan David Bedella Brian Blessed Nick Dunning Show All…
Iain Smith Oliver Stone Thomas Schühly Jon Kilik Gianni Nunnari Pierre Grunstein Paul Rassam Moritz Borman Matthias Deyle Fernando Sulichin Tabrez Noorani Volker Schauz Aslan Nadery Santa Pestonji Nicolas Bonnell Kurt P. Galvao
Kevin Phipps Jonathan McKinstry Stuart Rose Desmond Crowe Lek Chaiyan Chunsuttiwat Frederic Evard Stéphane Cressend James Lewis Kathleen Lorden Claudio Campana Christian Huband Tom Still Abdellah Baadil Aziz Hamichi
David Allday Stephane Ceretti Aurelia Abate Joyce Menger Kilou Picard John Scheele Elliott Jobe Rudi Holzapfel Sébastien Drouin Olivier Pron Pierre Michel-Estival
Bruno Tarrière Jean Goudier Julien Perez Chris David Wylie Stateman Katia Boutin Gréggory Poncelet Alek Goosse Paul Conway Damien Lazzerini Frédéric Attal Nourdine Zaoui
Warner Bros. Pictures WR Universal Group France 3 Cinéma Intermedia Films Pathé Renn Productions Egmond Film & Television Pacifica Film IMF Internationale Medien und Film GmbH & Co. 3. Produktions KG
Nagy Sándor, Alexander: Alejandro Magno, Aleksandŭr, Eskandar e Maghdooni, 亞歷山大帝, Aleksandr, Alexander Revisited: The Final Cut, Alexander the Great, Aléxandros, Aleksandar, Alejandro Magno
Since we don't actually know what ancient Macedonians sound like let's each pick a different accent!
I see Angie's gone with the "crazed gypsy accent" while Mr Farrell went with the "vaguely European mumble accent", Val decided on "mostly Californian" and Anthony went for "jolly old British".
*confused face*
one of the best movies ever made about going to college and then getting a job in the big city
p.s. it rules
I have watched 39 movies starring Colin Farrell. I don't know what possessed me to rewatch this particular one - and not just this one, but 205-minute long Final Cut of it. Maybe it was to laugh. Or because I love it when it's clear that an obscene amount of drugs was consumed while making a film. I'm actually quite certain that Oliver Stone kept snorting cocaine even after it was released because he made THREE more versions of this movie.
I'm 75% sure Colin banged Angelina, 25% sure he banged Leto and 100% sure they were all stoned out of their minds while making this movie. This is from imdb trivia - "Colin Farrell broke his ankle and arm…
Every movie enthusiast is familiar with the feeling of admiring a movie that everybody else seems to despise. Most of us have quite a few of those. I certainly have my fair share, but the movie that immediately pops into my mind in such discussions is Oliver Stone’s "Alexander".
Most critics panned the theatrical version, the box office was a letdown and it even got 6 Razzie Award nominations. This movie was on almost every level a complete failure. Flawed as it was, I did not quite get why. But then again I was only a teenager, what did I know?
In 2007, Oliver Stone released his Final Cut, which he called "Alexander Revisited". I only got around to watch…
THE FOLLOWING TAKES PLACE BETWEEN 11AM AND 3PM
The film Alexander has just entered its second agonising hour...
Me: "God, this film is awful."
Richard: "It's not. It's just not. There's plenty."
Me: "I think I see where they're going with this."
Richard: "What?"
Me: "Jared Leto is in love with Alexander, and he's looking at him marrying his new wife. So, here's what's gonna happen..."
Richard: "What's gonna happen?"
Me: "Alexander is going to find his wife with her neck slit open in bed, and written in blood on the wall above will be 'MEET ME AT THE MOUNTAIN TOP, so Alexander will have to fight Jared Leto on the mountain where they trained as kids. There will be…
DuBFal-War-Weeks - Film Nummer Vierzehn (14)
Selbstverständlich liebe ich ihn. Seht ihn euch doch an, diese kräftigen Männerschultern in Rüstung die die Welt selbst schultern würden, würde ich ihm den Befehl dazu geben. Kräftig auch das Gesäß. Gestählt früher Kindertagen auf den Exerzierplätzen Makedoniens. Dort wo ich diesen schönen Jüngling erstmals sah, schwitzend und ihm das wallende Haar über seine Smaragde die ich seine Augen nenne gefallen.
Ich lief selbst die Rennbahnen auf und ab. Ich wusste was es bedeutete, auf den Exerzierplätzen Makedoniens in knappen die Schenkel offenbarenden Hosen und entblößter Brust der Anstrengung erigierter Nippel zu trainieren. Darum reichte ich ihm den Becher Wasser, wo unsere Hände uns erstmals von vielen Male berührten. Darum strich ich ihm das…
Welcome to Jared Leto's School of Method Acting. Today's lesson: Alexander.
To fully prepare for Alexander, Jared Leto did just two things, but he did them both very well: He ate gyros while making sure to pronounce 'gyro' correctly, and he did a lot of dudes. Sometimes he would eat gyros and do dudes simultaneously just to get that perfect balance.
[Ultimate Cut.] Consider me a fan -- of Oliver Stone, one of our most energetic and resourceful filmmakers, and even of this, which is of course as much of a mess as everyone says it is, but one full of more ideas about its hero, its own context, and its maker than the vast majority of other historical epics and/or biopics in recent memory. There's a great deal of psychological interest. Maybe the drama unfolds in fits and starts at some points, but the emotional logic Stone goes for, here and always, has a wonderful match in his method, in his love of filling the screen with texts from cultural and historical archives, of storytellers and stories that unravel as…
Did you know that Netflix has an option where you can watch movies at 1.25 or 1 and a half times normal speed? The people sound a little chipmunk-y, but it’s really not too disruptive. It just looks like one of those undercranked Benny Hill bits without the jokes, boobs, or "Yakety Sax".
The best part is that it can cut an 8 hour movie like Alexander down to just 12 hours.
"Ultimate Cut"
The various versions of this have made its narrative trajectory clearer, more faithfully represented its historical detail, and brought Stone's pet themes into sharper relief. It's never been lacking in ambition (here's where I boringly point out how important that is to this subject. Sorry, had to be done), but as this film has become more streamlined it's also lost a sense of madness. The shock cuts, the mixed media, the paranoia; I'm not usually on board with complaints that Stone's recent films aren't the work of the (so-called) crank he came to be known as during his peak, but I think this desperately needed a dose of that guy.
Oliver Stone has been a controversy magnet since he popped out of his mummy's front bottom back in 1946. He's a complex character is Mr. Stone, now in his seventies but still able and willing to poke the hornet's nest at every opportunity. A genuine Vietnam War hero, this guy volunteered and requested combat duty in 1967 just as the American casualty figures were starting to escalate, so when he gets something into his head, he's going to see it through. A Bronze Star and a Purple Heart gives you an idea of what Stone went through during his tours in Nam, which incidentally gave him an insight for what would be become his most critically well received film, Platoon.…
