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Ah well - I probably need to see it more often. However, at Guagamela, he wasn't at the stage of having no more world's to conquer - he still had to get Darius. He probably did feel bad for his dead men, but not the despair that crying scene implied. Of course, it is Stone's vision, and of course, i...

I think in a lot of cultures through the ages rich spoiled young men act with a lack of sensitivity to other people. Harry has no purpose in his life, and hasn't got the intelligence or need to be any different from his rich spoiled friends. I bet in Athens in 400BC there were a lot of rich spoiled ...

But he cried when he won..and that didn't seem to be what Alexander would have done. He cried when he had no more worlds to conquer. Unless that is why he cried - because the battle was over and he couldn't do any more fighting until the next one. :) OK, some people are overcome by the horror of war...

I read the article as well. I thought it was a good one, particularly the hero issue - we like our heroes to be modest, and we are frightened by those who want power. Funnily enough. But we still respect and admire excellence, I think, although perhaps the media doesn't promote this as much as celeb...

Not necessarily..

I am going to be negative again, but the soundtrack may have been good - but it really didn't impact on the film. When Alexander was being attacked by the elephant, they played this elegeic music. Him. He was in mortal danger. Too portenous - the whole thingThere was programme on Ancient Greek music...

OK. I do remember the tactic, but couldn't work it out in the film. It was just a mess to me, and I suspect to the average film-goer, especially when Alexander cried at the end of the battle. But perhaps I am not good at war - you know the quote "my dear, the noise, the people".Did the Per...

"I met him in the candy store.." sadly, no. I met him, as others did, through Mary Renault. I read Fire from Heaven, and started Arrian, when I was 14, and read The Persian Boy 20 years later. I loved The Persian Boy, and was torn between lovely Bagoas and his unrequited love, and feeling ...

JohnWelcome. I don't think the "homosexual angle" is irrelevant, because it is part of who Alexander was. However, Stone's clumsy handling of this "issue" was probably due to being unsure of his audience's reactions. The ones who would object if it was left out, those who would o...

Kenney, MarcusI stand corrected on a couple of points. I think my problem with the battle scenes is that as someone not that well versed in battle techniques, I didn't understand what was going on. The talk Alexander gave his men before the battle was a better bit of the film, but I didn't translate...

Hi MarcusI don't mind being a prerogative... "you birthed me in a sack of hate" is not a great line. I am not dissing people who liked it, at all. I am sorry I didn't. Different people have different tolerances. I watched The Day after Tommorrow , which was also awful, and for some of the ...

I was going to ask, but maybe Cyrus has answered my question. Is it always so barren and sandy? Does it get green at other times of the year?Linda

Cont...Occasional good bits - the discussion over the marriage to Roxanne was believable, although, as I mentioned before I thought it was generally accepted that Alexander played the "but I love her" card to overcome Macedonian dissent (although he probably did have love for her). But it ...

continued.. (sorry about the duplication in the first paragraph)Other familiar incidents were handled badly and out of context - the Bagoas kiss - came at the end of a campaign and a win in a dance comeptiton not as just a titilation, Roxanne - the reasons for marriage were the wrong way around. But...

HiI finally got to see it last night as well. I had some hopes, based on what people had said here, but...There was no script - the results of some brainstorming meeting were painfully, abortively displayed. "On the right hand side of the page, let's have all the word we associated with Alexand...