Crossing the Hundu Kush

[Iskander_32]

I read with great interests fantastic journeys and achievements, Hannibal and the Alps.I thing in all honesty Alexander crossing the Hinhu Kush more than matches that, even today I think a modernised and better equiped army would struggle to make it intact, sometime Alexanders other achievements like this get over lloked, by his genius for warefare.Tyre was an achievement rarely match, Pir Sar, The Sogdian Rock.I just wonder how all this can be put into one moves.It took 10 hours for Peter Jackson to tell the story of a matter of a few weeks journey, Lord Of the Rings.kenny

[marcus]

A few weeks' journey in The Lord of the Rings, Kenny? The journey from the Shire to the Crack of Doom took just under a year (yep, I'm a LoTR geek as well as an Alexander geek).But I do agree that Alexander's life needs more than a 2 hour film. Having said that, I understand that Stone is including only 2 battles in his Alexander film - Gaugamela and Hydaspes; and as the story is done as a series of flashbacks he's managing to avoid 'condensing' the story in the ridiculous way they did it in the Burton film.All the bestMarcus

[yiannis]

Thus paving the way for a prequel: "Alexander, the early days"

[marcus]

Possibly! (I still can't get over the horrific thought that, in one of the stills that keeps turning up, showing 'young' Alexander and Angelina Jolie, Colin Farrell looks uncannily like Jim Carrey. That puts me off the whole idea of seeing a young Alexander on screen :-)All the bestMarcus

[xxx]

Judging from what I know of the film, he covers Alexander's youth pretty extensively (i.e. the reason he was what he became) et al.

[jan]

Nobody can say that Oliver Stone isn't smart enough to leave room for a sequel if the interest is there.