I don't mind if they leave things out, but if they change things I'm going to be very, very unhappy.
This is Oliver Stone we're talking about. I'm not sure historical accuracy is high on his list of priorities. (At the very least, "Use at least 50,000 different film stocks" and "If the audience isn't seeing spots by the end of the first battle scene, fire the editor" are higher up.)
Personally, I'm not expecting much more than loudness and really bad hair. And probably some entertaining shouting.
Heh -- the featured user review on IMDB begins:
This was the most wretchedly boring, insulting, and heavy handed hunk of three hour filth that I am likely to see this year. This is the kind of film which ruins careers and bankrupts movie studios. In a theater of 250 people, all of whom got in free, I heard not one single positive comment... I would rather tear out my own eyes and use them as earplugs than watch this film again. And I get the feeling 249 people would agree with me. We're deep into "Manos: the Hands of Fate" territory with this one. Bad, bad, and bad some more.
Personally, I'm not expecting much more than loudness and really bad hair. And probably some entertaining shouting.
Why must they fuck with the (literal) Classics? Why?
I tried to round up a Classics posse to get belligerent with after
Troy,
but most of them were happy enough to just look at the pretty man-flesh on display. Wars and queers, indeed.
tried to round up a Classics posse to get belligerent with after Troy, but most of them were happy enough to just look at the pretty man-flesh on display
Oh, yeah ....
Oh, the story! Yeah, liberties everywhere, unforgiveable ...
Look, Orlando's nekkid ...
I mean, Angela Lansbury played Lawrence Harvey's mom in Manchurian Candidate, and she was only three years older than him, but they gave her some decent middle-aged makeup and it really worked.
The makeup helps, but a large part of that was just her face. I've seen her in roles where she's 21, playing her age, and still looks almost the same as she did in The Manchurian Candidate, and not too far from how she looked on Murder, She Wrote.
I'm so glad that my Oliver Stone hate-on has removed all chances of me ever seeing his version of Alexander. It sounds like it's saving me even more sorrow than I'd thought. (The bombast and etc., not the gay. I'm all for Alexander as gay. OK, bi.)
Full quote?
Oh, there isn't one. It's just one of those things that people say about Classics. Offensive, yes. A wee bit true? Also yes.
Well the Macedonians were sort of the Irish of the Greeks...
And the Irish are the blacks of Europe. So, say it now, and say it loud, "I'm black, and I'm proud!"
And the Irish are the blacks of Europe.
Ha! I should maybe bring this up the next time my government is voting in favour of egregiously racist immigration policies, yes?
Sorry, I went to an angry place that people who don't keep up with Irish politics cannot understand.
