Movies where the bad guy's name is in the title?
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
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Gacy
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Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
Alexander (2004) ????
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Regardless of what he really died from or who actually assassinated him, he was driven by his own madness, leading to his demise.
Opinions on him keep changing over time. Medieval Europeans such as poet Dante Alighieri of "Dante's Inferno" fame, from "The Divine Comedy", had a very negative view of him, placing him in a circle of Hell where his entire body languished in a pit of fire up to his eyebrows! (O_o)
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Tough one to call...on the one hand hundreds of thousands were displaced, enslaved or killed during his aggressive imperial campaigns but on the other hand...
Different times and all, that's just the way they transacted business back then and Alex was a hell of a businessman!
I've always wondered what he would have done next seeing as how he died pretty young
Head west towards the "barbarian" tribes of Rome. Jews in North Africa and the Middle East despised him for not letting them practice their culture like the Ancient Persians did. Juluis Ceasar admired Alexander as a role model.
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Different times Amigo!
The fastest sword got to rule...makes for great reading but I'm glad I wasn't there for it😳!
Alexander deserves his place in history. He wasn't all bad. His activities dramatically opened up the different peoples and cultures to each other and has not looked back.
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He certainly had admirable qualities
His father was bumped off by the generals making him king
An ordinary boy-king would have lounged around the wine flasks and concubines
Not Alex
He took the world to war, wrecking Persia and bending the knee of India and everything in between
That guy knew how to open up a can of whoop ass
Jumped off the planet around age 33 or 34
If only he had more time who can guess what he could have done
Ah, here we are! Had taken forever to find this funny thing, Amigo:
My favorite naming stories involve people naming everything after themselves as a giant dissing contest with other rulers.
"So, Alexander the Great, what should we call this city?" "ALEXANDRIA." "Okay, what about.." "ALEXANDRIA." "And then-" "ALEXANDRIA." "Okay but-" "ALEXANDRIA." "Well, what about this one-" "THAT IS ALEXANDRIA ALSO."
"Please Alexander, the men are calling you a braggart, and it will cause great confusion when we'll administer..."
"Fine. I'll name it 'Bucephala'."
"...isn't that the name of your horse?"
"Yes."
"...is that really the wisest of mo-"
"ALEXANDER SO GREAT EVEN ALEXANDER'S HORSE GETS A CITY!""
And YOU get a city, and YOU get a city, and YOU.... ha ha, just kidding, they're all mine."
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LOL!
Hey, there was no arguing with Alex;)
Can you imagine if he hosted his own gameshow??
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I'm not sure that anyone else could win...
Maybe the first prize would be a fast beheading?
His most loyal soldiers would obey his orders to the letter,
even if it meant marching to certain death off a cliff,
either to scare Alex's enemies or win allies - somehow.
The dude was his own boss!
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Hollow Man.
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