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This movie was made to smear Alexander the Great


The biggest smear is when Alexander's weary soldiers demanded not to push further into India and to return to Macedonia to be with their families before they died. In the movie, Alexander denied their request and executed the 'mutineering ringleaders' then 'marched onward', painting him as a totally unreasonable tyrant. In reality, Alexander pondered their demands for a few days then AGREED to turn back, and didn't execute anyone! He was really a merciful leader who brought the light of civilization to his subjects and was accepting of other cultures, not a selfish ambitious monster. How the hell is this total lie acceptable in a historical film? This is not simply artistic liberty or anything else..

Secondly, based on only one unverified historical rumor that Alexander and his friend Hephaestion were secret lovers, they paint Alexander as a gay Nymphomaniac who wanted to screw everyone. I don't dislike gays, but it seems his historically innacurate portrayal as gay is also meant to smear him.

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Agree with all you said, the great man deserves a great movie, not the mess Oliver Stone served up here, only good thing about this film was the music.

Imagine this speech in a film or a quality HBO production: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlKJDwViNKs

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Many of the scenes were composites of several events- this one included as an amalgamation of several mutinies against Alexander.

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Hey it was before Christ. Everyone was bi back then.

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Well they failed. One of the only based gay men out there.

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There's absolutely no proof that Alexander was bisexual. It's Stone's homoerotic fantasies and leftist leoliberal propaganda.The kiss between Bagoas and Alexander is mentioned by Plutarch who lived in the Roman Empire 200 years later,all the "gay" rumours about Alexander began by his haters .That's pretty much the "gayest" thing you'll ever find and doesn't mean anything.Soviets(Russians) used to kiss on the mouth all the time it was tradition not a homosexual practice.
It's like saying Trump is gay ,after 2327 years,even though he had numerous marriages and plenty of tail in his life it's just ludicrous and slanderous.
The real problem with this film is that it's supposed to be epic,the audience wasn't prepared for bi/gay hero and for Stone's homoerotic innuendos,it was too much,especially for North American audiences. That's why it flopped so bad...

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Him being bi only elevated the film, it showed the power he had, which usually only pan or bi sexual people possess by unifying the polarities symbolized by gender, hence why he was so benevolent to his enemies, and accepted other cultures, he was not a dualistic man, plus anyone who's highly connected to energy patterns of human beings and astral landscape enough to read other people would be well aware how the depicted images of him themselves portray a bisexual person, oh yes the way we look reveals our sexuality, sexual force is a universal energy, and that can be read into. To me this is by far the greatest film ever made in the history of cinema, for me personally.

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What?

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Oh dear, better not read Mary Renault's The Persian Boy then. A novel but based on contemporary sources.

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Hopefully his career recovers.

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