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Наш Герой играет тут само собой Ксандра) Прекрасный невероятно. Но вот я бы предпочла, чтобы Мурь играл тут роль Лето. Они с Колином были бы лучшей парочкой)
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Alexander the Great was a Macedonian king in the fourth century BC. His campaigns of conquest brought an immense empire under his control, stretching from the Danube in the north-west to the Nile in the south and the Indus in the east. Though he is not universally loved, he is widely considered to be one of the greatest military commanders in history. Family
Pity poor Alexander. His mum, Olympias (Angelina Jolie), is in thrall to a Dionysian cult, sleeps with a bucket of snakes by her bed and tends to overshare about how the god Zeus was hot stuff in the sack. His dad, Philip of Macedon (Val Kilmer), is a womanising boozehound who spouts egregious platitudes in a baffling Irish accent. "A king isn't born, Alexander, he is made," he burbles. "A king must know how to hurt those he loves. It's lonely. Ask anyone … Fate is cruel. No man or woman can be too powerful or too beautiful without disaster befalling. They laugh when you rise too high." Despite what this speech might imply, there is no historical evidence that Philip of Macedon invented the fortune cookie. Still, some of the biographical details do have a basis in Plutarch's Life of Alexander. Except the accent. War
The narrative jumps to Gaugamela in 331BC, with 40,000 Greeks facing down 250,000 Persians (an exaggeration: Persian numbers are generally estimated at closer to 100,000). Heading up the Persians is the glowering Darius III, previously defeated by Alexander at Issus, though the film skips that. Heading up the Greeks are Alexander (Colin Farrell), Hephaestion (Jared Leto) and Cassander (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), a mass of teased bouffants, sharp cheekbones and carefully applied mascara. They look like they've turned up for a walk-off. Instead, what follows is a battle, complete with charging horses, splatting faces, vomiting blood, scythe-bearing chariots and the occasional limb flying around in what is, regrettably, a slightly comic fashion. The sequence has been filmed and edited so bewilderingly that it's impossible to work out what's going on unless you already know (the historian Arrian has the full story in his Anabasis Alexandri). "Avenge this betrayal!" howls someone at some point. What betrayal? Then some more heads get torn off. Darius looks extra cross, so you may surmise that things aren't going well for the Achaemenid empire. Finally, the film's overused voiceover has to inform us that Alexander has won and is now "king of all". People
Being king of all isn't enough for Alexander. He heads east to Bactria, then south through the Hindu Kush to India. The story feels compressed, though the film isn't entirely to blame for that: Alexander may have lived just 32 years, but he certainly kept himself busy. On the other hand, it is to blame for depicting one of the greatest military commanders in history as a tedious, highly-strung sex tourist with a crippling addiction to Sun-In. By the time he gets to India, Farrell's Alexander has grown long bleach-blond locks and is wearing billowing shirts, chunky jewellery and heavy eyeliner. All he needs to do is bite the head off a bat and he would be a perfect replica of Ozzy Osbourne circa 1985. More war
At the battle of the Hydaspes, Alexander takes an arrow to the chest and nearly dies. The real Alexander was not wounded at the Hydaspes. The scene has been borrowed from the later siege of what is now Multan in Pakistan, when an arrow that pierced Alexander's breastplate punctured his lung. This prompts Stone to film the rest of the battle in a crimson tint that is both horrible and confusing to look at, effectively throwing away what must have been a lot of very expensive shots of charging elephants. You wouldn't necessarily know it from the movie, but Alexander won at the Hydaspes. It's hard to care. This is a masterclass in how to make one of the most interesting characters in history seem trivial and boring. http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/aug/12/alexander-reel-history
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