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I never bothered to watch Alexander, the Directors Cut or Alexander, the Final Cut. After seeing plain ole Alexander, I didn’t think there would be a single thing Oliver Stone could do to salvage that film. Besides, I mourned the lost potential it represented.

But today was too damned hot to go outside, to even rise from the sofa for very long so, I watched the Final Cut. It was an improvement on the first version, though I could have lived without the long-drawn out and mostly unnecessary battle scene as an opener.

My disappointment in this movie, every version of it, can be summed up by the placement of the quotation, “It is said that Alexander was never defeated, except by Hephaistion’s thighs.”

The absolute cop-out of placing that quote over the scene of the two boys, Alexander and Hephaistion, engaged in a wrestling match is so blatant and deliberate. Giving the bigots an out, allowing them to misinterpret the quote as being about wrestling!

Really, Mr Stone, really? I understand a self-respecting filmmaker wanting, nay, needing to use what is easily the most famous quote about Alexander and Hephaistion, but to use it like that just illustrates so clearly why your attempt at Alexander failed. I will always mourn the film this could have been, had you the courage and conviction to make it.

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(Quelle: rejectingyourreality)