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Greatness is in the Eye of the Beholder By Roberta Jones
The story seems familiar. The son of a king, always feeling as though he hasn’t lived up to his father’s standards, drives his army across the world to Babylon (modern day Iraq) to conquer an empire. This empire (Persia) is commanded by a tyrant whose rule, or so goes the Macedonian propaganda machine, is based only on brutality and slavery. With hatred fueled by rumors that Persian gold paid for the father’s assassination, the son invades this romanticized eastern world. But if you believe writer and producer Oliver Stone’s version of how this gripping film came to be, Alexander has nothing to do with modern day politics. It is only storytelling in pictures.
Oliver Stone has played that game before. On numerous occasions, Stone has denied imposing art onto truth in his work. He took a lot of heat for his artistic license in such films as JFK and Nixon all the while claiming that he had no intention of revising history and only sought to pursue the artist’s main objective of producing a great fictional work. Partial Cast of Alexander
Alexander has endured another kind of criticism, however. David Ansen, writing for Newsweek, describes the film as "stupefying" and a "madly ambitious film [that] doesn’t compute."
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