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Vendredi, juin 25th, 2010
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Oliver Stone’s Alexander Revisited is now something of a masterwork. He is given the chance to allege the epic as he would have originally liked to have presented it. The 45 minutes of extra’s are correct extra’s…spread out in short 2 to 5 second edits…to more lengthly exchanges that happily include Brian Blessed as the Physical Instructor, Christopher Plummer as Aristotle and quite a bit more bid over and character addition from Anthony Hopkins as the feeble Ptolemy.
The action starts almost immediately with a longer, more graphic version of the Battle of Gaugemela (Wonderfully undertaken, Stone paying homage to the mountainous Sergei Bondarchuk with those terrific panning shots) and then works backwards through Alexanders youth. The film moves forward and backwards from there yet the recent subtitles give you the year and how long, before or after, from the previous scene. It is quite instructive to anyone the slighest bit confused and is a favorable history lesson. Also grand are longer dancing scenes with Roxanna’s troupe and Bogoas’ troupe…both satisfactory, filmic scenes…beautifully done. The Bogoas character (Francisco Bosch) is also expanded and made far more sympathetic.
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The Indian Battle (wonderfully filmed in Thailand) is also more graphic as are some of the more intimate scenes yet nothing is without merit. This is not 2007, it’s 330BC and mores and the belief of battle, honor, fidelity etc were different for those times. I for one, praise Mr. Stone for a very apt feel and presence…and even minor characters are explained in far greater detail…such as the young Guardsman who killed Philip (Kilmer) …in a flashback we observe his motives. It is now far more beautifully edited…from a master filmaker who values editing, JFK gets my vote as the best edited film of all time.
I am giving it 5 Stars…a masterpiece. Do glance the Stone introduction, he says it better than I…”If you liked the new you’ll admire this, if you hated the novel you’ll abhor this even more!” Now there is a man!
The only share I am saddened about is that over the slay titles Vangelis’ fable portion ‘Titans’ is smooth only 2 minutes long…yet it fits the edit…and I would speed you to hold the CD for the complete 4 little version…one of the best pieces of film music I felt ever written.
I originally sat on the fence in my belief of the theatre release of Alexander, but Alexander Revisited has won me over as admirer of the film. The recent slice has a truly myth feel and the leading characters are portrayed with more breadth and depth. In particular, the climactic crises of Alexander’s career are conveyed more intelligibly and convincingly than before. I am the author of both academic articles and non-fiction books on Alexander, so I feel I should comment particularly on the historical accuracy of the film. In my thought Alexander Revisited is notably impartial, doughty and precise in its pursuit of historical accuracy. Although Oliver has deliberately conflated events which actually occurred at different times and places into single scenes (I reflect he had to in order to jabber the whole yarn in a single film), almost everything has some kind of historical basis in the group of 2000 year traditional accounts, which provide most of our knowledge of Alexander. For example, such details as Cleitus severing the arm of a Persian about to strike Alexander, the incident with the monkeys in India and Alexander’s visit to the wounded after the battle are all in the sources. Even that eagle is mentioned by Curtius. Furthermore, many snippets of dialogue are based on words actually said to have been spoken by Alexander: e.g. “He too is Alexander”, “So would I if I were Parmenion”, “It is a fine thing to live with courage…” Substantial attention to historical detail was also paid to the costumes and scenery. Babylon was particularly marvelous - the ziggurat, the flowers and the caged mountainous cats were all really there when Alexander drove into the city in a chariot. Overall, Alexander Revisited gives a more authentic sense of the actual history than any other film about the extinct world that I can contemplate of. Gladiator was a astronomical film, but its greatness owed more to Marvel amusing strip principles of action and violence than to its setting in veteran Rome. Alexander Revisited is a vast film because it tells one of the most compelling human stories in all of history with faithfulness, drama and pathos.
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