Alexander & Hephaestion
The Balcony in Babylon Scene
The Greatest Scene
Phai: The generals question your obsession with Darius. They say it never meant for you to be king of Asia.
Ale: Naturally. They only want to return to their homes, rich of gold. But I've seen the future, Hephaistion.
I've seen in now 1000 times, on 1000 faces. This people want... Need change.
Aristotle was wrong about them.
Phai: How so?
Ale: Look at those we've conquered. They leave their dead unburied.
They smash their enemies' skull and drink them as dust.They mate in public.
What can they think or sing or write when none can read? But as Alexander's army, they can go where they never thought possible.
They can soldier or work in the cities.The Alexandrias, from the Egypt to outer ocean.We can connect these lands, Hephaistion... and the people.
Phai: Someone say these Alexandrias have become extensions of Alexander
himself. They draw people into the cities to make slaves of them.
Ale: But we've freed them, Hephaistion, from the Persia where everyone lived as slaves.
To free the people of the world...such would be beyond the glory of Achilles, beyond Heraklis... a feat to rival Prometheus... who was always a friend to man.
Phai: Remember the fates of these heroes. They suffered greatly.
Ale: We all suffer. Your father, mine. They all come to the end of their
time. And in the end, when it's over, that matters is what you've done.
Phai: You one say "The fear oh death drives all men."
But are there no other forces?
Is there not love in your life... Alexander?
I wonder sometimes if it's not your mother you run from. So many years, so many miles between you.
What is it your fear?
Ale: Who knows these things?
When I was a child, my mother Thought me divine. My father weak.
Which am I, Hephaistion?
Weak or Divine?
All I know is... I trust only you in this world. I've missed you. I need you.
It is you I love Hephaistion. No other.
Phai: You still hold your head cocked.
Like that.
Ale: I've stopped that.
Phai: No like a dear, listening in the wind and you strike me still, Alexander.
And you have eyes like no other. It sound as stupid as a schoolboy, but... you are everything I care for...
and by the sweet breath of Aphrodite... I'm so jealous of losing you to
this world you want so badly.
Ale: You'll never lose me, Hephaistion.
I'll be with you always.
Till the end...
Mood:
Sad
Music: Vangelis - Tender Memories
The Greatest Scene
Phai: The generals question your obsession with Darius. They say it never meant for you to be king of Asia.
Ale: Naturally. They only want to return to their homes, rich of gold. But I've seen the future, Hephaistion.
I've seen in now 1000 times, on 1000 faces. This people want... Need change.
Aristotle was wrong about them.
Phai: How so?
Ale: Look at those we've conquered. They leave their dead unburied.
They smash their enemies' skull and drink them as dust.They mate in public.
What can they think or sing or write when none can read? But as Alexander's army, they can go where they never thought possible.
They can soldier or work in the cities.The Alexandrias, from the Egypt to outer ocean.We can connect these lands, Hephaistion... and the people.
Phai: Someone say these Alexandrias have become extensions of Alexander
himself. They draw people into the cities to make slaves of them.
Ale: But we've freed them, Hephaistion, from the Persia where everyone lived as slaves.
To free the people of the world...such would be beyond the glory of Achilles, beyond Heraklis... a feat to rival Prometheus... who was always a friend to man.
Phai: Remember the fates of these heroes. They suffered greatly.
Ale: We all suffer. Your father, mine. They all come to the end of their
time. And in the end, when it's over, that matters is what you've done.
Phai: You one say "The fear oh death drives all men."
But are there no other forces?
Is there not love in your life... Alexander?
I wonder sometimes if it's not your mother you run from. So many years, so many miles between you.
What is it your fear?
Ale: Who knows these things?
When I was a child, my mother Thought me divine. My father weak.
Which am I, Hephaistion?
Weak or Divine?
All I know is... I trust only you in this world. I've missed you. I need you.
It is you I love Hephaistion. No other.
Phai: You still hold your head cocked.
Like that.
Ale: I've stopped that.
Phai: No like a dear, listening in the wind and you strike me still, Alexander.
And you have eyes like no other. It sound as stupid as a schoolboy, but... you are everything I care for...
and by the sweet breath of Aphrodite... I'm so jealous of losing you to
this world you want so badly.
Ale: You'll never lose me, Hephaistion.
I'll be with you always.
Till the end...
Mood:
Sad
Music: Vangelis - Tender Memories