The "summer" movie season is looking worse and worse, as some of my favorite issues (mythology in general and Alexander the Great) stand to get the Hollywood treatment. I read a review of Troy somewhere that said it was the Bush version of a war - it lasted for 10 years in reality but on screen it was only 10 minutes, plus it had cheerleaders and strategic costumes. Sigh. No Haliburton, though.
There are, I think, 2 Alexander movies coming out (maybe one is a miniseries) and I read a long rant by one of the actors playing Alexander who was extremely irritated to be asked about the "homosexual angle"
There are Alexander movies coming out? I hadn't heard, actually. So why was the actor irritated -- by the fatuousness of the question, or, by the intimation that a film about Alexander should include homosexuality? (I.e. irritated by the obviousness of it, or irritated because he and therefore the production are in denial?)
Damn, I can't find the article, which must have been an interview with Colin Farrell. The impression I got from the article was that the actor was insulted to be thought to be playing a character who could be thought gay, but it's been a bit since I read it.
The movie version is by Oliver Stone (eeeek!) and stars Alexander: Colin Farrell Ptolemy I: Sir Anthony Hopkins Olympias: Angelina Jolie King Philip II: Val Kilmer Hephaestion: Jared Leto
The impression I got from the article was that the actor was insulted to be thought to be playing a character who could be thought gay
Yeah. I can see that happening with some actors, but still, annoying.
I remember thinking that given Brad Pitt was playing Achilles, that we *would* get more overt suggestion of the homosexual dimensions of his relationship with Patroclus, just because I don't think Brad Pitt would care about playing it, the way some actors might.
(Of course, we didn't, really. But that's a different problem.)
another version, with Leonardo DiCaprio as the "young Alexander" and Nicole Kidman as his mother
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There are, I think, 2 Alexander movies coming out (maybe one is a miniseries) and I read a long rant by one of the actors playing Alexander who was extremely irritated to be asked about the "homosexual angle"
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The movie version is by Oliver Stone (eeeek!) and stars
Alexander: Colin Farrell
Ptolemy I: Sir Anthony Hopkins
Olympias: Angelina Jolie
King Philip II: Val Kilmer
Hephaestion: Jared Leto
http://www.alexander-the-great.co.uk/
But there is also a listing for another version, with Leonardo DiCaprio as the "young Alexander" and Nicole Kidman as his mother: that version is supposed to be out in 2005.
http://romanticmovies.about.com/cs/upcomingreleases/a/alexyoungcast.htm
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Yeah. I can see that happening with some actors, but still, annoying.
I remember thinking that given Brad Pitt was playing Achilles, that we *would* get more overt suggestion of the homosexual dimensions of his relationship with Patroclus, just because I don't think Brad Pitt would care about playing it, the way some actors might.
(Of course, we didn't, really. But that's a different problem.)
another version, with Leonardo DiCaprio as the "young Alexander" and Nicole Kidman as his mother
Yeeeeeeah. Count me out for that one.
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