Comments on: In the Footsteps of Alexander http://cominganarchy.com/2005/01/30/in-the-footsteps-of-alexander/ Speak Victorian, Think Pagan Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:58:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Curzon http://cominganarchy.com/2005/01/30/in-the-footsteps-of-alexander/comment-page-1/#comment-804 Curzon Mon, 31 Jan 2005 20:35:19 +0000 http://www.cominganarchy.com/archives/2005/01/30/in-the-footsteps-of-alexander/#comment-804 I actually saw Alexander with my church pastor, who studied the classics at Oxford and teaches Latin at a local private school. His is a TOTAL ancient history buff who convinced me to see it on the big screen. We weren't expecting much, but we were very pleasantly surprised. The lack of chronology bugged me, but the history was dead-on accurate. My pastor's theory on why it flopped was the blatant homosexuality that upset everyone in the Red states. As he noted, a lot of people in the Midwest who are so eager that their kids learn the classics become pretty appalled when they learn of all the open homosexuality that took place in Rome and Ancient Greece (the gay Caesar Tiberius and others, the bi(tri?)sexual orgys, the gay culture of Sparta, etc etc ad absurdum). I actually saw Alexander with my church pastor, who studied the classics at Oxford and teaches Latin at a local private school. His is a TOTAL ancient history buff who convinced me to see it on the big screen. We weren’t expecting much, but we were very pleasantly surprised. The lack of chronology bugged me, but the history was dead-on accurate.

My pastor’s theory on why it flopped was the blatant homosexuality that upset everyone in the Red states. As he noted, a lot of people in the Midwest who are so eager that their kids learn the classics become pretty appalled when they learn of all the open homosexuality that took place in Rome and Ancient Greece (the gay Caesar Tiberius and others, the bi(tri?)sexual orgys, the gay culture of Sparta, etc etc ad absurdum).

]]> By: Peter http://cominganarchy.com/2005/01/30/in-the-footsteps-of-alexander/comment-page-1/#comment-802 Peter Mon, 31 Jan 2005 20:16:25 +0000 http://www.cominganarchy.com/archives/2005/01/30/in-the-footsteps-of-alexander/#comment-802 Oh. My bad then. I thought it sucked because it flopped at the box office. Then again, the average movie goer isn't a history/geopolitics buff. :) Oh. My bad then. I thought it sucked because it flopped at the box office. Then again, the average movie goer isn’t a history/geopolitics buff. :)

]]> By: Curzon http://cominganarchy.com/2005/01/30/in-the-footsteps-of-alexander/comment-page-1/#comment-798 Curzon Mon, 31 Jan 2005 18:01:37 +0000 http://www.cominganarchy.com/archives/2005/01/30/in-the-footsteps-of-alexander/#comment-798 Hey, Alexander ROCKED! Highly recommended viewing, both as a movie, as a history lesson, and for basic aesthetic reasons. Hey, Alexander ROCKED! Highly recommended viewing, both as a movie, as a history lesson, and for basic aesthetic reasons.

]]> By: Peter http://cominganarchy.com/2005/01/30/in-the-footsteps-of-alexander/comment-page-1/#comment-797 Peter Mon, 31 Jan 2005 16:54:52 +0000 http://www.cominganarchy.com/archives/2005/01/30/in-the-footsteps-of-alexander/#comment-797 Why not just watch "Alexander":http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0346491/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxzZz0xfHR0PTF8cG49MHxzb3VyY2VpZD1tb3ppbGxhLXNlYXJjaHxxPWFsZXhhbmRlcnxteD0yMHxsbT0yMDB8aHRtbD0xfG5tPTE_;fc=1;ft=11;fm=1? *ducks* Why not just watch Alexander?

ducks

]]> By: Younghusband http://cominganarchy.com/2005/01/30/in-the-footsteps-of-alexander/comment-page-1/#comment-773 Younghusband Sun, 30 Jan 2005 05:09:39 +0000 http://www.cominganarchy.com/archives/2005/01/30/in-the-footsteps-of-alexander/#comment-773 I really wouldn't describe him as being "rowdy." More like a pansy-ass public-school boy who looks lost without his tweed jacket with leather elbows and loses half his bodyweight during the trip. Not to say I don't like the guy... ;) In any case the documentary is great, especially when they just leave Kabul the night before the Taliban take it over, then meet up with the Northern Alliance general who he had met drinking in a London pub! I like the "special thanks" to Rashid Dostum in the final credits. Highly recommended viewing. I really wouldn’t describe him as being “rowdy.” More like a pansy-ass public-school boy who looks lost without his tweed jacket with leather elbows and loses half his bodyweight during the trip. Not to say I don’t like the guy… ;)

In any case the documentary is great, especially when they just leave Kabul the night before the Taliban take it over, then meet up with the Northern Alliance general who he had met drinking in a London pub! I like the “special thanks” to Rashid Dostum in the final credits.

Highly recommended viewing.

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