Alexander (2004)

Regisseur:

Oliver Stone

Drehbuchautoren (WGA):

Oliver Stone (written by) and
Christopher Kyle (written by) ...

Premierendatum:

24. November 2004 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Abenteuer | Biographie | Drama | Romanze | Kriegsfilm

Werbezeile:

Fortune favors the bold

Plot:

Alexander, the King of Macedonia and one of the greatest military leaders in the history of warfare, conquers much of the known world.

Plot Keywords:

Ambition | Court | Death | Battle Scene | Bisexuality

Filmpreise:

2 wins & 9 nominations

Nutzerkommentare:

Alexander proves too smart for dumb American critics

US TV Schedule:

Tue. July 22	8:00 PM	AMC
Wed. July 23	4:30 PM	AMC

Besetzung

Colin Farrell	...	Alexander
Angelina Jolie	...	Olympias
Val Kilmer	...	Philip
Anthony Hopkins	...	Old Ptolemy
Jared Leto	...	Hephaistion
Rosario Dawson	...	Roxane
Jonathan Rhys Meyers	...	Cassander
Rory McCann	...	Crateros
Gary Stretch	...	Cleitus
Ian Beattie	...	Antigonus
Neil Jackson	...	Perdiccas
Raz Degan	...	Darius III
Christopher Plummer	...	Aristotle
John Kavanagh	...	Parmenion
Annelise Hesme	...	Stateira

Alternativ:

Alexander (Deutschland)
Alexander Revisited: The Final Cut (USA) (recut version)
Alexander: Director's Cut (USA) (censored version)
Alexandre (France)

MPAA:

Rated R for violence and some sexuality/nudity. (also director's cut)

Länge:

175 Min | 167 Min (director's cut) | 207 Min (final cut)

Produktionsland:

Deutschland | USA | Netherlands | France

Sprache:

Englisch

Farbe:

Farbe

Seitenverhältnis:

2.35 : 1

Tonverfahren:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Altersfreigabe:

Singapore:M18 (also final cut version) | Iceland:16 (video rating) | Spain:13 | South Korea:15 | Malaysia:18PL | Argentina:13 | Australia:MA | Brazil:14 | Canada:13+ (Québec) | Canada:14A (Alberta/British Columbia/Manitoba/Ontario) | Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) | Chile:TE | Czech Republic:12 | Finland:K-15 | Germany:12 | Hong Kong:IIB | Iceland:14 (original rating) | Ireland:15 | Italy:T | Netherlands:16 | Norway:15 | Philippines:PG-13 | Switzerland:14 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:14 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:14 (canton of Zurich) | UK:15 | USA:R (certificate #41133) | USA:Unrated (Cut Director's Version) | New Zealand:R13 | Australia:M (DVD rating)

Drehorte:

Ait Benhaddou, Morocco

Firma:

Warner Bros. Pictures

Dies und das:

The film almost never made it to the theatres in Greece. A group of Greek lawyers decided to try to ban the film on the grounds that Oliver Stone was denigrating the figure of Alexander the Great by making reference to his bisexuality. The film was ultimately given a theatrical release in Greece and premiered at #1.

Pannen:

Faktische Fehler: The chest wound that nearly cost Alexander his life during the Indian campaign took place inside a walled city in what is now Multan, Pakistan, not in a forest as depicted in "Alexander."

Dialogzitate:

[first lines]
Old Ptolemy: He was a god, Cadmos, or as close as anything I've ever seen.

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Alexander proves too smart for dumb American critics

The US reviews have been really terrible and the IMDb user rating is lower than KING ARTHUR, so I'm wondering if Europe has got a different cut, because the film I saw was excellent. Problems, yes, like Anthony Hopkins and Val Kilmer hamming away and Angeline doing a very odd accent. Farrell's not bad even though he doesn't have enough small moments to work with to shade the role: after Clive Owen's disgracefully bad performance in KING ARTHUR it's amazing that it's Farrell the critics are laughing at.

You don't get involved in the characters as much as you should, but its an amazing flick, a real movie. It feels like it's been done for real not by a computer by someone as mad and vainglorious as Alexander himself. Not a total success, but the 80% that hits the target is really intelligent and ambitious and is worth more than a lot of pictures that work better, if you know what I mean.

I think the reason Hollywood is so dumbed down now is when someone tries to do something different on a big scale like Alexander, HEAVEN'S GATE, REDS, ONCE UPON A TIME IN America, THE RIGHT STUFF or films like that is that the American critics who are always complaining about dumb audiences and filmmakers can't get them and tear them a new *beep*hole killing them off at the box-office. Certainly seems to be the case with Alexander. Not the most successful flick I've seen this year but easily one of the best.