02-24-2007, 06:33 PM
Ha, ha, ha 
Comerus Gallus Romus, my problem - problem of many Russians. We still trying to beleive that the artist performs some high Misson in our world and that he by his own means should say the Truth about us and our world. It is naive.
I had high hopes for this film. Works by Oliver Stone ("Platoon", "Salvador", "Wall Street", his screenplay for "Istanbul Express") are far from mainstream primitive Hollywood pop production, he is more or less honest. I think that "Platoon" is most honest and objective film about the Army (of each country).
I listened to OST by Vangelis before watching the movie. For Vangelis - Alexander the Great is national hero, so he wrote music for different kind of movie - and some tracks of CD "Alexander" by Vangelis are more visual and spectacular than movie itself.
After that in cinema I felt deep disillusion...
As to monkey scene - read Strabo, Geography, XV, 29, c 699.
Dialogues of Alexander with Indian philosophers - ibid, XV, 61-68.
Comerus Gallus Romus, my problem - problem of many Russians. We still trying to beleive that the artist performs some high Misson in our world and that he by his own means should say the Truth about us and our world. It is naive.
I had high hopes for this film. Works by Oliver Stone ("Platoon", "Salvador", "Wall Street", his screenplay for "Istanbul Express") are far from mainstream primitive Hollywood pop production, he is more or less honest. I think that "Platoon" is most honest and objective film about the Army (of each country).
I listened to OST by Vangelis before watching the movie. For Vangelis - Alexander the Great is national hero, so he wrote music for different kind of movie - and some tracks of CD "Alexander" by Vangelis are more visual and spectacular than movie itself.
After that in cinema I felt deep disillusion...
As to monkey scene - read Strabo, Geography, XV, 29, c 699.
Dialogues of Alexander with Indian philosophers - ibid, XV, 61-68.
