Persian Boy

Rating: Null/10 (23 November 2004)

First, I have not seen Alexander yet, so I won't comment on the film. There was a book written some 20years ago called 'The Persian Boy' about a Enoch in the personal service of Alexander attending to all his needs, sexual and otherwise. I wonder whether that would have been a better approach to tell the story of Alexander without necessarily getting into to much of the sexual side. He was most certainly bi-sexual but that does diminish his achievements. Sexuality in the ancient world was not as categorized as it is today.
One thing I have noticed with many of the recent epics filled with battle scenes is that the camera is whizzing about like a Looney on a spring! I suspect that is done to make up for the lack of acting ability on camera.