Stone, the Butcher of History

Rating: Null/10 (27 November 2004)

The camera, the colors, except for the India battle in red, (maybe the Stone inner communistic color), was very good. The problem with Stone is the he know his history, but he decided that we are so stupid that he need to tell us how history should be, not how was. Everything in Phillipo death was real, until the 'kissing' like a gay ritual, beside the killer, according to the ancient source Diodorus, 'Philip was hosting a massive banquet as a going away party before he left for Asia. Leading the procession into the theater on the second day, were thirteen statues, twelve of the Olympian gods and one of Philip. Philip wanted his march into the theater to be triumphant, and so he asked his bodyguards to stand back and out of the way to show to his people that he had nothing to fear. At that very moment, however, a man named Pausanias rushed forward from the crowd and stuck a dagger in Philip's chest. During his escape, Pausanias tripped and fell and was killed on the spot' So, Olive Stone had every thing right, but he need to add the man to man kiss, (maybe is Stone inner expression again) The best scene is Alexander on his horse Bucephalus (ox head in Greek) against the Indian Elephant, but again no lance hit Alexander in that battle. Ptolemy writes that Alexander ordered Callisthenes, who had criticized him in public, to be crucified, and Aristobulus says that the man died in prison, but was not killed by Alexander, so Stone know that a guy criticized Alexander, and later died, so he change history again, and don't tell me this is entertainment, this is history garbage Finally, the last but not the least, Alexander blond, that alone give Stone the title of the 'History Butcher'. AJP0825@aol.com