The 2004 film Alexander, directed by Oliver Stone depicting the life of Alexander. This essay will discuss the accuracy of Oliver Stone's artistic vision in this depiction of Alexander's life and accomplishments. The discussion will focus on: Alexander's 7-year campaign, especially its matches; his relationship with others, including his sexuality in the film; and the older Alexander and his armies back on the world.
Historically, there are many omissions in Oliver Stone's Alexander, but most of these are accounted for through the Stones ' artistic vision. Many smaller promotions for 7 years period was completely omitted, and only two matches were shown throughout the film. Within those two matches, were many essential components of other matches in some way melts to correspond to having experienced these matches as well, because if the stone was to cover all blow, not only will the film be much longer than its current form, but it would also have required a much larger budget. This absence of punches is the big inaccuracy in stone's Alexander. While stone only sends two fights in the film, imparts history that Alexander took part in a large number of matches as well as pitched battles and sieges, the entire 7 years March. Stone choices in portraying only these two matches by the many other was through his goal to convey the main points of Alexander's major campaigns in a compressed form as possible. While the battles, even was inaccurate, were many of these inaccuracies choice of stone 's.
The most important inaccuracy for the fight Gaugemela, the first battle depicted in the Alexander, is the Persian army, itself. Alexander shows them as a disorganized rabble, when historically, Persians would have been exceedingly well organized. Members of the Persian army would have had uniforms, instead of the variable clothes they wore, and ... [continue] Read the full essay
