in some misguided attempt to be the sort of film classicists approve of
You think that was it? I thought the problem was more the attempt to make Alexander a hero to the contemporary audience; I don't think scholars would need the 'fighting for freedom and democracy, anywhere, any millenium' nonsense, which I thought was the film's worst misstep. I'm all for making things accessible, and I'm not even someone terribly invested in Alexander (meaning you could have sold me a *lot* of 'creative choices' and I wouldn't have blinked), but trying to make Alexander likeable in a traditionally modern way just resulted in WTF?
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Date: 2006-09-13 05:03 am (UTC)You think that was it? I thought the problem was more the attempt to make Alexander a hero to the contemporary audience; I don't think scholars would need the 'fighting for freedom and democracy, anywhere, any millenium' nonsense, which I thought was the film's worst misstep. I'm all for making things accessible, and I'm not even someone terribly invested in Alexander (meaning you could have sold me a *lot* of 'creative choices' and I wouldn't have blinked), but trying to make Alexander likeable in a traditionally modern way just resulted in WTF?
That, and Jared Leto's eye make-up, of course.