So many things went wrong with Alexander it is probably hard to lay the blame on any one thing. The insane accents, for one.
But if you ever read any Robin Lane Fox he goes on about his close relationship with Stone and how much he contributed, and I do sort of feel that's why the battles are such let downs - and oddly chosen. Plus they went for the political over the fantastical - the Siwa incident, the other crazier stuff - which smacks of the sort of choice that very staid historians would approve of.
Not to mention Stone's issues with women finding the motherlode in ancient accounts of Alexander.
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Date: 2006-09-13 02:18 pm (UTC)But if you ever read any Robin Lane Fox he goes on about his close relationship with Stone and how much he contributed, and I do sort of feel that's why the battles are such let downs - and oddly chosen. Plus they went for the political over the fantastical - the Siwa incident, the other crazier stuff - which smacks of the sort of choice that very staid historians would approve of.
Not to mention Stone's issues with women finding the motherlode in ancient accounts of Alexander.