Posted on 01/05/2005 11:49:21 AM PST by pissant
Colin Farrell and director Oliver Stone have spoken out to defend new movie Alexander, which has been given a thorough kicking in the US.
The £80m movie, which shocked America by portraying the Macedonian warrior king as 'Alex the gay', has only taken £18m across the pond.
Stone, director of Platoon and Born On The Fourth Of July, said: "There's a raging fundamentalism in morality in the US.
"From day one, audiences didn't show up. They didn't even read the reviews in the South because the media was using the words 'Alex the gay'.
"I was quite taken aback by the controversy and fierceness of the reviews about a character we don't really know too much about."
Colin Farrell has been called "hopelessly out of his depth" in the title role but Stone said the Irishman would "ride it out".
Colin admitted friends thought the film was "not exactly Gladiator".
But he said: "If Oliver ever wanted to work with me again, I would do it in a heartbeat."
Stone hinted he'd make changes to the DVD of the movie.
He said the "bond" in the homosexual scene could be "suggested in different ways".
Perhaps Stone can depict a gay bar scene---like in Star Wars ---only all the actors are in drag, clad in pink satin, and carrying feather dusters. Real subtle, not flaming faggotry.
I think it would improve the movie. If Mel Brooks does a spoof of Gladiator/Troy/Alexander, he would make a mint!!!
Somehow I knew that pic was going to be posted. Now off to scrub my screen to get the grease off.
Stone jumped the shark a while back. Probably with "JFK". He's confusing the entertainment business with
art, politics, personal beliefs, intoxicant-induced reality, ego, and an in-your-face attitude.
Stone is a more snooty form of michel moore. He learned that lying about history is just as profitable as telling the true story.
how about a character with seriously flawed " 'gay'dar"?
"Is it true that most of the Irish are catholic?
I mean, I read the news, and the connections to this movie and ...
maybe it is too much of a stretch ..."
Unless Colin is a priest, I think it is too much of a stretch!
Oliver can score some good drugs?
$200 million is about 104 million pounds.
Michael Moore did what Oliver Stone talked about back in 1988, made a propaganda film to slam candidate Bush.
In 1988 he wanted to produce/release a film based on "Brought to Light" about the CIA and Iran-Contra. He was unable to get the film funded and completed before the election so he dropped the matter altogether.
The 1980s are called the decade of "greed" because of Stone's Wall Street yet there was much more greed in Clinton's 90s.
"Raging Fundamentalism", huh? Seems to me the adjective "Raging" is normally reserved for the other side of this sexuality argument.
Hey, that calls for a tagline tweak...
Score some good drugs ....
You know, chances are good, really good that that is not an unfair interpretation.
They didn't even read the reviews? He knows this how? Enquiring minds want to know.
They stayed away because of bad press, which they didn't read. And word of mouth didn't help because no-one saw it in the first place.
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