Posted on 11/19/2004 10:52:02 AM PST by Happy2BMe
ATHENS, Nov 19 (Reuters) - A group of Greek lawyers are threatening to sue Warner Bros film studios and Oliver Stone, director of the widely anticipated film "Alexander," for suggesting Alexander the Great was bisexual.
The lawyers have already sent an extrajudicial note to the studio and director demanding they include a reference in the title credits saying his movie is a fictional tale and not based on official documents of the life of the Macedonian ruler.
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I guess they wanna keep it all in the family.
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(Next, they'll be telling us Nero was a pedophile - go figure.)
Hey, it's an Oliver Stone movie. The CIA did it.
Bummer--I was really looking forward to some homo erotic stuff. This just about ruins my weekend, I mean here I was thinking that Alexander was some cool metro type dude...and really he was just your typical Greek King, boffing the ladies....dam.....
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Puppets "Getting Down"...
Kim Jung-Il Shows hidden "Musical Talent"...
I was going to go see the movie, too, having seen the trailers on TV, but when I saw it was an Oliver Stone movie, I decided not to go.
Gee ... and here I thought everyone knew anything done by Oliver Stone was a fairy tale. ;)
I'll wait for the DVD and zoom/slow mo Rosario Dawson's nude scene.
I sure hope that the studio and the director don't drop the soap and bend over for this one.
How long until a big-budget Hollywood film documents the purported gay life of Abraham Lincoln?
Being a typical 'ancient' Greek...I am suprised he had a taste for anything female
as those guys were mostly into young boys...
They are way behind the times.
They should have sued Mary Renault thirty years ago over "The Persian Boy". Considering that many millions of copies of that book have been floating around ever since, it is probably the consensus view of Alexander.
A great book, actually, though often creepy.
This is a surprise. (That the Macedonians/Greeks should be so upset) I studied ancient history as a youth and it was acknowledged in the text books that Alexander's officers (and presumably himself, although that was never stated) behaved in a bisexual manner when on campaign, but straight when back home.
On campaign they were not averse to a frolic with the local girls or slaves, prisoners etc but did also have relationships amongst themselves. It was considered a patrician pursuit and, from what I recall, it was not established that the 'other ranks'indulged in this behaviour.
Since all of the original diaries and memoires of Alexander that were written by eye witnesses are lost and most of what we have is third hand and full of fantasies, such speculation has been going on for over a thousand years. What we do know is that it was a common practice in most of the middle east for young boys to have favorite 'companions' up to the age of marriage. It would be unusual for Alexander to have not had such a one and in the person of Hephaestion we do. The oldest writings on him and his relationship with Alexander are not explicit about it but it is apparent that their frienship was more than mano ye mano. Shakespear doesn't have to detail what is going on after Juliet is on stage. These lawyers are just trying to shakedown Warner Bros.
from the article - "Tripp, who worked closely in the 1940s and 1950s with the groundbreaking sexologist Alfred Kinsey, was a clinical psychologist, university professor and author of the 1975 best-seller The Homosexual Matrix, which helped transcend outdated Freudian clichés and establish that a same-sex affectional and sexual orientation is a normal and natural occurrence."
Kinsey was an absolute fraud, pervert and liar. Tripp is not much better if at all.
Suggested titles:
The Rail-Splitter
Out of the Closet in Uncle Tom's Cabin
The Greeks who were Alexander's contemporaries hated him, most of them...they viewed the Macedonians as arrogant conquerors, not as fellow-Greeks. Right after Alexander's death the Athenians and their allies tried to liberate Greece from Macedonian domination but failed. We have the funeral oration written by Hyperides, an Athenian orator, in honor of the Athenians killed in the struggle--full of rhetoric about how they died for the freedom of Greece.
They may be right. I haven't read that he was attracted to women.
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