It is hard to make a story about a prodigy boring. Alexander was someone whose extraordinariness was apparent at an early age, someone who struck everyone who encountered him. Notwithstanding the fact that he had a colossal mean streak at times as was shown at Thebes, Tyre, and Persepolis and to trusted comrades like Parmenion and Cleitus.
Larry replied:
You mean like Maximus in Gladiator, or John Wayne or Humphrey Bogart in any of their movies, or John Travolta in Get Shorty, or Mel Gibson in Payback or most of his movies, etc., etc.
Larry, you are confusing fictional everyman characters played brilliantly by actors like Crowe, Wayne, Bogart, Travolta, and Gibson with the Oliver Stone-driven dumbing down of an actual historical figure. Stone made a movie about Alexander the Great, and stripped all the greatness away. There is a difference, you realize?
Not really. It's story-telling. Either you tell it well...or you don't. Doesn't have to be true to the book or to history.