Posted on 01/01/2005 8:03:33 AM PST by BobL
Oliver Stone laments 'Alexander the gay'
Director admits: 'There was clear resistance to his homosexuality'
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com
Hollywood director Oliver Stone is lamenting the poor box-office performance of his latest film "Alexander," citing the homosexuality of the lead character as one of the detrimental factors.
Colin Farrell, right, stars as Alexander the Great, with Angelina Jolie and Val Kilmer as his parents. (Courtesy Warner Bros.)
"I still think it's a beautiful movie, but Alexander deserves better than I gave him," Stone said, according to the London Telegraph. "There was clear resistance to his homosexuality. It became the headline to the movie. They called him Alexander the gay. That's horribly discriminatory, but the film simply didn't open in the Bible Belt."
Stone, who also directed films including "Nixon" and "JFK," said he should have sliced the length of his latest movie from three hours down to 2 and a half, "and taken out the homosexuality for the U.S. market and for countries sensitive to such things, like Korea or Greece."
"Kids weren't comfortable with men who hugged, a king who cries and expresses tenderness," he added.
"Alexander," which recounts the life and times of the famed Macedonian conqueror, has been unable to slay the public despite a $195 million budget and well-known stars including Colin Farrell, Angelina Jolie and Val Kilmer.
The film has raked in $33.9 million in its sixth week, grossing just $41,000 on only 232 screens over the Christmas holiday weekend, translating into $177 per show.
As WorldNetDaily previously reported, reviews for the film have been harsh to say the least.
Reviewer Jeffery Westfoff of the Northwest Herald in Crystal Lake, Ill., wrote "'Alexander' often seems a couple of heartbeats away from turning into a gay porno film."
Philip Wuntch of the Dallas Morning News said, "'Alexander' has aspirations of greatness, hoping to be christened an intellectual super-spectacle for brainy moviegoers. The sad truth is that it will probably numb more brain cells than it will stimulate."
Wuntch notes that in the film, "Alexander prefers the after-hours company of men, considering women to be necessary primarily for reproductive reasons. His true soul mate is boyhood companion Hephaistion [Jared Leto], to whom he says softly, 'I'm nothing without you.' They never exchange an onscreen kiss, but their eyes constantly caress each other."
Alexander was a bisexual - history talks about his life-long "friend" and his relative lack of interest in women and his "effeminate" speaking style. He was more or less gay up until he reached a city I'm too lazy to google, where he engaged in a year or two of hetero-hedonism. I don't mind that he's gay or bi or whatever - there's enough circumstancial evidence that I can live with it. However, none of this excuses Stone from making a bad movie which focussed way too much on something as unimportant as who Alexander liked to kiss. It also made Alexander look like a good ruler - he wasn't. He was flighty, he only cared about proving to himself that he was the son of a god, he killed any advisors who suggested that he "turn back", he set fire to one city (which I'm too lazy to google) in a fit of drunken inspiration, and there's no talk that I can remember of him not stopping his armies from raping, looting etc. There's just more to the story than Stone will admit - he'd rather blame it on "homophobic America".
Alexander probably had sex with men or boys, as most upper-class men of his time did, but it was an aspect of his life that was of little importance to Alexander or his contemporaries. As you point out, VDH does an outstanding job of showing how greatly our attitudes towards sexuality diverge from those of the ancients.
Kids weren't comfortable with men who hugged, a king who cries and expresses tenderness," he added.
Once again StoneD piles on the lies for his benefit.
Many kids(boys included) grew up watching tender moments from such movies as Old Yeller, My Friend Flicka, Lassie Come Home and yes, even John Waynes True Grit "tender" moments and enjoyed every moment of it, tears included. There are movies today that have the same effect. Maybe Oliver StoneD is in denial about "his" appeal.
Yeah, he is such a great subject! And then to see how Stone just had to focus on his sexuality was such a terrible mistake. But even without that part, the movie was still poorly done.
How infuriating and egocentric that this creep Stone dared make this film. That Stone though he could make such a film demonstrates his brutish arrogance.
To take a fascinating figure and epoch and turn it into a gay agenda film is so disgusting it's revolting.
"There was clear resistance to his homosexuality. It became the headline to the movie. They called him Alexander the gay. That's horribly discriminatory, but the film simply didn't open in the Bible Belt." -- Oliver Stone
That reveals his true agenda. Stone is complaining that his film is going into the toilet because of all the redneck rube homophobes in Red State "Jesusland". It's just thinly veiled prejudice.
Stone blames the failure of Alexander on the Bible Belt?
What a spineless slug.
This is BS! The movie plain SUCKED. This is just another "Blame to Red States" thing. There are plenty of left wingers who would love this sort of movie, but Alexander made less than 1/3 of what F911 did...
From what I understand from the people who did see it, it is boring. How a film on one of the most fascinating historical figures ever could be boring is amazing but that is what they said. They were cheering for Alexander to die just so it would end.
And the battle scenes were, in their words, the most awful mess. And these were people who liked "Troy" and even "Helen of Troy". For them to say it was bad it must have stunk like rotting shrimp.
I was thinking the same.
I am skeptical of which movies I see. I probably won't ever see a movie directed by Oliver Stone.
What's that, about twenty to twenty-five people per show? I'm surpirsed it's even drawing that many viewers! This film is such a bomb and a lemon, it gets press for being a bomb and a lemon!!!!
What a shame. I actually admired Scorsese's early work and now he has sunk to these depths...Hollyweird is at a crossroads: either reform and cleanse itself or go down in the dustbins of you know what.
Fortunately we have the classics to watch for the first time or rewatch.
Really? I'm surprised as it has gotten such good reviews. Saw SIDEWAYS on Thursday, it was hilarious although also disturbing.
Uh no that ain't it Oliver. Both the kiddies and the adults were just fine with LOTR's Sam and Frodo hugging, crying and expressing tenderness because they weren't perverted hobbits. They were revolted by your perversion of male relationships in your queer porn video.
No, but I saw "Born on the Fourth of July" and it was a very ugly movie. It wasn't even entertaining. Just ugly.
Huh? Help me make sense of what you just wrote!
Oliver Stone made the movie for an audience composed of atheists and Christian-haters, loaded it up with gratuitous sex and violence, then he gets very thoughtful and starts talking about "artistic (gag) meaning."
Stone and the Moral Relativist Shock Troops better mend their ways. The usual suspects include:
abortion-worshipping Feminazis
the fully fornicating Playboy-Cosmo faction
secular humanists who despise Christians
the ACLU-Christian baiters
Planned Parenthood and the population control cabal
the gay-transgender anti-family element
All of them aided and abetted by a compliant liberal media, agenda-driven academia which inculcates the Nation's youth with the idealogy along with Hollywarped---stealth Christian-haters---who proselytize audiences 24/7 without their knowledge or consent.
We, the people, have had it with Hollywarped's endless poselytizing, the continuous brainwashing of audiences into Christian-hating and American-hating, without the audiences' knowledge or consent. They've chipped away at Western civilzation under the guise of "artistic expression."
Follywood firmly believes that 24/7 of their sexually salacious and violent TV, movies and music are not harming kids and the culture.
OTOH, Hollywarped also believes----with the religious fervor of Tammy Faye Baker---- that a single 15-sec commercial will compel tens of millions of Americans into thousands of stores to buy billions of dollars worth of soap, soup, breakfast cereal and cars.
They can't have it both ways.
The Secular Taliban left the building Nov 2, 2004. Follywood better live with it.
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