Even the fighting scenes (elephants, camels, falanx). Although I thought the “romantic scenes” terrible, I enjoyed the costumes, the landscapes, the interiors of the palaces etc. Unfortunately, there is no Iranian Anti-Defamation League”.
If Stone had used similar stereotypes to describe Jews, native Americans or Africans, he would have encountered a storm of indignation. If Lane Fox had ignored thirty years of scholarship in his book on Pagans and Christians, his reputation as a serious scholar would have been damaged beyond repair. “What is disturbing about Alexander is that it offers a western image of a decadent Near East, full of cowardly kings and sensual women. This is what he concludes about Lane Fox and the film: In my progression of studying ancient Greek civilization, I am still in the 370's or thereabout so I have a little ways to go before I come to Alexander and the Hellenistic period that follows. I thought about re-reading the Fox bio but instead I am planning - based upon recommendations in this group - to read the one by Green, which I picked up in hardcover at a used book store just recently. Also, Banylonian sources can certainly enhance our perspective but these often the challenge of another kind of bias, so we must be careful of too much revisionism based upon the information they offer. In the film world, this role typically does not have too much clout. I would not hold Fox too strongly to account for Stone's film excesses, even though he served as the historical advisor. I don't recall Fox's bio being "over-the-top," although that is often characteristic of Stone movies, despite the fact that he is a truly great director. I never watched the entire Stone movie "Alexander" because it turned me off in the first fifteen minutes and the reviews seemed to imply that i would hate it all the way through. Interesting article marieke - I read the Robin Lane Fox bio of Alexander many, many years ago and I loved it at the time.
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