Oliver Stone is blaming the failure of Alexander on fundamentalists. Story
If anything, the controversy over Alex’s wee-wee probably helped the movie’s box office. I personally thought it wasn’t gay enough, but my main issue is that Alex was a fascinating enough dude that if his sex life was never mentioned the movie could have been great. Instead Stone wasted 150 million, the talents of Colin Farrell and Anthony Hopkins, thousands of extras and left not a cliche unturned in his quest to block historical epics of the ancient world for another decade. The dialogue would imply there was no script but rather the actors were fed lines by romance novelists sitting in the wings, Jolie’s Olympias was written after 10 minutes spent reading “Roots of Homosexuality: 1926 Edition” and “Freud for Dummies”, he totally lacked the courage of his convictions in the Hepheastion relationship, he seemed to repeat the same scene and speeches 15 times, decided that such issues as administering an incredibly diverse collection of peoples and getting declared a god and that whole Gordion knot thing just weren’t important enough to show on film when you could have yet another Val Kilmer flashback, and he didn’t even do enough research to know that he should PAINT THE FCKING STATUES*!
But all this aside, the reason for the movie’s failure wasn’t just American homophobia, but particularly southern ignorance:
Why do so many liberals have seizures and tear their garments if a comment stereotyping gays, blacks, Jews or three legged Portugese fishermen appears on so much as a locker room wall, but they feel that lumping all southerners together as mouth breathing brow-ridged knuckle dragging cretins is perfectly alright?
Anyway, point: Stone is a veddy veddy bad man who hasn’t made a decent movie since before the Olsen Twins were born. When I side with the Fundamentalists against anybody, there’s a problem.
