THINK LIKE A STONE: Alexander (2004). Oliver Stone’s one hundred and fifty-five-million-dollar epic about the con- queror of ninety percent of the world, was skipped at the theatre by ninety percent of movie goers. The few who did see it didn’t think it was so great, calling the movie ambitious and risky but unfinished, unwieldy and flawed. Historians hated it because it was inaccurate and directed by Oliver Stone, which is often redundant. Luckily for you none of the endless stream of names, places or dates narrated by Anthony Hopkins as Ptolemy will be on the final exam. Stone created the film as a historical opus to explain Alexander’s kinder, gentler side but you don’t have to use it that way. Instead, utilize it purely for its visual entertainment value and to ask yourself if any ruler with flowing locks as bad as Colin Farrell’s could truly conquer the world?
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