Alexander Teaser & Trailer

[KaizerSoze]

Stone has long wanted to make a film about the military conqueror Alexander the Great (356-323 BC), who in his 32 years created the most stupendous empire the world had seen, stretching from the Balkans to the Himalayas, and including what is now [b']Macedonia[/b]

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[...]Greece

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Dioti

a)I Makedonia DEN einai stin Ellada

b)I Makedonia einai xehwristi xwra

 

 

The film also stars Anthony Hopkins as Ptolemy, who founded the Macedonian dynasty in Egypt;

Katse re,o Ptolemaios den itan stratigos tou Alexndrou,an den kanw lathos elafrws megalyteros???Edw milame gia 39 xronia diafora reeeeeee

Val Kilmer as Alexander's father, Philip;

Opote eipame as isofarisoume,as valoume ton pitsirikogia patera

and Angelina Jolie 8) 8) 8) (in real life only a year older than Farrell) as his mother, Olympias.

Ti provlima exete me tis ilikies re???Etsi goustaroume

 

Jared Leto plays Hephaistion, a Macedonian warrior who is Alexander's closest friend.

Autos na mou to thymitheis,tha prokypsei to gomenaki tou Alexndrou

 

 

"Alexander" has now moved to Thailand for jungle battle scenes; the 85-day shoot concludes early next month.

Analytika gia ton Alexandro exw kamia 10ara xronia na diavasw alla re seis,egw ftaiw i ontws to palikari den polemise pote o idios se perivallon zouglas??

Stone and his team have seen for themselves why Alexander's life proves such a daunting project. "The big films I made before were contemporary," Stone says. "With this we had to start from scratch, make every single piece of clothing and armor, because nothing is available. We go back 23 centuries, so whatever you need ? pottery, glasses ? there's nothing you can get."

Trizoun ta kokkala tou ANdronikou!!!Pigene mexri tin Vergina reeeeee

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[...]Greece

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Dioti

a)I Makedonia DEN einai stin Ellada

b)I Makedonia einai xehwristi xwra

Αν δεν το ήξερες' date=' η Μακεδονία είναι μιά χώρα στα βόρεια σύνορά μας, που ενώ εμείς τη λέμε "Σκόπια" ή "ΠΓΔΜ", όλος ο υπόλοιπος κόσμος τη λέει [b']Macedonia[/b]. Παρ'όλα αυτά, οι πολιτικοί μας επιμένουν ότι το θέμα του ονόματος είναι ακόμη ανοικτό (δεν ξέρω μήπως εννοούν το θέμα του ονόματος της Ελληνικής Μακεδονίας).

[KaizerSoze]

Αν δεν το ήξερες, η Μακεδονία είναι μιά χώρα στα βόρεια σύνορά μας, που ενώ εμείς τη λέμε "Σκόπια" ή "ΠΓΔΜ", όλος ο υπόλοιπος κόσμος τη λέει Macedonia[/b']. Παρ'όλα αυτά, οι πολιτικοί μας επιμένουν ότι το θέμα του ονόματος είναι ακόμη ανοικτό (δεν ξέρω μήπως εννοούν το θέμα του ονόματος της Ελληνικής Μακεδονίας).

Re dimako,den amfivallw,akrivws ekei pigene to "Etsiiiiiiiiiiii"

[privateer]

Allo ena quote tou Stone "These men were Macedonians, not cultivated Greeks, and it seemed to me they occupied a similar position that the Irish and Scots did to the English in the British Empire"

[konnak]

Ωστόσο εγώ αυτό με τη Μπελούτσι το χα ακούσει. Μάλιστα, νόμιζα ότι ήταν στάνταρ. Οπότε έψαξα και την άλλη ταινία -αυτή που θα κάνει ο Baz Luhrmann, και voila, Ολυμπιάδα η Νικόλ Κίντμαν. Οπότε no Bellucci.

Ωχ ωχ, ο Στόουν μόλις με ανησύχησε ιδιαιτέρως. Τελικά αυτό που αναφέρθηκε στην πρώτη σελίδα περί Βουκεφάλα δεν είναι τόσο απίθανο...

[privateer]

Just heard from a friend from the set of the new Warner Bros. epic Alexander and boy does he paint a brilliant picture. Here is what we got out of our little chat:

 

"We had our first full day of shooting yesterday and it was hella long, plus the moccasins we wear for our costumes are not Nike Airs so our feet hurt like a motha. It is cool but no joke, we worked 20 hours yesterday."

 

"We left the hotel at 3:45 am for the set and right before we left Colin [Farrell] rolled in with a few buddies and one of them had a beer bottle in his hand, definitely coming in from the night before." As for Colin's part in the filming; he was spotted with two others riding horseback just coming up to see what was going on but he did not shoot.

 

As far as what they were shooting we got word that it was four separate scenes. Shooting is taking place in a jungle like setting in the Udon Thani province in Thailand. The ground is covered in leaves and the cast and ground is consistently sprayed down with a fire house to create that "tropical" effect. Also amidst the forest are several fog machines and a drummer some 50 yards away beating a large drum every 5-10 seconds.

 

The first scene "was of all of us [Alexander's army] lined up in army formation on a hill that was slowly rising up behind us, and our commander was in front and was pacing back and forth and said, 'you will hit them with your left...and then hit them with your right,' in a very deep Irish accent."

 

A second scene was very similar to the first but covering the left flank of the formation, and the third scene is a little more intense as it focuses on what are called choppers, and the head commander yells out, "Bring the assault teams forward!" Then the battle captain yells, "Choppers, prepare your blades. Follow me!"

 

Our insider reports that, "The choppers are an assault team that attacks elephants. Each elephant has a guard at each leg to keep him from being attacked, so the first four guys in the assault team are to attack these four guys and the second four guys have no shields but have long hooked blade weapons tied to their hamstrings and they gut the elephant."

 

He described it as "fog everywhere, a creepy battle drum, and a US Marine Corp. captain yelling orders to an army of guys with medieval weapons. No joke, Oliver [stone] hired a USMC advisor to run the extras and be the military advisor."

 

The fourth scene they shot "was when our battalion is ordered to lower our spears then a horn sounds signaling our troops that we are being attacked from behind, half the troops steady and half turn to fight."

 

As for what they are wearing he said, "I am wearing a burlap sac with arm and head holes cut in it along with a burlap pair of undies. I have an arched short sword and a big silver shield. Most of us have to wear hair pieces so that we have locks hanging out our helmets, mostly black but with blonde streaks, they also made us shave our legs."

 

The piece of land they are shooting on is reportedly 20-30 acres and they will stay there until approximately the 31st when they will move about 5 hours northwest to continue the shoot. The scenes are supposedly the battles that went on in India and so far the only warriors shot have been the Macedonians.

 

 

 

 

 

Well, after a long wait in between updates we have finally gotten word from our insider over in Thailand from the shoot on the set of Alexander.

 

The scenes that were described finished shooting on Tuesday of this week and I will warn you now that if you donʼt know anything about Alexander the Great there is a bit of a spoiler involved with this recap, and with that said letʼs get to it?

 

The shooting covers a span of eight days, all of which were battle scenes and Colin Farrell was involved at full tilt playing the role of Alexander the Great. Other notables on hand were Jared Leto, Rory McCann, Ian Beattie, and Elliot Cowan.

 

It is worth mention that Jared Leto plays the role of Hephaestion a Macedonian nobleman, closest friend and alleged lover of Alexander the Great and Ian Beattie plays Antigonus, one of the oldest and ablest of Alexander's Macedonian generals.

 

The first scenes that were shot involved the attack on the elephants by the Macedonians that I described in my first set report as the choppers are led by Antigonus into battle against the elephants, only this time the elephants were there in full force.

 

Our insider describes it, "the elephants were decorated in gold plate looking armor with carriage baskets on the back for carrying passengers, they were going up on two feet, spinning around very fast, and moving forward and backwards. We were attacking the elephants from each side, basically, we had one guy at each leg."

 

"We were very, very close to the elephants and it was a bit difficult not to get stepped on. My adrenaline was pumping because, on one hand, I'm doing my job by acting like an elephant slayer and on the other hand I'm doing my job by trying to stay alive! All of us were a bit wide eyed after each take."

 

That was not the only part the elephants played as the major portion of the shoot was dedicated to the massive battle toward the end of the film involving Persians, Macedonians, Ethiopians, the Indians, and more?

 

As far as costumes go, "The Ethiopians were wearing an African cloth wrap and had leopard fur sashes draped across there chests while carrying zebra skin shields. The Persians wore blue pants with cream colored patterned tops with middle east style head wraps. The Macedonians were wearing either leather armor, or gold plated armor."

 

"The Indian army all looked virtually the same, they wore cream colored cloth wraps for pants which kind of looked like MC Hammer pants then they had a either a leather or bright colored cloth, very thin, going from shoulder to waist. Then the kings and princes of India wore similar pants but made of silk and had a ton of beaded ornaments and jewelry around there necks along with leather arm bands, very cool looking!"

 

The cast had to take into consideration fire hoses being used to wet them and the ground, elephants (20 or so), and wooden arrows being shot all around them.

 

During the battle with the elephants and the main battle scene to simulate people being hit by arrows, "they tied a couple cables to guys and yanked them back and to the ground to make it look like they were really getting hit by arrow. They were real arrows but they were never shot at us, they will be added with CGI, but they did use real arrow in big scenes. They shot them over us and in between us, it was pretty crazy seeing arrows with plastic tips landing at your feet!"

 

So I know you are anxious to hear what part Colin played and here comes your SPOILER, so if you donʼt want to know how Alexander ends or comes close to ending, look away and shut your eyes, or click here to look at some photos.

 

So the battle is reigning on and the Macedonians soon start to run "when Colin rides behind the infantry and says something like ʽMacedonians, why do you run!,ʼ then another commander yells, ʽRegroup in the name of the king.ʼ We fall back in and Alexander and all the other leaders ride through us on horse back, which was crazy because they didn't really tell us where they would be coming from. Basically you just jumped out of the way to save your ass!"

 

"So did they shoot the scene where Alexander dies?" you ask well our insider says, "from what I know, he dies after the battle," and here is how it goes down?

 

"He is riding a huge black stallion through a big ass battle where everyone is swinging swords and smashing shields then an elephant spears the horse with its tusks while Alexander takes a direct shot from an arrow to the chest, the horse dies and Alexander falls to the earth. At this point the Macedonians start to fight really hard for there fallen king and to rescue him, they advance and push back the Indians enough to be able to carry Alexander out on a huge silver shield."

 

"He was lying on his back with the arrow sticking out of his ribs being held above the menʼs heads, his body was almost lifeless and the whole scene was very dramatic, and as the five men carry his body out through the Macedonian army, we were to look up at him, try to touch his hand or arm, and say something like ʽGod Speed Alexander,ʼ or ʽGet well my kingʼ or whatever seemed right."

 

By the sound of the battle scenes it seems as if the elephants are absolutely magnificent! The "elephants would run full speed at our battalion only to stop on a dime, grab a spear out of our hands and snap it with there trunks, one time they had a elephant knock over a real tree, one time the elephant was gutted, an Indian prince was throwing spears from atop an elephant, and one time an elephant stomped someoneʼs head."

 

Exciting eh? Well here is how they did the gutting and the head stomping?

 

First to the gutting, "They had this huge rubber intestine that they fixed to the elephants belly that when touched fell down all bloody and nasty." Simple enough, but just wait?

 

Now to the head stomp, "The head was cool. They had a mannequin with a head made of plaster and was filled with blood and brain looking stuff, then they had a fake elephant leg stomp on the head of the mannequin for the close-up while a pile of steaming intestines lay next to the body." Now that is what I am talking about!

 

Also he mentioned that Jared Letoʼs character, Hephaestion, "got messed up in battle and was laying all bloody and wounded, while Alexander was carried off, and Ian Beattieʼs character [Antigonus] had one eye, the other eye was shot out by a cross bow."

 

Our insider described the entire shoot as, "Extremely physical, everyone was a bit battered and bruised from the battles. One stunt man broke his leg by being bucked off a horse into a tree and another guy had his horse run his knee into a tree."

 

Shooting is said to still be going on in Ubon Thani, but our insider believes that they are small scenes with no battles "I don't even think the stunt team made it," he said.

 

I don't know about you, but that is enough to get me excited for this flick, can't wait for November, but until then click the link below to get more Alexander.

 

[KaizerSoze]

 

Our insider reports that' date=' "The choppers are an assault team that attacks elephants. Each elephant has a guard at each leg to keep him from being attacked, so the first four guys in the assault team are to attack these four guys and the second four guys have no shields but have long hooked blade weapons tied to their hamstrings and they gut the elephant." [/quote']EEEEEEEEEEE??????

 

He described it as "fog everywhere, a creepy battle drum, and a US Marine Corp. captain yelling orders to an army of guys with medieval weapons. No joke, Oliver [stone] hired a USMC advisor to run the extras and be the military advisor."

Dioti ws gnwston kai o Alexandros kata vathos Amerikanos itan

 

Ok,to xerw oti to palikari perigrafei tis teleutaies maxes alla...

GAMW TIN TYXI MOU GIATI MEXRI TWRA SE KANENA ARTHRO DEN EXW DIAVASEI GIA ISSO,GRANIKO,GAYGAMILA???POU EINAI O GORDIOS DESMOS??POU EINAI O GAMOS TOU ALEXANDROU??POU EINAI POU ARXIZEI KAI ZEI SAN PERSIS??

[LL_NEO]

Keyser μήπως περιμένεις πάρα πολλά πράγματα απο Αμερικάνικη ταινία. Αν δε μας τον παρουσιάσουν ως κραγμένη αδερφή που το πρώτο πράγμα που έκανε ήταν να κατακτήσει τη βόρεια Μύκονο θα πρέπει να κάνουμε το σταυρό μας

[dim_b]

Διαγράφηκαν όλα τα άσχετα posts.

Συνεχίστε τη συζήτηση γιά τον Αλέξανδρο.

[KaizerSoze]

Loipon,o ALexandros ..den exei kamia sxesi me tin Monica Belluchi i opoia...

[KWSN_Men]

Ωραία λοιπόν, καταλάβαμε. Έχουμε να κάνουμε με μια ταινία εμπνευσμένη από την ζωή του Αλέξανδρου, που σε καμία περίπτωση δεν είναι βιογραφία του. Με άλλα λόγια, τα γάμησε όλα ο Stone...

[Marcos_Aurilius]

Συμφωνώ με LL_NEO και KWSN_Men. Αυτο κατάλαβα κι εγώ απ'όσα διάβασα μέχρι τώρα. Ελπίζω τουλάχιστον όταν βγει, να μην μείνουν αναπάντητα κάποια πράγματα...

[Godfath3r]

Re paidia ola kala ola wraia.Olh h ypo8esh einai poly sovarh.Yparxoun istorika stoixeia pou na apodeiknyoun oti o M. Alexandros htan gay?An afto parousiasei h

tainia oxi mono einai gia klamata alla shkwnei sovarh fasaria ktlp!!Diavasa se

prohgoumena posts oti eixe prota8ei se ellhnes paragwgous na analavoun to

ergo.Etsi paei h Ellada pisw magkes.

 

Me pikria...

[Gary]

Να δείς που στο τέλος θα γυρίζει πίσω σε αναπηρική καρέκλα ...

[aragorn]

Για πάμε και τα ωραία, για πάμε

 

από http://www.alexander-the-great.co.uk/olympias.htm

 

"Olympias was the daughter of Neoptolemus the king of Epirus, now modern Albania"

 

 

και προχωρώ: στο philip.htm

 

"Philip had been a Macedonian hostage living in Thebes during his twenties and grew to think of himself as a Greek rather than as a Macedonian"