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| Oliver Stone: Stupid Public Does Not Appreciate My Genius |
| 2005-07-29 |
| OLIVER STONE believes the critical mauling his epic ALEXANDER received last year (04) was the inevitable result of America's youth misunderstanding ancient history. Stone, who recently re-edited the film for its DVD release, puts Alexander's poor reception down to previous movies that glamorise history. He says, "Because of BRAVEHEART, I think kids see ancient times as, 'Hey man, that's violence!' They don't see it as separate cultures that in some cases had stronger values than ours. "The Greek culture in its entirety is what I was going for, or the Persian culture. It's not just a hero's tale. Alexander was a flawed hero, a complex character. "My reputation has been battered to death so many times, I'm surprised I'm still alive." Homoeroticism and stupifying boredom are essential in any understanding of history. |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #16 Epics...Whaddabout "Troy"? I liked *it*. Maybe I'll rent ... waitaminute... Oliver Stone? Nevermind. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2005-07-29 22:24 |
| #15 Alexander was Bi-sexual or Gay, and it was not a big deal that time. Lets face it americans(not all but most) dont know shit when it comes to history(sry but its true). I have not seen this film but im goin to rent it and give it a chance because i like epic war movies and history. |
| Posted by: Viking 2005-07-29 19:54 |
| #14 He could protest by cutting his ear off Heh. Maybe both ears *and* the tail. Or is that bullfighting? |
| Posted by: SteveS 2005-07-29 19:52 |
| #13 I watched Heaven and Earth the other day and the story sucked. It contained the same sort of lies which Kerry has been spouting for years - Gi's throwing villagers out of helocopters, tortures, rapes, dead prositutes thrown out with the garbage, etc.... All GI's were psycho, special ops murdering people, etc.... And of course afterwards Vietnam became a 'workers paradise'... No mention of all the Vietmanese who were killed by the North afterwards in their 're-education centers'.... or all the vietmanese boat people. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2005-07-29 18:45 |
| #12 Quentin Tarantino has more talent in his pointy little head than you don your entire body, Ollie. ...And I HATE Tarantino's politics. Love his work, though. |
| Posted by: badanov 2005-07-29 18:43 |
| #11 I wouldn't pay a nickel to watch ANYTHING that feeble minded sack-o-shit made. I vote with my dollars. I refuse to willingly give my money to those anti-American hollywood fucks. |
| Posted by: Tom Dooley 2005-07-29 16:39 |
| #10 Oliver Stone is living proof that paranoid schizophrenia is not necessarily an impediment to making millions of dollars. |
| Posted by: Xbalanke 2005-07-29 16:13 |
| #9 Are Stone's eyes brown? 'Cuz he's full of shit. (If they're not brown, it just means he's a quart short.) |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2005-07-29 16:08 |
| #8 You people just wait, there's a big, big movie on the way, Big Easy, Little Easy, Easter In Korea with the F11 F12 flight crews, PG&E, GM, and exploding bullets of love. |
| Posted by: Jack Rubenstein 2005-07-29 15:50 |
| #7 He could protest by cutting his ear off... No wait, that guy WAS a genius. |
| Posted by: True German Ally 2005-07-29 14:59 |
| #6 Any Stone movie just plain sucks. Long, dull, takes 'boring' to an entirely new depth. |
| Posted by: USN, ret. 2005-07-29 14:52 |
| #5 You never know - maybe 50 years later, Alexander will be hailed as a classic, and film school students will be stealing ideas from it. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2005-07-29 14:41 |
| #4 It did have one of the most unintentionally-funny death scenes, though. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2005-07-29 14:20 |
| #3 I thought it bombed because America is anti-gay? Or was it the Bushitler/Ashkkkroft conspiracy? Or did it just really, really suck? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2005-07-29 14:18 |
| #2 Is there anyway we can entice him to defect to Cuba? |
| Posted by: ed 2005-07-29 14:13 |
| #1 Stone, I know ancient history forward and backwards, and I still think you really fucked up the Alexander movie. Think dialog moron, it isn't just about violence (although that is cool). Your movies suck so bad, they bring the word suck to a whole new level of suck. We are talking alternet diamention suckage here. Do us all a favor, stop wasting our oxygen and stop making movies. Please...... Or we will beat you to death with a baby Jesus. |
| Posted by: mmurray821 2005-07-29 13:54 |