HISTORY VS HOLLYWOOD

Fact versus fiction on the silver screen

ALEXANDER Director: Oliver Stone Starring: Colin Farrell, Angelina Jolie, Val Kilmer Country: Greece Year: 2004 A bombastic biopic, but does it lose focus on facts in favour of action and spectacle? VERDICT: Trades a lot of history for glitz and glamour. 01 Philip II (Kilmer) is depicted as having a scar over his right eye, possibly taken from a reconstruction in 1984 of what were believed to be the remains of Philip. However, those remains were later proven to not be his, which would’ve been known when the film was shot. 02 Alexander (Farrell) wears an elaborate lion-head helmet into battle, however there’s no record of him wearing any such headgear. In fact, Plutarch records his helmet as being of plain iron. But the other equipment of the Macedonian military…

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