Becoming Alexander | Making of Oliver Stone's "Alexander" (Discovery Documentary

Becoming Alexander | Making of Oliver Stone's "Alexander" (Discovery Documentary | 2005)

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I finally found this ultimate rare documentary made by Discovery Channel, back in 2003. Aired in 2005. It's about preparations and training for the movie. It shows how much everyone had to put in their efforts and how much Stone gave himself into this project, which I believe is his work of a lifetime. Brilliant documentary, as I said, EXTREMELY hard to find.
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@shevandy55 6 жыл бұрын

I have a new respect for the work put in this production, and for the actor Colin Farrell.

@soldat2501 6 жыл бұрын

As I watch the movie and the history, i am guessing he was probably insane. His personality and enthusiasm was infectious and he made people think they could do more than they ever imagined. The battle strategy was crazy, insane. His generals could not conceive it but he saw it and the only way anyone could have thought that would work was if they were nuts. But it worked and he did it. That's why he was Alexander the Great. We haven't seen someone like him in 2500 years.

@jamessalvatore7054 4 жыл бұрын

Beauty of humanity. We look into the eyes of defeat and say " Not Today" One of the things that still linger with our history.

@trancecod 4 жыл бұрын

battle strategy that was developed by his father?

@jarlnils435 2 жыл бұрын

@@trancecod his father developed the Syntagma but Alexander made it better and he used his own taktics. Philipps Syntagma was 100 men strong but alexander made it 256 men strong. Philipp had not as much troops nor the variety of troops. Alexander had greek hoblites in the back, hypaspistai who are you could say light and fast hoblites at the flanks, thracian and agrianian peltasts and swordmen from thracian tribes like the dii used as fast units to close gabs in the pike line. Slingers from rhodes, archers from crete, mounted spearthrowers from all over the balkan, lancers from thessaly who were even more than his famous companion cavalry. His army was made of troops from all of hellas. Philipp at his time had not that. He simply had the pikes, companions and light peltasts from macedon. With that he was able to crush the greek hoblite armies. But the planning and preperation for his conquest of Asia was for nothing because of the rebellion after his death Alexander had to plan every thing new

@KingKing-cz6xh 2 жыл бұрын

He wasn’t insane he’d been told since he was child he was the the son of Zeus and that he was going to have a great destiny and he just kept winning battles and conquering territories he had delusions of grandeur that kept being confirmed with every battle and every kingdom he defeated

@MrCharlieSeo 2 жыл бұрын

Alexander is truly great but so was Chingiz Khan

@benjesterw Жыл бұрын

I watched Alexander a while ago and thought it was pretty alright and enjoyable movie, but recently I've been watch Kings and Generals videos of Alexander and now with this video, I feel Oliver Stone and Colin Farrell were robbed at the box office. I didnt realise just how much hard work dedication and effort to get it right they put in. So much more than other "historical" movies with fake CGI armies of generic guys. Such a shame it wasnt rewarded and we dont get more movies like this.

@taroman7100 6 жыл бұрын

incredible I never thought colin got credit he deserved Those were big boots to fill

@planetkori 5 жыл бұрын

I agree completely. He worked his ass off to nail that role and he knocked it out of the park as far as I'm concerned. He and the film were criminally overlooked. Still are today, sad to say. Amazing film. Bravo, Oliver. Bravo, Colin.

@jeremyjohnson7429 2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely so. Embodied the greatness of "megos Alexandros"

@TylerNessss 3 жыл бұрын

Criminally underrated movie

@DjordjeSrpski 7 жыл бұрын

so much time and effort invested in this movie, but it is so underrated, when you take a look at imdb ratings and wins and nomnations is like you are looking at some adam sandler comedy...

@trez735 6 жыл бұрын

It is not underrated. The movie is shit with its ridiculous accents, lousy acting and a lead who came across as a modern day teenager with no presence. I'm a history buff but I would have preferred spending 3 hours watching adam Sandler.

@camerondiaztwin 6 жыл бұрын

I'm also a history buff and if you think Adam Sandler is superior to this, you don't understand history OR acting. The film was very flawed due entirely to poor decisions on the part of its director Oliver Stone. His cast, on the other hand, were superb as far as they could be.

@soldat2501 6 жыл бұрын

What accents were ridiculous? I am a history buff and I loved it. I am sorry not every moving can be Saving Private Ryan or Gladiator. Some actually have to be historically based.

@camerondiaztwin 6 жыл бұрын

Brad, apparently "one two" expected the actors to speak in the Greek of their time period. Never mind the fact that the majority of moviegoers would never understand it, lol

@ImperialDiecast 4 жыл бұрын

@@trez735 why are american accents and british accents okay in movies, but irish accents ridiculous? I for one think it highlights the "outlandishness" of Macedonians being Greeks yet still "from the north" and therefore slightly harder to understand. I'd expect the stereotypical Athenian to have a posh British and the stereotypical Spartan like Gerard Butler to have that brutish American accent.

@viking1960 4 жыл бұрын

I never thought that Angelina Jolie was that beautiful, but in the movie Alexander she is a stunning beauty.

@jean-pierrefernandez2460 2 жыл бұрын

Most women look truly glorious once you get them out of the modern get up and into classical clothes and classical hairstyles, makes you wonder what modern fashion designers and socialites are really thinking and really doing

@Bullet-Tooth-Tony- 2 жыл бұрын

@@jean-pierrefernandez2460 Yeah if you look at the women in the Spartacus and Rome series they are hot as hell

@jarlnils435 Жыл бұрын

People: "He has an irish accent! That's unrealistic!" Me: "Yes and all of them speak english, or in the german version they all speak german." What do people expect, when the actors speak their own language?

@vampirediaries4227 7 жыл бұрын

How much work was put into this movie👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 👍🏻👌🏻💪🏻My favorite movie from all❤️

@henrykszulc9641 6 жыл бұрын

Vampire Diaries and MY TOO !

@ivoupsilon 8 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot ! This never get's old ! Long live Alexander !

@Bonnie_Lou 6 жыл бұрын

Alexander III of Macedon was the most incredible Conquerer of all time!!! I was so happy when this movie was made to show 'some' of his quests xo

@jarlnils435 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I don't think that it would be fair to ask for all of his conquest. That would be to much. I was sad that they cut out the Opis mutiny but again, it would be way to much. I also don't understand the people who say that there was not enough character development. They showed Alexander like he was discribed. He is a historical figur not a fictional character. And that's why I love that movie

@blkcpdconure 5 жыл бұрын

When I first saw this movie I thought it was horrible. But recently I got very interested in Alexander the Great and saw they released Alexander: Revisited so I bought it. It was a great movie this time around and I do not regret buying it.

@erentheca 6 жыл бұрын

Imaging to be trained by the legendary Dale Dye himself.

@publiusdeciusmus154 6 жыл бұрын

The chanting at 34:48 is reference to the 'Alalalalalai' Macedonian alalagmœ (war cry)., you can sort of here it sporadicaly in the film during Gaugemela over the top of 'EN-Y-A-LIOS' which is the more prominent chanting. The name Enyalios, however, was usually used as a title for the god Ares.

@jarlnils435 2 жыл бұрын

Enyalios is a part of Ares but at the same time he is his son, the god of combat. Alalalalala or better Alala Alala is funny because it's not only the warcry but Alala is also the name of the goddess of the warcry.

@danka216 8 жыл бұрын

Briliant teachers, briliant taylors, makers of weapons and briliant Collin Farrell

@georgebatterbee7493 3 жыл бұрын

Fantastic. Huge respect for the incredible detail and effort put in by All. Thank you for the posting.

@shirinnasiri3488 3 жыл бұрын

great movie and what a great performance colin did

@elizabethmcleod246 3 жыл бұрын

One meal a day? Goodness, what troopers the actors were.

@razjacob5323 4 жыл бұрын

Great..... haha. The boxing cigarettes in the attach of the greek linothorax at the end of the vidéo when colin speaks. 😂. I like it.

@jarlnils435 2 жыл бұрын

Soldiers, that's all I have to say about that 😂

@Sophie_kent 3 жыл бұрын

all this work and effort from everyone, and the movie bombed....

@dfontoul 8 жыл бұрын

23:11 This is the actual site of Aristotle's School in ancient Mieza, at Nymphaion (the Shrine of the Nymphs), near modern day Naousa, Greece. I know beacuse I live nearby.

@mlks007 8 жыл бұрын

+Dionysios Fontoulis αυτη η σκηνή γυρίστηκε στην Ελλάδα;

@dfontoul 8 жыл бұрын

Ναι.

@TheArtalex 7 жыл бұрын

I do not believe you!do you know the workshop of Phidias too,you liar!?

@dfontoul 7 жыл бұрын

No, I do not. And I don't really care whether you believe me or not, what I stated above is absolutely true; this is the site of Aristotle's school in Mieza. Google it.

@TheArtalex 7 жыл бұрын

@CH-zc8qx 2 жыл бұрын

Watching this documentary makes me sad for everyone involved, especially Colin Farrell and Oliver Stone. All this hard work should've paid off. I believe what ultimately doomed this movie was the direction. Oliver Stone is a master, but his vision for Alexander was a misguided one. To show how great Alexander was, Stone should've let that greatness reflected in the men around him, should've shown more of the admiration Alexander's men had for him. Instead, so much of this movie is about how disenchanted his generals were, how much his soldiers wanted to go home, mutiny, disagreement, and Alexander's love life. I get that they were trying to humanize Alexander, but the decision to portray him as emotional and uncertain undermined the grandeur of the man. Men like Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon, etc. were larger than life. Perhaps a montage of battles and victories would've served the film better than the sex scene with Roxana, Begoas' dance, the Oedipus complex scenes with Olympia, and the like. A huge missed opportunity is the Opis mutiny. Alexander's speech there is one of the greatest speeches in history, a perfect display of his charisma, and yet in the movie, it's just another scene to show how disillusioned his men became. And also, the decision to edit the movie like a Greek tragedy play with the flashback and voiceover and disjointed timeline is a respectable one, but it obviously doesn't translate well onto the big screen.

@dk4767 Жыл бұрын

i still love this film

@sarahkoob1156 6 жыл бұрын

Love this wish their was an Alexander adventure to go on

@daltonmorgan6464 8 жыл бұрын

Nice post, thanks

@davegahanfamily9405 3 жыл бұрын

Woow awesome work

@TheArtalex 5 ай бұрын

Forever Alexander...ALEXANDER THE GREAT!🏛🚩🚩🚩🚩

@alexeajames4200 5 жыл бұрын

Wow... They really broke Colin the actor and turned him into the leader, military man Alexander the great was. Love it... Another thing, Watching Colin Farrell doing Alexander's part made my day😍. I love both men👍🤘

@davegahanfamily9405 3 жыл бұрын

Woow my true hero Alexander

@blablabla13344 2 жыл бұрын

Big transformation for the lead actor.

@ashishmulewar9997 4 жыл бұрын

Great movie 👌 Great warrior

@mohamedhommos7748 2 жыл бұрын

Colin Farell my best good actor Academy oscar winner for my memory Alexander the Great Egypt.

@tenebrosforsetti.7998 3 жыл бұрын

BEYOND UNIMAGINABLY AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@aaaknowkneemoos4811 4 жыл бұрын

alexander once charge to king darius alone with enemy lines in front and it made the enemy king fall back, cheated death many times, lead the macedonian by himself in front, conquered the the powerful kingdom of babylon, after his death his generals tried to immitate his actions and they either died or failed, thats why he is called the great

@lookwaticando909 9 ай бұрын

colins eyes got him the role , dude is just nowhere near the 4th wall

@adultshortstories438 Жыл бұрын

Why are there no 'watch along' reaction videos to this epic movie on youtube?

@Bobbi5941 Жыл бұрын

After watching this film , I immediately has fallen in love with Colin 😅😊😂🎉

@jhtsurvival 2 жыл бұрын

Oh jeez I didn't know this was an oliver stone movie

@peterrogers9257 Жыл бұрын

It's very sad that this film turn out the way it did. It has some of the best battle scene put to film, showing soldiers fighting as a specialist unit. But you never see his masterful technician side prior to the battles, he just seen as a mad man who about to lose the plot. Colin was great, but I am so glad Oliver Stone didn't direct the movie Gladiator

@JimmySteller 8 ай бұрын

I disagree. I think Gladiator doesn't hold a candle to Oliver Stone's Final Cut of Alexander.

@user-xp8qb4wx8u 4 ай бұрын

Alexander 2004👍👍👍👍🔥🔥🔥

@sumodvs17 3 жыл бұрын

❤❤❤❤❤👏👌👌

@danka216 8 жыл бұрын

Where is Hephaistion?

@ARMY_for_10_years 7 жыл бұрын

That's what I was wondering actually. I doubt Jared Leto would have opted out of making a little interview like the rest of the cast, and I know he wouldn't have even thought about not participating in the boot camp. (He wouldn't have been able to keep the part otherwise I'm sure of it. They were dead set on authenticity.) After all he's a method actor who takes serious pride in performing, be it with acting or being on stage as a lead singer.

@UnreleasedSoundtrack 7 жыл бұрын

He and Colin met even before in a "Phone Booth" movie.

@ARMY_for_10_years 7 жыл бұрын

Yeah but knowing him and looking up to him as a leader and a general that you would die for and in Jared Leto's role in the movie as somebody that was in love with Colin Farrell's character it would have been important for him to be there.

@nadyayap2714 7 жыл бұрын

Where is Cassander/Johnathan Rhys Meyers?

@diaphragm-iris4629 6 жыл бұрын

A good attempt but doesn't make Alexander justice ....In anticipation for the new attempt by someone that will. By the way Vangelis music is exceptional.

@camerondiaztwin 6 жыл бұрын

After the reception this received, I don't know if anyone will have the courage OR the financing to try it again. It's a shame but you are correct - the music is exceptional.

@taroman7100 6 жыл бұрын

this is the best score Vangelis ever wrote

@ImperialDiecast 4 жыл бұрын

@@camerondiaztwin to be honest the only thing I missed in this movie was Alexander's battles in asia minor and him arriving in egypt.

@elizabethmcleod246 3 жыл бұрын

@@taroman7100 I preferred his music in The Bounty.

@merrittfriend 4 жыл бұрын

29:29 A random Toby Kebbell pops up

@maesmydog6691 3 жыл бұрын

Wasnt random. Kebell played Pausanias, the bodyguard, who killed King Philipp II.

@merrittfriend 3 жыл бұрын

Maes Mydog I know that. 😉

@movieman410 5 жыл бұрын

25:32 Ser Meryn!

@pnynx 3 жыл бұрын

He's handsome he's charismatic he's a great actor, the best Alexander ever!! To bad the movie was not very good edited, too confusing.

@elizabethmcleod246 3 жыл бұрын

I disagree. It was fine.

@alexschiavone2564 7 жыл бұрын

Why do you hang back Macedonians? Ride! Ride!!

@jessicareyes7762 6 жыл бұрын

Alex Schiavone really what a ass like no fuckin body know about that dumb

@nothingtoospiffy7913 6 жыл бұрын

Jessica Reyes what

@henrykszulc9641 6 жыл бұрын

JEDEN Z NAJWSPANIALSZYCH FILMÓW , ALEXANDER THE GREAT AND GLADIATOR JAKIE ZOSTAŁY NAKRĘCONE W OSTATNICH LATACH , BĘDĄ LEGENDA KINA JAK „KLEOPATRA” PRZEMINĘŁO Z WIATREM czy PRYTTY WOMEN !!!

@BolasDaGrk 2 жыл бұрын

It take true skills to become a God in a movie, and it is nearly impossible to be one in life. Zi Kai Basilevi!!!

@hristijankuzmanoski8689 3 жыл бұрын

MACEDONIA 🇲🇰🇲🇰🇲🇰❤️

@konstantintrehagyrevopoulo9088 3 жыл бұрын

You don't know about real history To inform you Don't read history selectively Fyroms skopjans Vardarskans can't be macedonians because they are Slavs Gligorof and Georgefski says we fyroms skopjans are Slavs haven't to do with ancient Macedonia and Alexander the Great kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nN-JlJZystq8omg.html Slavs came to the region 1000-years after Alexander the Great Albanians came to the region from Albania-kaukasus 500-years later than Slavs How can Alexander the Great be Slav or Albanian??????? He was only Μακεδών= macedon= Έλληνας= Hellenes= Greek He wasn't slav or Albanian All this is facts and all others is fyroms skopjans and Albanians propaganda from the 1991 You can not talk about History because you don't know about History

@charalamposportinos5639 Жыл бұрын

GREAT MOVIE....MY PROPOSAL TO MAKE A MOVIE OF CYRUS ANABASIS AND XENOFON ANABASIS .... IT WOULD BE AN EPIC MOVIE.!!! ..... EVEN BETTER THAN "ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ Ο ΜΕΓΑΣ".!!!

@UnreleasedSoundtrack Жыл бұрын

It really would. I am really surprised nobody today wants to make a TV series on ancient Greece! They release all sort of cr4p these days but no real meaningful stuff?

@ResaAfrisa 7 күн бұрын

Colonel yance instruktur regu

@hibernicus5685 2 жыл бұрын

I'm obviously procesar because I think the fact that he fought against other Romans she has to be the better Commander

@jimmads4216 4 жыл бұрын

Pico Pal que lo lee 🤣

@goldynikolov6979 5 жыл бұрын

Macedonia for ever

@whereuwannabe7796 5 жыл бұрын

🗣COME MACEDONIANS! WHY DO YOU HANG BACK?

@geert574 5 жыл бұрын

Irishman with dark eyebrows and a blond wig, who thought this would be good idea?

@jl9062 5 жыл бұрын

Well, Alexander was blond (how blond, we don't know though. Could've been a ginger, a darkish brown blond, or a yellow head)

@oliverpearson1577 5 жыл бұрын

I'm pretty certain he didn't have an Irish accent.

@LandersWorkshop 4 жыл бұрын

@@oliverpearson1577 They sort of did have an accent like that though via the Doric / Dorian invasion. The Greek accent of today is largely different to back then.

@oliverpearson1577 4 жыл бұрын

@@LandersWorkshop I think that's stretching things a bit. Lol.

@LandersWorkshop 4 жыл бұрын

@@oliverpearson1577 Not really dude, it was pretty much a taught subject before cultural marxists took over the educational establishment.

@Constantine_IA 3 жыл бұрын

All that traning and they portrayed him as a whimp...Worst casting in Movie History he ruined the film Heath Ledger should have been Alexander

@Djinga 2 жыл бұрын

I still don’t understand why this movie was a failure but I’d probably say it was the dyed hair..

@billbailey7193 5 ай бұрын

You’re not far from the truth. His mullet hair style was absolutely ridiculed at the time. A hairstyle sank a blockbuster

@sumitshresth 2 жыл бұрын

They trained collin for every battle scenario except get rid of his thick irish accent.

@CH-zc8qx 2 жыл бұрын

It was a directorial choice to have the Macedonians speak in Irish accent. Regardless, criticizing the accent is nonsensical. If you have a problem with the Irish accent, you should also have a problem with an American or English accent because Alexander was Macedonian Greek. In that case, they shouldn't even speak English at all now, should they?

@alexanderaquino4289 5 жыл бұрын

It was a kinda good movie if they made it more accurate and drop that gay scene cause it's not real and proven.. He was just super focused on his dreams and ideas like any successful people in history that wedding for him are for political reason, just an ingredient for his plans or for lust because of those years of patience and discipline not to fall for women and settle which can jeopardize his plans

@francis_ces 3 жыл бұрын

Well "gay" wasn't an issue back then. In the past, and well into the 1500's, even in deeply Christian societies, powerful men having a side-boy was seen as completely normal. Even in Renaissance Italy, a super-Christian society, there was a whole hat system in which you could take a younger man's hat on the street to signal interest and the next thing you know you'd be off banging somewhere before returning to your wife. In other words, I bet someone as powerful as Alexander didn't really care where his penis entered, so "proven" or not, it was too common for it not to occur. It wasn't until hundreds of years later when the Catholic Church doubled down on homophobia that it became the taboo it is today... and we've all seen how all that worked out for the Catholic Church...

@jarlnils435 2 жыл бұрын

He was not gay, more bi. He had lovers of both men and women. He was married with three women and had children with two others. Polygamie was not common for the greek city states but at the kingdom of macedon. Love between men was common by all greeks, macedonian or not. But it was not allowed for men to marry each other.

@THISISLolesh 2 жыл бұрын

@@francis_ces you’re gay not Alexander.

@francis_ces 2 жыл бұрын

@@THISISLolesh YAY!!!

@carpediem9750 Жыл бұрын

Lets SEE if 3 years later still works... 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 🤪

@goldynikolov6979 6 жыл бұрын

King of makedonija

@CaptainHarlock-kv4zt 6 жыл бұрын

It is ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΙΑ and derives from the word ΜΑΚΕΔΝΟΣ .But I guess it's all Greek to you wright ?LOL!!!

@ramizkaraeski7016 6 жыл бұрын

Καπτεν Χαρλοκ don’t forget half of makedonia belongs to us Albanians .

@user-kx8yq6sz2e 5 жыл бұрын

Greeks occupied modern day asia minor. This territory now belongs to the Turks, that doesnt mean that the history of the Greeks that lived there belongs to the Turks ... The fact that a small territory of the macedonian empire now belongs to someone else means nothing. Its still Greeces history, I am sorry if you are ashamed of your history but sorry my friend , you cant steal from others.

@ImperialDiecast 4 жыл бұрын

@@user-kx8yq6sz2e agree. saying alexander is albanian slav is like saying halicarnassus is turkish city. lol

@jarlnils435 2 жыл бұрын

@@ramizkaraeski7016 wrong! Macedonia conquered parts of Illyria wich Albania is part of. Makedonia was, is and will be forever the plains, hills and mountains north of Thessaly. Mazedonia or North Mazedonia what they call their land now is bullshit. That was land, once under the controll of macedon but that region was home to tribes like the triballi. I'm not greek so I don't have patriotic intentions in writing that. I'm german. And I'm well educated in history and history shows us that macedon was always the northern neighbor of thessaly. They were not all greeks due to being at the edge of the greek lands but their culture and gods as well as their language was greek. I don't think they spoke the same greek as the more southern greeks but it was greek.

@oliverpearson1577 5 жыл бұрын

Apart form a couple of decent set piece battle scenes, this film was a disaster. Farrell's casting was a catastrophic error of judgement, but aside from that, no lead actor could have saved the insipid script.

@UnreleasedSoundtrack 5 жыл бұрын

And yet you're watching and commenting on a documentary on how the movie was made.

@UnreleasedSoundtrack 5 жыл бұрын

@Nemanja Jovanovic It's common sense, basic logic, if I don't like the movie why would I watch a doc 45 mins long about how it was made and loose more time on something I don't like

@ImperialDiecast 4 жыл бұрын

who would you have cast as Alexander instead? I think Colin had a great presence on the battlefield, its just that oliver stone gave him many weak camp scenes.

@pnynx 3 жыл бұрын

Don't agree. Colin was charismatic and handsome like Alexander and he gave a great performance. But the editing is awfull, too much flask back...