Not a cell phone in sight. Just a crowd of people living in the moment. Pure awesome.

"You truly are a queen." "Thank you, noble Alexan--" "No not you, I was talking about Bagoas."

She was his real match. If he wasn't so blinded by the need of glory, he had everything he could have wanted there: a true wife, a true husband and a true lover.

The Princess forgot to request that the Persian cat still be fed its' Fancy Feast cat food. Good taste is so easy to recognize.

This scene displays how well educated and Great Alexander was ! 🙏🏻 the choice of the actress (French) is amazing

In this movie I love this scene and the Persian Princess Stateira II, Stateira II was Alexander the Great's wife.

Jared looks so hoot in this movie!

Stateira was 10 or 8 years old when she was captive. Alexander sent Stateira and her family to Susa with instructions that she should be taught Greek for preparing her as his wife. Stateira became Alexander's wife in 324 BC. In 324 BC she was of marriageable age, probably 18 years old. Stateira was pregnant by Alexander the Great. Roxana was jealous of Stateira, Plutarch ( an ancient Greek historian) writes " When Alexander died, Stateira and Roxana were pregnant, but Roxana was jealous of Stateira, … At the time Roxana only saw an interest in ridding herself of a woman ( Stateira ) who was a dear friend in Alexander’s complicated social world ”. After Alexander the Great's death, Roxana poisoned Stateira, she killed Stateira with a baby. And Stateira died 1 day after Alexander the Great's death with a baby in her womb. Of course, a few years later, the Macedonians killed Roxana and her son.

Persian woman are beautiful indeed. So cultured and exotic. And the accent too.

2:29 "you are not wrong he too is Alexander"🥺🥺 Alexandre's true love was hepaistion

Those were the lines of porus😢 Alexander- how you wish to be treated Porus- treat me like a king would treat another king

This is an amalgamation of two different events. First, after Alexander's first head-to-head victory over Darius, he captured the Great King's family with the rest of his camp. When Alexander went to pay a personal visit on them, Darius' mother assumed Phaestion was the great warlord who had conquered her son and started pleading for her life. When a translator pointed out she was addressing the wrong man, Alexander stepped forward and told her "You weren't mistaken, he is Alexander too," because Phaestion had served as a body-double for him from time to time. The second event was after Alexander's last great battle in his attempted conquest on India; the warlord Porrus was captured and brought before Alexander, and Alexander asked him "How do you wish to be treated?" Porrus replied "As a king," and Alexander not only spared Porrus, but even appointed him his regional commander.

My ancestor Alexander was an honourable man. In this scene in which he is showing grace to 'Stateira, Princess of Achaemenid Persia' is an example of his magnanimity. A true ruler wants peace, and sometimes will even broker that peace with the family of his fallen foes and rivals. He also mourned the death of Darius knowing how painful it is to see a fellow king and monarch fall. He understood that war is hellish, and any measure of peace that can be won with all peoples is a noble cause. Alexander's (Hellenistic) Graeco-Macedonian empire was achieved 'by right of conquest' and the manners in which he achieved such a great feat are still spoken of today. 'Alexander III the Great, King of Macedon' will not ever be forgotten.

If you watch the 2 disc set Alexander director's cut, you will see a lot of behind the scenes footage by Sean Stone the directors cut,...filmed the mountains in Morocco...it clearly shows hours of set-up and artificial snow made, for a few minuets screen time. The making of really gives you a lot of production info.

possibly the most influential man in history and maybe the greatest military commander ever. but man, Oliver Stone made a shambles of this great story

Many Kings come & gone since antiquity.....but there is only ONE - we refer him as 'The Great', truly He was

Jared leto was a stud long back in those times too omg that guy's been looking so fine 😍

peace through kindness.

I cant believe that jealous Roxana killed this sweet, beautiful princess with a baby on her stomach

I think part of the reason the dialogue feels so stilted and faux-shakespearean is because they crammed in real quotes from historical sources, such as the whole "treat me like a princess" thing.

the persian princess is a better wife to alexander than the insane roxana! she was much more like a queen!

Alexander: You shall live in this palace as long you choose. Alexander: (whispering) but I shall destroy persepolis right now, what do you say.....my......noble....princess.....

Alexander, apart from being an excellent strategist, brilliant warrior and conqueror per excellence, was a very well-mannered and humane guy! To this day, our lands fondly remember him as Sikandar... regards, an Indian

Indian president Ram Nath kovint 6/2018: spoke about the "most famous Greek in India," as he described Alexander the Great. "Every student in India knows that Alexander the Great and the King of India Porus were confronted, and then, impressed by both of their courage and value, they became allies

Alexander loved Hephaestion so much that he wanted to be reunited with him in the afterline. But Alexander thought himself a god, thus, his afterline would be different to that of mortal men. When Hephaestion died, Alexander wanted him to be proclaimed a god, so that they could be in the same afterline together. The priestess refused to name Hephaestion a god but they named him a demigod instead. Alexander died no long after.

The Persian princess Stateira, Alexander the Great's wife, truly is a Queen, such a magnificent, brave, worthy and amazing princess. Jealous Roxana killed this sweet, beautiful Stateira with a baby on her stomach. Stateira was royalty, the Persian princess is a better wife to Alexander than the jealous Roxana ! Stateira was much more like a Queen! A king should marry such a lady.

It's when History Talks ☝🏼🕊️✌️💜

What a noble action from Alexander to the princess

Alexander was indeed a noble ruler and a gentleman!!!!!

Well, in his defense, sacking the Persian Empire while it was in economic disarray was a pretty sensible move, for a Greek. Given the history of the Persian Emperors trying to add the Greek colonies in Asia Minor (as well a Greece itself) to the Empire.

What do you think about Alexandre thé great?for me one of the important things is ...his professeur... Aristoteles...

....umiał powadzać wojsko....szybko orientował się w sytuacji....znał ludzką naturę...szanował arystokrację...znał jej....MOC....😊👍♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️😁

A ruler should marry such a lady .. This actress presented the princess well To how princesses suppose to present themselves

Alexander, the Great King of my Heart ❤

Jared sheepish smile when he was mistaken for Alexander, reminds me of Zac Efron.

This is why he would be remembered as Alexander "The Great"

I love this scene

If this is actually accurate , then yes he was both merciful and magnanimous indeed. Sometimes though for politics some can do such evil but why not be magnanimous since he had everything he could hope for ..

Good movie 🎬

I like how Alexander respects women

Morals of a Real King 👑

gotta love how Hephaistion just turns and looks at Alexander like "dude, help, she thinks I'm you"

We don't know if the persian princess asked Alexander to be treated as a princess, but there are evidences to show that the Indian king Paurava after the defeat in the battle of Hydapses, had spoken the words "Treat me as befits a king". But these are all Greek accounts and there are no surviving Indian books on the battle. Maybe the Indians didn't pay much attention to it as it was a minor battle in the north west frontiers of India and that area was always prone to footfalls of invading armies. Most of it in the form of raids and a few as in the case of muslims during later times to subjugate the native populations.

Why does alexanders commanders sound like they are from ireland...😂😂🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

But, I think this dialogue belongs to the Indian king. He said, "I want to be treated the way I am, like a king."

3:14 - Gary Stretch.. `Sonny’ from Dead Man’s Shoes… 😮

To all the Indians saying Alexander was scared of Indians, is to say the British didn’t rule your land!!! Absolute crap...

it could be made in Photoshop but come on..an intire mountain side? Check it out.. itøs the scene where he stand at the Peaks the first time and realized the World is BIG! He talks to this one guy, and as the shot films from his back and forward over the mountain, a perfect symmetry face pops out!

Doh. Porus the Indian king said this to Alexander. Alexander asked him "How will you like to be treated ?". He said like a king treats a king. Did the writer fail in his history class?

What did the ancient Persians look like? I understand that it might be confusing at first look due to their lack of representation, but it will actually become pretty clear upon a second glance. For now as you read this just keep in mind that most contemporary art, even the ones depicted by modern Iranians themselves are based on ancient Persian Royal art, which itself was directly copied from the Assyrians and Babylonians who came before them - a highly symbolic, flat type of art where all faces regardless of which nation was represented, looked almost identical (for more see the last two paragraphs). Some of the modern art also conflates the current Middle-Eastern phenotype with that of the ancient peoples of Iran. The Persians and Spartans were both Indo-Europeans (Caucasians). But according to Greek historian Herodotus (Father of History), the Medes were blonds and sandy-haired Northern Iranians. Xerxes’s father, Darius, was a Mede, his mother a Persian. That collaborates centuries later with Roman poet and historian Ovid’s analysis when he said Northern Iranians (the Parthians, Scythians, Alans, Sarmatians, etc), were no different in appearance to the Celts and the Germanic tribes. The Roman author Ammianus Marcellinus, centuries earlier had stated the same. The few realistic art work we have of the Persians themselves done by Greek and Roman artists, depicts them as white, but dissimilar to the Greeks, and far more resembling the French, the Spaniards, and reveals them as Eastern European-like. Herodotus also noted that Xerxes was supposedly one of the most youthful in appearance and handsome men in Asia during his time, whatever that means. The most life-like depiction of ancient Persians are the “Bishapur art”, the wall and mosaic drawings done by Roman prisoners of war where they put their well-known talents to use and aided with decorating some newly constructed Persian palaces. In those, Persian women specifically and other female courtesans are depicted as almost pale with somewhat thick, flat eyebrows, with brown and black hair, very rarely some, including men, with red hair (as also depicted by Greek artists on the so-called Alexander’s sarcophagus and Sassanian floor fresco). The “Sassanian silver plates art”, also repeat the some of the same type of depictions, but since it was done by Persian artists, again many faces look similar, and have a symbolic quality to them to a certain extent, yet still a very good starting point. Other notable art include, “The Parthian solider” bust, (Greek-based), “The Dying Persian”, and “The Parthian statue”, a remarkable ancient Roman work of art with black marble used as the body, contrasting it with beige and black marble as his clothing and cape. Lastly, of importance are the many Parthian coins still in survival. Clean shaven (or not), and inspired by realistic portrayals unique to Hellenic art, Parthian kings and Princes with their Iranian weapons of choice, the bow and the arrow, look like Scandinavian war-lords, or at the very least are very Robinhood-like (see Arsaces I). Alexander’s northern Iranian wife who was after his death murdered by his mom or his men, was named Rukhshanaa (Roxana, Roxanne). In ancient Iranian and still today’s Persian, it means, shiny-faced, light-face. Back then, and even today in Iran, the more secluded a tribal group was/is, the “lighter-skinned” in appearance they are, something that again, is Specially true for some reason or the other with Iranian women, signaling lack of intermarriage. The indigenous peoples of the Iranian plateau, the Elamites, had beautiful olive-skin with long braided hairs, whom Persian royals went on to copy, as a form of fashion of the times, as well as borrowing their long robes with wide bejeweled sleeves. Their sophisticated culture was long established before the arrival of the Persians and other Iranian tribes. THE BOTTOM LINE? Northern Iranians aside, focusing strictly on the Persian tribes (Southern Iranians), THEY, resembled modern Albanians, Romanians, and modern Northern Italians, as well as very strongly, the Medieval Europeans (excluding Northern Europe). When you see an image of a Medieval European, from Hungary, Spain, and above all, France and Portugal, you are most likely coming very close to seeing the face of an ancient Persian. Accordingly, see the rock carving of the Khosrow II, an artistic work and an archeological piece 1000 years before the emergence of the Medieval Europe and the concept of the heavy armored worrier (the Chevalier, or the knight). It is also noteworthy to indicate the remnants of the Northern Iranians (the Alans and the Sarmatians) are still living today on the region of Ossetia-Alania in the Northern Caucasuses. Ancient Iranian tribes hailed from Ukraine by the way, at least that’s as far as we can tell. As the late Prof. Emeritus Richard Frye of Harvard noted, while the Iranians are not geographically Eastern Europeans, they are however, “The Europeans of the East”. Or according to encyclopedia Brittanica, “The name Persia derives from Parsa, the name of the Indo-European nomadic people who migrated into southern Iran…in about 1000 BCE”. It’s important to note that Persian imperial art itself in Persepolis and other places does NOT depict the Persians, or any other groups, realistically, as they all show a flat profile, with most faces looking very similar or almost identical. This was partially borrowed from the Assyrian and Babylonian empires who came before them, to portray a continuity and homogeneity of races. It was also an attempt to legitimize Persian rule, the world’s first Indo-European super power, who replaced thousands of years of semitic kingship (the Egyptians and the aforementioned civilizations). Let me repeat that one more time, ancient Persian art itself is NOT realistic, but more symbolic. Where the “Indo” suffix of the designation, Indo-European comes from is due to the fact that while some Iranians tribes where settling in their new homeland, in modern Iran, simultaneously other Iranic tribes invaded Northern India. That is why many Indic and ancient Iranian Gods and religious beliefs display similarities. The British scholar who coined the term thought that the related-European groups passed through the Hindu Kush mountains. Although at some point the old Ariana (Iranian tribes) who invaded India were fortunately, eventually absorbed by the indigenous Brahmin population. Otherwise we wouldn’t have the nation of India, as we know it today. Something that for anyone who is a lover of cultures, arts, mathematics and good food would be unimaginable. To avoid centuries of confusion, the reader should know that the ancient Persians called their new homeland, Eyre-Aan (Iran: The Land of Aryans), cognate with Eire-land (Ireland). The designation, Persia, was a Greek identifier. The Old Celtic Eire-n, is a dialectic variation on the old ethnic designation, Airya (Aryan). The modern name Erin derives from that. Please note that the word “Aria” has no relations to the modern concept of the repugnant Nordic ideology. That’s ethnicity; linguistically Iranian languages are classified as the aforementioned Indo-European, which can in turn be termed as ancient English. Words like, mother, father, son, daughter (dokhtar). ponder (pendaar), nice (nik,neekoo, nikki; Greek: Nike), Jasmine (yaasamin), scarlet (saghalaat, see Merriam-Webster), Melchior, art (Old Pers.: arta), mind (manaa), grab (Avestan/Eastern Persian, grab), far (related to fara, ex: faravahar; fra, par-vaaz), being (boodan), is (hast), you, tiger (tighra; Merriam-Webster), it (een), Allan (Alan, Alania; from the Northern Iranian tribes who settled in modern day Scotland), Ariana (Arya, Aria, Eire-aan, ultimately, “Iran”). Amazon (hama-zan; see “Sarmatians” in Brittanica; also Online Etymology Dictionary; also Adrienne Mayor, The National Geographic; also “The Early Amazons, JH Block, 1995), Caucasian (search engine: etymology of Caucasus), etc, are mostly still found in Farsi. I hope this was helpful.

If possible, you would share the Russian version of this scene Thanks in advance

There was no solid proof Alexander was gay, but it was well-known that he has preference for men (much like many other men back then) It's also believed that his true love was a man. Alexander and Hephaistion were described to be in love in every possible sense of the word (romantic/sexual/family/friendship/brotherhood). Not sure if it's mentioned in this movie since I havent watched it yet, but Alexander and Hephaistion always look up to and compare their relationship to the one of Achilles and Patroclus (which was agreed upon as romantic by many, specifically back in that time by Plato and Aeschylus). Also, the King's favorite eunuchs were males. But then again, it was socially encouraged for men to have sexual relationships with younger males. (Another reason why it's believed Alexander did indeed love Hephaistion above all others till his death and beyond. It was rather strange back then for men of the same age to take sexual interests in each other, therefore Alexander/Hephaistion's love was known to be intensely pure and immensely deep)

Persian Women are the pretiest by far!

nice

@Calucifer13 I did not know the mating cat joke he crack, lol. Could you tell us more about his sense of humor, please?? It's not something we can find in the history book.

Stateira had a crush with Hephaestion.

The Hound alert 01:12

name of the background music plz

Good point

Power shows a mans true inner self if this was how alexanda conducted himself with the princess with the power he had then it shows what a true honourable man he was !

You can have this kind of life only: on movies and in your dreams.

Interesting part of that movie

This scene is so amazing ... he was truely "The Great"

ALEXANDER BE RESASONABLE!

Certainly the Macedonian dialect was a very rustic, harsh, rough and broad dialect of Greek called north-western Greek (Doric Greek). However the relationship between Southern Greece and Macedon was more like that between Germany and Austria than that between Britain and Scotland or Ireland.

My name's Parysatis and im the third wife of alexander!😂🇮🇷🙆‍♀️

Lovely irish accents on them macedoians😊

THIS SCENE IS SO GEH

As an Indian i wish we had somekind of writings/historical books about this...But unfortunately we don't have..All these are greek history. Only one side is known that too left with many questions.

كولن فريل ممثل أكثر من رائع 😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘

Best Alexander's role played in Indian serial Porus

agree.

Alexander's idealism was his downfall. His biggest war was with reality.

thousands of years later in a nation nothing like ours, you all focus on his orientation instead of what he conquered at the age of 25. Wow. Pat on the back for you all. -____________________-

Spiritually going back and forth with Cleopatra. Short Julius Caesar entering a weakened Egypt

We should fight for peace. For our families.......WE SHOULD RESPECT...LIFE

Still can't believe Roxanne was a black actress.. like... BRO why the hell didn't you cast Iranian actresses!!!!

The concept of sexuality as we know it today did not exist in the ancient Hellenic world. No one was qualified as GLB etc as today. There was only the concept of Love and it was normal for people to love each other regardless of sex, it was customary for Men to marry and have children with women but also to have love affairs with other men in very strong bonds of friendship. In fact, in the Hellenic language there is no distinction phonetically per se of the word "kiss" and the word "friends".

Ha,Sandor Clegene is here too

This interaction is based on Alexander's real life interaction with the Indian King Porus. When asked by Alexander how he wished to be treated, Porus replied "Treat me, Alexander, as a king would treat another king". Impressed by his answer, Alexander indeed treated him like a king, allowing him to retain his lands.

@impartial1 He was 20 when he conquered Persia, and yes he was great. Persia was still strong, even though they had just lost a king. Their economy was still 300x better than the Greek economy. Darius could still fund 250,000 man strong armies to oppose him, and Alexander was outnumbered in all of his battles against Persia. Let's not forget that Alexander was benevelent and kind to the Persians, unlike most conquerors would have been.

Alexander the Great, the greatest Greek leader of all times!!!

Plss Help..Where i can find this movie? i searching for so long still cant find it

I quite like the Lyre Girl.

There are other stories that he asked the same question "How should you be treated?" to Porus as well... I guess, Plutarch just spinned up a lot of stories around Alexander. According to my study, he lost the battle of Hydaspus....but again, no one knows the truth.

ΜΕγας ΑΛεξανδρος..greetings from macedonia GReece..

Alexander asks her how do you like to be treated and she says As a princess. Now we have been taught that this was the same question Alexander asked Porus and he replied,As a king treats another king

Didn't know Alexander had an Irish accent. A former Connor McGregor !

@AyameAmuro He really said that in a real life. LOL that was really funny, you were right He had a great sense of humour. Sarcastic, sometimes edgy, but gr8 otherwise. For example, when the Persian eunuchs was assined to sing persian songs for him (they sound like Muezzins songs a lot), he began to laugh and said that the loooong, shaky sounds remind him of shrieking of the mating cats LOL

What happened to people in the present? No more honor respect morals education word justice when it comes to war

@AyameAmuro Yeah, he DID.

bagoas...🙏

Alexander rollin like a real G, rap music videos got nothing on this.

Johnathan Rhys Myers as Cassander...mmmmmm HOT!!!

Haephaestion's little jealous side eye when Alexander is looking at Bagoas

damn that

such a beautiful Princess Stateira , and Alexander he married to bride Roxanne , welcome to Babylon and rest soldiers of Macedon-Greek. for My King Alexander from Egypt.

So when Alexander The Great enter Babylon..does thats means the Persia Empire scattred to many faction..40 years later Persia form back their Empire to The Sasannid Empire.

Yes

Is present greece the same size as the medieval one