Advantages: beautiful music to a great film, very touching, cheap Disadvantages: carelessly made booklet, weird extra track
Today I will tell you all about the soundtrack to the epic movie
Alexander by Vangelis
What is it?
This is the soundtrack to the movie "Alexander" by Oliver Stone. The movie came out
in 2004 and recieved mixed review - some loved it, some hated it. But most reviewers
agreed on the soundtrack, composed by Vangelis, being a work of art.
Who is Vangelis?
Vangelis is a greek composer and a pioneer regarding electrical music. He has
started to compose electric music that sounds like a whole epic orchestra, putting a
lot of feeling into it. He was born in 1943 and surprisingly also composed the music
to "Bladerunner".
What's "Alexander"?
"Alexander" is a movie about Alexander The Great. About 350 before Christ, he was
the son of the Macedonian king Philip. After his father died, he became the king of
Macedonia, later ...
Advantages: A must see for all lovers of long historical epics. Disadvantages: Could have shown more detail in the battle scenes.
This is an impressive looking production with sumptuous costumes and sets and a rousing score from Vangelis. The Director's Cut includes extra footage, as is to be expected.
Oliver Stone chose a largely European cast for the film, with Colin Farrell as Alexander and Anthony Hopkins as Ptolemy. In this film there are several Irish actors, including Farrell, so the main accent is of course Irish, which makes a change from the (by now) traditional British accents in film epics.
It would be refreshing if a director had his historical cast adopt an accent authentic to the time and place i.e. in this case Macedonian or Greek. Val Kilmer, who plays Philip, Alexander's father, does change his, but to an Irish one like Farrell. Angelina Jolie, who plays Alexander's manipulative mother, is the only one who attempts a Mediterranean delivery ...
Advantages: Good story, Loads of factual information Disadvantages: Nearly 3 hours long!
Alexander
Running Time: 175 Minutes
Released: 7 January 2005
Directed By: Oliver Stone
Certificate: 15
Cast:
Alexander - Colin Farrel
Hephaistion - Jared Leto
Ptolemy - Elliot Cowan
Philotas - Joseph Morgan
Antigonus - Ian Beattie
Cassander - Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Leonnatus - Garrett Lombard
Crateros - Rory McCann
Roxane - Rosario Dawson
Old Ptolemy - Anthony Hopkins
Scribe - David Bedella
Child Alexander - Jessie Kamm
Olympias - Angelina Jolie
Philip - Val Kilmer
Nurse - Fiona O'Shaughnessy
Young Alexander - Connor Paolo
Young Hephaistion - Patrick Carroll
Wrestling Trainer - Brian Blessed
Young Nearchus - Peter Williamson
Young Cassander - Morgan Christopher Ferris
Young Ptolemy - Robert Earley
Young Perdiccas - Aleczander Gordon
Aristotle - Christopher Plummer
Cleitus - Gary ...
