Episode 63: Alexander, The Oliver Stone Alexander the Great Movie from 2004

This week, we’re back with our old pal Oliver Stone for his 2004 biopic of the world-conquering bisexual Alexander the Great, aptly titled Alexander.  

We welcome Colin Farrell to the show, and rejoin one of our favorites, the late great Val Kilmer, and our not-so-favorites Angelina Jolie and Jared Leto, for this sometimes brilliant, often literal film of a decade-long cultural appropriation-and-violence-filled rumspringa, a magical horse named Bucephalus, a mother with an Olive Garden accent and an obsession with snakes, wigs on wigs on wigs, and talky talk talk about Zeus and Achilles. 

Also covered: Germany’s pre-2006 filmmaking tax benefits, Oliver Stone’s judicious use of CGI (we’re not always being dicks, guys), Donald Sutherland, elephants, guyliner, and how to get impregnated by a God. 

Alexander is directed by Oliver Stone and stars Colin Farrell, Angelina Jolie, Val Kilmer, Jared Leto, Brian Blessed, Christopher Plummer, Jonathan Rhys-Myers, Anthony Hopkins, Rosario Dawson, and many, many animals who may or may not have been harmed in the making of this film. 

Spoiler Warning: We spoil everything. And we enjoy it.

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