Dramatizing issues that historians don't address: an interview with Oliver Stone.(Interview)

From: Cineaste | Date: March 22, 2005| Author: Crowdus, Gary | Copyright information

"I'm quite nervous and anxious about this film," Oliver Stone commented before the start of principal photography on his latest film, Alexander, his first big-budget historical epic. "It's probably the greatest challenge of my life."

Stone had good reason to feel daunted at the prospect of dramatically portraying the fourth-century-B.C. life and times of the Macedonian warrior king, if only because of the extraordinary scope of his accomplishments. In 336 B.C., following...

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