September 21, 2004

For Oliver Stones latest film Alexander he consulted with Oxford professor Robin Lane Fox who had one unusual request in return for his help 'a place on horseback in the front ten of every major cavalry charge by Alexander's cavalrymen'. Read the interview here.
posted by zeoslap 20 years ago
  • Sounds like a good deal. If anyone decided to make a blockbuster about Fenland drainage, I would offer to do research for them in exchange to throw down a hedge or break a dike or something, in costume.
  • I thought this post was going to be about anal sex.
  • despite my disappointment, great article!
  • You were close, the_bone. It's about breaking dykes.
  • zeoslap - thanks for the terrific post. The interview raises my hopes for this movie (admittedly this was not difficult). I remember being transfixed by the Lane Fox biography when it came out 20 (?) years ago. Stone couldn't have chosen a better historical advisor.
  • An appropiate time to release a movie which celebrates the introduction of great western ideas such as freedom, dictatorship, and buggery at swordpoint to the heathens in Persia.
  • Ohhhhh, I want to be an extra on horseback. Count me in. (are they filming a few scenes in Idaho?)