"...WHAT LITTLE WE DO KNOW IS HIGHLY CONTENTIOUS ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT SHE WAS SOMEONE WHO WAS THE LOVE OF HIS LIFE..."
PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on American actress Rosario Dawson as Roxana (340-310 BC) in the epic historical drama "Alexander" (2004), directed by Oliver Stone. Roxana was a Sogdian princess of Bactria, the wife of Alexander the Great, and the mother of Alexander IV of Macedon.
Costume design: Jenny Beavan
Cinematography: Rodrigo Prieto
Production design: Jan Roelfs
BLACK FILM: "How much is known about Roxane from a historical point of view?"
RD: "Very little. There's very little [background] about her. We know more about Begolas than we know about her, and what little we do know is highly contentious about whether or not she was someone who was the love of his life or was someone who he just married because he'd already had his good standing in the area and it was a political move, or because he really just wanted an heir and suddenly got impatient to have one, all of which besides there being a strong emotional dynamic seems very unlikely. I mean, he just overthrew the Persian empire -- he doesn't exactly need Oxyardies' help, and he kind of went several years into his campaign of warring without securing an heir, and he didn't secure one that was Macedonian or Greek, which really upset a lot of his companions. He married this woman, and it was a very strange thing in part of his history and Oliver's sort of expression of what that must have been like was because of her spirit and sort of the Oedipal complex that came out because she reminded him of his mother."
-- BLACK FILM, "Alexander": An Interview with Rosario Dawson, by Todd Gilchrist, c. November 2004
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Alexander 2004 - Battle of Gaugamela 1 - Movie Clip HD
Today and Yesterday I watched both Movie versions of Alexander The Great. neither one lives up to the potential of telling the epic story of the great conqueror. In my opinion the acting and plot of the 1956 version with Richard Burton as Alexander is far superior. But the set design and costumes in 2004 film is better, especially in showing the armor and weapons of the armies. In my opinion the Battle of Gaugamela scene shown above is the best depection of an ancient battle in any movie. It is also the best thing about the entire film. The 1956 film of the same story aside from the battle scenes is in my opinion a better telling of Alexander’s story.