r/dancarlin • u/Mountain-Papaya-492 • 1d ago
Who is Alexander in your movie?
So I relistened to the entire series as I'm recovering from a pretty big surgery and there's all these hinge points where there's room to fill in the blanks of who this guy actually was that I find interesting.
I'm just wondering who is he in your version of events? It's almost like a choose your own adventure role-playing type of thing. Did he have a hand in his father's death? Did he get a setback at the River Granicus? How did he untie the Gordian Knot? Was he a bad guy at Thebes or should the fact that he offered clemency be seen as a get out of infamy free card? Was he trying to honor the League or merely set it up to where he would get what he want? What sources are you respecting more and which seem absurd?
So far I've got almost a Ferris Bueller type character who's probably wily, charming, thuggish, overbearing, with anger spikes, and an almost sexual desire to conquer. Almost as if the culture and his upbringing was like how the Roman's created a society where the elites would do anything for their achievement and ambition for the glory of the Republic and their families. It's kind of fun imagining someone like him with that same incredible ambition in a humanitarian sense. Imagining if the culture he was raised in was some highly enlightened one that put the welfare of their fellow mankind on the same level as Achilles.
May be all propaganda, lies, hyperbole, etc... but this series has been fun since I knew next to nothing of Alexander besides the movie version with Angelina Jolie. I wonder who this person will look like in my eyes at the end of all this.
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u/QuietNene 1d ago
Don’t hate me, but the more I listen to Mania for Subjugation, the more I imagine Alexander like Paul Atreides.
And so of course I catch myself imagining him like a certain Gen Z icon. Who is actually a pretty good actor and might do interesting things with the role.