Aleph Null
01-06-2005, 09:26 AM
{Here's a simpler explanation: maybe the movie just sucked? Dunno, I never saw it, but I'm sure some of you did.... --a0}
http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,12589,1384483,00.html
Stone blames 'moral fundamentalism' for US box office flop
Staff and agencies
Thursday January 6, 2005
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At the Alexander Premiere in London last night: Colin Farrell, Val Kilmer, Angelina Jolie and Oliver Stone. Photo: Getty / Dave Hogan
At the UK premiere of his epic film of Alexander, Oliver Stone last night blamed "raging fundamentalism in morality" for the film's US box office failure.
"Sexuality is a large issue in America right now, but it isn't so much in other countries," the Oscar-winning director explained yesterday. "There's a raging fundamentalism in morality in the United States. From day one audiences didn't show up. They didn't even read the reviews in the [American] south because the media was using the words: 'Alex is Gay'."
Meanwhile, Colin Farrell, who plays the title role, helpfully added his own explanation for the biopic's commercial failure: "The film is a draining experience to watch. It's loaded with mythology, icons, symbolism and destiny. My friends have watched the film and said: 'Jesus Christ it's not exactly Gladiator'."
The £80m epic has so far cashed in around £18m at the US box office. The Platoon director previously defended his epic of the Macedonian conqueror, saying that it was too complex for "conventional minds". "The script was just too ambiguous, too questioning about an action-hero who was masculine/feminine. These are tough qualities in Hollywood," the Platoon director said last month. "It's just too big a life. It doesn't fit in into the Hollywood formula."
http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,12589,1384483,00.html
Stone blames 'moral fundamentalism' for US box office flop
Staff and agencies
Thursday January 6, 2005
http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Film/Pix/pictures/2005/01/06/alexanderpremiere372.jpg
At the Alexander Premiere in London last night: Colin Farrell, Val Kilmer, Angelina Jolie and Oliver Stone. Photo: Getty / Dave Hogan
At the UK premiere of his epic film of Alexander, Oliver Stone last night blamed "raging fundamentalism in morality" for the film's US box office failure.
"Sexuality is a large issue in America right now, but it isn't so much in other countries," the Oscar-winning director explained yesterday. "There's a raging fundamentalism in morality in the United States. From day one audiences didn't show up. They didn't even read the reviews in the [American] south because the media was using the words: 'Alex is Gay'."
Meanwhile, Colin Farrell, who plays the title role, helpfully added his own explanation for the biopic's commercial failure: "The film is a draining experience to watch. It's loaded with mythology, icons, symbolism and destiny. My friends have watched the film and said: 'Jesus Christ it's not exactly Gladiator'."
The £80m epic has so far cashed in around £18m at the US box office. The Platoon director previously defended his epic of the Macedonian conqueror, saying that it was too complex for "conventional minds". "The script was just too ambiguous, too questioning about an action-hero who was masculine/feminine. These are tough qualities in Hollywood," the Platoon director said last month. "It's just too big a life. It doesn't fit in into the Hollywood formula."