Alexander the ultimate cut gay scenes

Roxane walks in and gets upset, asking if her husband loves Hephaestion. When Hephaestion dies, Alexander goes crazy and either intentionally tries to get himself poisoned or goes on a bender and falls fatally ill. The erastes was both a sexual lover and a mentor to the eromenossomeone who helped usher him into adult male society through socialization.

Running at three and a half hours (45 minutes longer than the original). Stone also slightly reworked Alexander's death scene because of audience feedback, adding 17 seconds to the scene. At one point, Alexander gets into bed, and Bagoas climbs in with him and they kiss.

They had no idea that most people are only attracted to the opposite sex but that some are attracted to the same sex or to both. In the film Alexander has a favorite male slave, Bagoas Francisco Boschwho is presented as sharing his bed. Ptolemy's final scene was edited.

And his eromenos was beneath him because the eromenos was not a full adult. In one scene, when they are being tutored by Aristotle Christopher Plummer as boys, Aristotle starts to talk about Achilles and Patroclus. Aristotle, even moreso than Marcus Aurelius, is shorthand in the popular imagination for a wise man.

A group of Greek lawyers actually threatened to sue Stone over the issue, and the theatrical cut of the film largely avoided the issue so far as I can recall, at any rate. So the film pretty clearly shows Alexander as having a male concubine. Male and female prostitutes were beneath him because they were lower class.

Alexander Comparison Theatrical Version

But the eromenos would eventually reach adulthood and become a full citizen. In another scene, Bagoas dances publicly for Alexander in a rather sexual fashion, and Alexander kisses him. They understood that many men occasionally had sex with other men or with teenage boys, but this did not mean these men did not also have sex with women.

A man could easily have a wife or concubine and a boyfriend. Alexander replies that there are many ways to love someone, and then has rather violent sex with her. His wife was beneath him because she was a woman. Ultimate Cut is one of the few big-budget historical films bold enough to throw this notion in the trash and present the ancient past as the weird fucking place that it was.

This scene is the only one completely exclusive to the theatrical/director's cut, though it is heavily shortened in the latter. Aristotle replies that when two men lie together in lust, it does nothing for their excellence, but when two men lie together in love, it is a pure thing.

A small fragment from this scene is repurposed in the prologue of. A third cut of the film was released in under the title "Alexander Revisited: The Final Cut". More significantly, his relationship with Hephaestion Jared Leto is shown as being more than platonic, although the two men are not directly shown having sex.

His slaves were beneath him because they were his property. When the Greeks spoke about same-sex attractions, they most commonly did so through the lens of the erastes-eromenos relationship. Alexander (Comparison: Theatrical Version - Unrated Final Cut) - E NEWS GAMES COMICS MUSIC MOVIES alphabetically filtered reports: # A B C D E.

Having suggested that his film would deal in a straightforward manner with Alexander’s bisexuality, Stone chickened out on the man-on-man aspect by eliminating all but a couple of brief, longing glances between Alexander and his childhood friend Hephastion (Jared Leto), while emphasizing a hot and heavy sex scene between him and bride Roxane.

But this was a complex relationship, because in the Greek world, sex was an expression of power relationships at least as much as it was an expression of romantic feelings. Instead, the ancient Greeks seem to have looked at the choice of sex partners as a matter of taste, mood, and intention.

One of the more controversial elements of Alexanderdir. A man was expected to have sex with those who were beneath him socially. There is a short scene in which Aristotle tutors the young Alexander. Some authors such as Plato argued that the most meaningful forms of love could only occur between men, and that real love could not exist between a man and his wife, in part because she was likely to be uneducated and therefore could not act as an emotional companion.