alexander the great

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dapet neh dari tmen:
wah...kayaknya para PLU kudu nonton nehh film
> ALEXANDER..di perankan oleh collin Farrel..wuih cakep
> banget...trus juga ada jared leto aduhh gorgeous. ini
> sekilas review tentang film nya yg gwa ambil dari
> fridae.
>
>
> You've probably heard or read the damning reviews of
> the newly opened historical extravaganza Alexander,
> starring Colin Farrell. Critics have been calling it a
> bloated, expensive mess. And it's faring poorly at the
> US box-office.
>
> But here's a second opinion from us ? and ours matters
> more because it's a fags' opinion. Alexander is worth
> watching for all of us queers because it accurately
> portrays a time when societal attitudes towards gay
> sex were much more accepting than they are today.
> Plus, the fact that its director, Oliver Stone, had
> the balls to show it on screen says a lot about the
> kind of director that he is.
>
> You see, Alexander the Great was not the only flaming
> bisexual in ancient Greek history. Most Greek men were
> bisexual ? including the great, golden-haired warrior
> Achilles whose bosom buddy, Patroclus, was his
> long-term lover.
>
> Recently, Achilles was played by Hollywood's golden
> boy Brad Pitt in another expensive, bloated Greek mess
> called Troy. But his scenes with Patroclus (played by
> Garrett Hedlund) never once suggested anything more
> than platonic friendship.
>
> Remember the part when Patroclus got killed and
> Achilles was so angry, he made a ferocious charge into
> the battlefield? That's only because he loved
> Patroclus more than anyone else. But this was
> portrayed as pure brotherly love ? not romantic gay
> love.
>
> By comparison, Oliver's film portrays Alexander's
> bisexuality more frankly, and there are several scenes
> and dialogue to depict Greek male love as it really
> was. Chief among them:
>
> 1) Alexander's mother, Olympias (played by Angelina
> Jolie), asks Alexander if he fancies girls, because
> the word on the street was that he only liked boys.
> She says that his gay impulses are "only natural" but
> advises him to find a woman to bear him children.
>
> 2) Old Ptolemy (Anthony Hopkins), who narrates the
> film, describes Alexander an legendary soldier-king
> who could not be defeated by anyone or anything except
> "Hephaistion's thighs." (If that isn't a friggin' hint
> on Alexander's rampant gay sexuality, we don't what
> is.)
>
> 3) Hephaistion (played by pretty boy Jared Leto) was
> Alexander's bosom buddy and fu-, fu-, er, fun buddy.
> In the first half of the film, Alexander and he
> frequently exchange longing looks, lyrical words and
> bear-y hugs.
>
> 4) Later, Alexander also takes on a male Indian dancer
> as a lover and manservant. When Alexander is gazing
> into his eyes, a crowd of soldiers watching them
> shout: "Kiss him! Kiss him!" And they do!
>
> Anyone with a passing knowledge of ancient Greek
> history is aware of the importance of male love in
> classical Athens. The male love, which their society
> accepted, was that between an adult man and a teenage
> boy.
>
> The older man was expected to pass on knowledge to the
> boy and help him become a man too. Thus, the original
> term to describe the older man was erastes or
> "inspirer," and eromenos or "listener" for the younger
> man.
>
> Indeed, all adult men were expected to marry and have
> children. But before that, they must have had at least
> one older, wiser man take them under their wings.
> Thus, attractive teenage boys and young men often
> found themselves surrounded by older men, eager to
> court them. And when these young men too have married
> and aged, Greek society expected them to take on
> younger male lovers to pass on their wisdom.
>
> If you watch Alexander carefully, you'll see a very
> brief scene during a party where an older man is
> forcing a confused-looking teenage boy to bend over
> and be sodomised. We later see the boy crying and
> running away, but what the older man was really doing
> was ? er, um, well, wooing the boy to be his lover.
> (Of course, in today's context, we call it "gay
> rape.")
>
> Indeed, a famous tale in Greek mythology is the story
> of Zeus (who is the highest and most powerful of all
> Greek Gods) flying down from heaven as a giant eagle
> to kidnap Ganymede ? supposedly the most beautiful boy
> on earth ? to ravish him!
>
> Unfortunately, the reason why male youths were so
> valued was that Greek society was a misogynistic one.
> Men viewed women as the mothers of their children and
> keepers of their households. But only a young,
> handsome and intelligent man was seen as truly worthy
> companion to a famous, older man. Thus, many
> accomplished poets, writers and philosophers ? for
> instance, Aristotle (who is played by Christopher
> Plummer in Alexander) ? were attracted almost
> exclusively to teenage boys.
>
> (Is it any wonder then, that some of our best poets,
> playwrights, painters, fashion designers, architects
> and chefs today are gay? It's tradition, darling,
> tradition!)

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