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Stone blames 'fundamentalism' in US for 'Alexander' flop
Yeah. It didn't suck. It was... "fundamentalism"! That's the ticket! Oscar-winning writer-director Oliver Stone blamed "raging fundamentalism in morality" for the frosty reception that his new film "Alexander" is getting in his native United States. If it bombs in Europe what will the excuse be? In London for its British premiere, Stone, 58, said that after a career full of cage-rattling work, he thought a biopic of Alexander the Great, the 4th century Macedonian-born conquerer, would be "a safe subject". But he said he was "quite taken aback by the controversy and fierceness of the reviews" which greeted its US release, including outrage at the film's suggestion that Alexander was bisexual. Most of the reviews I read thought it was hilarious. "Sexuality is a large issue in America right now, but it isn't so much in other countries," he said. "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 south because the media was using the words: 'Alex is Gay'." Suppose that beats "Ollie: Box Office Poison". "Alexander" stars Colin Farrell and Angelina Jolie, both seen at the London premiere, but its US box office take so far has been less than a quarter of the 150 million dollars that it cost to make. Don't worry. There's always that DVD money, Ollie. I'm sure you'll clean up there if the "fundamentalists" don't get you banned out of Blockbuster. Sure you will. Posted by: tu3031 2005-01-06 |
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