I didn't even know there was another cut after the (I guess now not anymore) Final Cut. But of the original three, the unrated final cut is by far the best. Story beats aren't just mentioned and dropped and the scenes put back in really help the flow of the film so much.
The film is still unsalvageable and utter train wreck though. But the soundtrack by Vangelis is absolute godtier and most of the work is in that cut. Though not all...
Side note, I'm still angry at Sony for not releasing the entire soundtrack to this day. Vangelis has said he delivered at least two full CD's worth of music, but Sony just have us the bare minimum.
Didn't Oliver Stone's director's cut remove the homoerotic scenes cause they made his teenage son embarrassed?
I vaguely remember hearing something like that.
There's a lot of unsubtle subtext to Alexander and Hephaestion, that they're trying to show there was more between the two is obvious. But they had no problems showing Alexander go into bed with, I think it was, his servant. Yet his relation with Hephaestion is kind of shoved aside and what we do see is just two close friends with a hell of a lot of subtext smeared over it. It's such an odd depiction considering the film has no provlem showing him with another man and having... I can only describe it as bellow and snarling sex?
I can honestly say, no. There's a lot of good in the film, but the final product is a mess and I don't know who to blame. Example of what I mean, many scenes show Alexander learning and growing during his childhood and that's all really well done with real historical characters and accurate information. And thent there'sa sex scene between Alexander and his just become new wife, which comes down to them bellowing, snarling, hissing and... Lord knows what else, it's the weirdest sex scene I've ever seen in film and I have no idea what the thought process behind any of that was.
