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To: BigBull who wrote (3864)	12/7/2002 7:21:15 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6901

What was the BIGGEST production of all time? In adjusted for Inflation Dollars, probably "Cleopatra." It went way over budget, and almost broke the Studio.

To: BigBull who wrote (3864)	12/7/2002 8:03:11 PM
From: Climber	Respond to of 6901

"Latest updates on Alexander" thezreview.co.uk Alexander Updated : Tuesday 5th November 2002 Baz Luhrmann has been talking about his in development Alexander movie and this is what he had to say: "You know, I have many epic works that I really want to explore, but I've been fascinated by his character. The thing about Alexander is is that we, you and I, would not be sitting here but for him because essentially you got someone who was trained by the greatest military mind of his time, his father... By the sort of Obi-Wan Kenobi of the Ancient World, which is Aristotle. It's a freak situation. His parents are arguing over him, so he's looking for the approval of his father, but his father dies before he can get that love. It's really just a domestic situation and if they lived in a suburban house it would really be no big deal, but they happened to possess the world. So, in pursuit of that approval of his father, his terrible internal complex becomes an external complex where he just goes beyond the boundaries of the world. He invaded more of the lands better than any general before or after. More extraordinarily, you have to remember that before Alexander the Great... In the same way that perhaps Western Culture is American dominated to a certain degree, and that's no judgment... It was Persian dominated (back then). That's Iraq. The Battle of Gaugamela is exactly in the middle of the No Fly Zone in Iraq. So, interestingly, the moment at which this thing called "western thought" actually started having an influence on the globe was through Alexander the Great. He had this idea... What if all cultures could live under the one banner? What if East and West could live together? For all those reasons it has great potency. " *** Writer Ted Tally ("Silence of the Lambs") is doing the screenplay. Anthony Hopkins as Aristotle? Climber