Movie Movie Movie

Today in Western Civ we watched the movie Alexander (director's cut?) by Oliver Stone. It started out with the Battle of Guagamela and it was really kind of gory but it showed a lot of the things that happened and was very detailed, it was actually really cool. Then it flashed back to when Alexander was a kid, and Angelina Jolie played Olympius, his mother. It showed the scene with the snakes and stuff, and then a scene got too nonononononononono nono so we skipped it and went to the scene where he is getting taught geography. I like how the writer of the movie really played on all aspects of Alexander's life, such as the influence of his mom, bisexuality and homosexuality, and the whole thing with the horse. The horse scene where he tamed it and no one else could was really well made. Anyways, thats what we did today. I like it so far and we have a test Monday :)