★アレキサンダー&ヘファイスティオン お気に入りの場面PART2
「アレキサンダー」の場面のなかで、見るたびに思わず、顔がニンマリしてしまう箇所がある。それは、ガウガメラの戦いの作戦会議である。生死を賭けた決戦を前にして、アレキサンダーと武将たちの緊迫したやりとり。反対意見に対しても、アレキサンダーの王としての断固とした態度が見て取れ、ワクワクする場面である。そんな一大事の場面で不謹慎にもわたしは、笑ってしまう。ヘファイスティオンがかわいすぎて。笑フルショットのアレキサンダーの後ろで、さりげなく映っているヘファイスティオン。ヘファイスティオンはほかの武将たちよりもちょっと、目立ちたがりやなのか、赤い武具をつけているので、すぐわかる。(よく見れば、カッサンドロスのも赤色みたい)そして、みんないかつい格好で立っている中で、ひとりだけ、またまた、目立つように足を寄せて、左足を少しだけ曲げて立っているのだ!!赤いビラビラした腰当(なんて呼ぶの??)がまるで、ミニスカートのように見えてかわいくて仕方ない。ロン毛だし、女子高生が立っているみたいなのだ。おまけに良く見ると、作戦会議が始まってすぐのカット。アレキサンダーがひざまずいてミニチュアで説明しているところに、ちゃんと、太腿だけが映っているではないか!!さすが、オリバー・ストーン監督だ。絶妙のカメラワーク!もう、凝りすぎ!!監督命令でみんなスネ毛まで剃ったそうだ。「アレキサンダーが負けたのは、『ヘファイスティオンの太腿』だけだった。」ということだが、確かに、この太腿にはだれも太刀打ちできまい!!この御自慢の太腿が、インドの戦いで象の鼻で殴られたあげく、グサリと斬りつけられる伏線につながるとは・・・。痛ましくて、泣けてくる。涙そうそう、個人的には、この作戦会議のヘファイスティオンの表情がとても好き!キリリとして、一番カッコいいと思う。 その場面のチェック↓http://event.movies.yahoo.co.jp/theater/alexander/Ptolemy :It was mad, 40,000 of us against 250000 barbarians.It was the day Alexander had waited for all his life.Alexander son of a god, it was a myth of course, at least it started as a myth, I know, I was there, I saw his eyes.Alexander: There, at the crack of the Persian line, we'll go for the head.Antigonus: Kill Darius?Alexander: The gods have brought him to us at last, If I die, it's one Macedonian, but the Persians they can not move with out Darius’ command.Here, right here we cut the croak of the Persian army. Parmenion: This is madness; you will never get within 100 paces of him.Have you seen the sheer size of his force Alexander?Alexander: Not, if you hold him on the left, my brave Parmenion with your son Philotas, for just 1, 2 hours tomorrow. And you, unbreakable Antigonus! The center phalanx Perdiccas, Leonnatus, Nearchus, Polyperchon! if you pin them on the walls of their axis here in the center, their cavalry will follow me out to the right, and when bold Cassander breaks, stretching their left, a hole will open.Then I and my cavalry, a revered Cleitus, Ptolemy and Hephaistion will strike through that gap, and deal the death blow to Darius’ head.Parmenion: Alexander even with luck, timing, the gods, we must route them tomorrow destroy their army completely. Or we’ll be picked apart by bandit tribes on a long journey home.Antigonus: Right.Alexander: You speak of home and retreat, but do you understand?Parmenion, Babylon is my new home.Cassander: Alexander if we must fight, do so with stealth, use your numbers well, we should attack tonight when they least expect us.Alexander: I didn't cross Asia to steal this victory Cassander.Cassander: No, you are too honorable for that, no dad influence from sleeping with tales of troy under your pillow. But your father was no lover of Homer’s.Parmenion: The lands west of the ・・・ Alexander! The hand of his daughter in marriage, since when has a Greek ever been given such honors?Alexander: This are not honors, Parmenion, there’re the bribes, the Greeks have accepted too long, Do you forget that the man who murdered my father lies across the valley floor.Parmenion: Come Alexander, we are still not really sure if it was Persian gold behind the assassination. Your father taught you never to surrender your reason, to your passion, now I urge you to regroup,Fall back to the coast, raise a larger force.Alexander: I would if I were Parmenion but I am Alexander, and no more than earth has 2 sons will Asia bear two kings, these are my terms, and if arias isn't a coward who hides behind his men, then he will come to me tomorrow, And when he bows down to Greece, Alexander will be merciful.Cleitus: Are there changes noble for me! I will get the money Parmenion. And lads feast tonight, for tomorrow we will die in Hades.