Alexander (2004) Poster

(2004)

John Kavanagh: Parmenion

Quotes 

  • Parmenion : I pray to Apollo you soon realize how far you've turned from your father's path.

    Alexander : Damn you Parmenion, by the gods and your Apollo! War was in my father's guts! It wasn't over ripe and reason like yours.

    Parmenion : He never lusted for war, Alexander, or enjoyed it so. He consulted his peers in council, among equals! The Macedonian way. He didn't make decisions based on his personal desires.

    Alexander : I've taken us further than my father ever dreamed! Old man, we're in new worlds.

    Cassander : Alexander, be reasonable! Were they ever meant to be our equal? Share our rewards? You remember what Aristotle said. An Asian? What would a wedding vow ever mean to a race that has never kept their word to a Greek?

    Alexander : [throws Cassander against the wall]  Aristotle be damned!

    Hephaistion : Alexander!

    Alexander : By Zeus and all the gods, what makes you so much better than them, Cassander? Better than you really are! In you and those like you is this!

    Hephaistion : [pleading]  Alexander...

    Alexander : What disturbs me most is not your lack of respect for my judgment. It's your contempt for a world far older than ours!

  • 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 doubt influenced from sleeping with tales of Troy under your pillow. But your father was no lover of Homer's.

    Parmenion : The lands west of the Euphrates, Alexander, and his daughter's hand in marriage! Since when has a Greek ever been given such honors?

    Alexander : These are not honors, Parmenion, they're bribes! Which the Greeks have accepted too long! You forget, Parmenion, that the man who murdered my father lies across the valley floor.

    Parmenion : Come, Alexander, we're not really sure if it was Persian gold behind the assassination. It is no matter! Your father taught you never to surrender your reason to your passion! I urge you, with all my experience, 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 two suns will Asia bear two kings. These are my terms. And if Darius isn't a coward who hides behind his men then he'll come to me tomorrow. And *when* he bows down to Greece, Alexander will be merciful.

  • Attalus : To Philip and Eurydice and to their legitimate sons! To Philip...

    [Alexander throws a wine cup at him] 

    Hephaistion : Alexander, don't...

    Alexander : And what am I? You son of a dog. Come then.

    [Attalus throws his cup at Alexander and soon a fight breaks out] 

    Philip : Shut up! Shut up all of you! This is my wedding, not some public brawl!

    [Looks at Alexander] 

    Philip : Apologize by Zeus, before you dishonor me.

    Alexander : You defend the man that called my mother a whore and me a bastard? And I dishonor you?

    Philip : Ah!You listen more like your mother. Attalus is my family now, the same as you.

    Alexander : Then choose your relatives more carefully. Don't expect me to sit here and watch you shame yourself.

    Philip : Shame?

    Attalus : You insult me!

    Alexander : I insult you? Am I not fit to lick the ground my mother walks on?

    Philip : Shame?

    Alexander : You dog, questioning your Queen.

    Philip : Shame? I have nothing to be ashamed of you arrogant brat. I'll marry the girl if I want, and I'll have as many sons as I want, and there's nothing that you or your harpy mother can do about it!

    Alexander : Why, drunken man, must you think everything I do and say comes from my mother?

    Philip : Because I know her heart, by Hera. And I see her in your eyes. You covet this throne too much. Now we all know that she-wolf for a mother of yours wants me dead. Well, you can both dream boy.

    [Grabs his genitalia in a mocking way] 

    Parmenion : Come Philip, it is the wine talking. Leave the boy, it can wait till the morning.

    Philip : Now! I command you, apologize to your kinsman.

    [Alexander stands in silence looking at Attalus] 

    Philip : Apologize.

    Alexander : His no kinsman to me. Good night old man, and when my mother remarries, I'll invite you to her wedding.

    [Walks away] 

    Philip : You bastard! You'll obey me. Come here.

    [Alexander looks at Philip and continues to walk away, Philip grabs his sword and prepares to attack Alexander, but falls to the ground] 

    Alexander : [Alexander sees Philip fall]  And this is the man who's going to take you from Greece to Persia? He can't even make it from one couch to the next.

    Philip : Get out of my palace. Your exiled you bastard. Vanished from the land.You're not welcomed here. You're no son of mine

  • [at a meeting with the generals after Alexander's wedding to Roxane] 

    Parmenion : Your father must be turning in his grave, Alexander. After all this time, a hill chief's daughter? Do you call this tribal wedding legitimate?

    Alexander : You forget, Parmenion, that my father took a barbarian as his queen.

    Parmenion : Yes, and few would call it a profoundly happy marriage.

  • Parmenion : Alexander, I've known you since you were born. I supported you at your father's death. At the very least, for Zeus's sake and out of respect for the council that chose you king, give us a Macedonian heir.

  • Parmenion : That was not your father's mission!

    Alexander : And I am not my father.

  • Parmenion : [yelling at his overwhelmed phalanxes]  Back and to the left! Back and to the left!

  • Parmenion : [his men are being pushed back]  Philotas! Philotas!

    [grabs his son] 

    Parmenion : Go! Tell Alexander yourself. And if he won't listen, then survive me, and avenge this betrayal!

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