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What is happening here? Why history isn't history anymore? It's quite appalling how facts are being served through movies and series. We know that Alexander had a close friend, but not to the point of a whole drama thing, -holding hands amid battlefield, calling each other Alex and Heph- and other high school drama. The reason why these things should be priority when making a historical movie/series is beyond perception for me. It's like the industry thinks we are more interested for gossip, rather than real history. We all know the legendary Alexander, the glorious, half divine king, the one that went beyond limits, a diplomat, a philosopher, establisher of ancient Greek civilization in places that most never even know for their existence. The mere title The Making of a God, promised a lot, but the series failed to deliver that process. In the first episodes, the producers were literally galloping to display an erotic scene of Alex (name of a guy working in a gas station (no offense, just a random POV) with Heph, making out in a river or lake, who cares. With the same gallop, they killed Philip and immediately sent Alex away in a battle, where I have to point out that one could see the lack of emotion in Alexander's speech in front of the army, the lack of budget maybe, in setting a proper battle and battlefield, and lack of importance in that aspect. Everything was hollow, it lacked substance and proper characters. 1 star only for the effort of the people and archaeologists who were contributing with facts. Other than that, it deserves zero stars.

Apparently this is how Gen Z likes to view history and historical events. The music, the minimization of the most dramatic, sensitive and crucial moments, are ridiculous to the point of erasing the emotional side of attachment to the very important events that occurred during the Tudors dynasty. I remember watching The Tudors (the series) and I strongly recommend it if you want to see the real, factual history of Henry the VIII, how profoundly I felt the character and personality of Anne Boleyn, and how beautifully everyone is portrayed. This one felt like a mockery of history, and sadly, sometimes I feel like recent series and movies are trying so hard to detach us from the plot/fact, and shift our attention to details like garments, general non-verbal communication, the usual small-talk or gossip (drama qweens), little unimportant impressions and other elements that do not contribute at all in the film. It is also very obvious that rich dialogues and speeches are totally removed lately, cause maybe social media literally swiped our ability (especially younger generations) to fully comprehend complex phrases, situations, events etc. It is very sad to see openly how everything is also being submitted to political correctness and virtue signaling. Although I do not support historic movies falling to this scheme, it is okay to create fiction movies under that frame.