1 Alexander.the.Great.1956.PROPER.1080p.BluRay.x264-LiBRARiANS Movie Subtitles

1 00:00:21,269 --> 00:00:25,754 It is men who endure toil and dare dangers that achieve glorious deeds. 2 00:00:25,858 --> 00:00:28,048 And it is a lovely thing to live with courage, 3 00:00:28,256 --> 00:00:31,281 and to die leaving behind an everlasting renown. 4 00:02:11,385 --> 00:02:15,828 War! This is what Demosthenes calls for, war! 5 00:02:18,685 --> 00:02:22,649 - Aeschenes puts words in my mouth. - If you mean truth, I put it there. 6 00:02:22,856 --> 00:02:26,190 I know of no other way for it to come from your mouth! 7 00:02:28,278 --> 00:02:30,365 Your audience performs well today. 8 00:02:30,469 --> 00:02:35,058 Philip's money is well spent. The words I used were "arms" and "money". 9 00:02:35,161 --> 00:02:38,186 I quarrel with the words you did not use: "Men" and "blood". 10 00:02:38,393 --> 00:02:41,940 If these words must be used... yes, men and blood. 11 00:02:42,043 --> 00:02:43,816 Athenian men and Athenian blood? 12 00:02:43,921 --> 00:02:46,111 To save Athens, whose blood should be shed? 13 00:02:46,319 --> 00:02:51,117 - To save Athens, not Olynthus! - And if Olynthus falls to the barbarian, 14 00:02:51,220 --> 00:02:53,724 what stands between Athens and destruction? 15 00:02:53,931 --> 00:02:57,999 - Peace! - Move for peace and I'll support you. 16 00:02:58,103 --> 00:03:01,649 Men of Athens, are there still madmen among you...? 17 00:03:01,751 --> 00:03:06,341 Who wish to live? I'm mad. I'm stark, raving mad. 18 00:03:11,659 --> 00:03:16,040 Are there sane men among you who still think that we have the power 19 00:03:16,246 --> 00:03:18,958 to debate the question of war or peace? 20 00:03:19,166 --> 00:03:21,669 Who will fight? You or us? 21 00:03:21,877 --> 00:03:26,049 Why do you speak thus? For love of country or love of Philip's gold? 22 00:03:27,508 --> 00:03:29,282 No! No! No! 23 00:03:29,385 --> 00:03:34,496 Philip has been at war with us ever since he razed the first Greek city to the ground. 24 00:03:34,599 --> 00:03:39,815 And as each Greek city fell, Philip, too, kept proclaiming peace. 25 00:03:39,917 --> 00:03:41,899 And, to our eternal shame, 26 00:03:42,003 --> 00:03:46,489 we stood by and never once cried out against his barbaric acts. 27 00:03:47,738 --> 00:03:53,267 Are you blind that you cannot see that this is the plan for Philip's conquest... 28 00:03:53,369 --> 00:03:58,063 to extend his rule city by city, state by state, 29 00:03:58,166 --> 00:04:01,713 by bribery, treachery, force of arms? 30 00:04:14,016 --> 00:04:17,145 - Yes? - From Macedonia. Message for the king. 31 00:04:18,396 --> 00:04:20,065 Philip. 32 00:04:21,941 --> 00:04:25,384 Philip, wake up. There's a messenger from Macedonia. 33 00:04:26,529 --> 00:04:29,554 Ah, such dreams I had. 34 00:04:30,596 --> 00:04:34,247 Such strange and troubled drunken dreams. 35 00:04:34,350 --> 00:04:36,436 A messenger...? 36 00:04:36,957 --> 00:04:40,295 - What news do you bring? Good or bad? - You have a son. 37 00:04:41,337 --> 00:04:44,257 - A son? - Born to the queen three weeks ago. 38 00:04:45,299 --> 00:04:47,490 - I have a son. - Alexander. 39 00:04:47,593 --> 00:04:51,765 - That's the name the queen gave him. - Alexander. And the queen? 40 00:04:51,869 --> 00:04:54,476 - She sends you greetings. - Greetings? 41 00:04:54,684 --> 00:04:56,770 "To Philip. Hail and rejoice." 42 00:04:56,874 --> 00:05:01,255 "On this day to Olympias, your queen and wife, a god was born." 43 00:05:04,799 --> 00:05:07,407 - A god? - Those were the queen's words. 44 00:05:07,510 --> 00:05:11,682 What mother in Greece has not dreamed that her first-born was a god? 45 00:06:27,283 --> 00:06:29,891 Hail, Philip, conqueror. 46 00:06:32,183 --> 00:06:34,269 Hail, Egyptian. 47 00:06:36,459 --> 00:06:38,754 I want to see my son. 48 00:06:42,820 --> 00:06:46,366 Looks like you... the hair, the eyes. 49 00:06:46,470 --> 00:06:48,869 Even his beard! 50 00:06:49,076 --> 00:06:51,788 You named him well: Alexander. 51 00:06:52,726 --> 00:06:54,708 Alexander of Macedonia. 52 00:06:55,646 --> 00:06:57,836 Alexander of Greece. 53 00:06:59,191 --> 00:07:01,590 Little lion. 54 00:07:01,798 --> 00:07:03,780 Little god. 55 00:07:07,325 --> 00:07:09,307 I say, uh... 56 00:07:10,453 --> 00:07:12,957 I've heard that legend. 57 00:07:13,060 --> 00:07:15,563 There were signs of greatness at his birth. 58 00:07:15,771 --> 00:07:20,152 Quakes and storms shook the earth, and in the skies a star fell. 59 00:07:20,255 --> 00:07:23,698 And two eagles perched upon the roof of the queen's chamber. 60 00:07:24,322 --> 00:07:26,096 And in far off Asia, 61 00:07:26,199 --> 00:07:30,580 the Temple of Ephesus was struck by lightning and burnt to the ground. 62 00:07:30,683 --> 00:07:33,082 How did you read these signs, soothsayer? 63 00:07:33,186 --> 00:07:37,984 The two eagles... that he was born to rule two worlds. 64 00:07:38,191 --> 00:07:39,860 The burning of the temple... 65 00:07:39,964 --> 00:07:45,283 that a torch was kindled that day that would one day consume all the world, 66 00:07:45,907 --> 00:07:48,932 and this torch, your son. 67 00:07:52,998 --> 00:07:55,606 And the falling of the star? 68 00:07:55,813 --> 00:07:59,569 That a god was born to me... of a god. 69 00:07:59,776 --> 00:08:03,010 There were other signs and portents of divinity. 70 00:08:03,217 --> 00:08:05,929 Before his birth, the queen had a dream. 71 00:08:06,971 --> 00:08:09,996 I had a dream, too, soothsayer. 72 00:08:10,100 --> 00:08:13,542 One night on the battlefield of Olynthus I had a dream. 73 00:08:13,645 --> 00:08:16,044 I dreamed of death. 74 00:08:18,025 --> 00:08:21,989 And when I awoke, I didn't know whose death it was. 75 00:08:22,196 --> 00:08:23,865 We want Philip! 76 00:08:24,073 --> 00:08:26,889 - Foretell it to me. - Those shouts are for you. 77 00:08:26,993 --> 00:08:31,269 The people have been waiting for hours to see the king and his son. 78 00:08:59,319 --> 00:09:03,074 - And if you kill him, what? - Pleasure, bloody pleasure. 79 00:09:03,281 --> 00:09:06,514 - And if you're wrong? - An Egyptian soothsayer dies. 80 00:09:06,618 --> 00:09:10,164 - And king Philip says to the world...? - That he is also a man. 81 00:09:10,372 --> 00:09:16,526 A madman! And if you are, play the role and also kill her and the boy. 82 00:09:20,904 --> 00:09:22,886 Kill her? 83 00:09:25,180 --> 00:09:27,579 - And the boy? - Why not? 84 00:09:27,682 --> 00:09:31,124 Isn't it the ancient law of the wild Macedonian chiefs? 85 00:09:31,227 --> 00:09:33,939 You knew her when you married... proud and jealous, 86 00:09:34,147 --> 00:09:38,632 as wild as the mountains from which she came and the gods she worshipped. 87 00:09:38,736 --> 00:09:44,160 What she thinks I don't know, but this I do know: She's a woman and she taunts you. 88 00:09:44,366 --> 00:09:46,348 Taunts me? 89 00:09:47,912 --> 00:09:50,102 Tears me. 90 00:09:51,666 --> 00:09:53,856 And what do you believe, Parmenio? 91 00:09:54,064 --> 00:09:56,567 Even the oracle at Delphi proclaims his divinity. 92 00:09:56,776 --> 00:10:00,322 - I've bought shrines and burned them. - I accept the will of the gods. 93 00:10:00,425 --> 00:10:02,824 And what do you believe? 94 00:10:02,928 --> 00:10:06,579 I believe in the glory of Macedonia, in the kingdom. 95 00:10:06,787 --> 00:10:09,499 In the army, forged with your will and your strength 96 00:10:09,602 --> 00:10:14,296 and your belief that we were stronger and more fit to rule than anyone in Greece, 97 00:10:14,398 --> 00:10:16,797 even in Athens. 98 00:10:17,006 --> 00:10:19,196 And you're right, Philip. We are. 99 00:10:19,300 --> 00:10:23,263 We must proclaim to the world that Macedonia will not fall apart, 100 00:10:23,367 --> 00:10:27,435 that she will continue to rule through you and through your son. 101 00:10:28,893 --> 00:10:32,335 And then, Philip, we shall have truly lived. 102 00:10:32,438 --> 00:10:34,107 Go to her. 103 00:10:34,211 --> 00:10:38,174 You loved her once. At least you can live in peace with her. 104 00:10:38,278 --> 00:10:41,928 Accept the boy. He's yours. 105 00:10:42,032 --> 00:10:44,952 And give them what they want. 106 00:10:51,834 --> 00:10:53,711 Alexander. 107 00:10:55,275 --> 00:10:57,152 Alexander. 108 00:10:58,403 --> 00:11:01,011 Achilles, too, was born of a god. 109 00:11:01,844 --> 00:11:07,060 And at his birth it was foretold that he would be greater than his father. 110 00:11:08,101 --> 00:11:10,083 And he was. 111 00:11:11,855 --> 00:11:15,088 And this destiny shall be yours, too, Alexander. 112 00:11:16,235 --> 00:11:18,008 Al... 113 00:11:26,350 --> 00:11:28,749 They want to see the prince... 114 00:11:30,208 --> 00:11:32,294 and the queen. 115 00:12:45,392 --> 00:12:48,522 - Greetings, Aristotle. - Greetings, Alexander. 116 00:12:48,729 --> 00:12:51,754 - Whose kill? - His. Alone, on foot. 117 00:12:51,857 --> 00:12:55,717 You should have seen it. It was like a duel to decide which of them was king. 118 00:12:55,819 --> 00:12:59,157 That duel need never have been fought. 119 00:12:59,260 --> 00:13:01,347 Cleitus is back. 120 00:13:02,077 --> 00:13:03,537 Cleitus? 121 00:13:07,290 --> 00:13:09,689 Cleitus. Black Cleitus! 122 00:13:09,792 --> 00:13:11,357 - King. - Companion. 123 00:13:11,461 --> 00:13:14,695 Lucky Cleitus, to be the only one amongst us chosen to go to war....