Alexander

<i>Naturally.</i> 712 01:14:54,180 --> 01:14:58,500 They want only to return to their homes, rich with gold. But I've seen the future. 713 01:14:58,660 --> 01:15:01,980 I've seen it now 1000 times, on 1000 faces. 714 01:15:02,140 --> 01:15:04,260 These people want.. 715 01:15:05,060 --> 01:15:07,300 <i>Need change.</i> 716 01:15:08,180 --> 01:15:12,660 - Aristotle was wrong about them. - How so? 717 01:15:12,980 --> 01:15:14,980 <i>Look at those we've conquered.</i> 718 01:15:15,140 --> 01:15:17,260 They leave their dead unburied. 719 01:15:17,420 --> 01:15:20,100 They smash their enemies' skulls and drink them as dust. 720 01:15:20,300 --> 01:15:22,540 They mate in public. 721 01:15:22,740 --> 01:15:27,580 What can they think or sing or write when none can read? 722 01:15:27,780 --> 01:15:32,380 But as Alexander's army, they can go where they never thought possible. 723 01:15:32,580 --> 01:15:35,620 They can soldier or work in the cities. 724 01:15:35,820 --> 01:15:40,020 The Alexandrias, from Egypt to the outer ocean. 725 01:15:40,500 --> 01:15:43,460 We could connect these lands, Hephaistion.. 726 01:15:43,620 --> 01:15:44,820 and the people. 727 01:15:44,980 --> 01:15:50,460 Some say these Alexandrias have become extensions of Alexander himself. 728 01:15:51,340 --> 01:15:54,500 They draw people into the cities to make slaves of them. 729 01:15:54,660 --> 01:15:59,020 But we freed them, Hephaistion, from the Persia where everyone lived as slaves. 730 01:16:00,980 --> 01:16:04,180 To free the people of the world.. 731 01:16:04,380 --> 01:16:08,980 such would be beyond the glory of Achilles, beyond Herakles.. 732 01:16:09,140 --> 01:16:11,780 a feat to rival Prometheus.. 733 01:16:12,580 --> 01:16:15,220 who was always a friend to man. 734 01:16:15,420 --> 01:16:17,780 <i>Remember the fates of these heroes.</i> 735 01:16:17,940 --> 01:16:22,140 - They suffered greatly. - We all suffer. 736 01:16:22,580 --> 01:16:26,140 <i>Your father, mine.</i> 737 01:16:26,940 --> 01:16:29,020 They all came to the end of their time. 738 01:16:29,180 --> 01:16:33,260 And in the end, when it's over, all that matters is what you've done. 739 01:16:34,580 --> 01:16:39,380 <i>You once said, "The fear of death drives all men. "</i> 740 01:16:39,700 --> 01:16:41,620 Are there no other forces? 741 01:16:42,780 --> 01:16:45,660 Is there not love in your life.. 742 01:16:47,060 --> 01:16:49,060 Alexander? 743 01:16:52,820 --> 01:16:57,260 What would you do if you ever reached the end of the world? 744 01:16:59,180 --> 01:17:02,340 <i>I'd turn back and conquer its opposite.</i> 745 01:17:07,380 --> 01:17:12,580 I wonder sometimes if it's not your mother you run from. 746 01:17:13,860 --> 01:17:17,300 So many years, so many miles between you. 747 01:17:19,460 --> 01:17:21,420 What is it you fear? 748 01:17:22,900 --> 01:17:25,220 Who knows these things? 749 01:17:26,820 --> 01:17:31,900 When I was a child, my mother thought me divine. My father, weak. 750 01:17:34,500 --> 01:17:37,100 Which am I, Hephaistion? 751 01:17:37,260 --> 01:17:39,380 Weak or divine? 752 01:17:42,900 --> 01:17:44,820 All I know is.. 753 01:17:44,980 --> 01:17:47,940 I trust only you in this world. 754 01:17:48,100 --> 01:17:50,060 I've missed you. 755 01:17:50,860 --> 01:17:52,180 I need you. 756 01:17:54,260 --> 01:17:55,900 It is you I love, Hephaistion. 757 01:17:58,300 --> 01:18:00,460 <i>No other.</i> 758 01:18:04,220 --> 01:18:07,140 <i>You're everything I care for..</i> 759 01:18:07,300 --> 01:18:10,940 and by the sweet breath of Aphrodite.. 760 01:18:11,460 --> 01:18:14,540 <i>I'm so jealous of losing you to this world you want.</i> 761 01:18:15,060 --> 01:18:17,700 <i>You'll never lose me, Hephaistion.</i> 762 01:18:18,100 --> 01:18:21,380 I'll be with you always. 763 01:18:22,020 --> 01:18:24,100 Till the end. 764 01:18:37,340 --> 01:18:39,980 <i>The campaign in the northeast of Persia..</i> 765 01:18:40,140 --> 01:18:45,260 <i>turned into a hard guerrilla war of almost three years.</i> 766 01:18:47,860 --> 01:18:50,540 <i>We chased Darius towards Bactria..</i> 767 01:18:50,700 --> 01:18:53,500 <i>but missed taking him by hours.</i> 768 01:18:56,740 --> 01:18:59,100 He was dying when we found him, sire. 769 01:18:59,260 --> 01:19:01,180 He asked for water. 770 01:19:01,340 --> 01:19:03,700 He drank and died. 771 01:19:10,380 --> 01:19:15,100 <i>The Great King Darius had been betrayed by his own commanders.</i> 772 01:19:43,220 --> 01:19:45,180 <i>Fully honoring his corpse..</i> 773 01:19:45,340 --> 01:19:50,260 <i>Alexander hunted down these commanders into unknown lands..</i> 774 01:19:51,220 --> 01:19:56,060 <i>crossing even beyond the River Oxus into Sogdia.</i> 775 01:20:00,220 --> 01:20:04,340 <i>We fought them as far as the unkno...