Oliver Stone: Cut Up & Cut Out

Oliver Stone was arrested in Beverly Hills the other day on suspicion of drug possession and driving drunk as a skunk. Speaking of stank, he’s edited out most of the gay references in the Special Edition Director’s Cut DVD of Alexander which is soon to be released.

According to director Oliver Stone, the new version is shorter by an estimated eight minutes, minus, in large part, references to Alexander’s bisexuality to make the film “more accessible” to viewers.

Normally I could give a rat’s ass what Oliver Stone was cutting, whether it was lines of coke or footage from his shitty films. But I've been paying attention to how the media have been covering this shitty film. It's a Colin Farrell thing for me, okay?

Earlier this year, Ollie blamed homophobia, fundamentalism and cultural ignorance for Alexander's failure at the box office:

"Americans don't read about ancient history like the Europeans. And in America there is a raging fundamentalism and morality. From day one the Bible Belt people did not show up because there was one phrase throughout the media and that was 'Alex the gay.' So you can bet your [bleep] the Americans aren't going to see a war hero who in their heads has something wrong with him. But I don't regret what I have made here for a minute. It's the epic of my life."

Seems to me, Ollie, the only thing of epic proportions you’ll find now is the attorney’s fees you’ll have to pay to get yourself outta trouble. And once you do get your license back, oh visionary and arbiter of truth in film, there’s a highway of hypocritical regrets for you to be driving. It’s littered with the gay footage you cut in a lame attempt to sell your boring as [bleep] piece of [bleep]ing [bleep] film.

Usually, I would be the first person to say it’s not nice to kick a man when he’s down (it’s just as satisfying to maliciously gossip about him), but I’ve strapped on my black patent-leather steel-toed 7 inch platform-heeled boots especially for the occasion.

From what I can tell, Colin likes is kinda rough.