Transkript – Alexander (2004)
Ptolemy: How can I tell you what it is like to be young and to dream big dreams? To believe when Alexander looked you in the eye, you could do anything. Anything. In his presence, by the light of Apollo, we were better than ourselves.
Hephaestion: I remember the young man who wanted to be Achilles, and then outdid him.
Alexander: And then what happened? Ours is a myth only young men believe.
Hephaestion: But how beautiful a myth it was.
Alexander: We reach, we fall. Oh, Hephaestion.
Hephaestion: I worry for you without me.
Alexander: I am nothing without you. Come, fight, Hephaestion. We will die together. We’ll have children with our wives, and our sons will play together as we once did. A thousand ships we’ll launch from here, Hephaestion. We’ll round Arabia and sail up the gulf to Egypt. From there, we’ll build a channel through the desert and out to the Middle Sea. And then we’ll move on Carthage. And that great island, Sicily, they’ll pay large tribute. After that, the Roman tribe, good fighters. We’ll beat them. And then explore the northern forests and out the Pillars of Herakles to the western ocean. And then one day, populations will mix and travel freely. Asia and Europe will come together. And we’ll grow old, Hephaestion, looking out our balcony at this new world. Hephaestion? Hephaestion? No!
Ptolemy: The freest man I’ve ever known. His tragedy was one of increasing loneliness, and impatience with those who could not understand. And if his desire to reconcile Greek and barbarian ended in failure… What failure! His failure towered over other men’s successes. I’ve lived… I’ve lived long life, Cadmos… but the glory and the memory of man will always belong to the ones who follow their great visions. And the greatest of these is the one they now call… Megas Alexandros.