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Anyone seen the movie Alexander yet? There are a bunch of scenes with Angelina Jolie doing her thing with some snakes. Can anyone identify them? They look like a ball, normal corn and a leucistic texas rat snake.

The the last two, which are new world snakes, make an interesting debut into ancient Greece. I guess Oliver Stone didn't care too much about this little detail.

I haven't seen the flick, but I read that those are her personal snakes. I guess that means that your identifications are probably right. Hollywood cracks me up as far as accuracy goes with snakes. My favorite (and now I've forgotten the movie) was the deadly hissing and rattling California kingsnake!
Cheers!

or "venomous" with that yellow rat and milk snakes along with some real rattlers and if im not mistaken a bullsnake.

Made me laugh so hard... a speckled kingsnake and a emerald tree boa killing people from biting.
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0.1 Antherystic elaphe guttata guttata - Corn Snake
1.0 Elaphe vulpina gloydi - Eastern Fox Snake
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1.1 Morelia spilota cheyni - Jungle Carpet Python
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My favorite is in jurrasic park 2, when the Paleontologist is running around all the dinosaurs answering questions without any fear at all and then jumps at the sight of a milk snake.

ive heard (im not sure) that Nicolas Cage has 2 king cobras
i guess some people in hollywood do care about snakes.

Nick Cage cannot have them here in CA because they are illegal. He's mainly a monitor lizard person.

boy

Good call! I just saw that (fairly lame) flick and I brought up the same observation about North American snakes in Greece and also how they used snakes to suggest "evil" and something you cannot trust. Typical. Reminds me of the saying: "play with snakes, and you will get bit". Really? Not if you are intelligent, careful and know what your doing!

-Oh, and what was with that "if you hesitate, they will strike" nonsense? I think my hesitation has helped me on more than one occasion from getting BIT! Oliver Stone needs to get with the program...

Hey slick monkey,

Not many people who do not have snakes are that interested in trying to figure that out. Nor will they believe you if you try to explain it to them without having one in your hands at that very moment. People will try to find any excuse to make snakes be evil. Even though we know they aren't. What they don't know scares them. Its just how the cookie crumbles for us. We can't change the masses but can educate the individual. If we could, there wouldn't be anything along the lines of a rattlesnake roundup again. Besides that type of b.s. sells.

btw, I just wanted to say slick monkey, no insult or connotation to you.

cheers,
boy.