| 1 | The old woman rained down curses on our heads. | |
| 2 | Plus, he gave me a piece of his mind. | |
| 3 | The people of Hamelin overwhelmed him with reproaches. | |
| 4 | Butcher Hu spat in his face, and poured out a torrent of abuse. | |
| 5 | But Alexander, his magnum opus, a biopic of Alexander the Great that he at one point calls "his life's work", was savaged by the critics. |