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Jul 13, 2013 · In the Troy movie, Peterson constructs a new story around the reinterpreted events of the Illiad, appropriating and humanizing the characters for a new age. Briseis is revealed as Achilles’ Achilles’ heel in Wolfgang Petersen’s Troy (2004), a cleverly postmodern retelling of the plot of Homer’s Iliad.
- The Relationship Between Achilles and Patroclus
- The Time Span
- The Death of Agamemnon
- The Fate of Paris
- Helen’s Memory of Her Life Events
The place where Troy strays the furthest from The Iliad is the relationship between Brad Pitt’s Achilles and Patroclus. In the film, the two are portrayed as cousins, with Achilles being a mentor to his younger relative. Other ancient works (excluding The Iliad) portray the two characters as lovers, while Homer doesn’t explicitly state that they ar...
The Trojan War is said to have lasted 10 years. The Greeks tried relentlessly for a decade to breach the formidable walls of Troy to no avail, forcing them to finally look for another way of getting into the city. While the film doesn’t have a clear timeline, it certainly doesn’t seem like it takes 10 years from the moment the Greeks land on the be...
Agamemnon, played by the brilliant Brian Cox, serves as the central villain of the film, so it makes sense that the scriptwriters decided to give the audience a little satisfaction by having him killed at the end. But in the original tale, Agamemnon is indeed one of the characters who survives the Trojan War. He doesn’t get a happy ending in any ve...
The film is true to the work of Homer and Ancient Greek mythologyin that it shows Helen’s departure from Sparta, whether willing or otherwise, as the act that provoked the Greeks to go to war. While it accurately shows Paris in love with Helen, it strays from the original when it comes to the character’s fate. In the film, Paris kills Achilles and ...
The film portrays the Paris and Helen as being in love, with their traveling to Troy being a rescue mission rather than an abduction. At one point in the film, Helen even explains that Sparta was never her home. She says that her parents sent her there at the age of 16 to marry Menelaus. Although only a minor detail, this is inconsistent with the o...
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Preview. Martin Winkler has devoted a distinguished career to films about antiquity, but Wolfgang Petersen’s Troy (2004) clearly occupies a special place in his heart. . Winkler’s first collection on the subject, which was published as soon as humanly possible after the film’s release, 1 is now followed by the volume under r
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Expert Answers. Modern students can learn several things about the ancient world, as well as enduring human issues, from the movie Troy. The first issue, which appears...
Aug 9, 2007 · 9. Helen of Troy, by Monica S. Cyrino (University of New Mexico) 10. Briseis in Homer, Ovid, and Troy, by Alena Allen (Cathedral High School in San Diego, California) 11. Troy and Memorials of War, by Frederick Ahl (Cornell University) 12. The Realist Politics of Troy, by Robert J. Rabel (University of Kentucky) 13.
May 14, 2004 · ''Troy,'' which cost something approaching the gross national product of modern Greece, will be lucky to survive the arrival of ''Shrek 2'' on Wednesday. But for what it is -- a big,...
May 14, 2004 · Pitt is modern, nuanced, introspective; he brings complexity to a role where it is not required. Advertisement. By treating Achilles and the other characters as if they were human, instead of the larger-than-life creations of Greek myth, director Wolfgang Petersen miscalculates.
