Troy
IMDB link: Troy
Source: Netflix
Date viewed: May 12, 2006
Not as bad as some people said it would be. It's a good thing that it was called Troy instead of The Iliad for at least two reasons. One, no one would have seen it if it had been named The Iliad. Two, it diverges a bit from Homer's version. I watched it with a chapter-by-chapter summary of the Iliad open on my lap, and many of the events in the book were represented in the movie, but they seemed to have left the gods out of the story entirely, and, they tacked the end on from other sources. I don't think the movie made any claims of adhesion to the literary canon, it's just another version of the story, but I still think Homer would have liked it if he could have seen it. - A
This wasn't all that bad, really. A fairly accurate re-telling of Homer's account of the fall of Troy. Oops! Did I give away the ending?? Sorry. - T
posted by T and A @ 9:15 AM
1 Comments:
while the storytelling was solidly third-rate, i rank this piece of cinematic effluent squarely alongside "titanic" in both writing and acting: brad "get me hairdressing!" pitt, orlando "no-boom-boom" bloom and leonardo "when will i look like a grown-up?" dicaprio must be triplets separated at birth because they certainly ACT like brothers. you can't convince me that james cameron didn't have a hand in the script, either. of course, i can't offer excuses because i watched the movie, too...
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