Roman commanders underestimated?

[Pontius Pilate]

Lol, no. "maybe the kings were too far behind to see. The soldiers won the battle" "History remembers kings, not soldiers. Tomorrow we will batter down the gates of troy. I'll build monuments to victory on every island of Greece. I'll carve "Agamemnon" in the stone. " "Be careful king of kings. First you need victory"


i know this conversation by heart. i like the movie, altough it has NOTHIG to do with historical research and authenticity

same here! I love movie too. It's just so epic and gives you a nostalgic kind of feeling and... I don't know,there is just something about it that I just enjoy. And yeah it completely goes against the original Illiad by Homer...Agamemnon dies at the end, lol.


EDIT: wow, sounds like I'm describing my dream girl or something.

[SwissBarbar]

same here! I love movie too. It's just so epic and gives you a nostalgic kind of feeling and... I don't know,there is just something about it that I just enjoy. And yeah it completely goes against the original Illiad by Homer...Agamemnon dies at the end, lol.


EDIT: wow, sounds like I'm describing my dream girl or something.

maybe briseis or helena is your dream girl? ^^

actually i like the idea of showing the war without copious quantities of gods and other mythic creatures interfering the battles.

and yeah, if the ilias ended this way, goethe could never have written Iphigenia in Tauris poor agamemnon

[machinor]

The problem with that movie was not the non-involvement of gods 'n stuff. The problem was that even the no-god-parts (which are the main parts... the gods are not that much directly involved in the essential plot elements; it is an epic about humans and human flaws) were completely rubbish. The Iliad was turned into a soap opera with some stylish(?) fantasy fighting. That is the problem most people, who know the original, have with that film. And even without the Iliad background the dialogue and acting was just plain ridiculous for the most part.

Going off-topic here...