A little thing I'd like to see in sieges...

[bodidley]

I always found it amusing people would object to a director taking artistic liberties in a work that is pure fiction anyway. For one thing, Homeros probably never existed, and secondly; the Illiad we now know probably has little to do with the original story anyway.

I never saw the movie, but it's funny some people have real problems with this. I mean: who cares? Did anyone really expect that film to be 'true' to the movie?
Because boy, that would make for one sucky movie.

Considering that Wolfgang Petersen directed the masterpiece Das Boot, Peter O'Tool delivered one of the best performances in the history of film as Lawrence of Arabia, and Brad Pitt has displayed his talent in 12 Monkeys as well as Fight Club, I would suspect that the crapocity of Troy had little to do with innovative artistic license. This is especially true when one considers that story in the movie=crap, Illiad+Quintus of Smyrna=not crap

P.S.

P.P.S. No hard feelings

[anonymous_joe]

Troy was, and always will be, a terrible film.

As a 'dramatisation' of the Iliad, erm, no deities, no Diomedes, no Aeneas, Patrokolos that young minx etc etc. Utter shite. And Paris wasn't a wimp, he wouldn't fight for the same reason as Achilleus, people didn't respect him. Though Menelaus does beat him in that fight of theirs.

[Jebus]

Hey, I never defended Troy: the movie. Heck, I never even saw it.
I was speaking of artistic liberties in general.