06:07: troy was good. i liked the costumes (the trojans, especially), the long shots, the swordplay....
brad pitt was .... put it this way, after his first blow to the thessalonian warrior, i said "puchanginangyananakkangangdiyosapaanomoginawayanhayopka!" and i'm not even a big fan of brad pitt. he picks good movies and interesting characters, but he, as brad pitt, just never really did it for me. here, he was every bit the hero i imagined achilles to be.
hector has always been my favorite character from the trojan war, but eric bana didn't seem like enough of a leader. he was ok, though. i still love hector. i will never understand how he could show so much devotion to a fruit of a brother who was practically a stranger, maybe an impostor, for all they knew.
it's interesting to note that sean bean plays odysseus. for those of you who know greek mythology and are familiar with sean bean's films, you'll know why this is noteworthy.
taking the whole divine intervention bit out of the story made it more realistic, i suppose. i'm not sure i like it, but it worked. in almost every book i've read, it was always as much a battle between the olympians as it was between the greeks and the trojans. men are their pawns. mere playthings. but for the audience unfamiliar with greek mythology, the whole concept of the greeks being fatalists wasn't quite as easy to grasp.
though i walked into the theater knowing what would happen and how it would end, the achilles-briseis angle still kept me guessing. never read much on that and i couldn't remember what became of briseis.
must see this again in greenbelt 3.
one more rave...
saw jamie cullum on conan o'brien. must buy album. both of them.
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