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Does anyone think its weird everyone has a British accent when everyones Greek?

That was literally my first comment about the movie.

I suppose if you really wanted to get technical you could've pointed out that they were speaking English as opposed to ancient greek...

Everyone please do me a favor and don't buy that movie on DVD

I loaned it, and then copied it. I thought it was a pretty decent movie.

I hated it because they compressed the epic 10 year Trojan War into like, two weeks

Plus they changed so many weird random things from the Illiad that just didn't need to be changed (like certain characters dying that shouldn't have died, and other characters surviving that shouldn't have survived). In general I don't think the Illiad is as powerful without that element of the Greek gods interfering in human affairs, and that was severely downplayed in the film. Also, in my head, Achilles was this really big ugly brute, Brad Pitt didn't really fit the role in my opinion, he's too much of a girly man.

I can try to nitpick some more if people like

I've never read the Illiad

Oh, well on its own I guess its alright. Gladiator is still the best epic Greek/Roman movie though.

I prefer the history channel

I dont care about them speaking english. I just think them having a british accent is weird.

So while they are speaking English, which accent should they speak with? If you think it's weird that they speak with an English accent, wouldn't it be just as weird to have a bunch of ancient Greeks speaking with an American accent?

I went to see it with a friend who had read the illiad- and wanted to see shirtless Brad Pitt. I kind of ruined the movie for her by laughing when they cut repeatedly from the baby to the funeral pyre- when she asked me why I was laughing, I explained that I'd seen so many horror movies I was picturing the baby exploding. We both cracked up in ever baby shot from then on.

I meant why do they have British accents? Maybe some of the actors were British but what about the American ones?

I didn't notice any accents, british, american or otherwise...

Might I point out that Eric Bana is Australian... I think Orlando Bloom is New Zealander/British..But I'm not sure on that.

GA

That's pretty pathetic for the genre, then.

Last edited by Thagomizer on 18 Dec 2005, 9:19 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Troy had well-staged battle scenes, but what annoyed me was the incredibly pompous dialogue and postmodern take on the Illiad. In Greek myth the characters are larger than life and have no psychology, and the existence of the gods is a given. Cutting these elements out and reducing the story to the cliches of the action movie genre does not make the film more "mature" or "realistic". When is Hollywood going to realize this? Troy commited the same crime that "King Arthur" did, except the latter was even more self-important about it.

If I were to direct a movie about the Greco-Roman world, it wouldn't be in Enlgish. The point in doing this would be to make the audience feel as if they've been transported into another time period, with characters and situations alien to them, and if we really want to be honest about it, it's because they have.