Troy Boy Brad Pitt reminds me of Brando in the heavy, dangerous presence he creates for the brooding Achilles in Troy. Director Wolfgang Petersen has opened a window into the pre-humanist world, though he ducks the treatment of women as property and the consequent homosexuality of romance. (Patroclus is shown only as Achilles' cousin, not lover; and a romance is conjured between Achilles and Patreis.) Worse, Brian Cox's Agamemnon keeps reminding me of Brian Blessed's King Richard IV from The Black Adder. As befits the 21st century, the much-invoked gods stay out of the action, which plausibly reduces the 10-year siege into a matter of weeks.
An engaging retelling of the oldest tale. But for the real wide-screen version, nothing contemporary beats the cinematic technique of Christopher Logue's War Music.
like sucking in cold air on a chipped tooth — painful, but you know you are alive. And the battle scenes belittle anything from Hollywood. reviewer at Amazon
They still do.
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