Troy
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Review by givemeallyougot

Troy

2004
★★★★

Rewatched 26 Dec 2024

"You gave me peace in a lifetime of war."

fair enough, this isn't a very faithful adaptation. And the movie is telling you in the end.. "inspired by Homer's The Iliad" on top of being called Troy, if you could believe there would be any possible reason for that. I don't suppose you figured they just thought it sounded cooler..

The thing I won't let slide is how they made Hector's death so emotional while also keeping out his Farewell to Andromache and their son. Such a beautiful piece of writing that hit me when I was in middle school if you could believe that. Could've easily be snuck in there before he left to fight Achilles and it would've made grown men cry. Too bad.
Another thing is how they just made up Achilles and Patroclus being cousins. Why? What purpose does it serve, really? Even if you wanted to portray them as simply very close friends, you would've gotten the same result.
In comparison, his more romantic relationship with Briseis may be unfaithful to the source material but at least it's based on something and it's a creative choice that makes sense.
An addition I did like is the strong presence of Odysseus. Don't care if it's not how it's supposed to be. Give me more.

Anyway, as a movie it's great. Every single battle and action piece is out of this world. It's about as epic as a movie can get. The director of such a masterpiece like Das Boot knew what the hell he was doing.
If you completely dismiss this movie just because you didn't see Achilles sliding his tongue under every corner of Patroclus mouth you need to grow up. And pick up The Iliad while you're at it.
But, maybe we also need to grow up and tell Luca Guadagnino to remake this instead of American Psycho.

and thanks to my man Chris Nolan for awakening my inner love for greek mythology.

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