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    Troy (the Movie)

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    glory‚ some for honor‚ and some for love. Troy is a movie inspired by Homer¡¯s epic tale ¡°The Iliad¡±. It tells the story of two worlds that go to war for honor and power. Both sides are in pursuit of glory‚ but love turns out to deceive their hopes and aspirations (as with Paris and Achilles)‚ causing a nation burnt to the ground and the death of an invincible warrior. Although the story has been manipulated in many aspects‚ it is an entertaining movie with abundant visual actions and effects

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    Troy Movie Review

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    Troy directed by Wolfgang Petersen 2004 The movie Troy is about the conflict between the Greek city-states‚ led by Agamemnon‚ and Troy‚ ruled by Priam. These two have this conflict because Paris‚ Prince of Troy‚ fell in love with Helen‚ wife of Menelaus who is Agamemnon’s brother and king of Sparta‚ and took her back to Troy against the wishes of his brother‚ Hector‚ who‚ with his father‚ had been trying for years to make peace with Sparta and had finally gotten that peace. Agamemnon had recently

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    Troy Movie Notes

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    Troy= the movie(post classical depiction) * Troy is the most powerful alliance against the Greeks * Agamemnon wants ‘the world’ all the land * Achilles has disappeared from the army. A boy goes to find him‚ * Achilles mother is goddess as can’t be killed (Contemp) * Nester persueds Achilles to fight the big guy because of Time. He can’t stand to lose his pride * Achilles‚ son of Paris * Achilles kills the big guy with one stab * There is a huge feast ‚ thrown by Agamemnon

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    The Movie Helen of Troy

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    The movie Helen of Troy shows the important details before and inside the book Iliad. This movie helps the readers to understand this book. Also‚ it shows how the Trojan war started and how Troy has fallen. Like in the book‚ because Helen was taken by Paris‚ the Achaeans demanded to take her back and conquer and make Troy fall. The movie only shows the important details and the book‚ and changes the flow of the story to make it more beautiful and appropriate for their theme. After viewing the

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    Characters of Troy(Movie)

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    Eric Bana as Hector - Prince of Troy and the best warrior among the Trojans. Eldest son of Priam‚ brother of Paris and husband of Andromache.  Orlando Bloom as Paris - Prince of Troy. Youngest son of Priam‚ brother of Hector and lover of Helen.  Peter O’Toole as Priam - King of Troy and father of Hector and Paris.  Rose Byrne as Briseis - Priestess of Apollo and cousin of Hector and Paris. Lover of Achilles.  Saffron Burrows as Andromache - Princess of Troy and wife of Hector.  James Cosmo

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    period Historical Movie Review: Troy The film Troy was directed by Wolfgang Peterson and produced in 2004. The film was adapted by Homers great epic poem‚ The Iliad. The characters from The Iliad were portrayed by many well-known actors including‚ Brad Pitt‚ Orlando Bloom‚ and Eric Bana. Overall the movie was very entertaining but also contained many small errors and some historical inaccuracies. Troy retells the story of a war started by the Greek gods. Although the movie focuses more on the

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    Title of the Movie: Helen of Troy Directed By: John Kent Harrison Produced By: Ted Kurdyla Written By: Ronni Kern Starring: Sienna Guillory as Helen Matthew Marsden as Paris John Rhys-Davies as King Priam of Troy Emilia Fox as Cassandra‚ Princess of Troy Rufus Sewell as Agamemnon Stellan Skarsgård as Theseus Joe Montana as Achilles Katie Blake as Clytemnestra Craig Kelly as Pollux Manuel Cauchi as Paris’ Father Kristina Paris as Iphigenia Music By: Joel Goldsmith Cinematography: Edward J. Pai

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    Contrasts of Troy and the Iliad Troy and the Iliad are very similar in the story line and the all-around theme but there are huge fundamental changes the director made to the story to increase the likeability of the movie. Troy includes some of the significant events from the Iliad but there are extremely important events of the book that he did not include and some events that are important to the movie that never actually happened in the book. The three most important fundamental changes of the

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    Helen of Troy (Movie Review) CAST: Sienna Guillory-----> Helen Matthew Marsden---->Paris Rufus Sewell---->Agamemnon Stellan Skarsgard----> Theseus John Rhys-Davies---->King Priam of Troy Maryam d’Abo---->Queen Hecuba Emilia Fox---->Cassandra James Callis----->Menelaus Daniel Lapaine---->Hector Nigel Whitmey---->Odysseus Joe Montana---->Achilles     Helen of Troy is going to polarise audiences. As with any film based on a well-known work‚ there are

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    Major Differences between the Homer’s Iliad and the film Troy. It is very apparent that the film Troy‚ directed by Wolfgang Peterson‚ has been heavily influenced by the epic poem‚ the Iliad‚ a work commonly credited to the Ancient Greek poet Homer. Both the film and the poem have the same overall plots‚ such as the siege of Troy by the Greeks‚ the feud between the warrior Achilles and the king Agamemnon‚ and these events being triggered due to the Trojan prince Paris “stealing” Helen of Sparta

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