Pure unadulterated kino. Why doesn't it get the status it deserves?

Pure unadulterated kino. Why doesn't it get the status it deserves?

There was a time when movies used extras to create giant armies, and not beginner-level greenscreen f/x.

>warring over Diane Kruger

I'm not sure why you're on this big Troy push lately OP, but I approve 100%.

>you will wander the underworld blind, deaf and dumb, and all the dead will know - this is Hector, the fool who thought he killed Achilles

Its a good movie, just not a very good adaptation

I'd sneak my Trojan horse past her city gates, if you know what I mean

It wasn't the Illiad, and not the Aeneid.

It is all there, screenwriting completed thousands of years ago. Hollywood tries to meet the modern audience, not aware that it communicates better without dumbing the content and context down.

The story has been meaningful for millennia, with none or little necessary added variation.

Present Hollywood will never make a decent movies out of the classics again without respecting them for what they, classics.

Literary art in themselves, respect that art and follow what has made millions fans.

Yes you wanted Patrocles to be Achilles' lover but they made him his cousin because Americans wouldn't agree with it

Never made a thread about it before, but I just watched it on Netflix and forgot how good it was

technically only 2 guys fought over diane kruger, everyone else just used them as an excuse for personal gain

because of obvious roid cheating by the star desu

It was a bad adaptation.

It's a little boring, but it's by no means bad. Just somehow went under the table.

Awful casting, setpieces and effects. Acting is shite too. Overall is an entertaining flick, but yeah it's shit.

What even happened to Eric Bana

No idea but the last thing I saw him in was the first Star Trek reboot as the villain. Shame too because I really liked him as an actor. Munich was amazing.

>HECTOR!!!


>HECTOR!!!


>HECTOR!!!

Very suspenseful scene

His character in this was perfect for him, stoic and dutiful, perfect older brother

>The Thessalonian you’re fighting… he’s the biggest man I’ve ever seen for you. I wouldn’t want to fight him.
>That’s why no-one will remember your name.
Kinography.

>Spoiler - Hector is the good guy

Hector smiled as he looked upon the boy, but he did not speak, and Andromache stood by him weeping and taking his hand in her own. "Dear husband," said she, "your valour will bring you to destruction; think on your infant son, and on my hapless self who ere long shall be your widow- for the Achaeans will set upon you in a body and kill you. It would be better for me, should I lose you, to lie dead and buried, for I shall have nothing left to comfort me when you are gone, save only sorrow. I have neither father nor mother now. .... Nay- Hector- you who to me are father, mother, brother, and dear husband- have mercy upon me; stay here upon this wall; make not your child fatherless, and your wife a widow."

And Hector answered, "Wife, I too have thought upon all this, but with what face should I look upon the Trojans, men or women, if I shirked battle like a coward? I cannot do so: I know nothing save to fight bravely in the forefront of the Trojan host and win renown alike for my father and myself. Well do I know that the day will surely come when mighty Ilius shall be destroyed with Priam and Priam's people, but I grieve for none of these- not even for Hecuba, nor King Priam, nor for my brothers many and brave who may fall in the dust before their foes- for none of these do I grieve as for yourself when the day shall come on which some one of the Achaeans shall rob you for ever of your freedom, and bear you weeping away.. . . May I lie dead under the barrow that is heaped over my body ere I hear your cry as they carry you into bondage."

He stretched his arms towards his child, but the boy cried and nestled in his nurse's bosom, scared at the sight of his father's armour, and at the horse-hair plume that nodded fiercely from his helmet. His father and mother laughed to see him, but Hector took the helmet from his head and laid it all gleaming upon the ground. Then he took his darling child, kissed him, and dandled him in his arms, praying over him the while to Jove and to all the gods. "Jove," he cried, "grant that this my child may be even as myself, chief among the Trojans; let him be not less excellent in strength, and let him rule Ilius with his might. Then may one say of him as he comes from battle, 'The son is far better than the father.' May he bring back the blood-stained spoils of him whom he has laid low, and let his mother's heart be glad.'"

Not enough homo t b h

I wish Priam wasn't such a fag though. Goddamn he was uncomfortable to watch.

With this he laid the child again in the arms of his wife, who took him to her own soft bosom, smiling through her tears. As her husband watched her his heart yearned towards her and he caressed her fondly, saying, "My own wife, do not take these things too bitterly to heart. No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man's hour is come, be he brave or be he coward, there is no escape for him when he has once been born."

HOMOEROTIC SOYBOY FAGGOTRY

this board is gay as fuck enough
stop trying to make it even more faggoty

It's hard to put yourself in Hector's position. Knowing Achilles, the biggest badass in the Greek army, who has refused to fight for the Greeks since landing, is knocking on your door just to fuck your day up. That's goddamned terrifying.

Not enough blacks in the cast.
Too grounded in reality too, virtually no Gods meddling with shit.

These dudes were so badass they could fuck each other in the ass and still be straighter than you.

Except they were discussing people from Thessaly, who would have been referred to as Thessalians. Thessalonians were from Thessaloniki. This was not the only moment that made me roll my eyes in this mediocre film

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remember when Eric Bana was in movies?

he's been in a lot of low budget shit since then plus the King Arthur movie that came out last year.
dunno what went wrong in the 10s for him

pitt phoned it in.
it was still pretty watchable despite its bad directing, because the iliad

Deliver us from evil.
underrated movie

>Greeks
>Trojans
>Played by whites

There you go, OP. This movie is problematic in the current year. Greeks need to be blacked

um no sweetie achilles, paris and patroclus were all black

>make the Iliad
>make it a blockbuster

>not include gods

epic fail

apparently nolan was close to directing this

Why can't we have big budget historical kino instead of endless capeshit?

Because people suck

nerd

You sound autistic

WE

>he says this before Achilles gets rooty with his tooty

THIS. It boggles the mind to see how many incredible historical events have never been portrayed on film.
Unfortunately, the Siege of Vienna was done and the movie was immense dogshit.

> changed the story of a ancient epos to keep brad pit till the third act
> too afraid to put the gay stuff in an ancient greek story

I rate it 6/10

>Yes you wanted Patrocles to be Achilles' lover
show it in the original text

>he’s the biggest man I’ve ever seen for you.
I caught this

because Pitt didnt sell Achilles well enough. It's the only thing I can think of. I love the cunt but he was miscast.

Patrocles was a horrible character. Offered nothing but dick sucking lips that weren't put to use because he and Achilles were just cousins.

The flaming homo King Priam and his creepy eyes.

Breseis that was supposed to be a QT4U but was just...bland.

Oh, and Orlando Bloom reprising his midget movie archer skills at the end.

because kubrick died

>he wasn’t gay! we swear!

Just post it.

>sacrifices a hecatomb of oxen

>hecatomb

You mean heck of a lot.