The whole thing about Achilles is absolutely scandalous.
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But then again, in the end all one will remember from this TV movie are shots of Sienna Guillory's perfect ass. Helen walking nude was good viewing but has no truth. So according to the writer, Apollo lusted after a five year old child :) However she later spurned him and so she was cursed that no one will believe her. According to the myths she got it from Apollo when she agreed to be his lover. Helen of Troy was nothing short of rape of Homer's Iliad and other sources.Ĭassandra was portrayed as having the gift of seeing the future as a child. Reviewed by krish-4 1 /10 Horribly inaccurate Production values were fair, and some of the elements were there to make something better. The difficult interplay among the Greek heroes, the complicated moral choices on both sides, the tragic savagery of war, while existing to small degrees in the series, took back seat to a more or less conventional love story. I sense the writers chickened out of grappling with a different kind of plot, and thereby missed an opportunity. Hector upbraided Paris on several occasions for his cowardice and sloth, but then, Paris occasionally entered the fray as an experienced soldier as well. Helen's feelings toward him were decidedly mixed, with lust, pity, and contempt thrown together. Paris was not much of a hero in the Illiad actually, he was a bit of a feckless bounder. Menaleas, a strong warrior in the Illiad, seems like he attended all the sensitivity training classes avaiable to the Achians, (the Greeks were referred to as "the Ageans" in the series), but wasn't much of a fighter.īut my biggest beef is with the character of Paris (Helen seemed commonplace, but acceptable). On the Trojan side, Aeneas, Sarpedon, Glaucus, Deiphobus and others are equally invisible.Īgamemnon is seen, not as a hero with the fatal flaw of hubris but a Hitlerian monster.
This was the storyline of what we know of the myth of the Trojan War.Īnd major characters are triviliazed or disappeared: Hector's glory on TV is as a second banana to Paris mighty Ajax gets a mention, little more Diomedes, Nestor, Idonmoneus are absent.
So many key elements were missing: the interventions of the gods, the quarrel between Achilles and Agamemnon, the killing of Patroclus in Achilles armor, Achilles subsequent killing of Hector, etc. Instead of using Homer's Illiad as a starting point, the TVsters seemed to turn to the 1956 film as the primary source-turning the seduction/kidnap of Helen into a big ol' love story. The Helen of Troy miniseries on USA today failed apparently because the writer lacked the nerve to tell the classic story, and instead made up his own. Reviewed by treagan-2 N/A The Illiad was not a love story
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