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Date: 2004-06-04 11:08:09

Comment:

Yeah but that takes away the point of doing Troy as a film.  You might as well do the Lord of the Rings and take out all the magic and monsters, (in reality the orcs were just really bad people).  Its not as if the Greeks really belived the Iliad totally its just they didn't have the concept of making a completly fantastical world.
Should Troy have a satisfying end ultimatly its a tradegy, and anyway Aggamemnon does get killed but by his wife  so why not include that?
In either case the new King Arthur film looks duff.
Its not that they have to stick to the book per say alot of it is either too boring or to trippy to put in a film but the myths as opposed to a vision of what "might really" have happened do provide the opportunity for some awsome fight scenes and a interesting sub plots.
By taking away the mythical elements they have made the obvious sequel the Odyssey very hard to pull off not least beacause the main problems Odysseys encounters are mythical, without them you essentially have long boat journey.