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dreamer_easy ([personal profile] dreamer_easy) wrote2006-12-23 08:22 am
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Troy

Ahem. Having disgraced myself with versification, now my impressions of the movie, which I've started watching. (I tend to watch stuff in chunks rather than all in one go.) Pleasingly, the dialogue is all right. But there is something cruel about the casting:

Here's Brad Pitt as Achilles. He can't act worth a damn.

On comes Orli as Paris. His character is a total bore, but nonetheless, he pwns Pitt.

On comes Eric Bana as Hector and pwns Orli.

On comes Sean Bean as Odysseus and utterly pwns everyone so far.

And then: OMFG it's PETER O'TOOLE AS PRIAM. THE REST OF YOU CAN JUST PACK UP AND GO HOME. HA HA HA HA.

[identity profile] neotoma.livejournal.com 2006-12-22 09:41 pm (UTC)(link)
The cast of that movie is so very odd. You've got some real lightweights against some very accomplished actors, and the script is just 'wtf?' with the liberties.

Also, llamas?!

[identity profile] kateorman.livejournal.com 2006-12-22 09:48 pm (UTC)(link)
it's very dangerous to mix Hollywood and British actors in the same movie. This is especially dangerous if they're playing the baddie, as in RH:POT or that ghastly Musketeers, as they will MAKE OFF WITH THE FUCKING FILM.

[identity profile] neotoma.livejournal.com 2006-12-22 09:52 pm (UTC)(link)
How many Hollywood actors were in TROY? Besides Brad Pitt, the ones I can think of (even on the Greek side) were British actors.

[identity profile] kateorman.livejournal.com 2006-12-22 10:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, I was speaking of the general phenomenonononononon. Troy's prob is that the main character is at the bottom of the actin' totem pole.

[identity profile] neotoma.livejournal.com 2006-12-22 10:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, that was one of Troy's problems.

Gutting the actual details (hello, where are the Gods?! You know, the ones who caused the war by way of insulting the Goddess of Discord?) was the other one.

I'm kind of wishing they had done the Odyssey, because Sean Bean would have pwned that...

[identity profile] endis-ni.livejournal.com 2006-12-22 10:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Thetis shows up briefly, generally as a lady of a certain age who stands around in rockpools all day. Gah.

My problem with Troy is really that Paris really shouldn't be prettier than Helen. Really.

[identity profile] murasaki-1966.livejournal.com 2006-12-23 10:34 am (UTC)(link)
For a great modern retelling of the Iliad, read Christopher Logue's verse version "War Music" (four books so far "the Husbands" "the Kings" "war Music" and "Permanent all day red"