Troy

Just saw Wolfgang “Boot” Petersen’s Troy. I had this one confused in my mind with Oliver Stone’s Alexander. (They both came out a few weeks apart in 2004. I would have bet anything it was 2005, which just shows how fast the past 18 months have spun by.) I guess neither one was a runaway hit, but I thought Troy was pretty okay.

I haven’t read The Iliad, so I don’t know how badly they ruint it. But if these are the ruins, the original must have been outstanding. It makes me want to read it in the original Attic Greek.

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