Heh. I love that movie, so very bad. I spent most of it in a fit of giggles.
That said, there were a couple of things about the film that didn't really bother me - Achilles/Patroculus isn't as universally canon in Greek mythology as people really give it credit, and Achilles and Patroculus are often noted as being as cousins regardless of the status of their romantic relationship ^^. Sort of like Alexander - it's only later history that implies he had a sexual relationship with men, there is really nothing really at all from the earlier historians to suggest such a thing. Cassandra to me isn't anywhere as near as important an admission as Helenus (her twin brother) who the Greeks couldn't have defeated Troy without. I don't mind the exclusion of the Gods either (although I was hoping for both Apollo and Helenus, because they so obviously had something going on) as you can tackle the story of Troy either from a historical base or a mythological one and I didn't see it as much of a problem that they chose the former.
How history in general treats the Trojan War is really quite fascinating in itself. Shakespeare and co based their Trojan War related works on a totally different retelling of the Trojan War to the one we know through Homer - it's only fairly recently that the Homer version of the story has come back into favor ^^
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That said, there were a couple of things about the film that didn't really bother me - Achilles/Patroculus isn't as universally canon in Greek mythology as people really give it credit, and Achilles and Patroculus are often noted as being as cousins regardless of the status of their romantic relationship ^^. Sort of like Alexander - it's only later history that implies he had a sexual relationship with men, there is really nothing really at all from the earlier historians to suggest such a thing. Cassandra to me isn't anywhere as near as important an admission as Helenus (her twin brother) who the Greeks couldn't have defeated Troy without. I don't mind the exclusion of the Gods either (although I was hoping for both Apollo and Helenus, because they so obviously had something going on) as you can tackle the story of Troy either from a historical base or a mythological one and I didn't see it as much of a problem that they chose the former.
How history in general treats the Trojan War is really quite fascinating in itself. Shakespeare and co based their Trojan War related works on a totally different retelling of the Trojan War to the one we know through Homer - it's only fairly recently that the Homer version of the story has come back into favor ^^