I watched it in London where ticket prices are ridiculously high and came out thinking that wow, that was a major waste of money for what basically amounts to boy-skirt-porn. XD
I was a major Greek mythology fan as a kid, and I do mean a kid. Seriously, my parents thought that since it was the 'classics', it would be safe for me to read, so here was this little six-year-old reading about rape and bestiality and necrophilia when they wouldn't even let her read Sweet Valley High at the age of twelve. Penthesilia's rape is therefore scarred into my head for life, along with the fact that Achilles and Patroclus were totally gay for each other. *snickers* Though that could also be the fault of my classical Greek mythology prof -- I knew I was going to love the course when she tangented onto them during a discussion of naming practices and Cleopatra/Patroclus. Cassandra's important to me because dude, she foresaw the fall of Troy, she knew what was going to happen with Helen, and the movie needed more girl chars anyway since it only had two main female leads. Cassandra's important enough to get taken home with Aggie, after all! Except not, because he dies in the movie. I swear, that death was just BWUAH for me. It's like, I don't know, Judas suddenly going, "Hey, changed my mind, someone nail ME up to that cross instead" and Jesus surviving. No offense to Christians meant, obviously.
I tend to treat Troy more as a myth than an actual historical event since that's how I was introduced to it, and part of my dislike of the omission of the gods comes from Paris' fight with Melelaus. Seeing him grovel at Hector's feet to be spared --- OY. It would have been so much less painful if 'dite had just snatched him up and transported him away like she should have. Really, I cringed for him when I saw that scene.
...Menelaus shouldn't have died either. It's like the whole 'Haldir Lives!' movement except not because nobody really cares about him when he's a fat pig of a man anyway.
*nods* I'm used to the Homeric version with a side of Euri, but I totally cheated as a kid and read all sorts of different versions because prose was easier for me than epic verse. I think that I only actually read the Illiad and Odyssesy much later on, by which time I already knew the whole plot anyway.
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I was a major Greek mythology fan as a kid, and I do mean a kid. Seriously, my parents thought that since it was the 'classics', it would be safe for me to read, so here was this little six-year-old reading about rape and bestiality and necrophilia when they wouldn't even let her read Sweet Valley High at the age of twelve. Penthesilia's rape is therefore scarred into my head for life, along with the fact that Achilles and Patroclus were totally gay for each other. *snickers* Though that could also be the fault of my classical Greek mythology prof -- I knew I was going to love the course when she tangented onto them during a discussion of naming practices and Cleopatra/Patroclus. Cassandra's important to me because dude, she foresaw the fall of Troy, she knew what was going to happen with Helen, and the movie needed more girl chars anyway since it only had two main female leads. Cassandra's important enough to get taken home with Aggie, after all! Except not, because he dies in the movie. I swear, that death was just BWUAH for me. It's like, I don't know, Judas suddenly going, "Hey, changed my mind, someone nail ME up to that cross instead" and Jesus surviving. No offense to Christians meant, obviously.
I tend to treat Troy more as a myth than an actual historical event since that's how I was introduced to it, and part of my dislike of the omission of the gods comes from Paris' fight with Melelaus. Seeing him grovel at Hector's feet to be spared --- OY. It would have been so much less painful if 'dite had just snatched him up and transported him away like she should have. Really, I cringed for him when I saw that scene.
...Menelaus shouldn't have died either. It's like the whole 'Haldir Lives!' movement except not because nobody really cares about him when he's a fat pig of a man anyway.
*nods* I'm used to the Homeric version with a side of Euri, but I totally cheated as a kid and read all sorts of different versions because prose was easier for me than epic verse. I think that I only actually read the Illiad and Odyssesy much later on, by which time I already knew the whole plot anyway.