Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Troy

Troy! Troy was the legendary city and center of the Trojan War, as described in the Epic Cycle, and especially in the Iliad, one of the two epic poems of Homer. As the story says, Paris of Troy takes Helen of Sparta with him to Troy and when King Menelaus finds out, the whole army of Sparta to Troy to get beck Helen, Queen of Sparta. The movie was inspired by Homer’s legend The Iliad, the whole movie was filmed on the coast of Greek. The movie starts with the war, King Agamemnon ( Brian Cox ) decides to accept a challenge between the two armies best fighters, King Agamemnon calls upon Achilles, the famous, the legendary Achilles ( Brad Pitt ) who easily dispatches his much larger opponent. After the war as I mentioned, Paris ( Orlando Bloom ) will take Helen ( Diane Kruger ) to Troy. Then King Agamemnon sends an army of 50000 Greek soldiers to Troy. Achilles is leading the army, on night Achilles’ cousin Thetis joins the army and he dresses as Achilles’ and he is killed by Hector ( Eric Bana ) , Prince of Troy. Achilles didn’t wanted to fight the Trojans, but after this tragedy he is will to fight Hector for the revenge of his cousin. Achilles defeats Hector. After many days of fight, and without success, Odyssey comes up with a plane that was the history never forgot. They build a horse as a gift for the Troy, but what the Trojans didn’t know and expect, that Achilles and some of the soldiers hide in the horse, after the Trojans got drunk they got out of the horse and opened the doors of Troy and then the hell was unleashed. And so on…



Some links:
Troy Official Website
Troy at IMDB

Watch the trailer:
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