Troy (film, 2004)

Troy ( Troy in the original version) is a American film carried out by Wolfgang Petersen, left on the screens in 2004. It is about a Péplum inspired of the Ancient Greek Mythologie and freely adapted epic poems Iliade of Homère and Énéide of Virgile.

Summary of film

What follows reveals key moments of the intrigue.

About the year -1200 before J. - C., Agamemnon, king of Mycènes, tries to federate the Greece, by using in particular the force of Achille. His/her brother Ménélas, king of Sparte, makes peace with Troy whose two princes, Hector and Pâris, wire of King Priam are his guests. But Pâris has an adventure with Helene de Sparte, the woman of Ménélas, which decides to leave with him. Furious, Ménélas requires its assistance to Agamemnon which sees its interest there: it projects to take the town of Troy. The two kings convince all the Greek leaders to follow them, in particular Ulysses (which accepts this Vassal isation so that its island of Ithaque is not threatened by Agamemnon) and Achille, which knows by his/her mother that he will die in Troy but which dreams of a glory which survives the centuries.
A considerable armada (more than thousand Greek trières of war) bottom on Troy. Impatient, Achille unloads the first, with his Myrmidons, and makes the bag of a temple, where it removes Briséis, cousin of Hector and Pâris. Agamemnon makes remove Briséis, which causes the anger of Achilles, who refuses to take part in the first attack on the ramparts of the city. Its absence, the good strategy of Trojan and the errors of Agamemnon lead to a massacre of the Greeks, one in particular sees there dying Ajax, king of Salamine, the hand even of Hector. Achilles recovers Briséis, chahutée by soldiers, and takes it along under its tent. Briséis wants to kill Achille in his sleep but in tomb in love. It ends up sleeping with him. Achilles wants to return at his place and to forget the Trojan War, in spite of the intercessions of Ulysses.
Pâris proposes to only fight against Ménélas, and that the exit of the combat determines the destiny of Helene. Bad combatant, Pâris is with ground, but his/her Hector brother does not let it die and kills Ménélas. Agamemnon is then more determined to destroy Troy than ever, in spite of the Greek losses.
In the following attack, Patrocle, the cousin of Achilles, that this last had drawn aside from the engagements, is disguised as a Achilles, using his helmet, its shield and its weapons. He is cut the throat of then completed by Hector. Insane from pain, Achille only comes to fight against Hector, and kills it. It attaches the corpse of prince de Troie to his tank and trails it with contempt. The night even, Priam comes to claim the body of his/her son with Achille. Moved by the nobility and courage by the old king, Achille returns his son in Priam and gives him twelve days to achieve the funerary rites.
At the end of these twelve days, the beach is empty, there remain there only some corpses of men apparently died of the Peste, and a wooden horse, made offering with Poséidon so that this one supports the return of the Greeks towards their fatherland. Trojan, the being believed victorious ones, take along the horse in the city, in spite of the opposition of Pâris which finds it suspect. The come night, Ulysses, Achilles, and other Greeks leave the horse, which was used to them as hiding-place, and open the doors of the city. The Greek fleet in fact had not set out again and the Greek warriors can enter the city, which they set fire to and of which they massacre the inhabitants. They reverse the statues, they profane the temples. Agamemnon, which wants to be avenged for Briséis, is killed by the latter. Achilles, who wants to take it along, is killed by Pâris. Some people are able to escape by an underground, of which Andromaque and Helene.

Inaccuracies of film

The film takes great freedoms compared to the text of Homère and with the other accounts used. Among the many inaccuracies:

  • the Hollywood scenario writers put side the divine interventions of the original account, Achille becomes even almost atheistic.
  • All tragic dimension is retracted, to leave the place to the single motivation retained for each character: to aspire to glory and immortality and to make sure that their names will survive to them for eternity. Conversely, the financial aspect of the release of the war is retracted: Pâris had not only removed the wife of Ménélas, it had taken along the treasure of this last.
  • In Iliade and the remainder of the Greek Mythology, Agamemnon is only selected to direct the forwarding of the Greeks, and is not the suzerain of kings de Grèce. It started conquest of the Greek world forever either.
  • anachronism: When alarm sounds the arrival of the Greeks on banks of Troy, during the panic caused in the city, one sees two spangled.
  • the Greeks spend ten years to prepare their army, then ten years of war with Troy, then ten years to return on their premises (for the least lucky, in particular Ulysses). During this seat, the Greek army attacked close cities to weaken the city all while being supplied. In film, the seat of Troy lasts only one fifteen or so days and is focused exclusively on the attacked city, it is not mentioned neighbouring cities.
  • in the original account Achille dies of only one arrow to the heel drawn by Pâris well before construction from the horse. In film, it receives a first arrow with the heel, then several in the chest (what however leaves him sufficient breath to require of Briséis to run away itself), and all this occurs during the bag from Troy, i.e. after the entry of the wooden horse in the enclosure of the city.
  • In film, Patrocle is the cousin of Achille. In the accounts of origin he is rather his friend and lover. In film, he dies in a duel with Hector which takes it for Achille, whereas in Iliade , Hector do nothing but complete Patrocle, mortally wounded by Euphorbe.
  • Énée was a close relation of the king Priam and the second in command of the Trojan army, and not the young unknown boy of Pâris which one sees in film.
  • the character of Briséis, in film, is in fact a mixture of the characters of Briséis, Cassandre, Clytemnestre and Polyxène.
Several characters do not die during the Trojan War but die during film:
  • In film, Agamemnon is killed by Briséis at the time of the bag of the city. In the accounts of origin, it returns in Mycènes and is killed by his wife Clytemnestre and its lover Égisthe.
  • In film, Ménélas is killed by Hector at the time of its duel with Pâris. In Iliade , the duel with Pâris is stopped by a divine intervention and Ménélas does not die, it belongs to the men dissimulated in the Trojan horse. It is reconciled with Helene and they return to Sparte. One will also observe his presence in the accessible Odyssée Télémaque wire of Ulysses with Sparte.
Others die during the Trojan War but different condition:
  • Ajax, the man with the giant hammer and king of Salamine, is not killed by Hector. It will put an end to its days after having massacred a herd of sheep that, in its madness, it took for the Greeks who had refused to him the armor of late the Achille.
  • Priam will be killed by Néoptolème, wire of Achille.
Lastly, some Trojan leaves the city besieged in film but has a different destiny in Iliade :

Data sheet

  • French Title: Troy

  • original Title: Troy

  • Production: Warner Bros., Village Roadshow Pictures, Radiant Productions and Plane B Producing Films

  • : Wolfgang Petersen, Hake Wilson and Diana Rathbun
  • Co-producer: Winston Azzopardi

  • Original music: James Horner (substitute Gabriel Yared)

  • Director of the photography: Roger Pratt
  • Creation of the decorations: Nigel Phelps
  • Creation of the costumes: Bob Ringwood
  • Assembly: Peter Honess
  • American Film
  • Lasted: 163 minutes
  • Kinds: drama, epopee
  • Comings out date: May 9th 2004 (Berlin, Germany - first world), May 13rd 2004 (France), May 14th 2004 (the USA)
    • 5 other dates (from May 19th to June 17th) for 10 other countries

Distribution

External bonds

  • Official site

  • Official site
  • Card Cbo
  • Analysis of the Troy film and the duel between Achilles and Hector compared to Iliade

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