Troy

[aleathiel]

So I saw that film...

(behind a cut although not very spoilery)



I went in chanting "inspired by...inspired by..." to remind myself to forget the Illiad and watch it as a film. I didn't expect to succeed.

Amazingly I did. It probably helped that I hadn't been avoiding spoilers so I knew all the plot changes before seeing it. I expect I would have hated it if they'd been surprises. As it was, yeah it was a fairly enjoyable film with some very good-looking men in it.

The script had never met subtlety, someone ought to shoot the drummer and I did still have huge issues with the plot. But I didn't hate it. And there was so much slash potential...

The Hector-Achilles fight scene and the "let me wash his body" top my favourites list. ButI can't be bothered to list all the things I liked and disliked. It was probably the same as the things you liked and disliked.

But I do need to say: Eric Bana. He carried the film.

And Sean Bean was damn good too.

As to the fandom? It's weird, but I'm perfectly happy to ignore the film. Nice visuals but I'm willing to disregard the things I didn't like. No point in dwelling on them. Whether or not I stay in the Troy fandom depends on the fandom itself and what happens now, not on my disillusionment. As far as I'm concerned that was an entertaining way to spend my evening: a film about some people who happened to have the same names as characters we like to write about.

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