Troy (film)

Troy is a film by Warner Bros. from 2004 about the Trojan war, based on the Iliad and the Odyssey by Homer. The Trojan war, about 1200 BC on the west coast of present-day Turkey. Troy was directed by Wolfgang Petersen. The film received a nomination for best costumes at the Academy Awards.



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[hide] *1 Story  ==Story[ Edit] == In the year 1193 BC dominated Agamemnon, King of Mycenae, the largest part of the Greek world. Then lures the Trojan Prince Paris during a peace mission Helena, the most beautiful woman in the world, away from her husband, King Menelaus of Sparta. Menelaus is in his honor, and convinces his brother Agamemnon to take part in an attack on Troy. Agamemnon sees in the attack are likely to extend his power even further. Supported by thousands of Greek Kings and warriors, including Ajax, Odysseusand Achilles with his Myrmidons, Agamemnon and Menelaus direction leave Troy. Long time drags the fight between the Greeks and Trojans is continued, with many deaths on both sides. Only with the building of the Trojan Horse is forced an end to the bloody war. ==Lead Actors[ Edit] == ==Background[ Edit] == ===Production[ Edit] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The large sets for Troy were built at Fort Ricasoli on Malta. From april to June 2003 recordings found place here. Other important film locations were Mellieħa and Comino. The scenes at the outer walls of Troy were included in Cabo San Lucas. ===Deviations from the version of Homer<span class="mw-editsection" len="355" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">To tell the story of Troy not to be too complex, the film story on certain points from the works of Homer about the Trojan war. In the first place takes the Trojan war in the film much shorter than at Homer: a few weeks instead of ten years. In addition, lack some important characters, including Diomedes, Calchas, Laocoön, Palamedes and Cassandra, in the film. Further, certain characters in the movie otherwise to their end than in the stories of Homer. The role of the gods in the film is greatly reduced. In the works of Homer taking especially Zeus, Hera, Pallas Athene, Ares and Apollo an active part in the war, unlike in the film.
 * 2 main characters
 * Background 3
 * 3.1 Production
 * 3.2 derogations from the version of Homer
 * 3.3 Errors
 * 3.4 Music
 * 4 reception
 * 5 awards and nominations
 * 6 external links
 * Achilles - Brad Pitt
 * Sean Bean - Odysseus
 * Ajax - Tyler Mane
 * Patroclus - Garrett Hedlund
 * Agamemnon - Brian Cox
 * Brendan Gleeson - Menelaus
 * Nestor - John Shrapnel
 * Hector - Eric Bana
 * Paris - Orlando Bloom
 * Priam - Peter O'Toole
 * Aeneas - Frankie Fitzgerald
 * Helena - Diane Kruger
 * Briseis - Rose Byrne
 * Andromache - Saffron Burrows
 * Eudorus - Vincent Regan

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In the film is the duel between Paris and Menelaus not of decisive value, or the outcome of the fight was not the decision of the war. The game takes place In the Iliad in the tenth year of the war to the end, when everyone desires. The duel had to bring the decision. Paris lost the duel of Menelaus, but was saved just in time by the goddess Aphrodite and knew so to escape death. Apollon leave a Trojan, however, throw a spear to the Greeks, with which the Treaty in all its intensity is broken and the war continued. Menelaus also wins the duel In the film, but to protect his brother seizes Hektor in and kills in Menelaos.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Agamemnon also comes in the film at Troy to life. The King of Mycenae is during the sack of the city by Briseis stabbed to death. In the Greek myths Agamemnon returns as the great Victor home, where he return to Mycenae by his wife Clytemnestra and Aigisthos is killed his nephew.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Else is also the time that Achilles in the story comes; in the film he comes all in one of Agamemnons wars before, but he had to be taken in Homer's version first as a boy who never had fought, at the most practiced.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In the film is Achilles one of the Greeks in the Trojan horse hiding and he dies only after the capture of Troy. Achilles In the Odyssey is all for the intake of Troy is killed and his son Neoptolemus that takes place in the wooden horse. Both in the film as in the myths it is Paris that affects in his heel, Achilles kills the only vulnerable spot of the Greek (there also comes the expression achilles heel come from, and also the achilles tendon is named accordingly because this injury if one is often drawn-out, out injured and vulnerable remains).

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In the movie know Helena and Paris along with some other Trojans to escape the city. In mythology, however, the sacking of Troy know Menelaus to find Helena in order to kill her. At the sight of her beauty changes the Spartan king of thought and takes her back to Greece, where Menelaus and Helena for many years would live together. Paris is according to mythology by Philoctetes shot dead, shortly after the death of Achilles.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Patroklos In the film is the cousin of Achilles, while he was at Homer's best friend and even loved one was by the Greek hero. Achilles In the Iliad know that Patroklos in his armor with the Myrmidones enters the fight.Hektor has also quickly notice that he is not against Achilles but by Patroklos fought. The Trojan Prince kills Patroklos aware then of the armor to get rid. This is crucial: in the Iliad in the fight between Achilles and Hektor that follows, the Trojan the captured armor that so first to Achilles belonged. Achilles, wrapped in a new harness, knows the weaknesses of his old harness and know Hektor thereby on the only vulnerable spot, in the neck, excellent sporting and leisure offerings. In the film are both Achilles and Hektor unfamiliar with the fact that Patroklos in the armor of Achilles to battle is drawn. Hektor is long in the assumption that he has fatally injured Achilles, until he rids of Patroklos his helmet. In addition, the film makes Hektor not master of the armor.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In the film, Ajax by Hektor killed in battle. In the mythology comes Ajax on a totally different way of life. After the death of Achilles is his armor to Ajax, Odysseus assigned to anger. In frenzy he kills a flock of sheep in the assumption that it is the Greek army Captains are. When Ajax comes back to phrases, he understands what he's done and commits suicide, by his sword and is dropping. It is also the only (deadly) wound that Ajax incurs in the Trojan war.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In the film is Aeneas a regular young man with his father and son from Troy manages to escape, along with Paris and Helena. When Homer is one of the largest Trojan Aeneas fighters, along with Hektor. In the Aeneid of Virgil is also a Trojan Aeneas, who at the urging of his mother Aphrodite with his family fled to Italy after many wanderings in Troy to arrive. He marries Lavinia and founds there with her there with the city Lavinium. ===Errors<span class="mw-editsection" len="324" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p lang="en" len="118" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Although one had great expectations of Troy, there are a few in the movie anyway, to see whether or not striking, errors.

===Music<span class="mw-editsection" len="324" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Gabriel Yared originally was asked to compose the music. He worked more than a year to the music, which among other things contained songs sung by Tanja Carovska . However, the music turned out at a preview in the taste to fall in to the test audience, so was fired and replaced by James HornerYared. He composed in 4 weeks time the new music for the film. ==Reception<span class="mw-editsection" len="338" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The total cost of production of the film came out at $ 175.000.000, with which Troy one of the most expensive movies ever was if not adjusted for inflation. The film brought a total of $ 497.409.852 worldwide on.
 * During one of the battles is to see someone sticking up his sword, which will ride out his sleeve, showing that he has a watch.
 * Achilles kills a soldier somewhere in the movie, in the next few scenes is the soldier there still, but always in a very different position.
 * If the Myrmidons reach the Trojan coast, one of them was hit by an arrow of the Trojans. The Greek falls into the water, one sees his body driving and a little further on his wig.
 * The battles often last long while those in it really only take a few seconds. The battles are also fought much with the sword while the spear the main weapon at the time, it was.
 * In the scene in which the Greek ships Troy approaching, are in the front two to see lama's. These animals are from the South American Andes and were not known in the classical world.
 * During the film comes the Sun on over the ocean. Since Troy on the west coast of Turkey is the current, it would mean that the sun rises in the West .
 * During the fight between Achilles and Hector flies a plane over.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Troy received mixed reviews from viewers and critics. On Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a good 55% of the reviewers rating. Roger Ebert gave the film 2 stars, and gave to be disappointed in the film there these so much different from the original mythology. ==Awards and nominations<span class="mw-editsection" len="339" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p lang="en" len="36" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Troy won a total of 3 awards:

<p lang="en" len="291" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The film was nominated for 18 other prizes, including an Academy Award for best costumes.
 * 2004: The IFTA Award for best supporting actor (Peter O'Toole)
 * 2004: Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Actor-Drama/Action Adventure (Brad Pitt)
 * 2005: ASCAP Award for Top Box Office Movies