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B+ |
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B |
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B |
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B- |
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TROY 2004, made for Cable NOT the BIG Screen
by Phil (movies profile)
Jun 6, 2006
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For nearly Three thousand years Scholars
have told and retold the Story of
Helen of Troy, and once again
Hollywood takes on this larger
than life account of mortals
touched by the Gods.
Nothing new in this ancient Greek fiction with
the Trojan Horse and face that
launched a thousand ships. However there is
something missing here, amongst the plastic armour
complemented by the cgi generated ships and armies. Although the characters are well developed, the larger than life persona that Homer intended for them in his original millennia old script is gone.
Although we’ve managed over the past computer decade, to add ground breaking Imagery to modern cinema, we’ve lost something along the way.
In a production like “TROY” it is clearly evident what is Missing, mehodically paced dramatic...
A C T I N G ! In this movie the only breathe of gripping drama comes between a King and mythic Warrior, when “Peter O’Toole’s” character is forced to beg something from “Brad Pitt’s” Achilles.
Along with O’Toole’s Lawrence of Arabia,
other old school drama gems that come to mind are 1962-s Taras Bulba, (see Tony Curtis and
Yul Brenner), 1958-s The Vikings (see Kirk Douglas and Tony Curtis).
As for the fight scene action , TROY-s were refreshingly old school, having FULL
Screen views of the performances, which you could actually see! As opposed to the cut and blur images we have had to endure in such classics as Gladiator, Saving Private Ryan and the big budget master piece that gave us the cheap shaky-blurry Camera Work Deal…"The Blair Witch Project". The well choreographed one on one fight scenes are in themselves worth the Price of admission, and help make up for the plastic armour and Computerized Boats and Toy Soldiers.
If you are not in a hurry to see this good ol Story one more time, then by all means wait for the DVD, which will likely have a featurette as to how the keen boats and Plastic Armoured Armies were drawn up. ….Oh one last parting shot. There is a definite Easter Egg of sorts to be discovered, a glaring error in the sound department, and it has to do with the sound that 50 thousand Marching Troops would make while wearing sandals on a sandy Turf.
Someone borrowed a sound track made for Roman Troops marching down the Stone streets of Rome with leather clad sandals and tried rather pathetically to apply it in TROY, 2004. |
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