The writer of Troy was David Benisoff while its director was Wolgang Pertesen and and it is an adventure film produced in 2004 in America. It is 163 minutes long. The stars in the movie are Dianne Kruger, Brian Cox, and Brad Pitt among others. The issues addressed in the film include, but are not limited to war, power, glory, love, honor and fate. The movie Troy is based on the poem ‘The Iliad’ by Homer and Troy is in the mankind history one of the tragic film. A heavy army from Greek that was led by Menelaus of Sparta and Mycenae’s Agamemnon attacked the Troy fortress city. The war had been so because the Spartas queen had been seduced by the prince Paris who was a young Trojan. (Cowley et al, 2004)
In this film, there are many themes that …show more content…
Love is the major theme in the film and in particular, the film theme of love is that love transcends all. Paris and Helen are the main characters that carry this theme as the instigator of the Troy battle was due to their forbidden love. It is shown at the beginning of the film when they have sex, during peace negotiations between Troy and Sparta. Their love is forbidden as Helen is the wife of Melaneas, King of Sparta. Due to this, their love is the spark that ignites the war. They carry the idea that love conquers all very well as they do not care about the consequences especially at the start when Helen leaves Sparta with Paris hence jeopardizing peace. It is shown further when Paris is willing to fight against Melaneas for Helen. Even at the end of the film, when Troy is destroyed, we see them escaping and they believe that love was their saving grace. In lliad, Helen was captured and returned back to Sparta. In my opinion, there are some loopholes in this love story. For example, the film is vague about the reasons why Helen ran off with a man she had only met for a few nights yet Paris told her the previous night it was dangerous and she kept saying it was a mistake to have an affair (Cowley et al, …show more content…
Achilles also exhibits this theme. He thrives on the fame and glory he gets when he wins wars. At the beginning when the boy asks him why he fights he replies that that is why the boy’s name will never be known. His hunger for glory is further manifested when before deciding to go and fight the Trojans, his mother tells him that if he does not go, his name will never be remembered but if he does, he shall be glorified and his name remembered for ages. Achilles decides to go to war with his Myrmidons despite knowing it will be his damnation. Death to him is the ultimate glory. In the lliad he said about how the two fates had bearded on her on the death day. He also says that he holds out here and lay siege to Troy since his journey home has been gone but his glory will never die. If he voyaged back to the fatherland he had loved his pride and glory will have died. He says this is true and the life has left him will be extremely long. The stroke of his death as he says would not have come quickly on him. In my opinion, there is more to a man than just wanting to be remembered, especially in battlefield, unless he is very dump; the film does not portray Achilles as dump (Burnett,
In this film, there are many themes that …show more content…
Love is the major theme in the film and in particular, the film theme of love is that love transcends all. Paris and Helen are the main characters that carry this theme as the instigator of the Troy battle was due to their forbidden love. It is shown at the beginning of the film when they have sex, during peace negotiations between Troy and Sparta. Their love is forbidden as Helen is the wife of Melaneas, King of Sparta. Due to this, their love is the spark that ignites the war. They carry the idea that love conquers all very well as they do not care about the consequences especially at the start when Helen leaves Sparta with Paris hence jeopardizing peace. It is shown further when Paris is willing to fight against Melaneas for Helen. Even at the end of the film, when Troy is destroyed, we see them escaping and they believe that love was their saving grace. In lliad, Helen was captured and returned back to Sparta. In my opinion, there are some loopholes in this love story. For example, the film is vague about the reasons why Helen ran off with a man she had only met for a few nights yet Paris told her the previous night it was dangerous and she kept saying it was a mistake to have an affair (Cowley et al, …show more content…
Achilles also exhibits this theme. He thrives on the fame and glory he gets when he wins wars. At the beginning when the boy asks him why he fights he replies that that is why the boy’s name will never be known. His hunger for glory is further manifested when before deciding to go and fight the Trojans, his mother tells him that if he does not go, his name will never be remembered but if he does, he shall be glorified and his name remembered for ages. Achilles decides to go to war with his Myrmidons despite knowing it will be his damnation. Death to him is the ultimate glory. In the lliad he said about how the two fates had bearded on her on the death day. He also says that he holds out here and lay siege to Troy since his journey home has been gone but his glory will never die. If he voyaged back to the fatherland he had loved his pride and glory will have died. He says this is true and the life has left him will be extremely long. The stroke of his death as he says would not have come quickly on him. In my opinion, there is more to a man than just wanting to be remembered, especially in battlefield, unless he is very dump; the film does not portray Achilles as dump (Burnett,