“Petersen’s skimpily-clad sirens are the men – Brad Pitt’s moody muscleboy Achilles, and Orlando Bloom’s earnest Paris, fragrant and fetching in a floaty, chest-baring blouse (but then, Paris is always lovely this time of year).”
…The reviews about Troy have been very decidedly mixed. There’s an interesting sidebar to all this: we almost had Wolfgang Petersen as director for Kingdom in Twilight. But he dropped away from the production to do this instead.
I have a lot of trouble going to see a movie which tampers so radically with the structure of a story which has worked in its present form for three thousand years. (My favorite translation, if anyone cares, would be this one by W. H. D. Rouse: he tells the story in prose rather than verse — and especially he doesn’t pull his punches during the battle scenes.) But if there were a single reason that I’d go, it would be to see this man.
