More on Troy:
May. 19th, 2004 09:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
butterflyaka, carefully not thinking about Angel tonight.
Definitely, my favorite relationship of any sort in the movie was Paris and Hector. Such brothers! The love! It overwhelms all!
Just take the end of the failed fight -- that moment, where Paris chooses life over honor, it just touches me. Poor kid. And then Hector chooses his brother over honor. Honor, it seems, flies out the window for most everyone when Paris is involved (Helen running away, etc).
I often do love characters with certain failings. Show me a second-best, a trier who fails yet keeps trying, and you show me someone that I will almost certainly love.
I like the lack of actual gods -- it means that you can take the story the way that the King Arthur previews want me to take that story, as the truth before the myths. The only arrow still through Achilles in the end is in his heel, therefore the story can be true or that can be how the myth was born. Helen was the catalyst for a war, was the reason Troy fell (I must say that I admire the Trojan's family loyalty -- his son brings home a married woman for his own, and Priam welcomes her to the family and treats her like family for the rest of the movie.), therefore she must be the most beautiful woman in the world. Paris, who stole this paragon, must be touched by the goddess of love. And so forth. Because the gods never appear, it can be taken either way.
I want to see it again.
Definitely, my favorite relationship of any sort in the movie was Paris and Hector. Such brothers! The love! It overwhelms all!
Just take the end of the failed fight -- that moment, where Paris chooses life over honor, it just touches me. Poor kid. And then Hector chooses his brother over honor. Honor, it seems, flies out the window for most everyone when Paris is involved (Helen running away, etc).
I often do love characters with certain failings. Show me a second-best, a trier who fails yet keeps trying, and you show me someone that I will almost certainly love.
I like the lack of actual gods -- it means that you can take the story the way that the King Arthur previews want me to take that story, as the truth before the myths. The only arrow still through Achilles in the end is in his heel, therefore the story can be true or that can be how the myth was born. Helen was the catalyst for a war, was the reason Troy fell (I must say that I admire the Trojan's family loyalty -- his son brings home a married woman for his own, and Priam welcomes her to the family and treats her like family for the rest of the movie.), therefore she must be the most beautiful woman in the world. Paris, who stole this paragon, must be touched by the goddess of love. And so forth. Because the gods never appear, it can be taken either way.
I want to see it again.