Random musing
May. 14th, 2004 06:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
swordmageThe stuff under the cut is from the New York Times (small) review of Troy that they sent out this week in their movie e-mails.
1. New Movie Reviews: Greeks Bearing Immortality
By A. O. SCOTT
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All the talk of glory and immortality is a clear signal that
"Troy," a big, expensive, intermittently campy example of
Hollywood Homerism, is desperate to be regarded as a classic.
It isn't, but it's not so bad either.
Yes, the score is dreadful and the dialogue sometimes
painfully obvious, but Wolfgang Petersen, the director, and
David Benioff, the screenwriter, take the ancient world and
its notions of war seriously. Brad Pitt, in spite of an odd
pseudo-English accent (perhaps adopted in deference to the
mostly British and Australian cast), plays Achilles with wit
and charisma, turning the character into a kind of
existentialist warrior rock star. Eric Bana, as Achilles'
Trojan counterpart and nemesis, Hector, has a brooding
sensitivity that contrasts with Mr. Pitt's brashness.
Some of the battle scenes have a vigorous old-time grandeur,
and though it takes some inevitable liberties with the source
material, the film is more astute about the political and
moral complexities of war than most recent combat pictures.
Review:
http://movies2.nytimes.com/2004/05/14/movies/14TROY.html?8mu
Movie Details:
http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=286522&8mu
Got some pics my aunt took at Pre-Prom today. AS soon as I get them to my Photobucket account, I'll post them.
And the trailer of the day is for a French film called Love Me If You Dare.
1. New Movie Reviews: Greeks Bearing Immortality
By A. O. SCOTT
=================================================
All the talk of glory and immortality is a clear signal that
"Troy," a big, expensive, intermittently campy example of
Hollywood Homerism, is desperate to be regarded as a classic.
It isn't, but it's not so bad either.
Yes, the score is dreadful and the dialogue sometimes
painfully obvious, but Wolfgang Petersen, the director, and
David Benioff, the screenwriter, take the ancient world and
its notions of war seriously. Brad Pitt, in spite of an odd
pseudo-English accent (perhaps adopted in deference to the
mostly British and Australian cast), plays Achilles with wit
and charisma, turning the character into a kind of
existentialist warrior rock star. Eric Bana, as Achilles'
Trojan counterpart and nemesis, Hector, has a brooding
sensitivity that contrasts with Mr. Pitt's brashness.
Some of the battle scenes have a vigorous old-time grandeur,
and though it takes some inevitable liberties with the source
material, the film is more astute about the political and
moral complexities of war than most recent combat pictures.
Review:
http://movies2.nytimes.com/2004/05/14/movies/14TROY.html?8mu
Movie Details:
http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=286522&8mu
Got some pics my aunt took at Pre-Prom today. AS soon as I get them to my Photobucket account, I'll post them.
And the trailer of the day is for a French film called Love Me If You Dare.
