Troy, rants, popcorn

[deralte]

So, saw Troy. I'm sure I was the only one shouting, "What the hell are giant, golden Cypriote cruiciform figurines doing in a temple to Apollo?!" during that movie... lucyjin spent most of the movie snickering on my shoulder, discussing how historically innacurate the horsies were, or poking me whenever I started to yawn or get bored (which was whenever they were talking for more than 30 seconds...). Did you know most of the jewlery was replicas of jewlery from famous digs, so I spent a lot of my time when people were on screen trying to figure out where exactly I'd seen that earring before?

I, btw, am not the person to go see movies with if you like people not to talk, since I spend most of my time being very snarky and mocking. *eg* There was much talk about Achilles and his "cousin" and I adore Sean Bean, but I did have to yell out, "Chosen men to me!" during one of the fight scenes. Have also fallen deeply in love with Hector's hair. Long, dark, curly hair, especially pulled loosely back. Yummy. Ooo, and his scars... Note: I thought Hector was pretty too, but was more distracted by his hair.

Oh, and at one point, Odysseus pronounces Patroclus, 'Patrick-us' *snigger* Ah, the many varied accents of Ancient Greece. Final comment will be about battle tactics in the movie, namely, where the hell were they?! Why do you put stakes on a beach of all places, when they're only useful for calvary charges, and certainly wouldn't be useful for them when spaced out like that? And... no, will stop now. Just because it offends my sense of military tactics is no reason to rip it to shreads. I didn't like the book much for tactics either, if I recall. Final, obligatory review comment, leaving the gods in would have made so much more sense.

Comments

[tessfawcett.livejournal.com]

Re: the jewellery-- I saw it yesterday and I swear to God that in one of those "Priam et al watch people die from the balcony scenes," the handmaidens were wearing the Schliemann gold, and I was thinking, "Jesus, that's the wrong period, you idiots." It did seem kind of like they were just cobbling random stuff together-- "hey, it's the right area, right? and it's the Greek period, 'cause, you know, it's not Egyptian and it's not Roman."

It was the blue skirts and vest things that really made me giggle, though, however accurate they may have been.

[deralte.livejournal.com]

I honestly kept thinking that everyone had been attacked by a mad hippie tie dyer...

I'm pretty sure Helen's earrings in one scene came from the Uluburun shipwreck (which is faaaar too early). If not, I've definately seen them elsewhere and I don't actually study the ancient Greek time period so I doubt it was accurate. And they seem to have lost their battle with the 'not Egyptian' bit when it came to architecture....