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Drake Tungsten
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Knee deep in alien womyn...
Oct 2001
time: 14:35
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Actually, a quick search on the web seems to indicate that I was right...
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By closing with the burial of Hector, Homer leaves us with a feeling of great loss. Hector has his glory: is body is finally given the respect it deserves, and he dies beloved and praised by his people. But we also know that his people are doomed, and that the cease-fire granted by Achilles is only a postponement of the inevitable. Although its citizens have been loyal to the gods, the city of Troy will perish, and the Achaeans will deal with her people brutally. At times, Homer glorifies aspects of war, depicting its power to call out the best of his heroes. Under the conditions of warfare, men find previously unknown sources of courage, sacrifice, and loyalty. But Homer finishes the Iliad with a funeral for a great man, attended by his ill-fated people, and the tone is overwhelmingly one of sorrow. Significantly, the last glimpses of both the Achaeans and the Trojans show both groups in mourning, and the very last moments of the poem depict the doomed Trojans rather than the victorious Achaeans. Our last memory of the Iliad is of this doomed people, who have already lost so much and now must mourn their champion. And still, even after all that the Trojans have endured, we know that the worst of their suffering is yet to come. |
http://www.gradesaver.com/ClassicNo...liad/summ6.html
Fool indeed...
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The Emperor Fabulous
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Apolyton's Resident Actor-in-Training
Aug 1999
time: 00:35
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Originally posted by axi
1. Every man's fate is set by the gods
2. All that matters in the world is fame after death. |
Well, they got the second one right...
I really did enjoy it. I thought it was a decent movie, and since I've never read the Iliad, I didn't really have a problem with most of the story. From a moviewriting aspect, there's a lot they couldn't do because it wouldn't fly with mainstream USA, and since it cost $200 Million, that's who needs to see it.
Plus, it's artistic interpretation. If you want to have the real Iliad, go read it.
Of course...there was a lack of character developments, loose love stories, complete lack of anything godlike, had actors that couldn't act, etc etc etc...
I'll give it 2 1/2 outta 4
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17-05-2004 09:49
. The fact it was in the Odyssey is only a minor point... like Shelob being in the TTT instead of the ROTK. That doesn't mean that the movie ROTK wasn't based on the book ROTK.
Lots of people wrote about the Trojan Horse, and it's debatable whether the Homer of the Iliad and the Homer of the Odyssey are one and the same person.
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