Troy, The Movie

In the movie it's stated that Agamemnon brought the kings together for this war, which really isn't true. Helen had many powerful suitors and her father was too afraid to pick one of them for her husband in fear of offending the others. Odysseus convinced him to make a contract with the other suitors that made them promise that should anything happen to Helen, the other kings would assist in getting her back. When Paris kidnapped her from Menelaus, they were bound to honor their promise and help to return her. When Paris was born, it was predicted that he would be the downfall of Troy, so he was sent into the mountains without any knowledge of who he really was. Aphrodite was the one who promised him the most beautiful woman in the world and started the Trojan War.

In the movie Patroclus is Achilles's cousin but in the book he is his lover. I'm glad they made the change in the movie tho, cause I just couldn't picture Brad Pitt with a male lover (not that there's anything wrong with that).

In the movie Briseis is a member of Priam's family which she actually wasn't. She was simply a slave girl that Achilles in fact did fall in love with and Agamemnon did steal from him. And she didn't kill Agamemnon like they said in the movie. Agamemnon actually made it back home where his wife and her lover murdered him.

Altho Hector was a great warrior in his time, after he killed Patroclus, he didn't actually come out to face Achilles as easily as the movie depicts it. Achilles chased him around the walls of Troy 3 times before he actually stopped to fight him. Hector never killed Menelaus either or Ajax. Ajax committed suicide after Odysseus was given Achilles armor over him.

Now I understand that a movie has only a couple of hours in it and there's alot to the Trojan War than time would permit in a movie so they have to condense in down. But this war took about 20 years to finish and not the few months or so that is depicted in the movie. And Helen helped in it's destruction along with Odysseus. All in all tho, I do like this movie and it is worth it to watch.

Besides Brad Pitt, Eric Bana and Orlando Bloom there was some other very fine actors in this movies as well.

Peter O'Toole - King Priam, also known for many many great movies. One that comes to mind is High Spirits with Darryl Hannah, Steve Guttenberg and Beverly D'Angelo. Hilarious movie. Others like The Scarlet Pumpernel and Lawerence of Arabia too.

Saffron Burrows - Andromache (Hector's Wife) Altho I don't believe she's all that well known, I do remember her from The Deep Blue Sea, about training sharks who got a little smarter then the humans. And In the Name of the Father with Daniel Day Lewis (wonder whatever happened to him...hmmm must find out)

Diane Kruger - Helen of Troy was considered to be the most beautiful woman of her time. Kruger on the other hand is probably best known for her role as Abigail Chase in National Treasure.

Brian Cox - Agamemnon - Later to play Ward Abbot in The Bourne Supremacy and Richard Morgan in The Ring. Altho he's played in at least 130 different movies, I don't recall him being "a main character".

Sean Bean - Odysseus - Probably best known for his role in The Lord of the Rings as Boromir or in The Partriot Games with Harrison Ford or as Lord Fenton in Scarlett (one my favs). As a side note tho about Odysseus it comes to light that, unknown to himself, he had married his own mother but I'll leave that to another story.

I have to say tho that of all the actors in this movie the only one that struck me as being a bad one was Garrett Hedlund who played Patroclus, maybe because he doesn't have enough "jobs" under his belt but he was just bad.