I tried so hard to think of condom joke, and I just
couldn’t. Damn. Anyway, I saw Troy last week, and
it’s a decent battle epic, so long as you don’t expect
it to conform to Greek myth. There are no gods,
characters die out of sequence, and Paris is not a
total pussy. The best parts are generally the parts
that were taken straight from mythology and not
invented or tampered with by Hollywood; the duel
between Achilles and Hector; Priam begging for
Hector’s body; Paris’s challenge to Menelaus. The
rest is standard battle-epic stuff on the order of
Braveheart or Gladiator. There are a lot of speeches
about heroism or freedom, bad romantic subplots,
snarling villains, and tragic death scenes. I kept
waiting for one of characters to break into “That they
may take our lives, but they’ll never
take...our…FREEEEEEDOM!” That and for Eric Bana to
suddenly turn into the Hulk. That would have been
awesome.
I’ve read some reviews that discussed this movie’s
homoerotic content. Given the level homoeroticism in
the actual Iliad, this movie really isn’t that
homoerotic at all. On the Top Gun scale of latent
cinematic homosexuality, this one would rank pretty
low. |
