Peter O'Toole (Priam) and Nigel Terry (chief soothsayer) from LION IN WINTER I had much more fun with the "reunion" casting, which I'm guessing is what the casting director or Wolfgang were focusing on:
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And I was sitting in the front row (hand clamped over my mouth, trying not to laugh) when Brad Pitt did his best Brando imitation : "HECTOR!!! HECTOR!!!" Three other people who saw the movie agreed we all wanted to yell back "STELLA!"Īnd once again, Eric Bana was the best thing in a bad movie.
(Maybe the casting director had just watched Se7en? Wasn't it Pitt who personified Wrath in that film? It's no excuse, of course.) Reply DeleteĪrgh, Billie, I concur that many opportunities were wasted in this film. The first line of the Iliad is after all, "Sing, goddess, of the wrath of Achilles." Achilles' principal characteristic, as you observed, was his wrath. I liked your comments about the mis-casting of Achilles. One thing one should remember about the Greeks is that they had no real concept of homosexuality the way we do- Achilles was perfectly willing to do to girls what he did to boys. She's a vital plot device in The Iliad and I'm surprised you don't remember her, though apparently the writers decided to flesh her out a great deal more than Homer did which may have confused you. Achilles refused to fight unless she was returned to him (which she wasn't) until the death of Patroclus. The reason was because Briseis was taken away from him by Agamemnon when Agamemnon had to return his own bed-warmer.er, war-prize Chryses (who was a priestess of Apollo which is why Agamemnon had to return her). At the beginning of The Iliad, Achilles is sulking in his tent, refusing to fight. Briseis was not a virgin priestess in Homer, nor a cousin of Hector, but she was a very significant character. However, some Internet research tells me that the character is in fact Briseis. I was puzzled by your reference to "Hector's cousin the virgin priestess" since I haven't seen the film. I also kept wishing that they'd do part two with Sean Bean.īillie Doux loves good television and spends way too much time writing about it. Every time Pitt was on the screen, I kept wondering what the casting director was thinking. Was she an attempt to make Achilles' love for his cousin Patroclus look platonic?įairly watchable - two stars - but ultimately disappointing. He's certainly better suited to play Achilles than he is for his current job.Īnd where did Hector's cousin the virgin priestess come from? I don't seem to remember her from The Iliad. (That's Pitch Black, not Joe Black.) Or maybe the Rock. Achilles is an invincible brute who lives for war and glory. But Achilles? Come on! Biceps aside (Brad has very nice biceps, I'll give you that), he is just not by any stretch of the imagination the right actor to play Achilles. He's even a pretty good actor I adored his Louis in Interview with the Vampire.
I like to look at Brad Pitt just as much as any other hetero female. Peter O'Toole seems to have moved into the spot Richard Harris used to occupy as "elderly veteran actor best suited to playing a king in a costume drama." The scene where he begged Achilles for Hector's body was the most moving in the entire piece.īut what deranged casting director hired Brad Pitt to play Achilles?ĭon't get me wrong.
The role of Paris in particular is a thankless one, and Orlando made it work. The two LotR alumni, Orlando Bloom as Paris and Sean Bean as Odysseus, were also very good. I thought Eric Bana as Hector was marvelous. The battle scenes were spectacular, but repetitive. Just couldn't get around to seeing it in the theater.Ī lot of it was pretty good. I finally got around to watching the movie Troy the other night.
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