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ilikedragons
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 Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 10:41 pm Post subject: Troy |
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| Does anyone think its weird everyone has a British accent when everyones Greek? |
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lowfreq50
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| Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 11:23 pm Post subject: Re: Troy |
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| ilikedragons wrote: | | Does anyone think its weird everyone has a British accent when everyones Greek? |
That was literally my first comment about the movie. |
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GalileoAce
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| Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 11:47 pm Post subject: |
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I suppose if you really wanted to get technical you could've pointed out that they were speaking English as opposed to ancient greek...
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| Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 11:50 pm Post subject: |
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| I loaned it, and then copied it. I thought it was a pretty decent movie. |
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AbominableSnoCone
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| Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 11:55 pm Post subject: |
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I hated it because they compressed the epic 10 year Trojan War into like, two weeks
Plus they changed so many weird random things from the Illiad that just didn't need to be changed (like certain characters dying that shouldn't have died, and other characters surviving that shouldn't have survived). In general I don't think the Illiad is as powerful without that element of the Greek gods interfering in human affairs, and that was severely downplayed in the film. Also, in my head, Achilles was this really big ugly brute, Brad Pitt didn't really fit the role in my opinion, he's too much of a girly man.
I can try to nitpick some more if people like
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GalileoAce
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| Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 11:58 pm Post subject: |
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| I've never read the Illiad |
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I prefer the history channel
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ilikedragons
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| Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2005 1:27 pm Post subject: |
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| I dont care about them speaking english. I just think them having a british accent is weird. |
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| Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2005 7:50 pm Post subject: |
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| ilikedragons wrote: | | I dont care about them speaking english. I just think them having a british accent is weird. |
So while they are speaking English, which accent should they speak with? If you think it's weird that they speak with an English accent, wouldn't it be just as weird to have a bunch of ancient Greeks speaking with an American accent? |
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| Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2005 7:51 pm Post subject: |
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| I went to see it with a friend who had read the illiad- and wanted to see shirtless Brad Pitt. I kind of ruined the movie for her by laughing when they cut repeatedly from the baby to the funeral pyre- when she asked me why I was laughing, I explained that I'd seen so many horror movies I was picturing the baby exploding. We both cracked up in ever baby shot from then on. |
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ilikedragons
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| Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2005 10:11 pm Post subject: |
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| I meant why do they have British accents? Maybe some of the actors were British but what about the American ones? |
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GalileoAce
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| Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2005 10:39 pm Post subject: |
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I didn't notice any accents, british, american or otherwise...
Might I point out that Eric Bana is Australian... I think Orlando Bloom is New Zealander/British..But I'm not sure on that.
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| AbominableSnoCone wrote: | | Gladiator is still the best epic Greek/Roman movie though. |
That's pretty pathetic for the genre, then.
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