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	Troy (2004) - Ninth Symphony Films Review
		Troy's claim to fame though is not so much its male characters, as it is about "the face that launched a thousand ships" and the relationship "difficulties" endured by anyone who's ever been in a relationship.
		Troy is a film that benefits from a talented group of actors being able to rein in a film sometimes at war with itself as to what type of epic its filmmakers intended it to be.
		Troy is epic filmmaking at its best and while on the long side, it is a massively entertaining adventure.
	regencylady.tripod.com /site/filmreviews/troy.html (975 words)

	Troy
		For an historian, the new film "Troy" presents a dilemma.
		His "Troy" is a very human story, with those basic themes from which history and myth derive their power-love, hate, revenge, redemption.
		Troy was rich, and the Mycenaeans wanted to plunder her wealth and control her strategic trade location at the crossroads of Europe and Asia.
	www.stfrancis.edu /historyinthemovies/troy.htm (729 words)

	May 2004 \| blackfilm.com \| reviews \| film \| troy
		Troy will surely be a hit with audiences and march to box office glory this weekend.
		Troy is based entirely on the conflict between Hector and Achilles.
		Troy is a good time at the movies, light years better than last weekend's horrendous Van Helsing.
	www.blackfilm.com /20040521/reviews/troy.shtml (774 words)

	Troy: Starring Brad Pitt, Orlando Bloom and Eric Bana
		An epic chronicle of the triumphs and tragedy of the legendary Trojan War, Troy begins as the passion of lovers Prince Paris of Troy (Orlando Bloom) and Queen Helen of Sparta (Diane Kruger) ignites a war between the Trojans and the united tribes of Greece.
		Wolfgang Petersen is in negotiations with Rose Byrne to star in Troy as Briseis a Trojan slave girl who is given to Achilles who becomes fond of her, she is then captured by the enemy and Achilles rage is unleashed on the enemy.
		The film, based on the Greek mythological tale of Helen of Troy, was due to begin shooting in Muslin Morocco next month.
	www.ez-entertainment.net /prod/troy.htm (977 words)

	Troy (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Troy is a movie that was released on May 14, 2004 about the Trojan War, which is described in Homer's Iliad and other Greek myths as having taken place in Anatolia (modern Turkey) around the 13th or 12th century BC; however, the plot differs greatly from Homer (see deviations below).
		Troy is the center of a strong city-state and is known for its great defensive walls.
		Whereas in the film, Achilles seeks revenge for the death of Patroclus by donning his armor and heading off towards a duel with Hector, in the Iliad, Achilles first had to wait for Hephaestus to forge him a new suit of armor and there was an intervening battle before the duel.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Troy_(movie) (3372 words)

	Filmtracks: Troy (Gabriel Yared/James Horner)
		Any film music fan knows, of course, that Horner's flaw is his own endless self-repetition of style throughout his scores.
		Keeping Tzarovska on the project was Horner's sole effort in producing a score that was at all relevant to the age and locale of the film, and her performances are not integrated particularly well into the mass of orchestral material.
		Troy is the pinnacle of Yared's career, utilizing the kind of research and painstakingly complex writing that obviously takes a year to assemble.
	www.filmtracks.com /titles/troy.html (2527 words)

	Troy Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		Filmed on location in Malta and Mexico, Troy is set in Greece over three thousand years ago, when rulers from rival kingdoms vied for control of the Aegean Sea.
		The result is a film that's as close to old-style Hollywood epics as we've seen in a while, and far from being as bad as the reviews that have pilloried Troy, It all looks pretty impressive on a crystal-clear picture that appears to be in the 2.35:1 aspect range, with crisp Dolby Digital 5.1 sound.
		And filming in Mexico because the Iraq war ruled out Morocco as a site, the crew had to develop a turtle incubation nursery in order to get permission to film on beaches that were a refuge for the protected species.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=138949 (1568 words)

	Trojan Wars: On the Big and Little Screen
		The city of Troy is increasingly well known and we have a good idea of its appearance, thanks to the Troia Projekt (University of Tubingen and University of Cincinnati) excavation and the virtual reality based on it; the filmmakers, however, must have wanted something more spectacular (see photos).
		Troy's intimidating outer wall in the film, which I take to be 40 or 50 feet in height with higher towers, is a fiction (they didn't have siege engines for battering down walls in the Late Bronze Age, so walls on that scale would have been a colossal waste).
		The lower city of Troy was protected by a ditch, shown here, but in the movie the ditch has been transformed into a wall that's 40 or 50 feet tall.
	www.archaeology.org /online/reviews/troy/index.html (2019 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Film \| Review: Troy
		His final confrontation with Achilles is one of the film's crowning glories and a pivotal moment in the film.
		It's beyond me why people are griping that this film is bereft of ancient languages and bears only "a passing resemblance to the story of the fall of Troy" and is tantamount to an "erosion of our historical awareness".
		I think we should remember that the texts that this film is based on are considered by most to be works of fiction, and so the makers of this film choosing to change elements of the story isn't quite so harmful as re-imagining historical facts.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/film/3691071.stm (4928 words)

	Whoosh! Film Reviews: Troy (Wolfgang Petersen, 2004) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		At a couple of points in the film Achilles aaaaalmost manages to break away from these pressures but as was the case with Pacino's character in the GODFATHER films - something always manages to pull him back into the war, the violence, the brutality.
		Achilles mother was a minor goddess in Greek mythology and she does appear but the film does not give the impression that she's a goddess.
		TROY is similarly a stronger story by sticking with the humans.
	www.whoosh.org /films/reviews/troy.html (1227 words)

	The Troy Dillinger "Dirty & Hairy" Film Festival
		Troy shot himself singing the song in front of a fl background and then projected it onto the doll’s face.
		The doll was mounted to a microphone stand and manipulated by hand by Troy while the street footage was shown in the background and the face was projected on it simultaneously.
		Troy nearly lost his guitar when he improvised and took it off to swing at the boxes behind him.
	www.troydillinger.com /filmfest/shorts.html (1698 words)

	Troy : film review
		Troy reminded me of the Trojan horse the Greeks use to infiltrate the city: big and impressive on the outside, but filled with malice on the inside that oozes out over the course of its extensive three-hour running time.
		The dialogue is laughably bad (one has to wonder if Homer the Simpson and not Homer the Greek poet served as his inspiration), the storyline a muddled, confusing mess and the relationships between the one-dimensional characters are practically deficient of any sense of emotion.
		As the young lovers, whose romantic subplot is the cornerstone of the entire film, Bloom and Kruger deliver performances that are both wooden and painful to watch.
	www.musicomh.com /films2/troy.htm (879 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Film \| Unearthing Troy's truth
		For plenty of cinema-goers, the prospect of seeing Brad Pitt as a loincloth-clad hero is enough to encourage them to see the film, which opens in the UK on Friday.
		He says the Troy legend is as relevant today as it was to the ancient Greeks.
		What they really needed to prove that this indeed was Troy was some written evidence from the time that might suggest a conflict, and virtually none has ever been found.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/film/3732787.stm (870 words)

	Review: Troy - Film Junk
		During the course of its trying-too-hard-to-be-epic 3 hour length, Troy swerves from corny and predictable, to stirring and dramatic, to senseless and indifferent, and somehow leaves you staring blankly at the screen by the time the credits roll.
		Veteran Peter O’Toole raises the film’s potential greatly every time he is on screen as old King Priam, and his scene with Achilles towards the end is one of those momentary lapses where the movie actually seems to have emotion.
		The basic story in Troy is one that many of us should know, whether from reading in school or through indirect references, but it does have some contain some cool twists and will still offer surprises for even the most well-researched scholar.
	www.filmjunk.com /2004/06/01/troy (1102 words)

	Troy Film Review-Migandi.org.uk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		His opposite number and defender of Troy is Eric Bana's Hector -- here, as in Homer, the tale's most sympathetic figure.
		"Troy is a non-stop movie filled with short monologues; cute, sweaty, muscled men; and wide-scale epic battle sequences that rival both Gladiator and The Last Samurai combined.
		As such, the film remains a richly satisfying all-round experience, the type of which harks back to the epics of the David Lean era, while making the most of advances in technology.
	www.migandi.org.uk /films/troy/troy-film-review.htm (839 words)

	BBC - Films - Troy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		An epic in the truest sense of the word, Troy is inspired by Homer's tragic poem The Iliad - a mythic rendering of an ancient war fought between Greeks and Trojans.
		It's only when the walls of Troy are breached that the film becomes a little unsteady, largely because its key conflict has already been resolved.
		See what films are opening in the UK next year.
	www.bbc.co.uk /films/2004/05/13/troy_2004_review.shtml (551 words)

	Troy Review - FilmFocus.Co.UK
		Troy is far from the best work of any of them, but compared to Pitt and Bloom, they're the true talent in the film.
		During the film, all 2 1/2 hours of it, there wasn't a sound to be heard in the theatre, and they actually applauded at the end.
		We enjoyed the film, start to finish and found the pacing and the acting to be what we'd expect from the characters.
	www.filmfocus.co.uk /review.asp?ReviewID=18 (1984 words)

	"Troy" / a review and/or comments from Christian Spotlight on the Movies
		The only content in the film that strongly suggests a supernatural element is Thetis (Julie Christie) telling Achilles that if he stays away from the war, he’ll have a family but will be forgotten; if he goes and fights, his name will be remembered, but he will die.
		When the film is over, you may be left with a number of topics to think about or to discuss with your family and friends.
		The film held true to what it was like in those days - sex (which was kept more discreet than what it could have been), violence, sinners, lost souls, etc. The film, in no way, acknowledges that the greek “gods” existed at all.
	www.christiananswers.net /spotlight/movies/2004/troy.html (6933 words)

	Amazon.com: Troy: DVD: Julian Glover,Brian Cox,Nathan Jones,Adoni Maropis,Jacob Smith,Brad Pitt,John Shrapnel,Brendan ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The fight choreography was worked out by Simon Crane, the film's stunt coordinator and second unit director, who describes Achilles as fighting with a boxing style but with the velocity of a speed skater and the agility of a panther.
		But since Pitt's performance dominates the film and he is clearly the horse that director Wolfgang Petersen is riding to make the whole thing work, it makes sense that he has to be around until the very end.
		Troy is a grand sweep of a movie with startling effects and a wortwhile, gripping plot.
	www.amazon.com /Troy-Julian-Glover/dp/B0002Z0EYK (2781 words)

	Troy - Jef - Film-Critiques
		I seem to vaguely recall that this book was assigned to me in one of my high school English classes, and although some of the names rang a bell, I really didn’t know a thing about the history or the storyline.
		I was hoping this film would help to clue me in, and perhaps inspire me to read the book.
		The film had more than it’s fair share of battle scenes, but I have to say they were nothing special, and in fact rather poorly done.
	www.film-critiques.com /Troy1J.html (1033 words)

	Amazon.com: Troy: Music From The Motion Picture (Score): Music: James Horner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Yesterday when I watched the film I paid much attention to the music and it was as predicted, the mix of previous Horner motives and themes and nothing, absolutely nothing, new.
		It took me a while to get the soundtrack to accompany the film, and I am sure those others who appreciate film scores agree that when you want a soundtrack the music you know from the film stays in your head, as if metaphorically nagging you to buy it.
		The secong track was good untill they reach troy, that same tune of bells and trumpets is repeated for ages and becomes really annoying.
	www.amazon.com /Troy-Music-Motion-Picture-Score/dp/B000244F7I (1996 words)

	Troy (2004) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Similarly, was Achilles' mother a goddess who dipped her son's body in the River Styx making him invulnerable in battle or is the grain of truth here - as some historians have suggested - that he had some of the first iron armor which could not be penetrated by the bronze weapons of his opponents.
		What Troy accomplishes is a very well done depiction of the human egos, ambitions, flaws, anger, and tragedy that lie beneath Homer's poetry.
		Hundreds of years later Troy was still remembered in Homer's time because it was a clash between two great civilizations which went to war and destroyed themselves.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0332452 (500 words)

	Helen of Troy
		The film career of Robert Wise had been as diverse as it was distinguished.
		He first entered the film industry at the age of 19 when one of those elder brothers, who was working in the accounting department at RKO, got him a job in the studio's sound department.
		The walls of Troy were built from the same type of stone and mortar that the ancients used.
	home.flash.net /~torchie/jsernas/helenoftroy.htm (3228 words)

	Atlanta Film Society \| Troy
		Paris, prince of Troy, falls for Helen (Diane Kruger) of Sparta and lures her away from husband Menelaus (Brendan Gleeson) and to his homeland Troy.
		The film bolts out of the gates, giving brief introductions to the major characters (except the hero), and accelerates the conflict between the warring parties so that before you know it, Brad Pitt and his goons are slashing people on the beach and desecrating temples.
		Unfortunately, Troy is not the type of film to be rewarded, but I would definitely keep an eye on him during the next few years.
	aaronfilms.tripod.com /films/troy.htm (1158 words)

	Troy Through A Window (2002)
		"Troy Through A Window" is a film about family, homosexuality, belief and the boundaries of love.
		It began in 1993, when Troy, a model son, Eagle Scout and returned missionary for the LDS Church, announced that he was gay.
		Since Troy came out, it seems as if a window now stands between him and the rest of his family--making two distinct places which each side may see but can't always share.
	www.ldsfilm.com /docu/Troy.html (519 words)

	Troy Film Review - Time Out Film
		To the consternation of his upstanding brother Hector (Bana), timid trousersnake Paris (Bloom), an androgynous pin-up, smuggles away his sweetheart Helen (Kruger) from her gilded cage in the palace of her much older husband, the Spartan king Menelaos (Gleeson).
		Under this shadow, Petersen sensibly veers away from morbid intimacy with war's ravages on the flesh, and instead strains for a Breughelian horror in the D-Day-like assault on the beach and the inferno-lit sack of Troy.
		In grandiosely illustrating the power-drunk derangement of empire building, and in rendering war as a pointless, brutish, dishonourable wank (not to mention a big sandy bore), Troy is certainly of its horrified moment.
	www.timeout.com /film/79821.html (304 words)

	Troy film review
		A return to the old-fashioned sword and sandal epics of the 1950s, Troy was presumably given the go-ahead after the worldwide commercial and critical success of Gladiator.
		When Paris and his brother Hector (Eric Bana) arrive in Troy, their father Priam (Peter O'Toole) faces a difficult decision - return Helen and sacrifice his son, or face certain invasion from the Greeks.
		And for one of the most expensive films ever made, it is sometimes difficult to see where exactly all the money went, given that many of the scenes are either very intimate, or filmed on a beach location.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /entertainment/film/reviews/troy.html (719 words)

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