Essay on Was 'Troy' The Movie Accurate According To Homer?

The spartans armor was made of bronze.the primary weapon they used was a spear of around 7-9 feet.they would also use a short sword called a xiphos. It was a secondary weapon of choice.

The Odyssey by Homer is a Greek epic poem based on its main character Odysseus and it took place in the classical Greece. The book was composed in the eight century B.C.E, after the events it describes, and narrates several adventures with the objective of its main character to return home with his family. Moreover, the movie O, Brother Where Art Thou was published in the year 2000 and directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen. The movie also narrates the adventures of its main character Ulysses, interpreted by George Clooney, a prisoner that escaped from jail with two partners. Consequently, the film and the movie have its similarities and differences, but at the end the movie was absolutely based on the book.

Spartans also had great weapons such as the doru. The doru is a spear that all of the Spartans use, it is 7 to 9 feet long. The tip of the spear looked like a metal leaf. It was used to finish of fallen enemies and if the tip of it broke of it could be spun around as another weapon. Spartans also had a secondary weapon that was called a xiphos.

The Odyssey, on the other hand, focuses on events after the war where Odysseus struggles to find himself back home, in fact taking many years to do so, while his wife Penelope and son Telemachus struggle to keep intense suitors from marrying Penelope and taking over Ithaca. Both of these poems are epic poems, which deal with heroism and adventure, which is relevant to what Miller’s film The Road Warrior is all about. In his work titled, “The Road Warrior and the Fall of Troy, Thomas Dilworth writes on Miller’s film and the mythic elements that surround it. He writes, “What distinguishes The Road Warrior from such films is the breadth of its mythic resonance, which expands beyond the mythology of individuals to a corporate, near-apocalyptic mythology with specific cultural significance” (147). He then continues on and explores the ways the film takes elements from both the Iliad and the Odyssey with characters in the film having qualities like those in the epic

Some movies have strong connections to famous books, epics, or myths. Often times, there will be many strong allusions to different epics, but there will be few weak allusions. In Joel and Ethan Coen's O’Brother Where Art Thou, The movie has strong allusion with the plot, hero qualities, and the minor characters of The Odyssey,

The amazing epic poem by Homer entitled “The Odyssey” shares many similarities and many differences as well with the Hallmark movie of the same name. The epic poem is about the hero Odysseus who has spent twenty long years filled with toil and loss, through war and sea desperate to return to his home of Ithaca. Odysseus has angered some of the gods and goddesses of a Greek Mythology with his destruction of the mighty city of Troy. Odysseus is represented in the poem and the movie, but there are several differences between the two in the events he encountered. There are also numerous similarities

Ancient Literature and Modern movies can portray the same messages. Both relate to human condition, but oftentimes the form reflects the age in which it is written. The movie O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) uses a modern setting (1930s Mississippi) to relate to Homer’s epic The Odyssey (800 BCE). The epic The Odyssey by Homer and The movie O Brother Where Art Thou by The Coen Brothers both tell the story of a protagonist that takes a long journey home to his wife. Both face many obstacles along the way. In the movie, Sheriff Cooley is compared to Poseidon, the Blind old man is compared to Tiresias and Ulysses is compared to Odysseus reconnection with his wife. Both the movie and epic show that human nature are present in both the epic and movie.

As the last scene of movie Troy fades, we see the words “inspired by Homer’s “The Iliad””. There is no doubt that the Iliad is one of the greatest poems of all time and, therefore, it has inspired multiple works of art over almost three thousand years of its existence. One of these works is the film Troy, which attempts to make an adaptation that reflects the Greek culture and appeals to the modern audience at the same time. In this essay Troy will be compared with the Iliad through examination of time spans, intended audiences, portrayals of Helen, Achilles and Hector, main themes of both sources and conveyed messages.

“Although Homer is given a co-writing credit on the film, Joel Coen and Ethan Coen claim never to have read The Odyssey and are familiar with it only through cultural osmosis and film adaptations” (imdb.com). The Odyssey is primarily about the adventure of the main protagonist, Odysseus. He left his homeland, and family, to fight in the Trojan War. After the war has ended, Odysseus spends nearly two decades

Over the thousands of years that the epic story the Iliad has survived, there has no doubt been some form of alteration to Homer’s original. Last May, Wolfgang Petersen directed a movie based on the Iliad. This movie, Troy, has proven to be a very loose adaptation of Homer’s original, as are almost all stories that are made into movies, unfortunately. With its timeless storyline, amazing scenery, gorgeous actors/actresses and most of all, its reported two hundred million dollar budget, it is easy to see why Troy was hyped up to be a box office hit. However, the film critics were harsh on this movie, as they had every right to be, and it ended up being a total flop. Compared to Homer’s Iliad, Troy is rather

This may have been due to the special effects, and casting of the characters. Special effects in the film

Over the thousands of years that the epic story the Iliad has survived, there has no doubt been some form of alteration to Homer's original. Last May, Wolfgang Petersen directed a movie based on the Iliad. This movie, Troy, has proven to be a very loose adaptation of Homer's original, as are almost all stories that are made into movies, unfortunately. With its timeless storyline, amazing scenery, gorgeous actors/actresses and most of all, its reported two hundred million dollar budget, it is easy to see why Troy was hyped up to be a box office hit. However, the film critics were harsh on this movie, as they had every right to be, and it ended up being a total flop. Compared to Homer's Iliad, Troy is rather disappointing. But, to be

housands of years that the epic story the Iliad has survived, which is credited to the famous Greek poet, Homer. In the 2004 film Troy, directed by Wolfgang Peterson, the plot resembles and is based from the epic poem, the Iliad. When the movie Troy was released, there was criticism on how even though the movie was based off of the Iliad, there were numerous differences from the Iliad itself. Even with its differences, the movie, Troy, does have many similarities to the Iliad. Even though there are numerous similarities and differences between the epic poem and the movie, this essay will focus on the major differences and similarities to compare the two.

This short essay will identify five traditional epic characteristics that are evident in both the Iliad and the Odyssey.

While the film and poem have the same overall plots, revolving around the takeover of Troy by the Greeks, the feud between Achilles and king Agamemnon, and such events that ultimately triggered the actions of the Trojan prince Paris stealing Helen of Sparta. While at the same time, revolving around the same general plotline, in that of Homer’s Iliad, many significant differences separate these two works of art from one another. This indifferent between several key aspects is most noticeable in regards to the overall progression of years