...The Movie!

Having just seen the Brad Pitt vehicle, I can safely say that familiarity with the Iliad, The Odyssey and The Aeneid in no way prepared me for many of the, er, ingengious plot twists. Am trying to imagine what the pitch was to the Director. Or what the Director said to the Script Writers. Or what the Script writers would have said to Homer. Or Briseis: What is my motivation in this scene?

I won't even go into the creative locales. Who knew that Mycenae was right on the sea? And where is the port of Sparta? (This did occasion much entertainment with the Greek audience, however.)

I think there is fodder for some fun verse here...

troy 2004—review

hot bods
no gods
dialogue plods
audience nods

PITCHING TROY


Better than Brad in an unbuttoned shirt
is Brad on a horse in a pert miniskirt.

It'll bring in the dough.
That's all ye know and all ye need to know.

Update

We all have one spot where we're weak,
though otherwise we're strong as steel.
The spot was once named for some Greek,
but now it's called our "Brad Pitt heel."



[This message has been edited by Roger Slater (edited June 04, 2004).]

These are hilarious. Renate, yours should be on the poster.

Kate--a better title, Grecian Earn?

At least they didn't change it to the Brad Pitt elbow or something. I wouldn't put it past 'em.

[quote]Originally posted by A. E. Stallings:

I won't even go into the creative locales. Who knew that Mycenae was on the sea? (This did occasion much entertainment with the Greek audience, however.)

I think there is fodder for some fun verse here...
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I haven't seen the film, nor am I sufficiently versed (ha!) in the Trojan Wars, otherwise I might offer a little ditty beginning:
"Oh, I do like Mycenae by the seaside.........."

(or is that another of these songs familiar to everybody in the UK and to nobody anywhere else?)

I'd like to be beside
your side, Mycenae.
Hee, you're by the sea side,
by the beautiful sea.

[*blush* My apologies to the old songwriter.]

- Bugsy

Alicia Stallings, classicist,
with all her wisdom, somehow missed
prognoses that the gold of Troy
was Pitted for the hoi polloi.

[This message has been edited by Michael Cantor (edited June 03, 2004).]

Brad Pitt
makes for bad wit
(though as Achilles
he gives me the willies).

I Told You So

Cassandra cried, "I said it was a ploy
the moment that they wheeled the horse before us!
Am I the only one with ears in Troy?
The damn thing shook with the sounds of a Greek chorus!"