Although the movie Troy was a blockbuster smash, they should of found a way to follow the actually writings of the myth, and incorporate them in a way that not only would have been historically accurate but allow the movie to remain such a big hit around the world.
For starters is the time of the actual battles. In the movie they display this war between a great and powerful Greek army with thousands upon thousands of men coming to battle the small (in relation to the Greeks) yet military superior city of troy, which in the movie lasted only a few days of intense battle and military prowess, while in the actual myth the war lasted ten gruelling years of Greeks bombarding the walled city for their taking of king Menelaus's wife Helen.
Another inaccuracy in the movie is how when Paris takes Helen they display Menelaus only going to his brother and getting him to fight along side him to win her back, when in the myth Menelaus had made deals with all Helen's former suitors who he had won over, and had made a deal that if she was taken again that they would all help to get her back. Also an indifference between movie and myth was that in the movie Menelaus was furious and didn't want to win her back for himself but to kill her and showed him as a big brutish ogre of a man, yet in the myth he wanted to go win her back from Paris to have as his wife again, and it does not show him in the myth as an ogre, but more as just a noble who won her over for his looks, charm, and love. Instead of this the movie tells of how he had pretty much taken her by force and she didn't want to be there.
Although I could if i really tried find more inaccuracies in the movie, I am way to lazy and the bell is about to ring, but i hope this has showed the total lack of facts taken from the myth and lets you see the possibility in how even with these facts added, it could have made just as good a movie.
For starters is the time of the actual battles. In the movie they display this war between a great and powerful Greek army with thousands upon thousands of men coming to battle the small (in relation to the Greeks) yet military superior city of troy, which in the movie lasted only a few days of intense battle and military prowess, while in the actual myth the war lasted ten gruelling years of Greeks bombarding the walled city for their taking of king Menelaus's wife Helen.
Another inaccuracy in the movie is how when Paris takes Helen they display Menelaus only going to his brother and getting him to fight along side him to win her back, when in the myth Menelaus had made deals with all Helen's former suitors who he had won over, and had made a deal that if she was taken again that they would all help to get her back. Also an indifference between movie and myth was that in the movie Menelaus was furious and didn't want to win her back for himself but to kill her and showed him as a big brutish ogre of a man, yet in the myth he wanted to go win her back from Paris to have as his wife again, and it does not show him in the myth as an ogre, but more as just a noble who won her over for his looks, charm, and love. Instead of this the movie tells of how he had pretty much taken her by force and she didn't want to be there.
Although I could if i really tried find more inaccuracies in the movie, I am way to lazy and the bell is about to ring, but i hope this has showed the total lack of facts taken from the myth and lets you see the possibility in how even with these facts added, it could have made just as good a movie.
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