Troy
Troy
Director:
Wolfgang PetersenGuión:
David BenioffCámara:
Roger PrattMúsica:
James HornerReparto:
Brad Pitt, Eric Bana, Orlando Bloom, Diane Kruger, Brian Cox, Sean Bean, Peter O'Toole, Julie Christie, Saffron Burrows, Brendan Gleeson, Julian Glover (más)Sinopsis(1)
A largo de los tiempos, los hombres han hecho la guerra. Unos por poder, otros por gloria o por honor - y algunos por amor. En la antigua Grecia, la pasión de dos de los amantes más legendarios de la historia, Paris, príncipe de Troya y Helena, reina de Esparta, desencadena una guerra que asolará una civilización. El robo de Helena a su esposo, el rey Menelao, por parte de Paris es un insulto que no se puede tolerar. El orgullo familiar establece que una afrenta a Menelao es una afrenta a su hermano Agamenón, el poderoso rey de Micenas, que no tarda en reunir a todas las grandes tribus de Grecia para recuperar a Helena de manos de los troyanos y defender el honor de su hermano. La verdad es que la lucha por el honor por parte de Agamenón está corrompida por su incontenible codicia - necesita el control de Troya para asegurarse la supremacía de su ya vasto imperio. La ciudad amurallada, bajo el mando del rey Príamo y defendida por el poderoso príncipe Héctor, es una fortaleza en la que ningún ejército ha sido capaz de penetrar. Sólo un hombre se erige en la clave para la victoria o la derrota de Troya - Aquiles, considerado el más grande guerrero vivo. Arrogante, rebelde y aparentemente invencible, Aquiles no siente lealtad hacia nadie ni hacia nada, excepto a su propia gloria. Es su insaciable ansia de fama eterna lo que le lleva a atacar las puertas de Troya bajo el estandarte de Agamenón - pero será el amor el que finalmente decida su destino. Dos mundos irán a la guerra por el honor y el poder. Miles de hombres morirán en su lucha por alcanzar la gloria. Y, por amor, una nación quedará reducida a cenizas. (Warner Bros. España)
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Un desfile de estrellas y combates espectaculares. Los actores son decentes, el diseño de producción es bonito. La lucha de Aquiles y Héctor puede que sea la mejor que he visto dentro del género. Aunque el género es discutible. Troya no posee ni una fracción del encanto de las películas de William Wyler y es simplemente una película palomitera técnicamente brillante.
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First of all, the film's title says "inspired by Homer's Iliad, for which I forgive it a great deal. It has almost nothing to do with Homer's masterpiece, unless I count the partially beaten story. Petersen's film is an attempt to look behind the myth by "reviving" the first event. They are not gods, they are not heroes outside of time and space, there is only a great human story of passion, love, betrayal, war and heroism. There are positive and negative heroes (hector is positive, while surprisingly the conquering Agamemnon negative), but there are also heroes between good and evil (Paris and Achilles). There are plenty of layers to play out this compelling and riveting story, but there's only one layer in which the creators actually do it – the layer of Hollywood spectacle. Troy is nothing more. It lacks pure emotion without calculus, it lacks real charm and monumentality (the tricks suck when there is nothing "behind" them). Petersen does exactly what he famously did in the dream factory: creates a good craftsmanship product. The battle scenes are excellent in large units and details (the Achilles vs. Hector battle is flawless), but his direction is lacking in the empathy and imagination with which The Boat or The NeverEnding Story still shine today. Nothing more than technical skill. This skill is subdued by Horner's shameful soundtrack without any excitement, distinctive melody or a drop of energy. On the other hand, he is helped by the brilliant Pitt-Banna duo. Pitt played his role with admirable conviction, and if there is one thing that could survive this single-use candy, it is Achilles, a hero on the edge of boundless arrogance and fragile vulnerability. The other faces? Bloom is traditionally terrible and now also unsympathetic. O'Toole is kind of awkward, but at key moments persuasive, Bean is drowned in a miserable and touting screenplay, etc. The end of the film is such cruel smut that the knife in my pocket opened. Inspired by Illias and endless stupidity. Homer’s Denyen besieged Troy for ten years, Petersen's extras are done with it after 14 days. Homer’s masterpiece lasted thousands of years, Petersen's opus won't survive this season. I'm sorry, but he owns it. --- marginalia: the jokes with Aeneas and Achilles' heel are really good. It is probably pointless to mention that this version does not work in the complex of Greek myths and illogically denies many of them (Agamemnon is a shining example of this, as is the oracle Laocoön)...
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Homer did not deserve this. The Olympian gods didn't deserve it either. The screenwriter completely omitted them, thus depriving the famous story of its true spice, the element of magic and mysticism that so befits ancient epics. If there aren’t any gods or magic, what’s left? A script that is hackneyed, very distantly inspired by “The Iliad”, full of clichés, pathetic chatter and would-be deep thoughts, a boring story that doesn't grab you by the heart and is clumsily told. And there’s not even eye-candy! I just have to laugh at Petersen's talk of "unprecedentedly clear fight scenes", it's just the opposite and the very good Hector vs. Achilles fight doesn't save it. It's not surprising that all the essential fight scenes are seen in just the trailer. If I had to make a comparison, Scott's Gladiator, with about half the budget, looks much more narrative, and although the script was similarly silly, it was a real visual treat, which can't be said of Troy. A few computer-generated shots of the city and incoming ships, Petersen's lacklustre direction lacks any ideas, with rare exceptions. The music wasn't great either, and a few words about the actors: I believed Pitt's arrogant Achilles, Bana is incredibly charismatic, O'Toole is still a great actor, only Bloom, with his not very wide acting register, spoils it and regularly alternates between two expressions: a timid and stubborn. The boss at Warner was in tears during the screening. I wonder if it wasn’t for the desperation of where they burned those 200 million bucks. Poor guy.
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Troy is notable primarily as a case study on how Hollywood adapts a classic work with countless characters, motifs and both supernatural and earthbound elements into the form of a spectacular mainstream popcorn epic needing fewer characters, a few cleanly resolved storylines and, mainly, the omission of everything that could be off-putting for the supposed majority of viewers, i.e. everything from deities to non-heterosexual relationships.
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An ambitious epic that stumbles over its miserable screenplay and idealess directing. A tirade of mediocre scenes and seeming ignorance of the myth make Troy an uninteresting attempt at a great movie which is closer to being a big studio sword-and-sandal Cecil B. DeMille epic than a modern movie intended for the big screen. ♫ OST score: 2/5
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