Guess what?! I saw Troy!!! It was a good movie... With action, humor, and romance. I sound like I am advertising this movie aren't I? Guess what? I am!!

Saw it with Jessica, this just made the movie more funny. I mean watching it with Laina is great, but she is not the talkative type. I can't discuss the movie that much with her, and plus, if we do discuss it, it would probably be comparing the movie with the original mythology... Which is great, but I think I do enough compare and contrast at school.

But of course, I can't just forget about these comparison, so I made some just for fun:

Actual Myth:
-Gods were heavily involved
-Paris died
-Helen was returned to her husband
-The war took 10 years
-Archilles didn't play the leading role
-Paris was suppose to have a lot more brothers
-Archilles had this relationship with Briseis

Movie:
-Gods did not do anything
-Paris did not die
-Helen stayed with Paris
-Helen's former husband got killed by Hector after having a a fight with Paris
-Archilles was the main character
-Paris only had one brother - Hector
-War only took about a month to finish
-Briseis did not exist. Her role taken by Polyxena

Same in both
-War started because Paris stole Helen
-Archilles was the "greatest warrior every lived"
-Hector was the hero on Troy's side
-Paris killed Archilles
-Troy's king died
-Troy got burned
-They used a wooden horse to get into Troy
-Greeks wanted to take over Troy
-Archilles killed Hector
-Hector killed someone close to Archilles
-In one version of the myth Archilles fell in love with Polyxena
-Archilles died at the Scaean gate at Troy
-Archilles did not like King Agamemnon
-Archilles was not fighting for riches

Anyway, seeing the movie with Jessica allowed me to act like a fan girl. ^_^

After watching the movie, which made Bloom a sissy (but he proved that he is still intouch with his inner elf so he is still very skilled with arrows), the guy who plays Hector an extremely nice brother (wow he is probably the most likable character in the whole show), and Pitt a moody warrior (he is a great grey character! One of the best I have seen), Jessica and I went shouting down the street as if we were drunk.

Jex: Why? Why? Why did Brad Pitt has to die?
Me: Because Archilles had to die!
Jex: Stupid Bloom!
Me: Well at least Bloom was not a slut like Brad Pitt! He slept with what? Five women?
Jex: Three! I counted!

Basically our conversation continued along those lines with Jessica constantly mourning Archilles' death. As you can tell, our shouting was sort of crazy and random. People were staring at us.

Anyway, it was a good movie, go watch it!

PS I saw Ms. Yasui there with her bf too, they were watching Troy too!

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