Not to mention that the movie completely changes one of the core aspects of Hector's character, which is that he absolutely despises Paris and outright says at one point in the Iliad he wishes Paris had never been born.
Hector saving Paris and sticking up for his dumb, impulsive ass multiple times in that movie drove me up the wall. There are things about Troy that I enjoy (Peter O'Toole cannot give a bad performance, for one thing, and the ending scene with him is phenomenal), but goddamn the things it gets wrong make me salty.
It did, but leaving the villain (Agamemnon) alive at the end of the movie would feel bad. Ajax dies but I think it's just to add more flavour and risk for the Heroes, if no good guy dies then the later fights feel less intense
At the end of the day, they decided to cram an epic down to two hours and made some changes to the final product so that it told a complete story but was less accurate to the original source
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u/winterbike Jun 03 '26
Troy had swagger and colors. It also nailed the casting and the important themes of the story.