The purpose
of this blog is to compare and contrast the film Troy,
directed by Wolfgang Petersen, and the epic poem it is based on,
Homer's The Iliad.
These two works, while similar, have significant differences in
story, themes and character portrayal, etc., due to the fact that one
is ancient and the other is modern. Thus, their target audiences are
completely different; the culture they are each addressing is
completely different; and the concepts of empathetic characters
between each time period are completely different. The texts cater to
these differences.
In
other words, they were both written, designed, crafted for the
purpose of entertainment – but the modern Western idea of
entertainment is vastly different to what the Ancient Greeks' was.
Because of this, Petersen felt it necessary to alter many aspects of
the Iliad in his movie
adaptation so that the latter would appeal more to a modern audience.
In
the following posts, I will unpack these alterations.
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