Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.
Rocket your D&D 5E and Level Up: Advanced 5E games into space! Alpha Star Magazine Is Launching... Right Now!

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dimwhit" data-source="post: 1215268" data-attributes="member: 2576">Honestly, I'm not up on the archeological data regarding Troy either, I just know people have been trying to find evidence for a while. But I agree with you for the most part. I was an English Lit major, so naturally I spent a good deal of time studying The Iliad and The Odyssey. I've always viewed Homer's stories as literature. The "historical accuracy" of the story is fairly irrelevant to me. In fact, I would have to say, without knowing much of the physical proof, that the story of the Trojan War is largely, if not entirely, fabrication. You're right, we can't even prove for certainly that there was a Trojan War. Remember that The Iliad is believed to be an orally transmitted epic poem (at least it was last time I studied it) that was passed on through generations. It wasn't until much later than it was put down in a book form. So certainly, to hold the story to any historical accuracy is a great injustice. This is why I think the movie has a very strong advantage. There is no reason whatsoever to feel compelled to conform the movie to any particular mold, other than good storytelling. Because that's all Homer's Illiad was--good storytelling. Sure, it would be nice it they tried to stick with Homer's vision, but only because that's the version we know. This is one case where I'm perfectly willing to let the filmmaker go off on his own a bit, as long as it's good storytelling. Honestly, there are aspects of Homer's Iliad that would just be silly in a serious epic today. So, basically, I'm willing to be very flexible on this movie. If it's entertaining, I'll be happy. I don't think it's fair to judge it on historical accuracy when we don't know what the true history is. As to historically-styled, like you mention, they can certainly do that. And like you, I think that's what I'm hoping for. But if it tells a good story, I'll be happy. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

Verification