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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shilsen" data-source="post: 1544337" data-attributes="member: 198">I just thought it was a little - as I mentioned before - ham-handed, or to be more precise, unsubtle, but I do agree that it worked for the movie. I preferred the way the Trojan armor and dress had slight Byzantine touches to separate it from the Greeks. The Achilles-Odysseus friendship (runs completely counter to the book) was an interesting choice to make, since Odysseus is very much the new breed of hero, who stands apart from those like Achilles, who perfectly embodies the older, more simplistic and brutal, warrior code. But it worked fine for the movie. And Andromache (Hector's wife) was quite well-done by Saffron Burroughs, who I have only seen elsewhere in "Deep Blue Sea" (eyeballs bleed at the remembrance  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> ).As Ankh-Morpork Guard said, this is totally in keeping with the Iliad. When the duel with Menelaus began I was wondering if Orlando Bloom would suddenly turn into Legolas (and also how they'd handle the absence of Aphrodite), and I thought it was handled very nicely.</blockquote>