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Friday, May 28, 2004
Swiftly fly the years
 
I went to see Troy this evening with a bunch of people here (Lisa, Cindy, Peter, Joe, Kevin, Gwen) and actually ended up enjoying it more than I expected. Although it wasn't exactly true to the Iliad, I thought it was well done overall. The funniest bit was, after Hector killed Perecleas, Hector basically turned around and said 'no more fighting today' and everyone on both sides just stopped what they were doing and went home. My two major gripes were the fact that the entire siege of Troy appeared to take place over a 3 week span or so, when it supposedly was a 10 year event, and the fact that they used a sunset as a sunrise to make it a pretty shot over the water. Those two events combined to give title to this post.


Comments:

how do you know it's a sunset not sunrise?
missed you over memorial day. i briefly tossed a thought in your wintery direction for memorial day as phil em and i frolicked a bit over the weekend. oh well. chocolate-cookie-chocolate desserts plus australia sound like they much more than make up for a brief memorial day romp through the nj springtime sun. happy day!
 
Troy is located on the eastern bank of the Aegean Sea. Thus, the water is on the west side of Troy, and the sunrise should be on the eastern side of the city. In the movie they show a sunrise occuring over the sea. Granted, it could have been shot in a place where it was a sunrise, (although the colors were more like a sunset anyway) but geographically it makes no sense in the context of the movie.
 
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