Why did they change the story???

Rating: 5/10 (22 June 2004)

First of all, it was a well produced and directed movie. Nice customs, nice casting. The heroes understood what they should perform. I also agree that Helen was not the reason but the motive to start the Trojan war and it was positive that it was mentioned. The customs were realistic. THe characters were up to the epic, with slight differences.
But... Menelaos was not that old. Agamemnon was not that gritty The fight between Achileas and Agamemnon started because of Briseis, during the Trojan war, not before. Achilleus was not a veteran ordered by Agamemnon, and nowhere was said the reason of his immortality (so that the audience would understand why he died with this way, when Paris stroke him).
Orchomenos was not in Pelloponese and not in the Homeric era (the place in the map, at the beginning of the movie). Hellen was blonde indeed. No -one mentions why Paris had chosen Helen. Why Appolo and Posidon protected Troy. Why the walls of Troy were not easy to be destroyed by the Greeks. Andromachi did not escaped with their baby...that was the bad think of the Trojan war. Where was Ekati? Where were the 50 sons of Priamos? Where was Kassandra? Why should Helen have two roles, the one of the maided-accused-for-the-war and one of Kassandra? Where was Laokoon, the priest-divinator whose role took Paris?? Where was Aeas? Both of Aeas?? Nestor was not a mentor of Agamemnon, he was the king of Argos. Where was Triptopolemos? THe son of Achilleus who was called after the death of the last one? Where was Filoktitis with his poisoned arches? Briseis (and Chriseis) was not a priest of Appolo; their father was. Offending a god's temple was a hybris to the people and nowhere in the poem was mentioned that Achilleus had destroyed the temple of Apollo. On the other hand, it was a good movie for the people who have no idea of what Iliad is about...and as a matter of fact I cried when the Greeks used the Trojan Horse (Dourian Horse in my scripts) to take Troy.
I have a last question: Why Hollywood makes the maximum of effort to show in its identical form fairy tales such as Lotr or Harry Potter and doesn't do this when it comes to real myths and the heritage of our world???????