Homer's got lucky, for he's dead

Rating: 2/10 (9 December 2004)

Dear Sir Peter Ustinov, where are you when we need you? And don't tell that you're dead, we don't accept this excuse. You have been the man who made "Quo Vadis" almost enjoyable, oh why didn't you in your role as Nero did not have had more screen time.
How much we miss you we just saw with "Troy". Nobody saved this blown-up rip-off which left out all the wonderful Homerian ides which made the Iliad an extraordinary piece of literature over the milleniums.
But maybe the fact that Homer is still dead led to what we had to watch for Homer for obvious reasons is not able to sue the filmmakers. He would have had enough reasons to go to court. Not only the storyline was destroyed, the changes in the main characters are unbearable.
Dear Mr.Peterson and company: Achilles was designed as a brutal snobbish unreliable vanish arrogant bonehead on purpose, for example to create deep differences between him and the other Greek heroes like Odysseus, Agamemnon or Ajax. And so it would have been the definite better choice to cast the role with some kind of a young Sylvester Stallone. And by the way:Agamenon was killed according to the sagas back home by his wife and her lover.
And, Mr.Petersen, have you ever thought why Homer wrote all the scenes about the gods fighting on one side or another? Could Homer have done this for dramatical reasons, maybe to create a real epic?
And one last point,Mr.Petersen: The sun sinks in the west, and it does so for millions and millions of years, even in the age of the war for Troy.
Thank you.