Irritating anachronisms, Aeneas and Omaha Beach

Rating: 1/10 (13 November 2005)

There are a lot of anachronisms in that movie, which are very embarrassing, 'cause I learn classical archaeology. E.g. the helmets and shields are used much more later. In this time the Greeks used boar tusk helmets and light 8-shaped shields. The Apollon-statues' style was fashionable during the archaic period (6th cent.) Benioff killed Agamemnon in Troy, but he died from his wife, Klytemnestra's hand, when he arrived to Mycene, and that was the most popular theme of ancient Greek dramatists. And also killed Menelaus who actually lived after the Trojan War with Helena, and the son of Odysseus met them in Sparta 10 years later. So the screenwriter disregarded the next ca. 50 years of Greek mythology, and the works of Aischylus, Sophokles and Euripides. Maybe he don't know them... But it seems that he knows Vergilius, 'cause he disregarded almost the whole Greek mythology, but the Roman is in with Aeneas. I don't understand this logic. The gods have been cut out, too. But without them it's hard to explain the Trojan horse and the invulnerability of Achilles. Only Priamus seemed like a superstitious old man. So in the whole movie there is a modern mentality. Of course it could sold this way to the public, but the Credits should not write down that they inspired by Homer's Iliad, 'cause only the characters' names have drawn on the original authority. And finally some words about the awful pictures; e.g. the landing of the Greeks. It's like the landing on Omaha Beach, but 3thuosand years earlier. The beautiful sunrise over the sea, with a little problem, that Troy is on the east coast of the Aegean Sea. And the touching burial services, which should follow funeral games, which are so typical of the Greeks.