Shlock and Hollywood hype...

Rating: 3/10 (7 February 2005)

Okay, let's get the mistakes out of the way...
1- Breseis did not kill Agamemnon. In fact, she went back with him to Greece as his wife.
2- Melenaus did not die. He and Helen returned to Greece.
3- Helen did not go willingly to Troy, she was kidnapped by Paris.
4- Paris did not survive the Trojan War.
5- Agamemnon did not kill Priam. Neoptolemeus (Achilles' son) did.
6- Achilles brought 50 ships of 50 men - 2,500 total - with him, not 1 ship and 50 men.
7- Patroclus was Achilles' friend, not cousin. In the battle where he was killed by Hector, he was there under the direction of Achilles, and was actually given the armor by Achilles himself.
8- Ajax was not killed by Hector: they battled to a draw, and in fact, wounded Hector.
Need I go on? Troy is another attempt by Hollywood to manipulate the audience. Similar attempts recently - like King Arthur and Pearl Harbor - all end up being lesser movies because of it.
Why does Hollywood continue to rearrange history, film errors as fact, and present them to the public? Do these ignorants think that the stories they present are more exciting than history itself? It seems to me that Hollywood does themselves and the audience a disservice when they change things. I guess people agree, as these movies all tend to lose money, as people stay away in droves, with the exception of Titanic, but there we have a chick flick, so there is the romantic story overshadowing the disaster.
Let it never be said that Hollywood won't change whatever they like, in order to grab more of the viewing public's money, and pass it off as history. Hopefully, as the bottom dollar continues to erode, they'll get back to doing it correctly, and realize that the writer is a lesser hack than the notables of history.