What a big lie !!!

Rating: Null/10 (16 May 2004)

Firstly I do not comprehend his perseverance to present Greek as barbarians. The villain however from all is that he twisted authentic history and he presented a... tail. The Trojans are presented as brave and moral (that was truth) while the Greeks were bloodthirsty, immoral, avid, coarse, rapists and a lot of other. And of course remains the following query: If the Greeks were those that Petersen presents how they produced culture? Mr. Petersen doesn't stop here unfortunately. He changed even the end showing disrespect in a immortal work. In the film Paris is not killed but he escapes having his beautiful Helen in side. The fact that actually Paris was killed and Helen returns with Menelaus back to Sparta obviously is a detail for Mr. Petersen. Petersen however had attended to all. He ''killed'' Menelaus, he ''killed'' also Agamemnon and the Greek leaders came out from the middle. Also even if it reports that the Greeks were roughly 50.000 men, however in the impressive plans of battles it seems over a million! It is not reported nowhere that this war kept 10 years. Seeing the film it gives you the impression that they passed hardly... 15 days from which the 12 were armistice. The positive points of film were that it removed all unrealistic things (divine interventions, monsters etc.) giving thus more historical picture. Positive was the choice of Patroklos that resembles with the one that we all had in our brain and finally the bravery of Ektoras even if the director made it only in order to stresses the opposition between the good Trojans and the bad Greeks. Finally, I would want to say the following. Somebody that has not read or remember the true story, seeing the film will believe that the true was as the film shows. For this reason, at least as for the instructive and pedagogic part the film failed. I spend 2,5 hours in order to see the film and 3 more in order to explain to my friend (that he is ignorant of history) that the true is completely different.
The true is that Achilles never been in the town of Troy because he was killed by Paris before the Greeks make the Horse. Paris was KILLED as well during the war. Menelaus and Agamemnon never been killed in this war. Menelaus took back his Beautiful Helen. Helen killed herself after the death of Menelaus. Agamemnon was killed in his bath by his own wife. As you see, the true story has nothing to do with the movie film. Shame to you Mr. Petersen. How would you feel if Greeks make a film called ''Hirosima'' where the Japanish drop the two atomic bombs against the Americans? What if Juliet never fell in love with Romeo? What if everybody died in ''Gone with the wind''? I expected more respect in this immortal piece.