Questions about a movie?!
Question: I saw the unrated direc tors cut of "Troy" yesterday, and i wanted to ask you four questions about it:
1. Wasn't Orlando Bloom just the wimpiest mother ****** on the face of the planet? I called his character '"Paris the *****." I mean, how pathetic was Paris?
2. Did you think Diane Kruger was the proper actress to play the role of Helen?
3. Would you buy a shirt that said "HECTOR IS DA S!HIT!"?
4. Did Brad pitt do a good job playing Achilles?
Answers: I saw the unrated direc tors cut of "Troy" yesterday, and i wanted to ask you four questions about it:
1. Wasn't Orlando Bloom just the wimpiest mother ****** on the face of the planet? I called his character '"Paris the *****." I mean, how pathetic was Paris?
2. Did you think Diane Kruger was the proper actress to play the role of Helen?
3. Would you buy a shirt that said "HECTOR IS DA S!HIT!"?
4. Did Brad pitt do a good job playing Achilles?
1. Yes, but Paris *was* a wimp, so in a way, the casting was perfect.
2. She grew on me. At first I thought she was a really poor choice for "the face that launched a thousand ships". The actress playing Andromache was far more beautiful. But Diane Kruger had an exotic look, compared to the other female actresses in the movie, and that made her stand out, so perhaps she was a good choice, in the end.
3. I might, because omg, he's amazing in "Troy", a movie I think has a LOT of flaws, but Hector ain't one of them.
4. I think he did. In all the times I've read or seen the story of the Trojan War, I never had much sympathy for Achilles, who was in many ways brutal and cruel. But he made the character human.
The main problem I have with "Troy" is how many important female characters they cut out. Briseis, in the film, was a combination of herself and Cassandra, Paris and Hector's sister. Cassandra's role was very important. They also eliminated Hecuba, King Priam's wife and Queen of Troy. It just seemed unnecessary to skip those two roles.
On the other hand, there was lots of shirtless hunkiness. The great Libby Gelman Wexler of Premiere magazine once called this movie "Queer Eye for the Greek Guy". Certainly a lot of eye candy.
1. Totally agree. Orlando should stick with the Elves.
2. She was okay.
3. Heck YEAH! Eric Bana was also great in Blackhawk Down.
4. No. I thought he was the wrong choice for that role. I was expecting someone more along the lines of a Gerard Butler from the movie 300 for a big beefy role like Achilles.
Orlando Bloom has played very big, very heroic characters in several movies (most notably the Lord Of The Rings trilogy and the three Pirates Of The Caribbean films), but when he tries to play a more realistic character, he has a very small, realistic style. That may be good for some characters (though, like Jack Nicholson and Dennis Hopper, he can become boring when his characters are too laid-back), but Paris should be much more of a big, in-your-face kind of guy. I'm sorry that he wasn't allowed to do his usual big stuff; that would have worked so much better.
In a similar way, Brad Pitt has the sort of small, minimalist realism to his acting that didn't work well for Orlando Bloom. Achilles should be a bigger-than-life character, but Pitt played him far too realistically. When two actors are doing that, I have to blame the director, Wolfgang Peterson. I get the feeling that he instructed his actors to go for realistic portrayals of the characters, when a bigger-than-life, over-the-top approach to the acting would have done a lot better. The one person who did go big with his portrayal was Peter O'Toole, the veteran of epic movies, who did his usual epic act. I notice that you didn't have him on your list of complaints. The screen came alive every time he appeared, which is more than I could say for the other actors.
As for Diane Kruger, she was supposed to be a pretty face, and one you hadn't seen before. She matched that. I'd have gone with an actress myself, first and foremost, and let the make-up and costuming people take care of providing the necessary glamour and beauty. But, that wasn't my decision.
It probably wasn't Orly's fault, it was the writters fault. :)
She was alright in that role, I would have put myself, but that's just me (haha)
No.
Yes, mostly.