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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mawathagama" data-source="post: 31515428" data-attributes="member: 557604">I didn't watch it. However, from what I read about it, it's just the basic structure of the Iliad only. It doesn't even come closer to the epic. Even the character fates are different.One of my favourite classical tragedies is that of Agamemnon, who returns home after the war, and was killed by his wife. And that killing started a new argument about divine justice, which is settled in the third drama of the trilogy. But in the film he's just killed by Breisis during war. If anyone learns about the Trojan war from the movie, they will wonder how Agamemnon comes back home in the Agamemnon by Aeschylus.That's just one example.Also you get a much bigger imagination when you read an epic. When you watch the movie it's all diminished, or not the way you had imagined. Remember, your imagination is much loftier than what someone else depicts in a movie. <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/happy.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":)" title="Happy    :)" data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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