
Brad Pitt portrays Greek hero/ giant ******* Achilles as a stoner surfer dude, Orlando Bloom, aptly cast in the role of Paris, parades around in yet another frock to detract from his minimal acting skills, Eric Bana, previously seen as a giant green guy in the world’s most stretchable pair of underwear in The Hulk gets a tan, a perm and dons a miniskirt to great squeal-worthy effect and plays a more sympathetic Hector than the one found in the book, The Iliad. Peter O’Toole, playing the role of King Priam, looks like he’s about to get a stroke from having to suffer Bloom and Pitt’s acting and Agamemnon is portrayed by Brian Cox as a cartoon villain. Oh, and Achilles’ girl, Briseis, daughter of Phoebus Appolo’s priest in The Iliad, is turned into Hector and Paris’s cousin in Troy and Patroclus, Achilles’ very close, ahem, personal friend becomes his cousin instead. (Of course, the way they hooked up in Ancient Greece, eve
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