# Troy....Anticipation? Speculation? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 29, 2004, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/troy-anticipation-speculation/242713 "2004-04-29T18:03:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2004, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/troy-anticipation-speculation/242713/41 "2004-05-02T08:01:02Z")
Hey, Brad Pitt is perfectly capable of playing a scary badass. Hasn’t anyone seen **Kalifornia, Snatch** and/or **Fight Club**?? ---
**Author:** ![cmason32](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@cmason32](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmason32)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2004, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/troy-anticipation-speculation/242713/42 "2004-05-02T08:26:51Z")
> [@Silentgoldfish](#): > > I wanna see them continue with Sean Bean in the sequel. I anticipate it will be called “Boat.” God forbid we scare people away with the actual title of the stories. I realize the marketing people don’t want to scare people away by calling the movie the Illiad, but must we dumb everything down for mass consumption? ---
**Author:** ![Melandry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Melandry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melandry)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2004, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/troy-anticipation-speculation/242713/43 "2004-05-02T16:59:58Z")
> [@El Elvis Rojo](#): > > Well, I did see a little thing on _E_ the other day where they were filming Brad coming down the rope out of the Trojan Horse, so I have a feeling there’s quite a bit of poetic license taken in this film. Oh dear, that’s a problem. Achilles in the Trojan Horse? Oh dear. Being a classicist is such a double-edged sword. On the one hand, maybe my discipline is gaining in popularity, thus leading to increased enrollments and better employment chances! But on the other had, the movies are always so inaccurate, you’d almost prefer _they_ weren’t what made you popular… ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2004, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/troy-anticipation-speculation/242713/44 "2004-05-03T16:00:01Z")
> [@cmason32](#): > > God forbid we scare people away with the actual title of the stories. I realize the marketing people don’t want to scare people away by calling the movie the Illiad, but must we dumb everything down for mass consumption? Well, strictly speaking, you’d have a problem pitching a big-budget movie of the Iliad. We’re at an army camp, people and gods have unreasonable tantrums, well-loved people get killed, there are funerals. The End. Arthouse material at best. OTOH, a movie of the Trojan War… now you’re talking Big Movie, you have kidnappings, adultery, prophecies of doom, people and gods having tantrums. folks getting killed, funerals, a big wooden horse, a dirty trick, a massacre. Yay. And you get to take material not just from the Iliad but also from the Oddyssey, Oresteiad, Aeneid, as well as that which you just pulled out of you-know-where. ---
**Author:** ![Epimetheus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c4cdca/32.png) [@Epimetheus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Epimetheus)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2004, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/troy-anticipation-speculation/242713/45 "2004-05-03T16:34:47Z")
You know, I just got done reading Ben Bova’s version of this war when I first saw the preview. (Vengence of Orion) I can see Brad Pitt in the role of that Achilles. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/troy-anticipation-speculation/242713.md?page=2)