How much alike is the movie Troy to the book The Trojan War? If i got the audiobook for troy would it be the same as The Trojan War?
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2007-09-18 09:14:55 · 4 answers · asked by tori 4 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
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2007-09-18 09:19:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. The film, like most made in Hollywood is not a true representation of the original story. Sadly Hollywood is responsible for changing many historical facts and making it's own story up which is then believed as fact by millions. Good examples are 'Enigma', 'Braveheart', 'Pearl Harbour' and 'Titanic'. All these films have dozens, sometimes hundreds of errors in them. 'Braveheart' alone has around 114 factual errors. If I were you i would read Homer's original story in his poems The Illiad and The Odyssey. The first is a historical reference to the invasion of Troy by the Greeks (Bearing in mind that much of it is a story rather than fact) and the second is the story (and it is a story) of Odysseus's ten year voyage to return home after the war with lots of adventures on the way.
2007-09-18 09:30:08 · answer #2 · answered by quatt47 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The thing is, all we know about the battle of Troy comes from a poem, so it's been dressed up already. The movie more or less follows the bits of the story that have survived, with the writers filling in the gaps with their imagination.
2007-09-18 09:24:08 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Read the book and find out.
2007-09-18 09:35:06 · answer #4 · answered by DrIG 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋