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TROY Poster hits the web!
Hey folks, Harry here with a link to the TROY poster, which the guys over at LatinoReview have posted up. I really like this poster. I like the Bronze Age tint to it all. The "classical" posing of Brad may be a bit too... leather boy for some, but the character of Achilles, who Brad plays in this film, is essentially a God amongst men in this film. All worship and fear him. He seems to exist on a separate plane of existence from the other Greeks and Trojans in the story, blessed to be the greatest killer of men there ever was. The screenplay worships his character and I'm positive now, after seeing the poster, that Wolfgang Petersen is set to create the biggest "Brad-Love" film ever... even moreso than FIGHT CLUB. So get comfortable with your feelings of staring at Brad's oiled muscles and rippling six pack... It's ok, it's History... it's Legend. It's ok.
Harry,
Hello I hope all is well. I just wanted to pass along our exclusive first look at the teaser poster for TROY.
Click here to give a look see!
Kel
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Oct 28, 2003 12:41:07 PM CST
I don't wanna sound queer of nothin, but I think unicorn's kick
by tits
Damn that's hot!
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That's exactly what that poster looks like.
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I remember reading the Iliad as many years ago and having loved every bit of it. It is hard reading when youre just a young kid but I certainly remember the key moments of this epic tale, which, given the actors involved in this film, should make for fantastic cinema!!! SO LONG AS IT IS MADE PROPERLY!!! NO Hollywood nonsense PLEASE!!!! Achillies, Hector, Paris and Apollo stand out in my mind as well as the battles (especially the fantastic one-on-one fight towards the end....which I wont spoil 4 anyone who doesnt know anything about it!) Achillies was definately my favourite though and Harry is right, he is the hardest basterd in this movie! If I remember right he was born a mortal by his mother Theits,(correct me if I am wrong)who wished to make him immortal, and for that purpose she dipped him in the waters of the river Styx which bestowed this invulnerability on him, save for his heel which was what the mother was holding him by as she lowered him into the river. This became his only weakness, hence the phrase 'Achillies heel'. Oops, getting a bit preachy here now....I best shut it! Just one more thing, if I remember, Achillies was also a bit of a 'lad', he drank a lot, womanised and so on. But in battle he was invincible!!! Good stuff to come I hope!!!!
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Oooogah! Grease him up and send him to the aqueducts!
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highest I've ever gotten. Go me.
But to the point, me digs the poster. Woulda liked something a little less "studio," but whatdya expect from WB? -
Since I didn't see any chick names up there....sans Orlando Bloom, anyway.
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There is a Helen, but she's played by some new German actress. However, I'm sure Orlando Bloom can take over if she doesn't work out.
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Do you make it all seem realistic with extremely bloody battle scenes and such or do you play up the fantasy portion of the legends and over stylize it? I guess we'll see when this movie is either rated R or PG-13. Personally, I'd like to see a down and dirty retelling of ancient Greece with ridiculously horrific battles but it looks like they have to be sure Brad's hair stays clean at all time. Speaking of ratings, Master and Commander etc (worst title for a movie of all time, even if it is a book series)will be lame because of its PG-13 rating.
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what the boys preferred in old Greece? Bingo! You little cutie...
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since there are so many fanboys around.
A pic from the set of Sean Bean looking BUFF as Odysses
http://www.theorlandobloomfiles.com/pictures/movie/troy/jesus4.jpg
Brad who???...Orlando who????
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since there are so many fanboys around.
A pic from the set of Sean Bean looking BUFF as Odysses
http://www.theorlandobloomfiles.com/pictures/movie/troy/jesus4.jpg
Brad who???...Orlando who????
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Oct 28, 2003 6:16:47 PM CST
I;m no Homo or anything but Pitt is a beautiful, beautiful man
by iamarayya
LOL...j/k ...on the homo comment im really a strait guy who wants gay rights...really ...jezz
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The biggest fag on the planet!
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Not AchillIes.
Just wanted to point that out since it is my last name. No I in it at all. -
Not AchillIes.
Just wanted to point that out since it is my last name. No I in it at the end. -
But idiots will complain when it isnt used for the DVD and Video covers when its released 1 year from now.
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Harry is trying to convince himself its 'ok' to get excited over an oiled up Brad Pitt poster instead of being excited about the film? just my take
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Achilles was a whiner who hung out in his tent over a woman instead of fighting, he wasn't any better than the other heroes. What about the two Ajaxes? Or Diomedes, who took on two gods? Heck, Hector did more than Achilles did. READ THE BOOK. (Note: I used the common English spellings of the names, rather than the more correct spellings)
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He is one of the few actors that deserves to take up the entire poster. To the marketing guy for Troy: What a lazy fuck you are, talk about taking the easy way out, a huge shot of the Trojan Horse would have been much more serviceable. I see what you're trying to pull, slather the really good looking actor across the poster to entice millions of female viewers with hopes of Brad Pitt in barely there armor being really strong and courageous, and i'll bet my right leg it works to. You're still an idiot for not doing it in a more creative way.
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If I was Achilles I would have sulked to. Agamemnon, being the greedy fool he was, took Achilles's "booty"(that's the best double entendre i've come up with yet). Achilles, needless to say, had been kicking more Trojan ass than anyone else and could have taken on the whole Trojan army himself. Agamemnon has the gall to take his war trophy, when he really hasn't contributed anything. And everyone sides with Agamemnon. He deserved what Clytemnestra dished out when he got back from Troy.
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If this is PG-13! It should be a blood bath o' battle! More like "Gladiator" less like "Clash of the Titans".
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It's all makeup. If I had a personal trainer I could look that good, too. Oh yeah and he's a bad actor. Yeah he's dumb and his movies suck.....yeah, that's it......
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You said "I see what you're trying to pull, slather the really good-looking actor across the poster to entice millions of female viewers...and I'll bet my right leg it works too. You're still an idiot for not doing it in a more creative way." Well how is the marketing guy an idiot for taking the slam dunk approach? Seems to me that the only "way" a marketing person should concerned with is the "way" that will result in millions of viewers plunking their ass down in the seat, period. Creativity enters into it, sure, but the bottom line HAS to be, pure and simple, whatever image makes people stop in their tracks when they see a poster and go "Gotta check THAT one out." So it seems to me as a TEASER poster -- and this is only the teaser -- this certainly starts that ball rolling just fine. You also said "What a lazy fuck you are, talk about taking the easy way out, a huge shot of the Trojan Horse would have been much more serviceable." Well, how is it "more serviceable" if the OTHER way -- focusing on a heroic looking Pitt -- is the guaranteed way to get millions of women foaming at the mouth to see this thing? Sorry, not looking to fight with you, but it seems calling the marketing guy an idiot for doing EXACTLY what he should have done is a bit heavyhanded. I mean, if you just want a more "historical" poster say that...
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And wasn't it called Robot Jox?
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What was all of the crap about the titled being changed to "The Trojan War" then? Anyways, I am a sucker for these kind of movies. Gladiator was wicked cool, and I hope this can surpass it.
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sexy! yes, achilles was the most badass fighter of the bunch, but he stopped fighting. then his best friend got killed so he jumped in again and kicked more ass. thats the highly abridged version of the Achilles contribution. anyways, i think brad pitt is sexay enough to be achilles, and he can do fight scenes.
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I think that this poster is effective enough. While I don't like to admit that it merely takes a hot guy or girl to raise (no pun intended) someone's interest in a movie, I think that there are more shameless ways of accomplishing sex appeal than what we see here. Obviously, the Trojan Horse should be plastered on a one sheet somewhere down the line, as well. And, bien sur, an "intimate" picture of Helen. Does it necessarily speak to the integrity of the movie? No, but there have been plenty of films whose barks were bigger than their bites, so be thankful that buzz on this is positive.
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it's troy maclure, right? 'cos a live action bipoic of his life is long overdue. he gave us so much. "the president's neck is missing". "p is for psycho". "here comes the coast guard". "dial m for murderousness". "the erotic adventures of hercules". hey, there's an idea. why doesn't someone do a movie about about gladiators? or the trojan war? they could make it really sexy. or gay even.
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with the pitiless bronze, so that the brazen spearhead smashed its way clean through below the brain in an upward stroke, and the white bones splintered, and the teeth were shaken out with the stroke and both eyes filled up with blood, and gaping he blew a spray of blood through the nostrils and through his mouth, and death in a dark mist closed in about him."
Iliad, Book 16 lines 345-350, Lattimore translation
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That sounded like a scene from the Baz Lurhman "Alexander"!
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But anybody that's nice to dogs is okay in my book, especially when it's my dog at Mel's Drive-In
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This poster makes it look like it's about a sweaty guy named Troy. This movie will only be cool if it does either of these two things: One, it follows the Iliad as two or three hours will allow. Two, if at the end, Hector realizes that Achilles is actually just a figment of his imagination. That everything he thought Achilles has been doing, he(Hector) has actually been doing. Then at the end, Hector shoots himself in the mouth and four major credit card buildings become leveled by explosives, followed by a giant cock on the screen. Oh, and Helen should be played by Carmen Electra.
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I'm just curious: Could anyone tell me if this is a film of the Iliad, or a film of the Trojan War? My best guess would be the latter, but you never know. I might get more responses if I do this the classicist's way: "Rage--Talkbackers, sing the rage of Petersen's film of Achilles, adapted, or straight, that cost the Audiences countless losses, hurling down to the local cineplex so many sturdy souls, great blighters' souls, but made their wallets carrion, feasts for the dogs and birds, and the shills set loose could not sit 'till the end. Begin, Muse, when the two first wrote and clashed, Adaptation lord of men and the brilliant Iliad, these. What god drove them to writhe thus, knowing that so few read? Dollar the son of Zeus and Leto." Not very neat, perhaps, but hopefully it might have an impact on someone.
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Why does it have to have that much of a close up on him, i don't hate him but can't we see some troy art u know, maybe it could hint at the grandeur of the story, not some pretty russel crowe wannabe.
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Oct 29, 2003 2:30:49 AM CST
"Troy, Troy, what a joy. We got our upolstry done at Troy..."
by uncapie
That's a sixties joke.
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Oct 29, 2003 2:31:52 AM CST
"Troy, Troy, what a joy. We got our upholstery done at Troy..."
by uncapie
That's a sixties joke.
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ICE COLD, which is what Brad is in this kick-ass poster
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Ahh... More of the saucy musings of the adolescent male. How sad that everyone here bags on Pitt (who's fucking Aniston, in case you need to be reminded, children), while not a whimper goes up at the truly grotesque and overponderous shot of Colin 'Retard' Farrell astride a gleaming beauty as Alexander. No, no concern then. But may Zeus forbid that one of you unhirsute fishsticks actually have to see the body of a handsome, good actor.
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If I was gay....I'd fuck him.
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his face actually looks in some way very neanderthal-man like... or should i say ape-like... but maybe that contributes to the film because you don`t see that much of BRAD PITT in front of you.
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just so ya know.
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Then I said to myself "College in Alabama? Yecchh!" sk
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I am rendered speechless by the high level of literacy on this site. LilZe: If the point you wanted to make was that Achilles was a human, what you needed to say was, "Achilles is a mortal, not a god." Immortal means "lives forever" or "can't be killed." *shakes head sadly* Also, Harry (or whoever) didn't say that Achilles was a god, but that he was a god among men (talking about his prowess and the respect others held for him). I know Harry's writing isn't always stellar, but I thought that was pretty clear. Anyway, poster looks pretty cool, and hell, the flick's got Brian Cox (one-man Renaissance), Orlando Bloom, and Sean Bean. I'll rent it. LOL.
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I am rendered speechless by the high level of literacy on this site. LilZe: If the point you wanted to make was that Achilles was a human, what you needed to say was, "Achilles is a mortal, not a god." Immortal means "lives forever" or "can't be killed." *shakes head sadly* Also, Harry (or whoever) didn't say that Achilles was a god, but that he was a god among men (talking about his prowess and the respect others held for him). I know Harry's writing isn't always stellar, but I thought that was pretty clear. Anyway, poster looks pretty cool, and hell, the flick's got Brian Cox (one-man Renaissance), Orlando Bloom, and Sean Bean. I'll rent it. LOL.
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I REALLY want to love this film. From what I've seen so far, it looks promising. How 'true' are they actually going to be to the original story, though. Does anyone know?? I don't want to go into the theater and come out disappointed because I was expecting something else.
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thanks for the scoop AIC. i'll rest easy tonight knowing i've finally seen the new troy poster. at last! a real big deal.
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Hector was the real hero. Just a guy, tryin' to do his job. Tryin' to take care of the family and all that. Achilles was a whiny purty-boy who liked to sull up in his tent when he didn't get his way. Umm, yay...GO Hector...okay, I'm done.
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... is a large wooden badger. Jesus Christ!
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You know this to be true.
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30 Helens agree.
Herpes vs. Hermes
Achilles' Lauro
Main Entry: Helen of Troy
Pronunciation: "he-l&-n&v-'troi
: the wife of Menopaus whose abduction by Paris Hilton brings about the Trojan Sore(hermes sore)on her spoiled bitch ass with a Farta on Sparta. -
I'm looking forward to this one
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Aye..Homer would eb pleased w/ Brad Pitt playing Achilles
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Well neither does Jennifer Aniston! I know a lot of greeks and a few of them are blondes and its not out of a bottle (well in at least one case). The ancient greeks were a lot fairer than the people we know as the average greek today. Turkish blood has mixed in over the centuries in various invasions and dark skin and hair tends to be a dominant genetic traight meaning that the dark features tend to become the norm. If I remember correctly I'm sure some text described Achillies as having red hair. I might well be wrong about that one.
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