Troy Vs Iliad Research Paper

Troy vs. The Iliad Homer’s The Iliad is one of the greatest epic poems ever written. The poem shows the lives of the soldiers during the Trojan War, the battles, honor, and revenge (Schultz). The poem is loosely portrayed in the 2004 film, Troy, screenplay written by David Benioff. Between the two, several areas that overlap. Yet, poem and film have many differences from the actions of the characters to the way the film ended. There were parts of the film that was correct. The Trojan War was between Trojans and Greece. The war started because Helen, wife of Menelaus, was taken by Paris. Helen was promised to Paris by Aphrodite. Once she was taken, Menelaus declared war and that where the nickname for Helen came from. She was known as the “Face that launched a thousand ships.” (Bell). This background was left out of the film Troy and is very helpful in understanding the myth. In the poem, Gods and Goddess are mention often and play a huge role in the war. In the film, they are hardly mentioned. The myth talks about all the different Gods and Goddess acts at the beginning and their action that helped lead up the war. Zeus picked Paris to accept a deal from one
The film only loosely describes what happen during the Trojan War. Society knows that the Trojan War could have been a myth all together but Homer has been credited as the author that covered the war. So with all the changes that Troy has changes the meaning and we start losing the story. If a person to watch the movie without knowing the storyline when they would not understand why the war truly started along with what happens to the characters. The audience starts losing history and reasoning. The audience does not understand that a Goddess along with a prince started the war by kidnapping a man’s wife and refuses to give her back. The audience has lost the greatness of the Iliad to only make a blockbuster with Brad