[Tripper]

Originally Posted by ninty9

Has anyone read Homer's Iliad before seeing the film? I head they cut out the whole premise for the war in the first place, being the Gods and the wedding.

The thing I hate about movies based on books is that so many things are changed. I really feel the movie should be an exact representation of the book. Its not the movie makers decision on how the movie should turn out, but the guy who originally wrote the thing. I know everything can't stay the same, so I guess i'll have to go into this one with an open mind and seperate the movie from everything else.

You have to remember, that both Homer's Illiad AND Virgil's Aeneid depict the events of the trojan war. So, conflicting ideas exist.....As far as I know, the film is based on the myths presented by BOTH poems.