There are films that can’t help but be megalomaniacal. Troy is such a film. The war film spectacle adapts one of the greatest epics in human history, the Iliad, and in terms of spectacle surpasses even Ridley Scott’s historical epic Napoleon, which is currently showing in cinemas.
But the dignity of the historical original didn’t help lead actor Brad Pitt: He almost went crazy while filming. The film is available to stream on Netflix.
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Troy revolves around war between the Greeks and the city of Troy, whose prince Paris (Orlando Bloom) started an affair with the Greek Queen Helena (Diane Kruger). incurring the wrath of her husband Menelaus (Brendan Gleeson). has. The legendary hero Achilles (Brad Pitt) and the cunning strategist Odysseus (Sean Bean) fight at the head of the Greek forces.
Check out the trailer for Troy here:
Troy – Trailer (German)
Director Wolfgang Petersen (Das Boot) filmed the Trojan War, which some historians place in 12th century Anatolia, with a lot of bombast and a long list of stars. However, at some point during filming the focus on him and his character became too much for the main actor, Brad Pitt. He told the New York Times in 2019:
I had to do Troy because I owed the studio a favor. I noticed that the film wasn’t told the way I would have liked. I was constantly the focus of the picture and it was driving me crazy. Somehow Troy became a complete commercial thing. It was constantly said: Here is the great hero! There was no mystery whatsoever.
According to Pitt the shoot led him to a reorientation, As a result, he turned to completely different roles and films. The blockbuster’s dissatisfaction didn’t hurt the blockbuster, at least financially: with over $483 million in international box office receipts (via The Numbers ), it was one of the most commercially successful films of the year.
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