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The first movie-legend-travesty I would like to adress is the butchering of the Iliad in the movie Troy. I must
admit when I first looked at this movie I thought, why didn't I think of that and looked to the movie with no small anticipation.
However, as I entered the movie theatre I realised that this movie was not based, as it should be, on the facts as seen
by the intellectually achieved but more for the action hungry vultures such as Idiot (X-Man). As the butchery progressed
I realised that this movie made the Trojans seem like heroes while the Greeks were greedy pigs. While this would be true
for the Greeks the Trojans certainly weren't the heroes that they appeared to be in the movie. The mispronunciations
were atrocious. Menelaos, Menelaus or Menela'os, was pronounced as mene-lous as in lousy, Patroclus so inaccurate I felt
like spewing into SWNerd's popcorn bag and Priam, not pronounced Pry-am but as Pree-am. Secondly, both
Menelaus and Ajax were killed by Hector, Ajax was supposed to kill himself and Menelaus survived in the legend. They completely
rejected Diomedes, my personal favourite character and Oddyseus was arrogant at first and gave him no character developement
at all while he was the sole survivor of the main characters in the movie. Also, Achilles, or Achileus, was in the Trojan
horse and was killed in Troy itself, Paris survived, Agamemnon was killed by Briseus, instead of his wife and the war
certainly did not last 10 years, more like 3 days.
The next legend is King Arthur, while I have not seen this movie, I have very reliable information. As Sigfrith once
said, Something 2 people tell me must be true. The main points are, Merlin is not a Sorcerer, Guinevere is a Woad and
an archer and most of all there is no romance between Lancelot and Guinevere. This legend has been enjoyed by millions of
people for hundreds of years (at least the really old people), including me, though not for quite a hundred years yet.
The main plot being the romance between Lancelot and Guinevere. The butchery of this and Troy have sickened me almost as much
as the Postman, well not quite. I can only hope that they do not butcher the Crusades or Romance of the Three kingdoms. The
last Samurai (excellent movie) already glorified the rebellions of Samurai in feudal Japan, I can only hope that Romance of
the Three Kingdoms remains a book and a series of games only, and no more than that.-Bookworm
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