Title :
Troy
Director:
Wolfgang Petersen
Characterization:
Protagonist:
Achilles
great warrior, playable character in warrior, mightiest warrior, Brave
Antagonist:
Hector
playable character in warrior, Humble, Honest, Brave
Plot:
The exposition of the movie Troy was located in Western Turkey. It was lost to history 2500 years and considers a myth until the ruins considered by.
Complication:
The complication happened when Agamemnon has to call upon Achilles again when his brother Menelaus seeks revenge on the Trojan Prince, Paris for running off with Helen the wife of the brother of Agamemnon.
Climax:
The Climax started when the complication happened the armies which Achilles belong goes to Troy and defeat them to get Helen and when the Trojans attack the Greek camp at dawn. To disappoint at not getting a chance to fight, Patroclus the cousin of Achilles takes Achilles’ armor and joined the battle. He brings courage to the Greeks, as they mistake him for Achilles, and eventually fights man-to-man against Hector. In the fight with Hector, Patroclus throat is cut by Hector. Hector is dismayed when he pulled Achilles helmet off and finds Patroclus and gives him a killing blow. When Achilles finds out he is enraged and marches toward the Trojan gates to fought Hector. Hector stop the city’s archers from opening fire and goes down to face Achilles in battle. They fought each other and Hector died in this.
Resolution:
When Briseis screams for Paris not to kill Achilles. Paris goes on and shoots Achilles in the heel. Then Achilles delivers his last words that he gave he gave him peace in a lifetime of war before Achilles died. Briseis tearfully leaves the city with Paris after Achilles assures him that everything’s all right. After a last disorganized and useless attempt by surviving Trojan soldiers to repel the invaders, the battle ends and the Greeks storm the inner Palace only to find that Achilles has died just a few moments earlier. They perform the funeral rituals for him the next morning. The story ends with Odysseus lighting Achilles pyre and reflecting on the age he lived in.
Summary:
Based on Homer's The Iliad; in Sparta, Prince Hector and his young brother Paris negotiate peace between Troy and Sparta. Paris has fallen in love with Helen, the wife of king Menelaus , and smuggles her back to Troy with him. Infuriated, Menelaus vows revenge. Menelaus approaches his brother Agamemnon, a king who has conquered every army of Greece, and now commands them. Agamemnon, who has wanted to conquer Troy for years (which would give him control of the Aegean Sea), uses this as a justification to invade Troy. General Nestor asks him to take the legendary warrior Achilles , to rally the troops to the cause.
Odysseus , a king commanded by Agamemnon, visits Phtia to persuade Achilles to fight, and finds him training with Patroclus , his cousin. Achilles, pondering his decision, visits his mother Thetis for advice. She tells him that, before he was even born, she knew this day would come. She also tells him that if he does not go to Troy, he will live a long, happy life and have children, but after he dies, his name will be forgotten and nobody will remember him. If he does go to Troy, he will find great glory in battle, his name will be written into history forever, but he will die there. Achilles, wanting his name to be remembered, chooses to go.
The Greeks sail for Troy. Achilles and the Myrmidons are the fastest rowers and land before anyone else. They kill many Trojans and desecrate the temple of Apollo. Briseis, a member of the Trojan royal family, is captured and taken as a prize to the Greeks, despite Achilles' claim to her.
Achilles and his Myrmidons do not fight the next day because of Agamemnon's unfair claim to Briseis. With Greeks surrounding Troy, Paris challenges Menelaus to a duel to settle things. Menelaus agrees, however Agamemnon plans on attacking the city regardless of the outcome. Paris is easily defeated, and wounded, but not killed. Hector intervenes and kills Menelaus. The Greeks charge the Trojan lines but are forced to fall back when they are nearly wiped out by archers on Troy's walls. Ajax is slain in the battle as well on the hands of Hector.
Agamemnon gives Briseis to his men, but Achilles rescues her. He carries her back to his tent and tends her wounds. Briseis then tries to kill Achilles, but realizes that she has feelings for him and the two make love. The next day Achilles is readying his men to leave, much to Patroclus' indignation.
The Trojans launch a surprise attack. As the Greeks seem to be on the verge of defeat, Achilles appears with the Myrmidons and joins the battle, eventually fighting against Hector. All are shocked when Hector cuts Achilles' throat. However, Hector kneels and pulls Achilles' helmet off revealing it was really Patroclus whom he has mortally wounded. Both armies agree to end fighting for the day, and Odysseus informs Hector who he had killed. Achilles, who had slept through the battle, is told by Eudorus of his cousin's death. The Greeks had also mistaken Patroclus for Achilles, since he had put on the same armor, and moved the same: Achilles furiously vows revenge. Later that night, Achilles lights Patroclus's funeral pyre.
The next day, Achilles approaches the gates of Troy alone and demands Hector to come out and face him. The two fight an evenly matched duel at the start, but Achilles soon takes the advantage and kills Hector. He then ties the body to the back of his chariot, dragging it back to the Greek camp, leaving all the Trojans shocked. That night, King Priam visits the Greek army's camp to retrieve Hector's body. After the King makes his plea Achilles acquiesces to his request and allows him to take his son to be buried, promising him the 12 days for funerary rites. Achilles lets Priam take Briseis back as well. He later gives Eudorus one last order: to take the Myrmidons home.
Maquette Trojan Horse, used in Troy film, a gift from Brad Pitt to the Turkish town Canakkale.
During the twelve days while Troy mourns Hector's death, the Greeks plan to enter the city using a hollowed-out wooden horse, devised by Odysseus, desperate to stem the slaughter of his own men at the hands of the Trojans. The Greeks leave the horse at their camp, then depart, hiding their ships in a nearby cove. Priam believes his priests that the horse is an offering to Poseidon and a gift. Assuming victory, the Trojans take the horse into the city and celebrate. A Trojan scout finds the Greek ships hiding in the cove but is killed by the Greeks before he can tell the news. A band of Greeks led by Achilles and Odysseus come out of the horse at night, opening the gates to the city, allowing the main army to enter. The Greeks commence the Sack of Troy, massacring the inhabitants and looting buildings. The Trojan army attempts and fails to defend the royal palace, and the Greeks storm in - killing Glaucus and Priam in the process.
While Troy is burned, Paris sees Areneas together with Andromache and Helen and many others escaping Troy through a secret passage and hands him the sword of Troy.
Achilles searches desperately for Briseis, who is being threatened by Agamemnon. She kills him with a concealed knife, and is saved from his guards by Achilles. While Achilles is helping Briseis to her feet, Paris shoots Achilles in his heel, and then several times in the torso. Briseis runs to Achilles, surprising Paris. Achilles urges Briseis to join Paris as they escape the city. Achilles watches the others flee, then dies of his wounds. The soldiers arrive to see the fallen Achilles with only a single arrow through his heel, as he had removed all the others from his chest, fulfilling the myth that Achilles was killed by a single arrow to the heel. Funeral rituals are performed for him in the ruins of Troy the next day. The film ends with a speech from Odysseus; "If they ever tell my story, let them say I walked with giants. Men rise and fall like the winter wheat, but these names will never die. Let them say I lived in the time of Hector, tamer of horses. Let them say I lived in the time of Achilles."
Reaction:
For me yes, because when the time came that Achilles died, the war or the battle between them will end. There are no innocent people would die. The land of Troy would be in peace with the others.
Moral Lessons:
Don’t make a decision that innocent people will be suffer for it, Don’t be greedy in power, Don’t include “death” as the solution for any problems, Love is the best medicine for those people who only use mind to make a solution for the problems in their enemies .
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