About this episode

The episode discusses the film Troy (2004) and its themes, comparing perspectives from longtime fans and first-time viewers.

Send us Fan Mail Achilles doesn’t want peace, he wants a name that survives him, and Troy (2004) builds its entire engine around that hunger. We come at this rewatch from two angles: some of us grew up with it on heavy DVD rotation, and some of us are seeing it for the first time and wondering why critics ever dismissed a movie with this much scale, sweat, and practical fire on screen. With Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey on the horizon, we use Troy as a springboard to talk about the Iliad, Greek...

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Hosts: Anthony, Dakota

Topics covered

• Troy
• Iliad
• Greek mythology
• film analysis
• cinema history

Keywords

• Troy
• Achilles
• Iliad
• Christopher Nolan
• film analysis
• Greek mythology
• cinema

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Books & works: Troy, Iliad

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