Fractionals

Not at people, but at that movie.

I wrote this in response to this post at Christa's blog (which is going in my links as soon as I update them):

"Oh, but Aaron, the movie did far, far more than that. I think Christa is entirely correct about the possible uses of myth, but Troy doesn't just change some details of the Homeric epic, the movie rips out its still beating heart (and if you doubt it still beats, read a good translation) and shows a profound ignorance towards the very real forces that shaped the way the Greeks and Trojans thought.

The reason the Iliad and the Odyssey have survived in something at least trying to approximate their ancient forms is that there is still something there that is significant and moving and powerful, and "Troy" slaughtered it.

Which isn't a big deal, except that for most of the population, that's what they're going to think Homer is like. And that is a damned shame.

I mean, K. and I enjoyed the movie as pure cheese, but it was also the movie I've most enjoyed hating in recent memory."

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