Kurvos
New Member
This is frustrating the living Hell (or Tartarus?) out of me. Whenever I see people review Troy, they ignore the one thing about it that really, REALLY hurts me.
As some of you may know - in Homer's Iliad, Achilles and Patroclus are clearly established to be lovers. They were basically boyfriends - had sex and all that stuff. In the movie? They are strictly emphasized to be cousins and making it 100% platonic, we get reminders every so often on how proud they all are about being straight, and they even forced in a pointless FEMALE love interest for Achilles to have sex with so they'll please the homophobes.
I can not describe how much this frustrates and hurts me. I wish from the bottom of my heart we will soon enough get a more accurate portrayal of the Trojan War in a movie - with the Gods involved, with Achilles established to be a demigod, with the war taking place for 10 years, with a "Odyssey" spin-off sequel... and of course, with Achilles and Patroclus being lovers.
But once again, what bothers me is how annoyingly delusional people are about this. It's funny, reviewers tend to talk like they know what happens in Homer's Iliad... yet, they forget that detail about the homosexual romance?! What the ****...
As some of you may know - in Homer's Iliad, Achilles and Patroclus are clearly established to be lovers. They were basically boyfriends - had sex and all that stuff. In the movie? They are strictly emphasized to be cousins and making it 100% platonic, we get reminders every so often on how proud they all are about being straight, and they even forced in a pointless FEMALE love interest for Achilles to have sex with so they'll please the homophobes.
I can not describe how much this frustrates and hurts me. I wish from the bottom of my heart we will soon enough get a more accurate portrayal of the Trojan War in a movie - with the Gods involved, with Achilles established to be a demigod, with the war taking place for 10 years, with a "Odyssey" spin-off sequel... and of course, with Achilles and Patroclus being lovers.
But once again, what bothers me is how annoyingly delusional people are about this. It's funny, reviewers tend to talk like they know what happens in Homer's Iliad... yet, they forget that detail about the homosexual romance?! What the ****...