"Troy" pounced on me from a wooden horse (called Star movies) two weeks back. I decided the first thing that i ll write in my blog will be about "Troy" and Achilles.
One good thing about the movie is that there is no divide. It does not classify the two sides. It does not say which side is good and which side is bad. And hence, it breaks down all assumptions. You can't assume that 'the good' will eventually win because you dont know which side is 'the good'.
Achilles - Wow, Majesty, Anger, Power. Add that to the Oxford thesaurus. Brad Pitt plays it so well that Russell Crowe as Gladiator now feels like a house cat.
Why does Achilles have to have his heel?
Is it to make the climax interesting?
Or is it to show nobody is invincible?
Or is it to show God ain't that perfect?
My guess is that it was to make the climax ,or the end of the story in the case of the book, more interesting. Primarily because, I would have done that if i had written the script. May be i would ve chosen his earlobe.
Was it to show that nobody was invincible? Probably not. Everybody knows nobody is invincible. Why do you need to say that in your story?
Was is it to show God ain't perfect? This is a bit more interesting. The answer depends on what God wanted to happen. May be he wanted to make Achilles all powerful and invincible. In which case he ain't perfect. May be he didnot want to disprove something that people believe in(Ref the para above) Or may be he wanted us to think that he ain't perfect while he actually was.
Well, who can answer these questions? God knows :)
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You are an atheist (from "about me" column) i.e., I suppose that you do not believe in His existence. But why is that there is a mention about Him in this post? Just curious. :)
ReplyDeleteDid Achilles exist or is he just a myth? Nobody knows. But we talk bout him because he is interesting. So is God. You don ve to worry bout his existence when talking bout Him :)
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