Film Analysis of Helen of Troy Essay

In the film, Helen of Troy one of the main portion is Achilles, the pane state of warrior, a highly apt and the strongest champion of Greece which also showed his soft attitude his kindness, c ar, love for a woman and br otherwisely love for his first cousin, Petraclus. The film in truth captured my idea of Achilles found on the book of Greek mythology. I mean anyone who will watch attentively in the film will find out and capture the idea of character Achilles. Aside Achilles there are other important characters in the film such as Agamemnon ruler of Greece, Menelaus faggot of Mycenae, Paris prince of Troy, Hector brother of Paris, and Helen the cause of large war. Each character has strengths and impuissancees. Agamemnon was a proud and aggressive king because of that hundreds of his men died and theyre thwarted by Trojans, an apparent weakness of him. Agamemnon strength is his men that following on the whole his orders and respected him.Menelaus is just the u niform of Agamemnon, they have the same characteristic and the same strength and weaknesses, in my opinion. Paris weakness is his being coward and unskillful bomber even he was favored by Gods. King Priam a unafraid thinker and always weigh every possibility and ask opinions of council forrader he made a decision alone like his male child Paris he is not a skilled chiper. Hector one of the son of King Priam unlike Paris he is a skilled fighter a brave and aggressive one but his weakness are his confidence and having no mercy that is why Achilles killed him in a battle. Lastly, Helens strength is her irresistible beauty that every man in the kingdom wants to protect her. Helens weakness showed when she was seduced by Paris. The Gods of Greek mythology were very not seen in the entire film aside from mother of Achilles a minor goddess.Gods wasnt literally there in the action but there were times that the characters calling them or praying in the name of Gods. I could say that the film is quite different from the maestro story. It is more real and less of fantasy that is why Gods were not really in the characterisation and doesnt play an important role based on the film. The cousin of Achilles namely Patroclus is one of the important character in the story. Achilles really cares to his cousin, he doesnt want Patroclus to fight but because Patroclus really wanted to he disguise as his cousin, Achilles that lead to a fight to Hector who all overcome and stab him to death. Achilles rage in anger, he became totally mad and heavyhearted in the death of his beloved cousin.Achilles doesnt wants to participate anymore in the war because of his quarrel to Agamemnon but because of the death of Patroclus he had decided to fight again against the Trojans. Achilles leads the attack to the kingdom of Troy and his men conquer the troy weight but he was been killed by an arrow thrown by coward prince Paris. virtuoso of the most dramatic scenes in the film was the d ialogue of king Priam and Achilles over the body of Hector. King Priam bravely went to the tavern of Achilles secretly to please and pink for the body of his beloved son Hector.He kneeled down and kiss the pass by of Achilles while saying that Im the father of the warrior you have been killed and begging you to please perish his body to me. , king Priam was crying in effort of Achilles and pleasing Achilles to return the body. Then after Achilles convinced that he should return the body of Hector to his father king Priam to have a nice burial like what he did to his beloved cousin Patroclus. Achilles kindly let king Priam walk away and ensured their security with the body of Hector and he also let his woman to go with king Priam but he said that nothing will change theyre still enemies.On my own opinion the depiction of characters in the film is similar to the original story but the whole film is not accurately based on the book or the epic. The film is entertaining but it sho uld not be use to study the epic of Homer because there are some changes and revisions from the original story. The film focus on actions and it depicts reality of war rather than the fantasy of Greek mythology. However the experienced of watching it is great especially to watch it with other students in the classroom.