I'm sure everyone will agree this is the movie of the Hotties
we have Brad Pitt, Eric Bana Orlando Bloom, Diane Kruger, Safron Borrows and Rose Bryne.
So who We're the most attractive to you ?
Here is my ranking
Brad Pitt
Eric Bana
Orlando Bloom
I found it hard to buy Diane Kruger as the most beautiful woman in the world, while looking at Rose Byrne, who in my opinion was much more attractive in this movie.
Kruger's a very beautiful woman, mind you, but too generic-hot-blonde-chick to stand out in a crowd.
Saffron Burrows has never really appealed to me in the slightest. I can see that she's very striking in her way, and I understand that many people find this look attractive. Too me, she looks botoxy, and has that severe neck a lot of women of a certain age get in hollywood from over-exercising. If she's your cup of tea, more power too you. I did, however, think she was beautiful in the 1930s fashions in a cameo in Frida. But her looks in Troy just didn't do it for me.
My choice: Rose Byrne as Briseis.
I think they didn't want to highlight Helen's beauty--as it would distract from the "real" story being rendered . . . a very lovely, beautiful Helen would've been to exaggerated, so they avoided that . . .
shareI agree to a certain extent.
For example, Peterson wanted to avoid casting her altogether, knowing that everybody has their own ideal of "the most beautiful woman of all time" and that no actress could ever live up to an audience's expectations. But the producers knew that audiences would pay big bucks to see Helen of Troy.
I think that, knowing expectations would be so high, they chose to cast a beautiful, but not particularly out of the ordinary woman, to make her less a "legendary" figure, and more a human figure. If Helen of Troy existed, after all, we can surmise that she probably had a certain sexual appeal, but was most likely just an attractive woman who poetic license transformed into an immortal beauty over centuries of embellishment. It's a viable interpretation.
My one complaint with this: If they were going for a less obvious interpretation...a beautiful woman, but not a legendary beauty...I wish they had cast an actress who actually looked like she came from the Eastern Mediterranean. A blonde, Germanic-looking Helen is the oldest cliche in the book, going all the way back to Renaissance painting. As long as they were casting a woman who didn't have an overpowering appearance, couldn't they have gone with someone more ethnically viable? Irene Papas in the Trojan Women, for example, was not a conventional beauty and was actually ethnically Greek. She made a very effective Helen, convincing the audience through acting and charisma rather than conventional looks. It's the only time I can think of that Helen was cast more realistically.
I agree that one would probably want to avoid a Germanic-looking woman, but the ancient Greeks were often fair-haired and light-eyed, so it is not inconceivable that Helen would have been fair (although I like to think she had dramatic coloring regardless of whether she was a blonde or not). It was subsequent invasions of various tribes into Greece that resulted in many Greeks fitting the commonly held stereotype of Greeks being short and dark. However, even today not all of us fit that stereotype (particularly many of us from northern Greece). I am most often taken for Czech, Russian or sometimes German (in the U.S., Greece and elsewhere) due to my coloring, features and height.
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Hahaha mine too. Hector (Eric) gorgeous beyond belief!!! Marry him tomorrow, handsome guy with brains & good combat strategies :)) loved him totally. Orlando bloom character just dreadful and cowardly
shareProbably Brad. That sex scene reminded me why he was such a heartthrob in the 90s.
shareI think I went into for Orlando but came out in love with Eric Bana.
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I fell in love with Rose Byrne after this movie.
FYC: Keanu Reeves https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvaCWTkSXdE
Saffron Burrows is beautiful.
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