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The Hector and Achilles fight....

posted 19 years ago by dac287
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Wasn't it just painful to watch? The fight between the titans and Achilles wins in a single spear throw at Hector when he has his guard down. This was just insulting. And then his slow death with his men watching was the funniest thing that was unintentional I have ever seen.

And some people prefer it to Hector vs. Achilles in Troy (arguably outside of O'Toole asking for the body back, the best scene in the movie?)? Wow. It was so sad. I understand it is a tV movie budget and all but at least had a few more minutes (the thing is already 3 and 1/2 hours long) for an intense and emotional fight. I don't expect it to be Troy good but at least exciting and more tragic. It makes Achilles look like a man full of *beep* with no skills and a cheat and Hector look like an incompetant warrior, leader, and heir to the throne (and considering the movie featured him getting bested by P Paris perhaps he is in this version).

Just so sad.

Oh well.

[–] Hayley_Nevada 19 years ago

IT WASN'T FUNNY! How can you see something as painful as that, was funny? It was horrible to watch, and to see him die and be tortured dying wasn't at all funny, it was TERRIBLE!

[–] dac287 19 years ago

It was cheesy and terribly acted and shot and looked very staged and forced.

If you want to see that event dramatized in a tragic and terrible gut-wrenching way go watch Troy. That fight, and the aftermath (from dragging to Priam getting the body) are the best scenes between the two movies.

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[–] barba_george 17 years ago

Actually, in the Iliad, Achilles is invincible, so there was no way for Hector to kill him. His only vulnerable spot is his heel. Nobody knew that until Aphrodite told Paris who shot him at that spot with his bow from behind his back (but that's not in the Iliad anyway, Achilles doesn't die in the Iliad). So if there is a cheat in this story, this is Paris. And: Achilles was not a one-sided moron of a man in the Iliad. Shortly after the Greeks arrival at Troy, there was a dispute between Achilles and Agamemnon over their chosen concubines, which caused Achilles to withdraw from the war out of selfishness. But when his friend Patroclus steals his armour and goes to fight, he is killed by Hector who thought it was him. This enrages Achilles, who finally decides to fight, kills Hector, pierces his heels and ties his body from the heels at the back of his chariot, so that the body became a bloody pulp. At least when Priam pleads for his son's body, Achilles agrees to return it out of pity for the old man.