Troy has whistles

Reyburnwhistles · Post by **Reyburnwhistles** » Fri May 14, 2004 10:20 pm

I just got back from seeing the movie Troy and heard some very nice whistles and low whistles. The whistles were great but this is a very violent movie and I'm still reeling from it. I guess its not any different today than it was then.

We haven't come very far as a species have we.

Ronaldo

Monster · Post by **Monster** » Fri May 14, 2004 10:36 pm

I read a review of the movie, said there were clear cut good guy bad guy roles, supposedly good for U.S psyche these days.

Now, did they have Gens or Overtons?

brewerpaul · Post by **brewerpaul** » Sat May 15, 2004 5:03 am

Oh, I thought you meant Troy NY, which is where my office is

Funny cooincidence: when I started communicating with Glenn Schultz and got involved with whistle making, I lived in Troy, NY and he lived in Troy MI.

glauber · Post by **glauber** » Sat May 15, 2004 7:30 am

Appropriately, Troy has Chieftains:
http://www.gaeliccrossings.com/forums/v ... .php?t=873

Dictyranger · Post by **Dictyranger** » Sat May 15, 2004 8:41 am

Reyburnwhistles wrote:I just got back from seeing the movie Troy and heard some very nice whistles and low whistles. The whistles were great but this is a very violent movie and I'm still reeling from it. I guess its not any different today than it was then.

We haven't come very far as a species have we.

Ronaldo

Sure we have, at least in places. Granted, humans will always be capable of incredible savagery, but a lot of us have gotten more civilized over the millennia. Genetically, we're the same, but acculturation counts for a lot.

Would you take your kids down to the town square to watch an execution...for fun?

Would you watch a bull-baiting match? Would you breed a dog specifically so that it had properties that would make it good in a bull-baiting match?

Can you imagine yourself owning a slave? Raping one? Killing one?

Me either. We are, however, historical outliers, to say the least.

Dictyranger
(Hi, folks...still around, just damn busy. It's grant-writing season.)

IDAwHOa · Post by **IDAwHOa** » Sat May 15, 2004 9:52 am

glauber wrote:Appropriately, Troy has Chieftains:
http://www.gaeliccrossings.com/forums/v ... .php?t=873

Beat me to it Glaub!

Montana · Post by **Montana** » Sat May 15, 2004 12:20 pm

Yah, Glauber's good at that!
Fastest keyboard in the Midwest.

Roger O'Keeffe · Post by **Roger O'Keeffe** » Sun May 16, 2004 7:41 am

I'm more surprised at the fact that it doesn't have uilleann pipes!

Jens_Hoppe · Post by **Jens_Hoppe** » Sun May 16, 2004 1:23 pm

Reyburnwhistles wrote:I just got back from seeing the movie Troy and heard some very nice whistles and low whistles.

It's the Celts, man, they were everywhere!

missy · Post by **missy** » Sun May 16, 2004 1:45 pm

dictyranger wrote:
"Would you breed a dog specifically so that it had properties that would make it good in a bull-baiting match"

Awww. bit of someone hadn't, I wouldn't have Buster or Wyley (their boxers). Of course, I would have rather they would have bred a few brain cells in the breed, too!!!

(sorry for the hijack)
Missy

Monster · Post by **Monster** » Sun May 16, 2004 7:30 pm

glauber wrote:Appropriately, Troy has Chieftains:
http://www.gaeliccrossings.com/forums/v ... .php?t=873

I clicked on the link, a time-travelin, wormhole trap! I became disoriented, passed out, and woke up at the following location.

http://maps.yahoo.com/maps_result?ed=D1 ... name=&qty=

Parkwood · Post by **Parkwood** » Mon May 17, 2004 1:05 am

Whoops... I assumed you meant this Troy who has loads of whistles...... and pipes.... and bouzoukis!!

http://www.troydonockley.co.uk/nosound.htm

JayMitch · Post by **JayMitch** » Mon May 17, 2004 1:27 pm

Monster wrote:I read a review of the movie, said there were clear cut good guy bad guy roles, supposedly good for U.S psyche these days.

If so, they are not being true to the story as Homer told it. His version is plenty violent, though.

--Jay

satyricon234 · Post by **satyricon234** » Mon May 17, 2004 1:38 pm

If so, they are not being true to the story as Homer told it. His version is plenty violent, though.

--Jay

Agreed. There were a couple of fuzzy areas in terms of ethics in the movie.

Mostly there were a LOT of areas of the film that differed from the epics handed down. I won't spoil the film here by listing them.

I very much enjoyed the film and rank it as one of the best. I felt as if I were watching my boyhood heros in real life. Agammemon looked and behaved about as I pictured. Achilles wasn't quite as brooding or selfish as in The Illiad. Paris was more as I thought he would be as opposed to the Homeric concept. I always thought he was a dork.

Normally I get upset if a story isn't told exactly the way a book tells it. But in this case I think they did a great job of bringing the point home.

I was somewhat dissapointed that Diomedes was not mentioned in the film. His Illiad character demonstrated the depths of depravity to which the soldier in war can sink. A lesson for all time. Certainly a lesson for today.

Chief Wanganui · Post by **Chief Wanganui** » Wed May 26, 2004 9:11 am

I can confirm this. I played 'em.

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