Troy has whistles
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Troy has whistles
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
We haven't come very far as a species have we.
Ronaldo
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Appropriately, Troy has Chieftains:
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Re: Troy has whistles
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.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
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.
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Beat me to it Glaub!glauber wrote:Appropriately, Troy has Chieftains:
http://www.gaeliccrossings.com/forums/v ... .php?t=873
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Re: Troy has whistles
It's the Celts, man, they were everywhere!Reyburnwhistles wrote:I just got back from seeing the movie Troy and heard some very nice whistles and low whistles.
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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
"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)
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I clicked on the link, a time-travelin, wormhole trap! I became disoriented, passed out, and woke up at the following location.glauber wrote:Appropriately, Troy has Chieftains:
http://www.gaeliccrossings.com/forums/v ... .php?t=873
http://maps.yahoo.com/maps_result?ed=D1 ... name=&qty=
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Whoops... I assumed you meant this Troy who has loads of whistles...... and pipes.... and bouzoukis!!
http://www.troydonockley.co.uk/nosound.htm
http://www.troydonockley.co.uk/nosound.htm
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Agreed. There were a couple of fuzzy areas in terms of ethics in the movie.If so, they are not being true to the story as Homer told it. His version is plenty violent, though.
--Jay
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.
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