Troy

Titolo originale: Troy
Regia: Wolfgang Petersen |
Anno: 2004
Origine: United Kingdom | United States of America |
Generi: Guerra Azione Storia
Tag: epic | adultery | sibling relationship | hostility | bravery | mythology | beauty | trojan war | wall | fraud | sword fight | battlefield | historical fiction | ancient world | based on song, poem or rhyme | pyre | ancient greece | peplum | trojan horse | bronze age | sparta greece | grand | ships | sword and sandal | helmet | exhilarated | 12th century bc | achilles | helen of troy |
Cast: Brad Pitt | Orlando Bloom | Eric Bana | Brian Cox | Sean Bean | Brendan Gleeson | Diane Kruger | Peter O'Toole | Rose Byrne | Saffron Burrows | Garrett Hedlund | Vincent Regan | Julie Christie | Nathan Jones | Mark Lewis Jones | John Shrapnel | James Cosmo | Nigel Terry | Julian Glover | Trevor Eve | Frankie Fitzgerald | Lucie Barat | Siri Svegler | Ken Bones | Manuel Cauchi | Owain Yeoman | Tyler Mane | Louis Dempsey | Joshua Richards | Tim Chipping | Desislava Stefanova | Tanja Tzarovska | Luke Tal | Matthew Tal | Alex King | Adoni Maropis | Jacob Smith |

Nel 1193 A.C., Paride, principe di Troia, rapisce Elena, regina di Sparta e moglie di Menelao. Questo sarŕ l'evento che scatenerŕ la guerra tra la Grecia micenea e Troia, una guerra lunga dieci anni che vedrà protagonisti due eroi contrapposti: Achille per i greci ed Ettore per i troiani.

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In the Italian-dubbed version, Brad Pitt's voice was dubbed by Loris Loddi, who usually dubs Val Kil [...] D
Brad Pitt has expressed disappointment with the movie and only did the movie out of contractual obli [...] D
Italian censorship visa # 98040 delivered on 20 May 2004. D
Garrett Hedlund won the role of Patroclus one month after arriving in Los Angeles to pursue an actin [...] D
The search for an actress to play Helen of Troy took six months with Wolfgang Petersen finally settl [...] D
Wolfgang Petersen dropped various Greek Gods from the storyline, saying they were silly and unnecess [...] D
Conspicuously absent from this account of the final days of Troy is Cassandra, sister to Hector and [...] D
Brendan Gleeson starred opposite Orlando Bloom again a year later in Le crociate - Kingdom of Heaven [...] D
Early in production the film was titled "Trojan War." This has continued as an alternate title in so [...] D
The character of Briseis was first given to Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan but she decline [...] D
Nigel Terry plays Archeptolemus - the Oracle who interprets the signs of war for Peter O'Toole's cha [...] D
Writer David Benioff was a huge fan of The Illiad as, when he was a child, his mother read it to him [...] D
Near the end of the movie, Paris hands the Sword of Troy to a young man named Aeneas, telling him th [...] D
Many stagehands fainted from the 100 degree (38 Celsius) temperatures on location. D
This movie was written by David Benioff and contains four actors from Il trono di spade (2011), incl [...] D
On-screen brothers Brendan Gleeson and Brian Cox have both played Winston Churchill. D
Eric Bana recommended Rose Byrne to Wolfgang Petersen. Both Bana and Byrne are Australian. Byrne sai [...] D
The trailers list Gabriel Yared as composer, not James Horner who composed the score when Yared's wa [...] D
Peter O'Toole claimed to have walked out of the finished film after minutes. He also disliked Wolfga [...] D
The character Boagrius does not exist in Greek mythology. Boagrius was a river. D
Achilles' mother, Thetis, is shown gathering seashells. In mythology, she was an immortal nereid, a [...] D
In the Director's Cut, the scene where Achillies battles Hector replaced James Horner's score with D [...] D
Although Achilles' death is not mentioned in the Iliad, according to The Odyssey he died well before [...] D
When Agamemnon's emissaries are summoning Odysseus for the war, he is sitting with a dog. This is a [...] D
The impending war in Iraq forced production to move from Morocco to Baja California Sur, Mexico, in [...] D
Warner Brothers rejected Gabriel Yared's score as too old-fashioned. D
The Trojan horse prop made was given to the Turkish government as a gift. It is now on the boardwalk [...] D
In March 2019, the SundanceTV channel used portion's of Sean Bean's narration to promote a showing o [...] D
Terry Gilliam was offered the chance to direct the movie. He read 5 pages of the script and declined [...] D
In the original stories, Agamemnon survived the Trojan War, but was killed by his wife's lover. His [...] D
Orlando Bloom and Eric Bana previously appeared together in Black Hawk Down - Black Hawk abbattuto ( [...] D
According to myth, Paris was asked to judge which Olympian goddess was deserving of a golden apple m [...] D
Brad Pitt tore his left Achilles tendon during production. D
Achilles and Patroclus train inside an ancient Maltese "menhir", which could have been built as earl [...] D
At one point, Paris mentions to Hector that they were protected by Poseidon during their journey bac [...] D
Plans to shoot in Morocco were swiftly shelved because of the threat of Al Qaeda terror attacks. The [...] D
Many of the actors in this film have also been in movies based on Marvel Comics. Rose Byrne and Brya [...] D
Sean Bean was Odysseus in this and played Zeus in Percy Jackson e gli dei dell'Olimpo - Il ladro di [...] D
Sean Bean is famous for his death scenes in movies. Surprisingly, his character is the only high-ran [...] D
As Achilles strolls along the beach, among the unpacking Greeks, he teases Odysseus about being the [...] D
Various sources disagree as to how willing Helen was to accompany Paris to Troy. Some say she genuin [...] D
Model Charlotte Kemp Muhl was considered for the role of Helen. D
The first time we see the main market in Troy, we can see some llamas in the middle of the cattle. L [...] D
According to some sources, Achilles' cousin, Patroclus, was also his lover. Many male figures in Gre [...] D
Brad Pitt and Eric Bana did not use stunt doubles for their epic duel. They made a gentlemen's agree [...] D
EASTER EGG:. On the main menu on the special features disc, keep hitting right on the control until [...] D
Apollo, the sun god, is depicted as the patron of Troy. In mythology, Priam's father, Laomedon, ange [...] D
Homer's Iliad doesn't begin until after the Greek army has made camp on the beach of Troy (and captu [...] D
There are several differences between Homer's Iliad and this movie. The twelve Greek Gods play a maj [...] D
Diane Kruger, a native German speaker, dubbed her own character in the German-dubbed version. D
A hurricane tore through the set at night, and wiped out Brad Pitt's house. Pitt woke up around 4 AM [...] D
Diane Kruger gained 15 lbs for the role of Helen. D
Shero Rauf was the only Iraqi who worked on the movie. After three weeks as an extra, he was chosen [...] D
Achilles shouts Hector's name nine times while waiting at the gates of Troy. D
Sean Bean was in awe of Peter O'Toole. "The first time I met him on the set, he was in a robe with a [...] D
After the film was announced, the Turkish government and Ministry of Culture and Tourism contacted t [...] D
Paris' betrayal of Menelaus and seduction of Helen mirrors the Arthurian mythological story of Uther [...] D
Wolfgang Petersen had been offered the chance to direct Gladiator, but turned it down. His regret at [...] D
In Homer's time, archers were looked down upon because they did not fight their opponent on equal te [...] D
Garrett Hedlund gained 30 lbs for his role as Patroclus. He gained an additional 20 lbs for his role [...] D
There are arrows in hidden spots and angles through various scenes in the movie, a possible foreshad [...] D
George Camilleri, a bodybuilder who won the title of Mr. Malta in 1989, broke his leg while filming [...] D
Brad Pitt's salary for the movie was $17.5 million. D
During the fight when Patroclus dresses up as Achilles, Brad Pitt himself is in the scene. When Hect [...] D
All the male cast had to shave or wax their chests. Eric Bana usually has a hairy chest but he had t [...] D
Director Wolfgang Petersen left the proposed Batman Vs. Superman project to direct. Brad Pitt left L [...] D
Halle Berry, Keira Knightley, Kristin Kreuk, Jennifer Lopez, Sophie Marceau, Connie Nielsen and Cath [...] D
Brian Cox and Rose Byrne both appear in X-Men movies, although not together. D
Brian Cox said yes to this film because he'd always wanted to be in an epic. D
Based on Homer's The Illiad. The Trojan Horse, however, didn't appear in that work but in Homer's la [...] D
Speaking about Apollo, Hector asks Priam, 'how many battalions does the Sun god command?' this echos [...] D
James Horner composed the score for the movie in less than six weeks. Gabriel Yared spent over a yea [...] D
Glaucus' statement that the city's walls had never been breached is not mythologically accurate. Man [...] D
Brad Pitt trained for six months to get a body that looked like that of Greek statues. D
Wolfgang Petersen cast two relative unknowns for two of the central female roles in this film. Troy [...] D
When Paris is helping the citizens of Troy escape, he hands Priam's sword to a young man named Aenea [...] D
Keira Knightley auditioned for the role of Briseis. D
Trevor Eve's part was cut to just two lines: "The best of Greece outnumber the best of Troy two to o [...] D
The Braveheart(www.imdb.com/title/tt0112573/) connection: Brendan Gleeson(www.imdb.com/name/nm032240 [...] D
Brad Pitt was Wolfgang Petersen's first choice to play Achilles. D
Siri Svegler's debut. D
In Vanity Fair's career retrospect video, Brian Cox says that Agamemnon is the only role he has ever [...] D
WILHELM SCREAM: Greek soldiers fall to Trojan arrows outside the city walls. D
The comment about Odysseus turning up late is likely a reference to the fact that, in mythology, he [...] D
Orlando Bloom saw his character as a coward and an idiot. D
Brad Pitt claimed the filming was torturous for him because he had to quit smoking. D
Many German viewers were annoyed when they realized that Brad Pitt's voice was dubbed by Martin Kess [...] D
Katie Holmes tested for the role of Helen. D
Christopher Nolan was offered the opportunity to direct the film. D
Historians are sharply divided about whether or not the Trojan War actually occurred, and if it did, [...] D
The movie's trailer also contained the shot revealing the entire Greek fleet sailing towards Troy, b [...] D
On screen, Achilles kills 33 men. D
When the movie was released in Italy, the title was not translated because its Latin equivalent, "Tr [...] D
Wolfgang Petersen originally didn't want Helen to appear in the movie; he felt an actress couldn't l [...] D
Diane Kruger (Helen) and Sean Bean (Odysseus), both star in another movie together - National Treasu [...] D
Portions of the film were shot at Fort Ricasoli in Malta, one of the locations used for Il gladiator [...] D
Priam's name was originally Podarces. When Heracles (Hercules) lay siege to Troy, his elder sister, [...] D
Brendan Gleeson, Brian Cox and James Cosmo previously appeared in Braveheart - Cuore impavido (1995) [...] D
This film reunites two pairs of actors who have previously played allies, but who are now enemies. B [...] D
Eric Bana was cast on the strength of his performance in Chopper (2000). Initially, Wolfgang Peterse [...] D
In the director's cut, Helen's bare breasts are seen in the love scene between Helen and Paris. D
According to the special features DVD, 300 buff Bulgarian male extras were transported to the Mexica [...] D
Diana Kruger (Helen) and Brad Pitt (Achilles) both appeared in Inglourious Basterds (2009). D
During filming in Mexico, two biologists were employed to protect turtle eggs on the beach. D
The Mexican set was hit by two hurricanes in less than a month. The last hurricane hit during the la [...] D