I just think we should all take a moment and appreciate the fact that I have been doing this

podcast on the Iliad for several weeks now and this is going to be the very first time that I

mentioned the movie Troy.

Thank you, thank you very much. I will assume that my medal is in the mail. It's been such an honor to serve you in this way by keeping mention of the movie Troy out of this Iliad podcast for as long as I possibly could I watched Quentin Tarantino's true romance for the first time this past weekend

This is the hit one of his first maybe his first ever movie, but he wrote the screenplay and then it was directed by somebody else.

And that's probably in my opinion, Brad Pitt's greatest role. He plays the Stoner in that movie,

which is great all around, just a top-notch film

from start to finish.

After that, obviously, Fight Club,

Next Best Movie with Brad Pitt in it. I would have to say that Troy the movie

retelling of the Iliad that he did where he was Achilles got to be down like

five six seven on the list after Benjamin Button and a bunch of other

Brad Pitt movies Ocean's 11. I mean you could do a lot before you got to Troy and people actually ask me all the time about what I think

about this movie and I have a real kind of problem with it I did I thought it was a missed

opportunity I didn't love it obviously there there was some fun parts. Obviously it's

cool to see this story represented on the big screen. Again, classic holds up beautifully and it can

be useful if you want to get into the story of the Iliad a little bit.

But there's two parts of this movie that really bug me and one of them is going to become relevant today.

The first is that the gods are basically

non-existent in the movie. And I see why they did that, because if you're making this movie

for an American audience, probably one of the most alienating parts of the

homeric worldview is the fact that the gods are actual

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