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Originally posted by James
Ebert: http://www.suntimes.com/output/ebert...s-troy14f.html
BY ROGER EBERT
Chief among their leaders is Achilles, said to be the greatest warrior of all time, but played by Brad Pitt as if he doesn't believe it. If Achilles was anything, he was a man who believed his own press releases. Heroes are not introspective in Greek drama, they do not have second thoughts, and they are not conflicted.
Pitt is a good actor and a handsome man, and he worked out for six months to get buff for the role, but Achilles is not a character he inhabits comfortably.
... he brings complexity to a role where it is not required.
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Geez, Ebert's ripping into Brad Pitt as if Pitt wrote and directed the movie, instead of starred in it. Ebert only makes one comment about how "director Wolfgang Petersen miscalculates." I'm sure that Pitt did not interpret the character of Achilles the way Ebert describes...the script obviously painted him that way!