A Test on Troy: What s Real vs. What s Reel
April 21, 2004
Brad Pitt and Orlando Bloom head the cast for the May 14 release of Troy, Hollywood s answer to the classical Homeric epic, the Iliad. The ancient tale tells of a queen s kidnapping, a bloody siege of the Troy citadel and acrid rivalries amongst wartime allies all climaxing in a long-awaited victory by means of duplicitous craft. So what s the real story anyway?