“A beauty that launched a thousand ships and destroyed an empire.” The movie, Helen of Troy revolves around Paris. Who was sent away from the empire on the day he was born because Cassandra foretold that someday he would be the reason that Troy will burn and fall but then, Paris in an unexpected encounter, he finds his way back home. In his return, he was sent to Sparta as an emissary and fall into the most beautiful and the fairest woman in the world, Helen, who went willingly with him to Troy. Before the moment he finds his way home, Paris chose the bribe of Aphrodite which is to have the fairest woman in the world, Helen.
Helen of Troy is a 2003 television miniseries based upon Homer’s story of the Trojan War, as recounted in the epic poem Iliad. This TV miniseries also shares the name with the 1956 movie starring Stanley Baker. Helen of Troy, 2003 was written by Ronni Kern and directed by John Kent Harrison. Set in the 13th century B.C., Helen, the Olympian-born dazzlingly beautiful trophy wife of Sparta’s King Menalaus, unhappy is her marriage of state, Helen longed for the companionship of the gorgeous young man whom she had seen only in a reflection by the river: Paris, who was sent away but find his way back home and became a Prince of Troy. As Paris was sent to Sparta they met each other. Helen went willingly to with him ad Paris took her to his homeland, where she was welcomed by King Priam despite the foreshadowing from Paris’ foresighted sister Cassandra. Back in Sparta, King Menelaus with his brother Agamemnon had declared war on Troy, thus beginning of the 10-year conflict that would culminate destructively in the incident of Spartan’s masterpiece the Trojan horse. All of which greatly pleased Menelaus’ covetous brother, Agamemnon.
The movie, Helen of Troy, from the title itself, signifies the most beautiful and the fairest woman in the world. The actress, Sienna Guillory got the charm and body and she really portrayed it well. Though the copy that we viewed in the classroom doesn’t have an understandable subtitle, I was able to watch the movie again, in which English is the medium for communication. The movie was in a great flow, everything was clear, detailed, and understandable. The sequences of events move coherently and I think it was really based on Homer’s Iliad.
From the beginning until the end, it was worth watching. The passionate and intense love story of Paris and Helen, the fight and conflict give a great impact on the viewers and to the movie. Of course, the thrill was there. If I were to rate them I would give 10 over 10 because as a mythology student it was indeed worth watching and for those who are fond of reading and watching movies, you got to watch this. For the children, strong parental guidance is advised.
I hope that you guys love mythology too.
I hope movies like this becomes available to watch on Netflix!