22 unknown facts about the film “Troy” (8 photos + 1 video)

Troy is one of the largest "historical" films of the 21st century.





1. Brad Pitt, who played the role of Achilles, injured his Achilles tendon at the very end of filming. Immediately after this hurricane, the set of Troy was blown away, filming was postponed for three months, and Pitt had time to recover to participate in the duel between Hector and Achilles. Just coincidences...

2. Take a close look at this fight. They say that Brad Pitt and Eric Bana (real name Banadinovich) entered into an agreement: a weak blow costs $50, a strong one costs $100. As a result, Pitt found himself $750 in debt.



3. Wolfgang Petersen did not want Elena to appear in the frame. The director believed that this image should remain a fairy tale, but the producers and film company insisted otherwise. Then Petersen took the little-known German actress Diane Kruger into the group. She also dubbed her role in the German dubbing.

4. By the way, Petersen agreed to make the film partly due to the fact that in the late 90s he abandoned Gladiator and since then has been biting his elbows and hatching a plan to return to the ancient historical theme.

5. Recently, while rewatching Troy, I caught myself thinking that somewhere I had already seen Boagrius. Oh yeah, that's Rictus Erectus from Mad Max: Fury Road. More precisely, this is Australian Nathan Jones, a former powerlifter and wrestler.





6. “Troy” was criticized for a lot of things, including the layering of English accents. American (Brad Pitt), Australian (Eric Bana), British (Orlando Bloom) and Irish (Brendan Gleeson) stand out here. Look in the original! Moreover, the accents are mixed between rival city-states. Agree, it would be logical to give the Trojans, for example, an Irish accent, the Spartans with an American accent, and some Thessalians with an Australian one. It would turn out to be a historical and linguistic comic book :)

7. All male actors who played leading roles were forced to remove hair from their torsos. They say it was especially painful for Eric Bana.



8. The paramilitary extras on both sides were Mexicans and Bulgarians. In the midst of filming, the “diaspora” quarreled over wage inequality (the Bulgarians learned that they received less) and staged a massacre, so much so that the police had to be called. Mexican police, since the filming took place in the local resort town of Cabo San Lucas.

9. South American lamas walk around the central square of Troy. Let me remind you that the year is 1200 BC.



10. For the Italian audience, the title of the film was left in English: “Troy”. The native Italian name of this city, “Troia,” has become too firmly entrenched in local slang with the meaning “prostitute.” By the way, in American English the word “Trojan” is eponymized with “condom.”

11. The Trojan horse from the film traveled a lot around the world: he was filmed in Malta and Mexico, stood in Berlin on Potsdamer Platz for the European premiere, then was transported to Tokyo. Why such difficulties? It was part of an advertising campaign not only for the film, but also for Lufthansa's cargo division. In the end, the horse settled where it was destined: in the Turkish city of Canakkale, 30 km from the supposed site of historical Troy.

12. Brad Pitt doesn't like this movie (even though his company Plan B produced it). In one interview, he noted that in “Troy” there is no mystery, no depth of characters, and he is already accustomed to both of these from David Fincher. And Pitt also had to train for 6 months to get into Achilles shape and... quit smoking.



13. At the council before the start of the war, the commander-in-chief of the Trojan army declares that “no one could overcome these walls.” Several decades before the Homeric epic, the city takes an army led by Hercules, destroys the walls and kills the Trojan king Laomedon and places Priam on the throne.

14. Initially, the film was planned to be shot in Morocco, but the Iraq War happened, Al-Qaeda and filming were moved out of harm’s way.

15. The official trailer for Troy lists Gabriel Yared as the composer, but in a test screening his score was branded "overwhelming" and "aging the film." The task of writing everything again was assignedJames Horner is just weeks away from the premiere. Yared himself considers his work on Troy the best of his career and responded by branding Wolfgang Petersen a traitor.



16. Achilles calls Hector to battle 9 times. Why exactly nine? In Homer's Iliad, Achilles chases the frightened Hector and forces him to run around the walls of Troy three times.

17. The film's screenwriter is David Benioff, creator and showrunner of Game of Thrones. The series also includes Sean Bean, James Cosmo, Julian Glover and Mark Lewis Jones.

18. During Hector’s fight with the disguised Patroclus, pseudo-Achilles is still played by Brad Pitt.

19. By the way, in the frame Achilles kills 33 people. In Homer's Iliad there are 23.

20. Isn’t this Argus, the dog who, according to the Odyssey, waited for its owner for 20 years and died on the day of his return?



21. Brad Pitt's salary was $17.5 million.

22. The film's budget is $175 million, box office receipts are $497 million. This is the 8th highest-grossing film of 2004 and the highest-grossing work of Wolfgang Petersen. My favorite film by the director remains “Das Boot” (1981) (22 facts about this film).

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