Wolfgang Petersen’s Troy (2004) arrived at a pivotal moment for the Hollywood sword-and-sandal epic. Riding the wave of Gladiator ’s (2000) success yet facing the looming shadow of Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings , Troy attempted to reimagine Homer’s Iliad without the gods—stripping the Bronze Age myth of divine intervention to focus on human motivation. The theatrical cut, running at 163 minutes, remains a controversial but fascinating artifact: a streamlined, action-driven spectacle that prioritizes Achilles’ existential crisis over the poem’s sprawling divine machinery.
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