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Article: THE ODYSSEY OF `TROY' NEW FILM STRIPS AWAY EPIC'S GODS - AND MOST OF BRAD PITT'S CLOTHING, FOR THAT MATTER.(U)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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- May 14, 2004
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Byline: Bob Strauss Film Writer
Mess with the gods at your own risk.
That would appear to be the lesson of ``Troy,'' Warner Bros.' $200 million big-screen version of the Trojan War legend. Perhaps it wasn't a bad idea to take the supernatural elements out of Western literature's oldest poem, Homer's eighth-century B.C. ``Iliad,'' and other accounts of a 10-year siege that might have occurred circa 1,200 B.C. But maybe Zeus, Aphrodite and the gang weren't thrilled with that idea.
``Troy'' suffered tragic setbacks: record Mediterranean heat while filming last summer on Malta, more high temperatures (and two ruinous hurricanes) when Iraq War ...