Wherein I complain about silliness

I was reading through IMDb reviews of the movie, Troy, last night (I don't know why). Most of them are quite reasonable in evaluating the film, but I saw a couple of recurrent comments I found button-punching ( Read more... )

On watching Gungrave again. This must be my fourth or fifth time through, and as with the best stories, I’m still spotting new things--and am aware I’m missing others. Below the cut, Harry observations with rampant spoilers, including substantial Iliad comparison.

( More Iliad Comparisons and Other Character Bits )

Rambles in which Gungrave and the Iliad are a central examples for thinky thoughts on the nature of narrative, archetype, modal displacement, history, and personality typing.

Now that I've lost all my readers...

Gungrave has made a whole lot more sense to me since I figured out that its theme can be summed up as Achilles and Patroclus if they ( Read more... )

The Iliad: girl writing or boy writing? (Thoughts inflected by fandom.)

It is sometimes said that the Odyssey is a “woman’s story” and the Iliad is a “man’s.” Samuel Butler went so far as to postulate that the Odyssey was written by a woman. Everyone seems to agree that the Iliad was written by a man. The argument goes like this...

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Grief and Separation: The Mahabharata and the Iliad: the death Abhimanyu and the death of Patroclus.

Um, spoilers, if that term means anything in millennia-old texts...

( Disconnection within grieving couples )

At this rate, I'm never going to get "The Hellbound Train" transferred from LP to CD in order to make my CD of Iliad songs, so I'm going to go ahead and post the song list, with brief descriptions. Enjoy.

( Songs for the Iliad, by book )

Perusing Wikipedia, I was amused to find that the question of whether or not Achilles and Patroclus were lovers was as much debated in ancient Greece as it is today. Glancing over Wiki’s Iliad entry, I get the impression that the score was running about 70-30 in favor of the sex scenario, which, by a remarkable coincidence, seems to be about how ( Read more... )

In Search of Book 21...

For some years, I've been working on a song list for the Iliad, that is, a set of songs that might be appropriate for vidding, were there decent footage to vid. I've been doing one song per book (with some books omitted ( Read more... )

I just got back from seeing Troy. It could have been a lot worse; it could have been a lot better.

Troy spoilers follow:

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