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Since
veronica_rich asked me to tell a bit more about the Director's Cut of Troy - I'll just do that:
The movie starts with a new sequence that shows a dog running through some Greek landscape finding dead bodies. The deaths belong to one of the two Greek armies lead by Agamemnon and the other Greek king. Then Sean Bean starts to talk as in the normal movie version and you see Achilles awaking in the tent and how he kills this huge guy of the other party. Then the scene changes to the banquet in Sparta where you have some more dialogue between Hector and Menelaus and then to Helen’s bedroom. Here you’re forced to see almost all of her naked glory but thanks God Paris body is far longer to admire, too *drool*
In general, the new cut isn’t so much about new scenes but more about longer scenes; mostly there just two or three sentences more of dialogue, for example in the scene where Paris suggests a flight and wants to hunt deer (don’t ask me why but I love when he’s saying that) but she denies and tell him he’s so young he frowns very cut and says ‘but we’re of the same age’ and she answers ‘I’ve never been this young’. So therefore you need to know the first version really, really well, to see the changes.
But there’s at least one new scene that left pretty much impression on me. It’s when Paris has finished his nightly adventure with Helen and wandered back to the festivity that he’s intercepted by Hector who asked him where he had been. Paris lies and tells his brother about a fisherman’s wife, but Hector doesn’t trust him and grabbed him a bit roughly in the face and warned him pretty fiercely not to do stupid stuff. But of course it’s already to late.
But I’m pretty sure the slashy girls among us will like this sequence very much.
Moreover you get a bit of an explanation why King Priam trusted so much in his Gods - it’s because Hector became very ill as a child and Priam prayed strongly to Apollo till in the end Hector became healthy again.
Odysseus got a funny introduction scene at Ithaka.
And at the end you’ve got a scene outside of Troy where you can see the few people who could escape in the mountains around Mount Ida.
Okay, that’s what I can remember in the moment. Like I said it’s mostly a lot of blood spraying and slightly longer scenes. Nevertheless I hope I could help you.