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Troy (2004)
Poorly written, poorly directed film with no historical research
This film is intended to be a realistic version of the Troy War. When it's just a mediocre hollywood movie. No historical research on the moral values and mentality of society, sme historical research on clothing, weapons and architecture. This movie is a joke.
It might impress the ignorant masses because of the self-help talk and because it looks like a cheap action movie. But it is far from being a story about Bronze Age society.
This film is just cheap entertainment, but it lacks any of the artistic depth that deserves to be heralded like the great films of Kubrick, Tarkovsky and Kurosawa.
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
Mediocre and overrated movie
This movie has a script that is simply ridiculous.
A story of adventure and magic very poorly written and not in the same vein as Jason and Argonauts (1963) and Ulysses (1954). Badly written characters and the whole story is very poorly developed. All permeated by cheap stereotypes that only the worst screenwriters could conceive. When you watch Jason's adventures on the Golden Fleece and Ulysses wanting to return home after 10 years in the trojan war., you see much better written adventures and very well developed characters. This is an unforgettable film because of its weak script. The sequels only make the mediocrity of the story worse.
Around the World in 80 Days (2004)
The 1956 adaptation humiliates this horrible version.
Writers have the reverse Midas touch, everything they touch turns to trash. And that's how it was with Jules Verne's classic. This movie is replete with stupid and idiotic humor and action scenes. It doesn't compare to great classics of an adventure journey like Odyssey by Homer and Agonautica by Apollonius Rhodius. The film had everything to go on a great adventure journey like Odysseus and Jason, but it preferred to make stupid jokes.
Hollywood and its habit of inserting stupid and inconvenient jokes in stories. Just instead of focusing much more on making an adventure story.
It's worth watching just the 1956 version.
The Count of Monte Cristo (1934)
Horrible adaptation of a book
This adaptation both softened and heightened the story of the book. It doesn't surprise me that hollywood never adapted the play Medea by euripedes, the story is too dark and bitter for hollywood. Hollywood, in transforming the story from the book to the film, has removed the darkest and most controversial situations to transform it into a gentle story of justice.
The 1979 French miniseries is much better and shows the more controversial parts of the book, without watering down the story to make it more enjoyable.
The 1934 American adaptation is not at the height of great revenge stories that do not have a pleasant development and ending.
The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)
A mediocre revenge story, which is inferior to Medea by Euripedes which is the best revenge story
I admire Pier Paolo Pasolini and Lars Von Trier for adapting to the changes in the story, mediated by Euripedes which is the best representation of what hatred and revenge are.
This film, on the other hand, is a mediocre and understated representation of the book of Alexandre Dumas, whose plot changes were made not only for reasons of time, but also to make the story less bitter, much less realistic.
Hate and revenge are terrible and we practice atrocities when dominated by them. That's why Aeschylus in his play The Eumenides, which is the third of the Oresteia trilogy, he defends the creation of courts to resolve conflicts, since revenge is something bloody and violent.
And this film represents a very pasteurized story of what hate is in real life.
One Touch of Venus (1948)
Retelling of the Greek legend of Pygmalion with Ava Gardner
It's not a brilliant story, but the reinterpretation of Pygmalion is beautiful, mainly because of the presence of Ava Garner.
One Touch of Venus is a 1948 American black-and-white romantic musical comedy film directed by William A. Seiter starring Ava Gardner, and based on the 1943 Broadway musical of the same name, book written by S. J. Perelman and Ogden Nash,
The book and the musical are inspired by the legend of Pygmalion which was narrated by Ovid in his book Metamorphoses.
According to Ovid, when Pygmalion saw the Propoetides of Cyprus practicing prostitution, he began "detesting the faults beyond measure which nature has given to women". He determined to remain celibate and to occupy himself with sculpting. He made a sculpture of a woman that he found so perfect he fell in love with it. Pygmalion kisses and fondles the sculpture, brings it various gifts, and creates a sumptuous bed for it.
In time, Aphrodite's festival day came and Pygmalion made offerings at the altar of Aphrodite. There, too afraid to admit his desire for him, he quietly wished for a bride who would be "the living likeness of my ivory girl". When he returned home, he kissed his ivory statue of her, and found that its lips felt warm. He kissed it again, and found that the ivory had lost its hardness. Aphrodite had granted Pygmalion's wish. Pygmalion married the ivory sculpture, which changed to a woman under Aphrodite's blessing. In Ovid's narrative,
And the film One Touch of Venus with Ava Gardner transports the story of Pygmalion to modern times.
Wealthy department-store mogul Whitfield Savory II buys a statue of Venus for $200,000. He plans to exhibit it in the store. Eddie Hatch, a window dresser, kisses the statue on a whim. To his shock of it, Venus comes to life. She leaves the store and Eddie is accused of stealing the work of art. Nobody believes the truth, including secretary Molly Stewart, who is Savory's right-hand woman, and Kerrigan, a detective. Venus turns up at Eddie's apartment, forcing him to hide her from her girlfriend Gloria and her roommate Joe.