Investigacion Cientifica

NAME OF FILM: “Troy”
ACTOR(S)/ACTRESS(ES):
Julian Glover (Triopas), Brian Cox(Agamemnon), Nathan Jones(Boagrius), Brad Pitt (Aquiles), John Shrapnel(Nestor), Brendan Gleeson(Menelaus), DianeKruger(Helen), Eric Bana(Héctor), Orlando Bloom (Paris).
DIRECTOR: Wolfgang Petersen
STORY:
It is the year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age. Two emerging nations begin to clash after Paris, theTrojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to leave her husband Menelaus, and sail with him back to Troy. After Menelaus finds out that his wife was taken by the Trojans, he asks his brotherAgamemnom to help him get her back. Agamemnon sees this as an opportunity for power. So they set off with 1,000 ships holding 50,000 Greeks to Troy. With the help of Achilles, the Greeks are able to fightthe never before defeated Trojans. But they come to a stop by Hector, Prince of Troy. The whole movie shows their battle struggles, and the foreshadowing of fate in this remake by Wolfgang Petersen ofHomer's "The Iliad."
SPECIAL EFFECTS:
This is one of three other production documentaries included on the two-disc DVD of Troy, and it tells some interesting footage about how some of the specialeffects were done and how they were edited together. My favorite is how they talk about how a shot of the Greek soldiers storming across the beach toward Troy was filmed on a beach in Mexico while theshot of them entering the city was filmed in Malta, on the other side of the world. Both shots were filmed on a cable (another interesting technique explained here) and edited together into a singleshot. So without even cutting, a smooth tracking shot switches locations thousands of miles apart and is perfectly smooth. I love that.

One of the guys on the special effects crew also talks abouthow they took out about 60% of the ships that appeared in the trailer for the film because it just looked too crowded, they were sailing too close together, taking each other's wind, etc. That's a...