Troy movie and Olympus Tarot

Thread originally posted on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum on 03 Jun 2004, and now archived in the Forum Library.

Cerulean	03 Jun 2004
A very strange shift in my looking at the Olympus Tarot. I saw the movie Troy and it made an impression on me... The bad, shifty king (Agamenom) =the Magician 8 of Swords =Achilles being shot at by Horace Horace = Nine of Chalices, shooting at Achilles Horace = Two of Swords in secret guise of servant visiting Helen's chamber Hector and his wife = Lovers Cousin Priestess of Apollo = High Priestess Hector's wife = Temperance Gates of Troy = Six of Chalices Trojan Horse = Knight of Pentacles King Priam seeing Troy burn = 2 of Chalices High Priest of Troy that says horse is offering to gods= 4 of Swords Patricus, who looks like a young Achilles=5 of Swords Achilles looking over battle = Emporer Helen as Queen of Sparta = Empress Probably just my imagination...there's a site that you can get a free reading with the Olympus Tarot and see all the cards.. www.tarotadvice.com It's nice to see new things in an old favorite! Cerulean...

inanna_tarot	03 Jun 2004
hmm, having done Classics at college, and hopefully continueing with it next year-ish. Because of that i havent seen Troy because from what others have said, it is nothing like the book the Iliad and downplays alot of the important relationships with the gods and the human relationships blah blah blah. From the book i'd say Andromache, Hectors wife is more Strength than temperance. She has 'tamed' the beast in Hector to have a deeply loving relationship in their marriage, which was odd in Ancient Greece, but definately those two being lovers. Hmm Paris and Helen, i'd see them both as the Devil, being tied down and controlled, Paris by his beauty and Helen by wanting to stay faithful to Menelaus and being so blonde to not see Paris' advances. Paris i think would make a great 7 of swords, being full of cowardice, getting what he can out of the situation without getting hurt. But those are just ideas on the book, not the film Blessings Sezo x

Cerulean	03 Jun 2004
The film is very loosely adopted, as screenplays often end up being that way. I understand why you might not be entertained or enjoy it...a friend who studied Latin and classics long ago did like Gladiator because it was supposed to be a loose story and he hadn't seen a better arrangement of setting and story up to then about the ancient world. It's nice to get input from someone else who enjoys such books and the Olympus Tarot's very loose touch on tarot as well. I did miss the immortals in the movie Troy, but this human perspective is curiously engaging. I was ready to treat it as I did the "Last Samurai"-- hopefully surprised at the secondary characters and story passage of the hero. I think the very few adaptations, to small screen only, that worked well for me were the Jane Austen movies that I see on the American Masterpiece Theatre. Even my following of dialogue and characters in Lord of the Rings, there was much discussion that I browsed that spoke of all the changes. Thanks for your pairing and opinions, Regards, Cerulean

HudsonGray	03 Jun 2004
There's a new one coming out called Alexander (the Great, of course) that looks a LOT better done than Troy. We saw the preview when we went to see The Day After Tomorrow (entertaining flick!). Here's a URL about the movie, it's directed by Oliver Stone. http://romanticmovies.about.com/cs/alexander/

Cerulean	03 Jun 2004
Nice to know. Cerulean

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