Troy

When the soldiers go into formation on the Trojan Beach, a flaming arrow is stuck to Achilles' shield.

In the shot from Achilles' point of view, the arrow is nowhere to be seen.

As Achilles and his army move out of formation to attack, the arrow is directly in Achilles' line of sight.

When Achilles introduces his cousin, Patroclus, to Odysseus, King of Ithaca, his wooden training sword is in the foreground.

The tip and edges are worn, revealing that the sword is painted plastic.

Throughout the film, whenever Hector, Paris, Achilles, and Menelaus all draw their swords, metal scraping can be heard as they are pulled from their shields.

However, the interior of the shields are lined with cloth, and the loops that hold the swords are leather, not metal.

The necklaces have modern clasps, and the earrings have French hooks.

After Achilles rescues Briseis from the Greeks' branding iron in the dark, they spend the night together.

The next shot shows the sun rising over the sea, to the west.

When the sun rises over the sea, it casts shadows.

The shot was clearly filmed at magic hour, and the sun was superimposed later.

Achilles kills Hector with a spear.

When Achilles drags Hector back to camp, the spear sticks out of him.

In the next shot, when Achilles is back at camp, the spear in Hector is gone.

Hector was dragged for many miles, so it's very likely that the spear either snapped off or fell out by the time he reached camp.

When Paris first shoots Achilles, half of the arrow goes clear through his heel.

Later, when Achilles is dying, the entire arrow protrudes out of one side of his heel.

When the Greek leaders are lining up to offer gifts to Agamemnon, one of them carries a red-figure vase shaped like a submarine.

Red-figure pottery (made of red clay with a black glaze, from which lines and shapes are removed to make red images) was not made until the fifth century BC.

After the Achaean fleet is spotted, villagers from the countryside begin pouring into the city.

Among the animals being lead away is a pair of llamas.

Llamas are originally from South America, and did not exist in Troy.

When the boy goes to find Achilles to fight the warrior, he says "the Thessalonian is huge".

He should have said "Thessalian".

A "Thessalonian" is someone from Thessaloniki, a city that was founded centuries later (4th century BC) by Cassander, who became the king of Greece after Alexander's death.

Cassander married Thessalonike, Alexander's sister, and named the city after her.

Obvious dummies used for the bodies of the main characters that are burned, such as Hector, Achilles, Menalaus and Patroclus.

While Paris fights Menelaus for Helen's hand, their shadows are opposite, which means the sunlight was on both of their lefts as they faced each other.

They do not match up; the scenes must have been shot at different times of the day.

When the Greek soldiers collect wood for the Trojan horse, bits come off the wood, revealing the white Styrofoam underneath.

When Paris goes forward to talk to Hector on the ship to Troy, his cloak is wide open at the top.

For the rest of the scene, the top closes up without him touching it.

The umbrella used to shelter Paris and Helen during the parade in Troy is obviously modern, with metal spokes like modern umbrellas.

During the raid of Troy, several soldiers are clearly pretending to stab people.

When Paris enters Helen's room after dinner, he gently pulls her hair so it all lies on her back, behind her shoulders, exposing her neck.

When she gets up, it is around and in front of her shoulders.

It could have happened while she got up, but after a quick shot to Paris, Helen's hair is once again tucked back behind her shoulders.

When Priam meets Achilles in his tent after the battle with Hector, Priam's cloak on his left shoulder repeatedly changes from folded over to smooth throughout the scene.

When the Greeks first charge Troy, soldiers run toward the city walls carrying spears.

Some soldiers' spear tips are wiggling, indicating soft rubber props.

Most equipment used by the Greeks, such as the large round shields and Achilles helmet, is from the Classical Period (5-4th centuries BC).

At the time when the epic is set, the Greeks used small bowl-shaped helmets and light leather shields shaped like the number 8.

When Helen tells Hector she is going back to the ships, her hair style changes between shots.

When Hector removes his helmet right after Achilles does (during their fight scene), the nose bridge and flanks of his helmet move like rubber.

When Patroclus is fighting Hector in Achilles' armor, Hector stabs him hard in the chest, which would make a hole or a least a cut in the armor.

When Achilles goes to fight Hector in the same armor, no marks are visible.

During Hector and Achilles' battle, Hector swipes his sword at Achilles's chest, leaving a big scratch on his armor.

When Achilles kills Hector, his armor has no marks.

When Hector lifts the helmet off the dying Patroclus, Patroclus' nose is bleeding.

Five seconds later, when Patroclus is dead, he shows no sign of a nosebleed.

Coins are placed on dead characters' eyes before their bodies are burnt.

Ancient Greeks placed a coin in the corpse's mouth, not on the eyes.

However, the Trojan War occurred before coined money was invented (in the 7th century BC), so they wouldn't have had coins at all.

When Hector is dressing for his final battle with Achilles, slippers are on the floor next to the foot of the bed.

During this scene, the slippers change position.

During Hector and Achilles' battle, Achilles kicks Hector to the ground, and Hector crawls towards a piece of broken spear.

In one shot Achilles throws away his shield and talks to Hector.

During this speech, Hector reaches the spear.

After the shot of Achilles walking towards the camera, Hector just reaches the spear and gets up with it.

When Achilles' ship hits the beach, several men are hit by arrows and fall into the surf.

When the warriors move onto the beach and use their shields as cover, the ship is behind them, but there are no bodies in the water or on the beach.

When Achilles burns Patroclus' body, the moonlight reflects slightly off his arms.

When ancient Greeks burned bodies, a person with a torch was always beside the one who placed the coins, so the firelight should've reflected off Achilles' arms as well.

It doesn't, indicating that the scene was not shot continuously.

Achilles talks to the men right before Achilles and the Myrmidons take the Trojan beach.

As the shots go between Achilles and the Myrmidons, the hundreds of ships that should be behind them suddenly disappear; only a bare ocean can be seen.

When Paris fights Menelaus, the view from Paris' eyes makes it appear that Paris' helmet has no nose protection.

Paris' nose protection, a slim piece of metal placed directly between the eyes, would not be visible by the wearer.

In the Director's Cut, during the burning of Troy, a temple burns just after a statue falls forward and breaks.

A crew member in a motorcycle helmet is on the roof, running across the top right-hand corner.

Achilles has a vaccination mark on his left arm.

As Patroclus enters Achilles' tent to ask if he will join the Greeks to fight the Trojans, Achilles is seated while eating and drinking.

In disgust at Patroclus, Achilles dashes the contents of his cup on the fire.

Moments later, he drinks from the empty cup.

When Hector and Achilles fight, an obvious camera shadow appears on the ground.

After the battle in front of the gate of Troy, the field is clean, including every scrap of flesh, every drop of blood, and every footprint.

When Achilles rides up on his chariot to challenge Hector, it appears that some grass has been replaced.

During the battle in front of the gate of Troy, the dead are in a line where the two armies clashed.

The dead are obviously rubber dummies based on how they move when stepped on.

Also, no dead are seen towards the rear of the field, where victims of the archers would be expected.

When the Trojans invade the shores at daybreak to initiate the second battle, it is quite obvious that 'Brad Pitt' (qv) was playing the role of Patroclus until his throat was cut.

First, you can clearly see Pitt's face in Achilles' helmet in the close-up shots when he is about to start fighting with Hector.

Second, you can see the significant change in Patroclus' physique before and after Hector cut his throat.

As Achilles dies, his sword sticks out of the ground.

When the camera pans upward in the next shot, the sword is lying on the grass next to him.

When Hector and Achilles have their final showdown, a string or hair strand extends from just below Hector's helmet on his left.

When Hector removes his helmet, the string is gone.

Before Achilles dies, he pulls the arrows out and then drops them in front of himself.

After he collapses, in the aerial shot the arrows are arraigned in a sort of 9, 12 and 3 o'clock position to his body.

Achilles throws his sword at a Trojan; it lodges into his opponent's head.

Afterward, he uses a sword to behead the golden statue.

Just before Achilles threw the sword into the Trojan's head, he had one sword in each hand, and he only threw one.

When Briseis asks Achilles if she is still his captive, her bikini tan line is very visible.

After the Trojans are ordered to push forward after the Greeks' first attack, blood suddenly appears on a few of the Greeks' shields.

When Achilles hits Hector with a broken spear, the end of the spear sticking out of Hector's chest is sawed-off, not broken, like it would be after Hector and Achilles broke each other's spears.

Helen sutures Paris' wounds after his duel with King Menelaus.

The earliest reports of surgical suture date back to 3000 BC in ancient Egypt.

The oldest known suture is in a mummy from 1100 BC.

When Paris fights with Glaucus before the gate of Troy, Paris' view of Glaucus is partially obscured by the shape of his helmet in front of his eyes.

When Paris is shown from Glaucus's viewpoint, Paris's eyes are not covered by the material of his helmet.

When Hector's infant son sticks the lion in his mouth and pulls it away, the end of a modern pacifier is in the baby's hand.

The logs making up the funeral pyres for the Greeks killed in the first day's battle look like neatly cut fence posts, perfectly straight and cut square across the end.

When the Greeks are sacking Troy towards the end of the film, you can hear a soldier (played by one of the the Mexican extras) yell "Aqui! Aqui!" (Here! Here!) twice.

Just before Achilles says "You gave me peace in a lifetime of war", the camera focuses on Briseis' hair, and the netting from her wig/extensions is clearly visible.

This is without a doubt a great great movie which I cannot stop watching it rocks!Troy is loved by the public, and I respect that, and as adventure/action film lover,i find it very entertaining as everyone else.

The movie Troy, directed by Wolfgang Peterson, presents the history of the Trojan War in a unique way that it captured a modern audience and still remained true to many facts laid out in Homer's tale of The Iliad. The vast majority of the characters were the same and they held the same characterization depicted by Homer: Achilles was is arrogant, Agamemnon is a cruel leader, Helen is passive, Hector is a great warrior, etc.

I just love epic historical films, and after Gladiator reinvigorated the genre, there was a surge in this kind of films, which made me really happy.I had doubts about Wolfgang Petersen's ability to bring such a grand-scale story to the screen, but he utterly surpassed himself here.

The Movie is an Honour to watch. It incredibly brings alive the History.

If the film is critically analyzed, flaws in the development and script will be seen. The story of the film lacks the realism, depth of war and peace, Anna karenina by Tolstoy.

Hollywood wanted to make the tale of "Troy" starring (Brad Pitt) as Achilles, and so it did. The original story is supposed to be big, but Hey..

I was debating on whether on not to see this film for ages after seeing the generally bad reviews on the film, I finally succumbed and it was worse than my expectations. Why make a film on such a well known epic if you want to ignore it completely.

People give this movie too much hate for being "not entirely accurate to the Iliad" or whatever. But In reality, I don't think there's ever a time I haven't been impressed when watching scenes from this movie.

The ancient poem Iliad by Homer is still recognized, as one of the most important and especially as one of the greatest poems of all time. For being an emotional and thrilling story, which has unforgettable as well as unexpected moments, to be impactful from the beginning to the end.