The influence of Homer’s Iliad on the film Troy and Reason for differences

The Iliad had a big impact on Troy manly because Peterson used The Iliad to base his movie around. Both the book and the film had the same theme which was Achilles wrath but the film portrayed Achilles wrath differently than the Iliad. Take for example in the film when Achilles kills Hektor because Hektor killed his cousin Patroclus. Achilles in a vicious rage goes to Troy to kill Hektor. once Achilles kills Hektor  he ties his feet around and attaches him to his chariot and leaves will Hektors body is being dragged in the dirt.

Homer shows it differently But yet still the same. As before Achilles goes to fight Hektor but instead Hektor runs away from Achilles and the Gods Zeus and stop Hektor and make him battle Achilles wins and pierced Hector's tendons to his chariot and dragged him back to his camp. As you can see the iliad shows a more brutal way when Achilles drags his body back to camp. Homer has showed that the Greeks are vicious but Peterson shows more remorse by just tying Hektor up and piercing him so Peterson has influenced some of the Iliad but not the whole thing. This maybe because Peterson wanted Achilles to act more dignified Greek hero not a man killing God.

The Iliad influenced Troy because has re made the Iliad in a film but making it a lot more even sided. What I mean by this is Homer made it look like the Greeks were warriors and the Trojans cowards, Peterson made it look as it was even sided, but without some aspects of the Iliad Peterson could not of made his movie. Take the Gods for example Peterson barely mentions the Gods but the iliad is all about the Gods so Peterson had to mention the Gods he uses Apollo for the Trojans because King Priam praises Apollo for curing his son Hektor. So yes the Iliad had a big influence on the film Troy.

There are many different reasons for the differences between Troy and the Iliad. One major factor is Homer favoured the Greeks because he was Greek so he made it seem like the Trojans were cowards. This had a big impact on the Iliad, yet Peterson did not make it look like this he favoured neither of them so it was more of a fair and exciting movie.  A similarite betwwen the poem and film is the theme Achilles they both based it around Achilles wrath this helped the film because then it could base everything about what Achilles did. Another major difference is the Gods Homer mentions the Gods regally and Peterson doesn’t I think Peterson did this because he did not belive in Gods he thought it was impossible for Gods to come and intervene with the story. A contributing factor in the book is, the Iliad ends with Hektors burial but the film ends with Achilles dying and The Trojans walking into the hills Homer may have ended the book like this because he wanted everyone to know that Achilles was unbeatable and cannot be stopped, But Peterson wanted to show that even the greatest of warriors are not immortal this why Achilles had a choice weather to stay in Greece or fight and die but be remembered for ever.

These similarities and differences show that both homer and Peterson are two different people and they both show contributing points and factors to what happened at Troy.