Digging Troy
I can think of one other heist film in which a criminal mastermind invokes Troy in his scheming.
Kirk Douglas (1916–2020)
Kirk Douglas as Ulysses, 1954.
Odysseus in the North Atlantic
A startling bit of dialogue, from Action in the North Atlantic.
The Interrupters
“The fatalism of so many of the film’s young people, captured in the words ‘I am next,’ written on a wall of the dead, seems straight from the Iliad: ‘I know I will not make old bones,’ as Achilles says. Yet the Violence Interrupters themselves have learned to live beyond criminality and violence, and we see them, armed only with words, convincing others to do the same.”
Kirk Douglas is Ulysses, on DVD
"The film’s a hoot in any format."
Trouble in Ithaca
Some details about a film adapatation of the Odyssey
Troy
You can find Daniel Mendelsohn's astute essay on the movie here .
Words for those on the road
[Last words for English 3009, Myth and Culture] The ancient Greek word for “truth,” alēthia , literally means “that which is not forgotten.”...