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Troy: Director's Cut (Special Edition) [Blu-ray] | ![Troy: Director's Cut (Special Edition) [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5129dbIr8IL.jpg)
| Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Actors: Brad Pitt, Eric Bana, Orlando Bloom
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
List Price: $14.98
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Sales Rank: 1589
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Director's Cut, Dolby, Dubbed, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), Mandarin Chinese (Subtitled), Korean (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: Blu-ray
Region: 0
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Picture Format: Widescreen
Running Time: 196 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 5.4 x 0.5
MPN: WHV117377BLU
UPC: 085391173779
EAN: 0085391173779
ASIN: B000TGGJKU
Release Date: September 18, 2007
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Product Description
Brad Pitt, Orlando Bloom, Eric Bana, Peter O'Toole. An honorable but loose adaptation of Homer's Iliad that also includes material from Virgil's Aeneid to present the intense, epic saga of the Trojan War during the late Bronze Age. 2004/color/3 hrs., 16 min/NR.
Amazon.com
No doubt about it, the 196-minute unrated director's cut of Troy represents a significant improvement over the film's original 162-minute theatrical release--and not just because it has more sex and violence. As director Wolfgang Petersen notes in his new "Troy Revisited" video introduction to this 2-disc special edition, he didn't have the time or directorial discretion (prior to Troy's release in 2004) to present a cut that more closely matched his vision for the film. Three years later, Petersen approached the film with a more relaxed perspective, and the result is a well-crafted expansion on a film that was previously underrated, with 30 minutes of previously unseen material. Character dynamics have been improved and intensified; the epic-scale narrative is now easier to follow, with greater emphasis on the inner turmoil of Achilles (well played by Brad Pitt) and his rivalry with Hector (Eric Bana); and viewers will feel a more satisfying escalation of tension and suspense from battle to battle. The film's enormous battle scenes (impressively enhanced with CGI) are bloodier and gorier, but they're also more effectively integrated into the political story, which goes beyond Homer's The Iliad and the death of Hector to incorporate elements of Virgil and a more revealing study of the differences between Trojan king Priam (Peter O'Toole) and his megalomanical Greek rival, king Agamemnon (Brian Cox), whose lust for revenge is now one of the film's most powerful ingredients. Some of Troy's original weaknesses remain (such as Orlando Bloom's wimpy performance as Paris), but overall, this director's cut easily justifies its existence, regardless of the film's overblown and historically inaccurate depiction of Troy as a gigantic city of massive columns and statuary. The good parts are better, and the not-so-good parts are more easily forgiven. And no matter how you cut it, Troy is a lavish feast for the eyes. --Jeff Shannon
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