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Some of Achilles' nerve comes in handy for anyone trying to make Homer's Iliad sing and swagger in a 2-hr. 40-min. movie. Director Wolfgang Petersen, writer David Benioff and their cohort just about pull it off. In this vigorous, stalwart epic, they blend martial breadth and emotional intimacy, honor and obsession, romance and machismo to show the glamour and folly of war. Old men plot; young men die; strong women weep...
...movie work. It’s no surprise to me that the scripts to Raiders and Empire were both written by the same guy —Lawrence Kasdan, the great wit behind The Big Chill and Body Heat. Does this portend great things for Troy, whose scribe David Benioff last wrote the compelling 25th Hour? Probably not, if the preview’s dialogue is any indication, but the important thing is that Benioff’s working at Hollywood’s heart, and that can only strengthen the system...
...early to know whether Petersen and the screenwriter, novelist David Benioff (25th Hour), will be partisan or neutral. But Troy is bound to be handsome. The cinematographer is Roger Pratt, who shot Brazil and Batman in the '80s and gave a nicely sepulchral tone to last year's Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. And heading the cast is a tony quartet of hunks: Brad Pitt as Achilles, Eric Bana (who somehow survived the wreck of The Hulk) as Hector, Sean Bean (Boromir in The Lord of the Rings) as Odysseus and Orlando Bloom (who was Tolkien...
...First, it shows the reach of Ellison's influence. He has been CEO of Oracle since 1977--several lifetimes in the tech industry--and a coterie of former Oracle executives, dubbed the Little Larrys, has fanned out to rule much of the business-software world. Conway, Siebel and Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce. com, a company that lets clients hire out its enterprise applications, are members of the Oracle alumni e-mail list. There is no love lost for Ellison among them: "He's not great at relationships," says Benioff. "He struggles ... in his personal and professional life...
...everyone in it!" He spreads his venom ecumenically--to the Pakistani cab drivers and the black schoolyard studs and the Soprano wannabes in Bensonhurst, and to the Irish-American boyos of whom Monty is one. It's a swell swill of gutter poetry--written by novelist-screenwriter David Benioff and vigorously illustrated in a tabloid-surrealist style by director Spike Lee--that touches on everything New Yorkers, and Americans, love to hate about the big city...