新木马屠城记

故名思意,这是一部关于HELEN的电影,虽然是以TROY战争为时代的背景,但并不是在吟唱战争,所以译名为木马屠城记,于名于实皆不合情理,想必是出于商业之需求,借以屠城二字来吸引国人眼球,看了以后,大家都非常明白,这是一部歌颂爱情的史诗电影.而把他与后来拍的TROY相比,绝对是完全不同,TROY是根据《荷马史诗》中的《伊利昂记》改编，歌颂的是阿各疏斯，这样一个性格暴烈，顽强，勇敢，追求名誉的英雄，他的愤怒对于战争具有转折性的意义，而《HELEN OF TROY》歌颂的是美丽的HELEN，面对的是人性的贪婪、自私、残暴。

In these dark times,the only thing we have left hold on to is love, the one true gift of gods, and it is through love that we hope and pray the gods will send us peace. 看完Helen of Troy，我哭了，不能自已。

我通篇只看到了两个字：苦难。

一出生就被国王和王后遗弃的帕里斯，一出生就被父亲视为不详的海伦，爱上海伦却被海伦离弃的斯巴达王，身为希腊王后却憎恨自己丈夫的海伦的姐姐，英勇却被残忍的阿基琉斯杀死的赫克托，善良而睿智但却亡国的特洛伊国王……一群人的命运纠缠在一起，不得超脱。

唯一让人感到温暖的，是海伦和帕里斯的爱情。

他们为彼此而存在，为彼此而抗争。

但仍然要面临死亡、离别，天各一方，各自面对着孤独与思念。

命运。

最后，历尽屈辱和悲伤的海伦来到帕里斯死去的地方，抚摸着柱子上帕里斯的血迹，神样的帕里斯从烟雾中现身。

他拉起她:“Brave Helen”."wherever you are,take me with you.”"I can not.”“Will we meet again?”“I prepare you place”"Good.”海伦答道。

然后帕里斯就消失了。

那是她所有的希望。

海伦与斯巴达王的对话也是意味深长。

他抽出剑，海伦恭顺地俯下身体、露出脖颈。

"Do you really think I will kill you, Helen?""I do not thank you for my life.""I understand.""I can not love you．”“what will you do?""I will follow you."海伦说。

一丝欣慰涌上斯巴达王的面颊，“I accept.”她虽然不爱他，但她决定信任他。

她跟着他，消失在路的尽头。

2003年版的Helen of Troy比2004年版的Troy拍得好，它更深地诠释出了人性与命运、苦难与爱情。

只是爱情，可以给我们救赎吗？

等待，是一千年，还是一万年？

Actually, I firstly knew about the well-known myth,Troy,by reading comics when I was young,and that was also the first time I read a western myth with so many heroes.I felt the cruelty of wars and the inequality between human and divinity from the pictures and brief words sideward.To be honest,at that time,it was quite difficult for me to remember those heroes’ names because their names were too long and awkward to read.After I begun to learn English, I acquired that every name of ancient Greek people is of great meaning linked to their parents’ expectation,personal characters,experience or some other things.For example,Helen,the name of the heroine,means light in Greek.Reading their name in English is more smooth.When I can read the literature work of the myth and reflect it more deeply with age.The movie,Helen of Troy,shows us a famous Greek myth,which embraces intense desire,strong request for humanism,and deep love,apart from tragic wars.Though actors may be not able to reprise mythical figures in the movie perfectly because there are unique images of heroes and females in everyone’s heart and the movie don’t reflect the mythy in accordance with the literature completely,the movie reveals themes above excellently.The virtual origin of the war is intense desire.Hera,Athena and Aphrodite were all eager to be judged as the most beautiful goddess,and from my standpoint, the golden apple was the symbol of their desire. To realize their desire,Hera pleased Pairs with wealth, Athena pleased him with victory and glory,while Aphrodite promised the most beautiful woman of the world,Helen,to him.As a shepherd without noble birth,I think it’s normal for Pairs to choose Helen because apart from being accompanied with a beautiful woman to live a happy and simple life,wealth,victory and glory were almost rubbish for a mortal. At that time,compared with three goddesses,Pairs was a simple guy without strong selfish desire,but never could he think of that goddesses’ desire made wreaked havoc of war and his fate and Troy’s fate would experience major turning due to his selection.At beginning,Pairs did not want to bring wars to his motherland and Greek city-states.He was so poor to be condemned as the culprit of the war and Troy’s subjugation.In the movie,the desire of Greek kings that expanded their territory was also the origin of the war--it was unreasonable to launch a war which unified all Greek city-states’ power only for retaking a woman and safeguarding the reputation of Greece.In the movie,when Menelaus was aware that he couldn’t kill his rival,Pairs,on account of the guard of god,so he stopped attack.Then the two men sat down together and had a talk about Helen and the war calmly--their final silence indicated their consensus that the war was actually meaningless and people should have not killed each other.Later Helen’s surrender could not stop the war,which also proved the main purpose of Greek armies was not Helen. As I see it,Pairs was innocent,and it was the desire of gods and kings brought people pain.Like many other western myths,strong request for humanism is also an important topic of the myth. It’s widely believed that the origin of humanism in western world lies in Greek culture.Humanism advocates personal freedom,equality and self value that are strongly expected to get by oppressed people. The myth can be perceived as a Greek condemnation on oppression and the strong request for humanism--people ought to dominate their own fate and their lives shouldn’t be toys of power.From the beginning to the end,gods made great difference.It’s unusual that the movie shows the power of gods indirectly--no god appeared in the battlefield but their power existed.It’s easy to find that people were unable to resist the wish of god and the duels between two heroes were interfered by gods’ power,which led to numerous amazing results.Beside,in my opinion,Princess Cassandra is a crazy,cold and poor figure whose spiritual world was dominated by gods--she clung to oracle that if Paris lives,Troy will be burnt,and she attempted to prevent the oracle coming true by a negative means--kill her brother.What she wanted to do was so cruel and in the meanwhile,her life was obsessed by the oracle,which led her life unhappy and full of scare.To be honest,the act of the actress exaggerates the image of Princess Cassandra,but it can immerse ourselves in ancient Greek’s fear to the gods and their prediction,how god’s power controlled people’s life and people’s strong request for humanism.Last but not least,the element of love will never absent in Greek myths.I find that love is the common nature of human,nymphs as well as gods in Greek myths,and love can’t be eliminated completely by no means.The first scene of the movie was the birth of Paris-- when Paris was born,his elder sister，Princess Cassandra,who had the power to see into the future told her father,the king of Troy,a dire prediction that if the baby boy lives,Troy will be burnt.Thus the king decided to abandon the little baby,at that moment,it was maternal love that prompted the queen of Troy to struggle to rise up to recapture her son,but she failed. Many years later,when the king and the queen realized that the guy on the sand of the colosseum was their abandoned son,they hugged their son and recognized him,forgetting the terrible oracle.The plot of the movie was adopted from the literature and added more details about sincere emotions of human.For example,when Paris limped after a desperate fight against Menelaus,Hector offered to take the place of his injured brother to challenge Agamemnon--this is love between brothers.No matter how cruel the war was,sincere emotions always existed.All in all,war is not the core theme of the myth or the movie.I believe concepts that worth pondering in the myth or the movie are abundant.

总觉得女人的过分美丽真的是一种罪过——你可以如此的肆意，哭的最无辜，笑的最灿烂。

更可以让无数的男人为你不惜一切，连生命都不要。

真是不知道那些家伙在想些什么，仅仅为了你的美丽么？

仅仅，或者这个词用的很无耻，这样一个迷人的女子，连我都认真的爱她，何况那些男人？

然而女孩对女孩的爱是完全不同的吧……没有看上她的脸，不会嫉妒。

这种透明的爱和喜欢，是只想着迷乱的男人所无法感受的……女爱是为大爱，也可能被骂是les，无畏。

可是海伦啊，我又是这么恨你…………当女孩子已经只能靠着男子生存时，她就丧失了自己的本性了吧？

即便你再灿烂的对着我笑，总还是少了什么的……当命运的指轮落到你丈夫里，当你母亲背转身不再要你时，你是否想过反抗呢？

特洛伊完了，帕里斯不在了，你被你丈夫拖回去的时候，我真的看到回身看我的你，静静的流泪了……佳人倾城……

柯以敏是怎么说来着？

哦——very very good！

当然，她说超女，我说电影，差得不近。

与名声大噪的2004版《特洛伊》比较，差别相当大，尽管同样植根于希腊神话《荷马史诗》。

从剧情看，《新》侧重海伦与帕里斯的爱情（英文片名即《Helen of Troy》），《特》侧重宏大的战争。

从人物看，《新》侧重海伦与帕里斯，《特》侧重阿喀琉斯与赫克托尔。

所以，《新》版的海伦更清新、勇敢，帕里斯更深沉、坚定；《特》版的阿喀琉斯更倜傥、骁勇，赫克托尔更深沉、睿智。

在我看来，《新》最大的缺憾，就在《特》的两个主角。

虽然不喜欢布拉德·彼特，却也好过光头蛮牛千倍。

而艾瑞克·巴纳诠释的赫克托尔，更是我的最爱。

《特》是巨浪滔天，《新》是静水流深。

著名的希腊神话故事，特洛伊城的巴利斯王子，爱上了美丽非凡的海伦，并不顾一切的将她带回了特洛伊城。

谁知海伦本是巴斯达国王的爱妃，愤怒的巴斯达下令向特洛伊城发起进攻，一场残酷的战争拉开了序幕。

希腊神话的精粹，希腊神话中最波澜壮阔的篇章，一个女人毁灭了一个国家。

海伦，希腊神话中人世间第一美女，你的美貌和红杏出墙给特洛伊这个国家带来了灭顶之灾，一个国家的人被全部屠杀。

几千年以来，欧洲历史学家反复讨论的一个话题就是这场战争的本质是什么是为了人世间最美丽的女子海伦还是人。

A beauty, a hero, and a king, three person’s stories; beauty, courage, and desire, three different emotions. Their intersection is the movie "Helen of troy". Paris in the dark was suddenly coming out of the enemy draw knife stabbed several died on the spot ……Helen was raped by Agamemnon, who could not resist, In the end, back to the starting point - she still followed his husband, whom she did not love ...... the men, who personally killed his daughter for war ritual, Agamemnon, was eventually killed by his wife ...... the surprising plots to shook the people's nerves. If they had known these final results, will they go to still struggle for it? Still to pursue? Will they chooser the same choices. Helen is the beauty, she represents the free of love. Helen is just a weak woman, even though she has a beautiful face. Every woman is eager to be a beauty, but the beauty of Helen brought her a series of disasters, “The beautiful woman suffered a harsh life”. Her beauty becomes the object of desires of many men: she is robbed by Theseus, then his brother robbed her back; her father hated her; the kings got together and decided her vest. Her body was her own, but she is not independence. All of these makes Helen flee. Perhaps it is unforgivable that Helen fled from Greece in the eyes of the Greeks. But as a woman, it is a pursuit of free love. For love, she blows everything. Helen, who is an active life, she knows what she wants, and pursuit of the goal of herself. She proved that women are not just an object of desire for men, she also has the ability to initiate the pursuit of love and happiness. From Helen I also thought of "Yingying biography" the girl Cui Yingying, and" Stone Story "Lin Daiyu."Stone Story "Lin seems to get rid of the tragic fate, the novel pointed to the Lin's identity at the beginning, she is the reincarnations of annatto, Lin struggled for independent personal love and freedom, she suffered extraordinary pains. Lin therefore shed the last drop of for true love. In addition, from Helen's story, I saw the ancient Greeks’ questing for the beauty. As a modern man, I cannot understand, a decade of war, the ultimate goal of war is for a beauty, which no modern man can understand. Perhaps in the eyes of Greeks, The beauty is above anything, beauty is truth. The two sides compete for peerless beauty Helen, countless soldiers went dark for the beauty of sacrifice without regrets. Perhaps because of this, the ancient Greek create the elegant and refined, noble and lively, full of artistic expression full of beautiful statues. Paris is also a hero. He is different from the movie "Troy" that Paris no longer hid in the city, and did not meet the enemy, he is not the cowardly Paris. Although he was not the first warrior of Troy, but he does not intend to surrender to anyone, he fight for his own reputation. The pursuit of honor and dreams and goals of each ancient Greek hero. They process in the pursuit of honor, individuality, self-affirmation, to realize their own values, but also to indulge the desire to sacrifice moral, ethical. War is an important way to get the honor. the release of passion, you can win a lot of trophies, enhanced reputation, the subject of admiration. For example, Achilles would rather die, than want to lead his life comfortably at home. Agamemnon symbolizes the desire, his desire to focus on three areas: the woman - Helen; for wealth, power; against honor. Agamemnon's desire to unite to meet the end of the movie, though, but with the life disappear, he could not really have his income. As a man, he was eager to Helen's beauty; as king, eager to wealth, power; as a great hero, the pursuit of honor. His desire, the more and more damage to others. To his desires, he snubbed his wife, killed her daughter, coerced brother, kill the tens of thousands of people. Sadly with the disappearance of his own lives, Agamemnon cannot really have his income. This is the tragedy of human destiny. Second, the pursuit of wealth and power. As a king, Agamemnon is thirst for power and greed for wealth, which coexists with the growing strength of his ambition. At that time the Greek states, the most powerful Mycenae, Agamemnon is the highest leader of the entire Greek region, he orders the pack, assembled troops. Achilles, Odysseus, Menelaus and so obey him. He wants absolute power, which makes him particularly arrogant men. He also wants to conquer the ocean side of the Trojan people, so that they surrender to him. In the film, his fierce eyes prove arrogant Agamemnon. Any of his decisions are irrefutable. He dreamed to conquer the world. In the film, Agamemnon is the object of many desires, he desire carrier interests, wealth, excuse powers and so on. After decades of war, he was loaded with booty, honor and go, very comfortable lying tub. Then Agamemnon reached the pinnacle of his life. He is successful, peak moment is also low moments, all of his life is together with his disappearance. People admire the ancient Greek heroes, we should also ponder war and humanity. Society needs proper desire, need good human, but definitely do not need

After watching the movie of Helen of Troy, I did several researches and also spent time watching another similar movie named Troy, which is also fairly famous and was screened one year later. Despite comparing the differences in plots or shooting skills, here, I am going to share with you some understandings or personal points of view towards this famous legend story, and also I am trying to analyzing some hiding social phenomenon in ancient Greece.Firstly, Helen is a main character in this legend, who is also a kind of controversial person during the Trojan War. A great many people then consider Helen is to blame for the 10-year Trojan War due to her elopement with Trojan prince Paris. However, as is shown in the film, the war between Sparta and Troy was more than a cause trouble of a woman. The conflicts and accumulated rancor have already developed, so Helen was only the blasting fuse of this warfare. Therefore, from this, we can see that Helen was just an excuse of the war and then unfortunately became the scourge in most people’s eyes.It also reminds me of women’s social status in Greek Mythology and in ancient Greece. In ancient Greece, the term of “citizen” only referred to the adult Greek males, and therefore, females were not allowed to participate in the administration and discussion of polis affairs. From this definition of citizen, the discrimination of women seemed to be common and doubtless in ancient Greece. Moreover, even in the marriage, the relationship between husband and wife was also unequal. Women were always put into the passive positions in their marriages. To be more specific, Greek women were always fastened to housework and rarely had time or right for their own businesses. It was also widely accepted that virtue of docility was a criteria of a good or standard wife. Therefore, based on this fact, Helen’s elopement, in my point of view, is a brave breakthrough of the unequal social barrier a bravery to pursue true love and lead a wishful life.Secondly, there is another explanation of Helen’s elopement and the hiding meanings. In classical mythology, Helen’s behavior was controlled by the gods and goddesses, which was, however, not very clearly shown in the film of Troy. The myth started with a golden apple and a competition between goddesses Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite. Paris was promised by Aphrodite that he would have Helen, and meanwhile, Helen was shot by Eros, the god of love, and fell in love with Paris on the first sight of Paris. Therefore, on this point of view, the Trojan War has already been arranged by the gods and goddesses, humans were just played and fooled at the will of these gods. And here, I want to add that in classical mythology, the relationship between gods and humans are rather different from the traditional thoughts we owned. In classical mythology, gods merely show mercy for humans. They help humans mostly because humans are useful or they enjoy the sacrifice humans make for them. As for humans, they worship the gods mainly because they fear them. However, our modern western assumptions about gods are really different. Gods are regarded as merciful and just, and they create the universe and human beings. What’s the most important is that gods have their affection and are concerned about the human beings. And as for we human beings, we worship our gods because we respect them and think they are the savers for us. I think this difference can help us establish a better understanding of Greek history.In conclusion, both of these movies show us the cultures of Greece and benefit for our further learning of European culture.

每个人都不是坏人，每个人的想法都有其意义，于是历史在众人的推动下，继续向前，无法阻止。

战争太残酷了。

斯巴达那个能知道“神”的要求的大臣，长得很神化的。

特洛伊战争是荷马史诗的第一部，讲述了希腊人如何攻打特洛伊人的整个过程。

在里面诞生了两个史诗级的英雄，阿基琉斯和赫克托。

两个都是我很喜欢的人物。

但我认为在电影的前半段他们只能被称作勇士，在经历了内心重大选择的洗礼后他们才可以被称作真正意义的英雄。

首先，阿基琉斯在神话中是人和神之子，但是电影中没有像神话一样把他形容得像一个不死之身。

他在无敌的同时也是桀骜不驯的，但是拥有巨大力量的阿基琉斯却很迷茫，似乎他的存在只有征服和杀戮，他一直奉行的个人英雄主义背后却是满满的空虚。

而赫克托，是一个好儿子，一个好哥哥，一个好丈夫，他是一个好王子，他为了国家而战，为了所有国民而战，他没有退缩，承担了属于王子的那份责任。

但面对阿基琉斯的对决他也同样动摇过，看着妻子熟睡的侧脸和隆起的小腹，他也渴望自己能够陪伴在家人身边，谁不希望可以好好活着呢？

可悲壮的是他明知自己会输，也勇然为了自己的国家依然选择了一场赴死的战斗其中值得一提的是我被阿基里斯的伟大和深厚的英雄主义色彩震撼到的瞬间，并不是他以一敌百的时刻，也不是他为表弟复仇的怒火。

而是在木马屠城时，他最先想到的是拯救那个心爱的女祭司的生命。

在这时驱动他前进的并不是之前一直奉行的个人荣誉与尊严，而是爱。

也同样是爱带来的恐惧与脆弱，让他暴露了弱点和软肋，并最终为爱而死。

但也正是爱，让他人性的一面烨烨生辉，让那个所向披靡，整个希腊为之颤抖的战神留名万世，让后人都生活在阿基里斯的时代。

我喜欢希腊的勇士，喜欢他们的勇气，喜欢他们最求人的价值。

这是一个伟大的时代，也是一个英雄的时代。

而这部电影，告诉我们真正的英雄主义是可以怀揣着脆弱与恐惧前行的。

没有弱点的是神，而爱与信念才是让我们可以“明知不可为而为之”的第一驱动力。