Troy/Awesome: Difference between revisions

** Achilles has a series of them. Not only does he have a [[Finishing Move|Trademark Finisher]] (a leaping downward thrust that strikes the heart of the victim through the trapezius muscle) which is used several times in the movie, but he swings a shield onto his back in perfect timing to block an oncoming arrow only to switch to a two handed fighting style. Finally, his battle with Hector is one of the most suspenseful, white-knuckle, edge of your seat battles ever seen in an epic film. The lines "[[To the Pain|You will wander the underworld blind, deaf, and dumb, and all the dead will know ... this is Hector: the fool who thought he killed Achilles]]" and "Get up, Son of Troy. I won't let a stone take my glory." display Achilles' absolute confidence.

** What's more, the fight choreography in this and other scenes is a CMoA for the film. Achilles is established to have a distinctive fighting style that is more...well, stylized than the other warriors. Even the near-superhuman Hector fights in a more grounded way. Achilles' trademark killing blow, the leaping neck-stab, kills anyone he tries to use it on...until he fights Hector, who blocks it and later ''breaks Achilles' spear.'' At that point, although we know Hector is doomed to lose, he shows he's not going down without a fight.

** Heaven knows ''Troy'' is not without faults but there was one complaint involving this scene which caused this editor to nearly die of laughter - namely that it would take lots of training and skill to pull such a stunt off. He's supposed to be ''the goddamned Achilles'', what did they expect?

** But not without first yelling "Is there NO ONE ELSE?!" at the opposing army, who are all now quaking in their collective boots.