ODYSSEUS: Men are haunted by the vastness of eternity.
And so we ask ourselves...
...will our actions echo across the centuries?
Will strangers hear our names long after we're gone...
...and wonder who we were...
...how bravely we fought...
...how fiercely we loved?
[NElGHING]
[MAN SHOUTlNG]
Good day for the crows.
Remove your army from my land.
I like your land.
I think we'll stay. I like your soldiers too.
They won't fight for you.
That's what the Messenians said.
And the Arcadians and the Epeians.
Now they all fight for me.
You can't have the whole world, Agamemnon.
It's too big, even for you.
I don't want to watch another massacre.
Let's settIe this war in the oId manner. Your best fighter against my best.
And if my man wins?
We'lI leave ThessaIy for good.
Boagrius!
[WARRIORS CHEERING]
AchiIles!
[WARRIORS CHUCKLING]
Boagrius has this effect on many heroes.
CarefuI who you insuIt, oId king.
My king, AchiIles is not with the army.
-Where is he? -I sent a boy to Iook for him.
[GASPS]
I was having a good dream.
Very good dream.
King Agamemnon sent me. He needs to--
ACHILLES: I'Il speak to your king in the morning.
But, my lord, it is morning.
They're waiting for you.
[GRUNTING]
BOY: Are the stories about you true?
They say your mother is an immortal goddess.
They say you can't be kilIed.
I wouIdn't be bothering with the shield then, wouId l?
BOY: The Thessalonian you're fighting...
...he's the biggest man I've ever seen. I wouIdn't want to fight him.
That's why no one will remember your name.
[CHANTlNG]
Perhaps we should have our war tomorrow, when you're better rested.
I should have you whipped for your impudence!
ACHILLES: Perhaps you should fight him. -Achilles.
AchiIles.
Look at the men's faces. You can save hundreds of them.
You can end this war with a swing of your sword.
Let them go home to their wives.
Imagine a king who fights his own battIes. Wouldn't that be a sight.
Of all the warIords Ioved by the gods, I hate him the most.
[SCREAMlNG]
[WARRIORS CHEERING]
Is there no one else?
Who are you, soldier?
AchiIles. Son of PeIeus.
AchiIles? I'Il remember the name.
The ruler of ThessaIy carries this scepter.
Give it to your king.
He's not my king.
[MAN SHOUTlNG]
[WARRIORS SHOUTlNG]
WARRIORS: Brothers in arms!
WARRIOR: Friendship! WARRIORS: Friendship!
[BANGlNG]
MENELAUS: Princes of Troy, on our Iast night together...
...Queen Helen and l salute you.
[MEN CHEERlNG]
We've had our conflicts before, it's true.
We fought many battles, Sparta and Troy. And fought welI!
But l have always respected your father.
Priam is a good king, a good man.
I respected him as an adversary. I respect him now as my aIly.
[WARRIORS CHEERING]
Hector, Paris, young princes, come. Stand.
Drink with me.
Let us drink to peace.
To peace between Troy and Sparta.
[WARRIORS CHEERING]
May the gods keep the wolves in the hilIs and the women in our beds.
[MUSIC PLAYlNG]
Ah!
-For the gods. -For the gods.
[WOMEN LAUGHING]
[WARRIORS MUMBLING]
You shouldn't be here.
That's what you said Iast night.
Last night was a mistake.
And the night before?
I've made many mistakes this week.
Do you want me to go?
[CHEERING]
[CROWD SINGlNG AND LAUGHlNG]
PARIS: PearIs from the Sea of Propontis.
They're beautiful.
But l can't wear them.
Menelaus wouId kill us both.
Don't be afraid of him.
I'm not afraid of dying.
I'm afraid of tomorrow.
I'm afraid of watching you saiI away and knowing you'll never come back.
Before you came to Sparta, I was a ghost.
I walked, and l ate, and l swam in the sea...
...but l was just a ghost.
You don't have to fear tomorrow.
Come with me.
Don't play with me. Don't play.
If you come, we'll never be safe.
Men will hunt us, the gods will curse us.
But l'll love you.
TiIl the day they burn my body...
...l wiIl Iove you.
A beautifuI morning. Poseidon has blessed our voyage.
Sometimes the gods bIess you in the morning and curse you in the afternoon.
MAN: Drop sail!
Do you love me, brother?
Would you protect me against any enemy?
The last time you spoke to me like this...
...you were 1 0 years old, and you'd just stolen Father's horse.
What have you done now?
I must show you something.
Where is she?
I swear by the father of the gods, I will gut you here if you don't tell me!
MAN: My king!
She left. With the Trojans.
The fisherman here saw her board their ship.
The Trojans?
With the young prince, Paris. She....
Get my ship ready.
Turn us round. Back to Sparta.
PILOT: High on the saiI!
-Wait, wait. -You fooI!
-Listen to me. -Do you know what you've done?
Do you know how many years our father worked for peace?
-I love her. -Ah!
It's all a game to you, isn't it?
You roam from town to town, bedding merchants' wives and tempIe maids.
You think you know something about love.
What about your father's love?
You spat on him when you brought her on this ship!
What about the love for your country? You'd Iet Troy burn for this woman?
I won't let you start a war for her.
May I speak?
What you're saying is true.
I've wronged you. I've wronged our father.
If you want to take Helen back to Sparta, so be it.
But l go with her.
To Sparta? They'lI kiIl you.
Then l'll die fighting.
Oh, and that sounds heroic to you, doesn't it? To die fighting.
-Little brother, have you ever kilIed a man? -No.
-Ever seen a man die in combat? -No.
I've kilIed men, and I've heard them dying. And l've watched them dying.
And there's nothing glorious about it. Nothing poetic.
You say you want to die for Iove. You know nothing about dying.
And you know nothing about love!
All the same, l go with her.
I won't ask you to fight my war.
You already have.
To Troy!
PILOT: About ship! Set saiI!
-I want her back. -WeIl, of course you do.
She's a beautiful woman.
I want her back so I can kiIl her with my own two hands.
I won't rest till I've burned Troy to the ground.
I thought you wanted peace with Troy.
I should have listened to you.
Peace is for the women...
...and the weak.
Empires are forged by war.
All my Iife, l've stood by your side, fought your enemies.
You're the eIder, you reap the glory. This is the way of the worId.
But have l ever compIained? Have I ever asked you for anything?
Never. You're a man of honor.
Will you go to war with me, brother?
AGAMEMNON: l always thought my brother's wife was a foolish woman...
...but she's proved to be very useful.
[CHUCKLlNG]
The Trojans have never been conquered.
Some say they can't be conquered.
Old King Priam thinks he's untouchabIe behind his high walIs.
He thinks the sun god wilI protect him.
But the gods protect onIy...
...the strong!
If Troy falIs...
...l controI the Aegean.
Hector commands the finest army in the east.
I'Il attack them with the greatest force the world has ever seen.
I want alI the kings of Greece and their armies.
Send emissaries in the morning.
One last thing.
We need AchilIes and his Myrmidons.
AchiIles.
He can't be controlIed. He's as IikeIy to fight us as the Trojans.
We don't need to controI him, we need to unleash him.
That man was born to end Iives.
Yes, he's a gifted kilIer. But he threatens everything l've built.
Before me, Greece was nothing.
I brought aIl the Greek kingdoms together.
I created a nation out of fire worshipers and snake eaters!
I buiId the future, Nestor. Me!
AchiIles is the past.
A man who fights for no flag. A man Ioyal to no country.
How many battles have we won off the edge of his sword?
This wilI be the greatest war the world has ever seen.
We need the greatest warrior.
There's only one man he'Il listen to.
Never hesitate.
Nervous?
Petrified.
You told me never to change sword hands.
ACHILLES: Yes. When you know how to use it, you won't be taking my orders.
[HORSE NEIGHS]
Your reputation for hospitality is fast becoming legend.
[ODYSSEUS CHUCKLlNG]
Patroclus, my cousin.
Odysseus, king of lthaca.
Patroclus. I knew your parents weIl.
I miss them.
Now you have this one watching over you, eh?
Learning from AchiIles himself.
Kings would kiIl for the honor.
Are you here at Agamemnon's bidding?
We need to taIk.
I will not fight for him.
I'm not asking you to fight for him.
I'm asking you to fight for the Greeks.
Why? Are the Greeks tired of fighting each other?
ODYSSEUS: For now. -The Trojans never harmed me.
They insulted Greece.
They insulted a man who couIdn't hold on to his wife. Is that my business?
Your business is war, my friend.
Is it? The man has no honor.
Let AchiIles fight for honor. Let Agamemnon fight for power.
And let the gods decide which man to gIorify.
PATROCLUS: For the Greeks! -Forget Agamemnon.
Fight for me.
My wife will feel much better if she knows you're by my side.
I'Il feeI much better.
We're sending the Iargest fleet that ever sailed.
A thousand ships.
Prince Hector. Is he as good a warrior as they say?
The best of all the Trojans.
Some say he's better than all the Greeks too.
Even if your cousin doesn't come...
...l hope you'lI join us. We could use a strong arm Iike yours.
Play your tricks on me, but not my cousin.
You have your swords. I have my tricks.
We play with the toys the gods give us.
We saiI for Troy in three days.
This war will never be forgotten.
Nor will the heroes who fight in it.
THETlS: I knew they wouId come for you.
Long before you were born...
...l knew they would come.
They want you to fight in Troy.
I'm making you another seashell necklace.
Like the ones l made you when you were a boy.
Do you remember?
ACHILLES: Mother...
...tonight, I decide.
If you stay in Lárisa...
...you wilI find peace.
You will find a wonderful woman.
You will have sons and daughters, and they wilI have children.
And they wiIl Iove you.
When you are gone, they will remember you.
But when your chiIdren are dead and their children after them...
...your name wilI be lost.
If you go to Troy...
...glory will be yours.
They will write stories about your victories for thousands of years.
The world will remember your name.
But if you go to Troy...
...you wilI never come home.
For your glory walks hand in hand with your doom.
And l shaIl never see you again.
[MAN SHOUTlNG]
[CROWD CHEERING]
[CLAPPlNG]
PRlAM: My son. -Father.
Paris.
Father.
-This is Helen. -Helen?
Helen of Sparta?
Helen of Troy.
I've heard rumors of your beauty.
For once...
...the gossips were right.
WeIcome.
Come, you must be tired.
Look.
-He's grown. -He is strong.
PARIS: Briseis! -Paris!
Beloved cousin, your beauty grows with each new moon.
HECTOR: Briseis.
A servant of ApolIo now.
The young men of Troy were devastated when Briseis chose the virgin robes.
HECTOR: Father...
...l know this is the last thing we need.
It is the will of the gods. Everything is in their hands.
-But I'm surprised you Iet him bring her. -If I'd let him fight MeneIaus for her...
...you'd be burning a son's body, not welcoming a daughter.
We could send peace envoys to MeneIaus.
You know Menelaus. He'd spear their heads to his gate.
What wouId you have me do?
Put her on a ship and send her home.
Women have always loved Paris, and he has loved them back.
But this is different.
Something has changed in him.
If we send her home to Menelaus, he wilI foIlow her.
HECTOR: This is my country, and these are my countrymen.
I don't want to see them suffer so my brother can have his prize.
It's not just the Spartans coming after her.
By now, Menelaus has gone to Agamemnon.
And Agamemnon has wanted to destroy us for years.
Enemies have been attacking us for centuries. Our waIls still stand.
Father, we can't win this war.
ApoIlo watches over us.
Even Agamemnon is no match for the gods.
And how many battalions does the sun god command?
Do not mock the gods.
HELEN: They're coming for me.
The wind is bringing them closer.
What if we left?
Tonight. Right now.
What if we went down to the stabIes, took two horses and left?
Ride east, keep riding.
-And go where? -Away from here.
I could hunt deer, rabbit. I could feed us.
But this is your home.
You left your home for me.
Sparta was never my home.
My parents sent my there when l was 1 6 to marry Menelaus.
But it was never my home.
We'lI live off the land.
No more palaces for us. No more servants. We don't need any of that.
And your family?
We'd be protecting my family. lf we're not here, what's the need for war?
Menelaus won't give up. He'll track us to the end of the world.
He doesn't know these lands. I do. We can Iose ourseIves in a day.
You don't know MeneIaus. You don't know his brother.
They'lI burn every house in Troy to find us.
They'lI never believe we've left.
And even if they do, they'lI burn it for spite.
Then l'll make it easy for him to find me.
I'Il waIk right up to him and tell him you're mine.
You're very young, my Iove.
[CHANTlNG]
HECTOR: Look at that.
[ASTYANAX CRYlNG]
[CROWD SCREAMING]
MAN: Take up your positions!
[SHOUTING]
My lord?
Should we wait for the others?
-They brought us here for war. -Yes, but Agamemnon's orders--
You fight for me, Eudorus, or Agamemnon?
For you, my lord.
Then fight for me. And Iet the servants of Agamemnon fight for him.
Black sail.
It's AchilIes.
AGAMEMNON: What's the fool doing?
He's going to take the beach of Troy with 50 men?
SOLDIER: Make way there! Make way!
[MUMBLlNG]
Tecton, is the ApoIlonian Guard ready?
-Waiting at the city gates. -Good. l'll be right there.
Lysander, how long before the army is ready?
Half of our men are still coming. We have to arm them--
-How long? -Noon.
Make it sooner.
ACHILLES: Patroclus!
Put down your spear.
-I'm fighting the Trojans. -Not today.
I'm ready. You taught me how to fight.
And you're a good student. But you're not a Myrmidon yet.
Look at these men.
They are the fiercest soldiers in aIl of Greece. Each of them has bled for me.
-Guard the ship. -But this is a war.
Cousin, I can't fight the Trojans if l'm concerned for you. Guard the ship.
HECTOR: Trojans!
All my Iife, l've lived by a code.
And the code is simple:
Honor the gods, love your woman...
...and defend your country.
Troy is mother to us alI.
Fight for her!
[ALL CHEERING AND SCREAMING]
Myrmidons...
...my brothers of the sword.
I'd rather fight beside you than any army of thousands.
Let no man forget how menacing we are. We are Iions!
Do you know what's there, waiting, beyond that beach?
ImmortaIity! Take it! It's yours!
MAN: Fight positions!
Archers!
[MAN SCREAMS]
Forward!
[SCREAMS]
The man wants to die.
ACHILLES: On my command!
[SCREAMS]
Break off! Break off!
[SCREAMlNG]
Look at him.
Look.
Row, you lazy whores, row!
Greeks are dying! Row!
[NElGHING]
Those men down there need heIp. Now! Tecton, with me.
[SHOUTING]
Flank! To the flank!
[GRUNTS]
Achilles! Achilles! Achilles! Achilles! Achilles!
[WARRIORS CHANTING]
Back to the city! Back to the city!
The sun god is a patron of Troy, our enemy.
Take whatever treasure you can find.
[CHEERING]
EUDORUS: With your permission, my Iord.
-Speak. -ApoIlo sees everything.
Perhaps it is not wise to offend him.
[MEN SHOUTlNG]
Warn the men.
Wait.
[SHOUTING]
ACHILLES: You are very brave or very stupid to come after me alone.
You must be Hector.
Do you know who l am?
These priests weren't armed.
Fight me!
ACHILLES: Why kill you now, prince of Troy...
...with no one here to see you fall?
Why did you come here?
They'lI be taIking about this war for 1 000 years.
In 1 000 years, the dust from our bones wiIl be gone.
Yes, prince. But our names will remain.
Go home, prince. Drink some wine, make Iove to your wife.
Tomorrow, we'Il have our war.
You speak of war as if it's a game.
How many wives wait at Troy's gates for husbands they'Il never see again?
Your brother can comfort them.
I hear he's good at charming other men's wives.
Psst.
My lord, you let him go?
It's too early in the day for killing princes.
[WARRIORS CHEERING]
WARRIORS: Achilles! Achilles!
AJAX: AchilIes. ACHILLES: Ajax.
You're as fearless as the gods. I'm honored to go to war with you.
As am I.
If you sailed slower, the war would be over.
I'Il miss the start as long as I'm here at the end.
I've got something to show you.
The men found her hiding in the tempIe.
They thought she'd...
...amuse you.
ACHILLES: What's your name?
Did you not hear me?
You kilIed ApoIlo's priests.
I've kilIed men in five countries, never a priest.
WeIl, then your men did.
The sun god wilI have his vengeance.
-What's he waiting for? -The right time to strike.
His priests are dead, and his acolyte's a captive.
-I think your god is afraid of me. -Afraid?
ApoIlo is master of the sun. He fears nothing.
-Where is he? -You're nothing but a kiIler!
You wouldn't know anything about the gods.
I know more about the gods than your priests.
I've seen them.
You're royaIty, aren't you?
Spent years talking down to men.
You must be royalty.
What's your name?
Even the servants of Apollo have names.
Briseis.
Are you afraid, Briseis?
Should I be?
EUDORUS: My lord.
Agamemnon requests your presence.
The kings are gathering to celebrate the victory.
You fought weIl today.
My lord.
What do you want here in Troy?
You didn't come for the Spartan queen.
I want what aIl men want.
I just want it more.
You don't need to fear me, girI.
You're the only Trojan who can say that.
[MAN SHOUTlNG IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
TRlOPAS: You have won a great victory, my king of kings.
No one thought the Trojan beach couId be captured so easily.
A beautifuI gift, Triopas.
You will be among the first to walk in the streets of Troy tomorrow.
My father, Neleus, had this urn made to commemorate his victory at Cyparisseis.
I present it to you...
...in honor of an even more memorable victory.
AGAMEMNON: Thank you, oId friend.
Tomorrow, we'Il eat supper in the gardens of Troy.
Leave us.
War is young men dying and oId men taIking. You know this.
Ignore the poIitics.
Apparently, you won some great victory.
Perhaps you didn't notice. The Trojan beach belonged to Priam in the morning.
It belongs to Agamemnon in the afternoon.
Have the beach. I didn't come here for sand.
No.
You came here because you want your name to last through the ages.
A great victory was won today.
But that victory is not yours.
Kings did not kneeI to AchilIes.
Kings did not pay homage to AchilIes.
Perhaps the kings were too far behind to see. SoIdiers won the battIe.
History remembers kings!
Not soldiers.
Tomorrow, we'Il batter down the gates of Troy.
I'Il build monuments on every isIand of Greece.
I'Il carve "Agamemnon" in the stone.
Be careful, king of kings. First, you need the victory.
Your men sacked the tempIe of Apollo, yes?
You want gold? Take it.
It's my gift to honor your courage. Take what you wish.
I aIready have.
Aphareus!
Haemon!
[BRlSEIS WHIMPERING]
The spoils of war.
No argument with you, but if you don't release her, you'Il never see home again.
-Decide. -Guards!
Stop!
Too many men have died today.
If kiIling is your only taIent, that's your curse.
I don't want anyone dying for me.
Mighty AchiIles, silenced by a slave girl.
Tonight, l'lI have her give me a bath.
And then...
-...who knows? -You sack of wine!
Before my time is done, I wilI look down on your corpse and smile.
[SHOUTING]
GLAUCUS: If they want a war, we wilI give them a war.
I wouId match the best of Troy against the best of Greece any day.
The best of Greece outnumber the best of Troy two to one.
Glaucus.
You have fought with me for 40 years. Can we win this war?
Our walls have never been breached.
We have the finest archers in the worId. And we have Hector.
Yes, we can win.
I spoke to two farmers today.
They saw an eagle flying with a serpent clutched in its taIons.
This is a sign from Apollo.
We will win a great victory tomorrow.
Bird signs.
You want to plan a strategy based on bird signs.
Hector, show respect. The high priest is a servant of the gods.
And l am a servant of Troy.
I've always honored the gods, Father.
But today l fought a Greek who desecrated the statue of ApolIo.
ApoIlo didn't strike the man down.
The gods won't fight this war for us.
There won't be a war.
This is not a confIict of nations.
It is a dispute between two men.
I don't want to see another Trojan die because of me.
Paris.
Tomorrow morning, I wiIl chalIenge Menelaus for the right to HeIen.
The winner wilI take her home. The loser wilI burn before nightfalI.
Father...
...l'm sorry for the pain l've caused you.
PRlAM: Do you love her?
You are a great king because you love your country so much.
Every blade of grass.
Every grain of sand.
Every rock in the river.
You love all of Troy.
That is the way l Iove HeIen.
PRlAM: I've fought many wars in my time.
Some were fought for land, some for power, some for glory.
I suppose fighting for love makes more sense than all the rest.
But l won't be the one fighting.
The sword of Troy.
My father carried this sword, and his father before him...
...all the way back to the founding of Troy.
The history of our people was written with this sword.
Carry it with you tomorrow.
The spirit of Troy is in that sword.
So long as a Trojan carries it...
...our peopIe have a future.
HECTOR: The man who kilIed Tecton outside Apollo's temple...
...l've never seen a spear thrown like that.
An impossible throw.
ANDROMACHE: Don't go tomorrow.
-PIease don't go. -Paris fights tomorrow, not me.
Fifty thousand Greeks didn't cross the sea...
...to watch your brother fight. You know this.
You'd make a fine general, my love.
You've been fighting your whoIe Iife. Let other men do battle this time.
You know I don't want to fight. I want to see my son grow talI.
I want to see the girls chasing after him.
I can't lose you.
I won't survive.
HECTOR: I must see Paris.
Wait.
Wait!
Helen, what are you doing?
-Let me go. -No.
[HELEN SOBBlNG]
I saw them burn.
I saw them burning on the pyres.
That's my fault.
It is. You know it is.
All those widows.
I stiIl hear them screaming.
Their husbands died because I'm here.
I'm going down to the ships.
No, you're not.
-I'm giving myself back to Menelaus. -It's too late for that.
Do you think Agamemnon cares about his brother's marriage?
This is about power. Not love.
Paris is going to fight in the morning.
-Yes. -Menelaus wilI kiIl him.
I won't let that happen.
-It's his decision. -No.
I can't ask anyone to fight for me.
I'm no longer queen of Sparta.
You're a princess of Troy now...
...and my brother needs you tonight.
[SHOUTING]
EUDORUS: My lord.
My lord, the army is marching.
ACHILLES: Let them. We stay. -But the men are ready.
We stay tiIl Agamemnon groans to have Achilles back.
As you wish.
Are you ready to fight?
Are you ready to kiIl? To take Iife?
I am.
At night, I see their faces, aIl the men I've killed.
They're standing there on the far bank of the River Styx.
They're waiting for me.
They say, "Welcome, brother."
We men are wretched things.
I taught you how to fight, but I never taught you why to fight.
I fight for you.
Who wilI you fight for when l'm gone?
Soldiers, they fight for kings they've never even met.
They do what they're told, die when they're told to.
Soldiers obey.
Don't waste your Iife following some fooI's orders.
Go.
Are you sure you want to do this?
I started this war.
Helen...
...sit with me.
[MAN SHOUTlNG]
MAN: Prepare to haIt!
Halt!
Move.
I see you're not hiding behind your high walls. VaIiant of you.
IlI-advised, but valiant.
You come here uninvited. Go back to your ships and go home.
We've come too far, Prince Hector.
Prince? What prince?
What son of a king wouId accept a man's hospitality...
...eat his food, drink his wine, then steaI his wife in the middIe of the night?
The sun was shining when your wife left you.
She's up there, watching, isn't she? Good.
I want her to watch you die.
AGAMEMNON: Not yet, brother.
Look around you, Hector.
I brought aIl the warriors of Greece to your shores.
You can still save Troy, young prince.
I have two wishes.
If you grant them, no more of your people need die.
First, you must give HeIen back to my brother.
Second, Troy must submit to my command...
...to fight for me whenever l call.
You want me to look upon your army and tremble?
WeIl, I see them.
I see 50,000 men brought here to fight for one man's greed.
CarefuI, boy.
My mercy has limits.
And l've seen the Iimits of your mercy.
And l teIl you now, no son of Troy wilI ever submit to a foreign ruler.
Then every son of Troy shall die.
There is another way.
I love Helen. I won't give her up and neither wiIl you.
So let us fight our own battIe.
The winner takes HeIen home. And let that be the end of it.
A brave offer, but not enough.
Let me kiIl this Iittle peacock.
I didn't come here for your pretty wife. I came here for Troy.
I came for my honor.
His every breath insults me.
Let me kiIl him. When he's lying in the dust, signaI to attack.
You'lI have your city. I'Il have my revenge.
AGAMEMNON: So be it.
I accept your challenge. And tonight, I'Il drink to your bones.
MAN: My lord. AGAMEMNON: Back to the line!
Make him swing and miss. He'Il tire.
Brother...
-...if I faIl, tell Helen-- Tell her-- -I wilI.
Don't let Menelaus hurt her. lf he--
You think of your sword and his sword and nothing eIse.
[CROWS CAWING]
[CHUCKLlNG]
Get up.
Come on.
[GROANING]
[GRUNTS]
[PARIS GROANING]
See the crows?
They never tasted prince before.
Is this what you left me for?!
Fight!
Fight me!
You coward!
Fight me!
We have a pact! Fight!
Fight him, son. Fight him.
MENELAUS: Fight me! -The Trojans have violated the agreement!
-Fight! -Prepare for battle!
This is not honor!
This is not worthy of royaIty!
If he doesn't fight, Troy is doomed.
The fight is over.
The fight is not over. Stand back, Prince Hector.
I'Il kill him at your feet. I don't care.
He is my brother.
[GROANING]
[SCREAMS]
[SHOUTING]
Paris!
Go!
Get inside, Paris!
Archers!
-Our men are too cIose to the walIs. -PulI back, you fool!
For Troy!
[SCREAMlNG]
-Now! -Loose!
Get them in Iine!
Get the men back into Iines!
Front line, push!
Ah!
[WARRIORS CHEERING]
Forward.
Forward!
[CHANTlNG]
ApoIlonians! Now!
Prince Hector!
We need to retreat!
AGAMEMNON: My army's never Iost a battle yet!
You won't have an army if you don't faIl back!
Back to the ships!
-Back to the ships! ODYSSEUS: Retreat!
AGAMEMNON: Back! ODYSSEUS: Retreat!
AGAMEMNON: Go back!
[CHEERING]
Back. Back to the ships!
HECTOR: FaIl back!
-Men, falI back! MAN: Halt!
Halt!
But we have them on the run!
We're in range of their archers.
Have our men gather our faIlen.
Send an emissary to them. They can collect their dead.
Would they have done the same for us?
HECTOR: Go! Back!
FaIl back into Iine!
You think I'm a coward.
I am a coward.
I knew he wouId kilI me.
You were watching.
My father.
My brother. All of Troy. Shame didn't matter.
I gave up my pride...
...my honor...
...just to live.
For Iove.
You challenged a great warrior. That took courage.
I betrayed you.
Menelaus was a brave man.
He lived for fighting.
And every day l was with him, I wanted to waIk into the sea and drown.
I don't want a hero, my love. I want a man I can grow oId with.
They're laughing at me in Troy. Drunk with victory!
They think I'Il sail home at first light.
ODYSSEUS: Maybe we should.
Flee? Like a whipped dog?
The men beIieve we came here for MeneIaus' wife.
Won't be needing her anymore.
My brother's bIood still wets the sand, and you insult him!
It's no insuIt to say a dead man is dead.
If we leave now, we Iose alI credibility.
The Trojans can beat us so easily. How Iong before the Hittites invade?
ODYSSEUS: lf we stay, we stay here for the right reasons.
To protect Greece, not your pride.
Your private battle with AchilIes is destroying us.
AchiIles is one man.
Hector is one man.
Look what he did to us today.
Hector fights for his country! AchiIles fights only for himself!
I don't care about the man's aIlegiance. I care about his abiIity to win battles.
He's right. The men's morale is weak.
Even if I could make peace with AchilIes, the man won't Iisten to me!
He's as IikeIy to spear me as to speak to me!
I'Il talk to him.
He'll want the girI back.
He can have that damn girl.
I haven't touched her.
Where is she?
I gave her to the men.
They need some amusement after today.
[MEN LAUGHlNG]
APHAREUS: Come on, give the bitch to me!
Who's first?
HAEMON: Trojan whore!
ECHEPOLUS: What's this? A virgin's robe?
HAEMON: You won't be needing that! APHAREUS: HoId her.
Better to be a Spartan slave than a Trojan--
ECHEPOLUS: AchiIles!
Ah!
[BRlSEIS SOBBlNG]
Are you hurt?
I watched you fight them. You have courage.
To fight back when people attack me? Dog has that kind of courage.
Eat.
I've known men like you my whole life.
No, you haven't.
You think you're so different from 1 000 others?
Soldiers understand nothing but war. Peace confuses them.
-And you hate these soldiers. -I pity them.
Trojan soldiers died trying to protect you.
Perhaps they deserve more than your pity.
Why did you choose this life?
-What life? -To be a great warrior.
I chose nothing. I was born, and this is what l am.
And you? Why did you choose to Iove a god?
I think you'Il find the romance one-sided.
Do you enjoy provoking me?
You've dedicated your Iife to the gods.
Zeus, god of thunder. Athena, goddess of wisdom. You serve them.
-Yes, of course. -And Ares, god of war?
Who bIankets his bed with the skin of men he's kiIled?
All the gods are to be feared and respected.
I'Il telI you a secret...
...something they don't teach you in your temple.
The gods envy us.
They envy us because we're mortal.
Because any moment might be our last.
Everything's more beautiful because we're doomed.
You will never be Iovelier than you are now.
We will never be here again.
I thought you were a dumb brute.
I could have forgiven a dumb brute.
ACHILLES: Do it.
Nothing is easier.
Aren't you afraid?
Everyone dies. Today or 50 years from now. What does it matter?
Do it.
You'lI kill more men if l don't kiIl you.
Many.
[KNlFE CLANGING]
EUDORUS: My lord, there's--
TeIl the men to start loading the ship. We're going home.
EUDORUS: Gather the stores.
Agamemnon is a proud man.
But he knows when he's made a mistake.
The man sends you to make his apologies?
What are you doing enthralled to that pig of a king?
The world seems simpIe to you, my friend...
...but when you're a king, very few choices are simpIe.
Ithaca cannot afford an enemy like Agamemnon.
Are we supposed to fear him?
You don't fear anyone. That's your problem. Fear is useful.
We need you back.
Greece needs you.
Greece got aIong fine before l was born.
Greece wilI be Greece long after l'm dead.
I'm not talking about the land. The men need you.
Stay, Achilles.
You were born for this war.
Things are Iess simpIe today.
Women have a way of complicating things.
Of all the kings of Greece, I respect you the most.
But in this war, you're a servant.
Sometimes you have to serve in order to Iead.
I hope you understand that one day.
We're going home?
We saiI in the morning.
Greeks are being slaughtered. We can't just saiI away.
If it's fighting you stilI long for, there will always be another war.
These are our countrymen.
You betray alI of Greece just to see Agamemnon faIl.
Someone has to lose.
The gods favor our cause.
Now is the time to destroy the Greek army.
[MEN SHOUTlNG]
Their morale is battered.
Hit them now. Hit them hard.
And they wiIl run.
HECTOR: The Myrmidons didn't fight yesterday.
There must be dissension among the Greeks.
But if we attack their ships, we wilI unify them.
If they decide to attack us, let them.
Our walls can't be breached. We'lI beat them back again.
[MEN MUMBLlNG]
HECTOR: Yesterday, the Greeks underestimated us.
We should not return the favor.
You're confident about the meaning of these omens?
The desecration of his tempIe angers ApolIo.
The gods have cursed the Greeks.
Prepare the army. We attack at daybreak.
BRlSEIS: Am l still your captive?
You're my guest.
In Troy, guests can Ieave whenever they want.
You should leave then.
Would you leave this aIl behind?
Would you leave Troy?
[WARRIORS SHOUTlNG]
[HORN BLOWlNG]
[WARRIORS SCREAMING]
[BANGlNG]
AGAMEMNON: Hold those barricades!
HECTOR: Archers to the rear.
[MEN SHOUTlNG]
AchiIles.
[WARRIORS CHEERING]
Now!
ODYSSEUS: Forward!
[WARRIORS CHEERING]
[GRUNTS]
Enough for one day.
ODYSSEUS: Yes.
Back to the ships!
MAN: Back to the ships!
It was his cousin.
GLAUCUS: To Troy!
-Back to the city! MAN: Back to the city!
To Troy!
Back to the city!
We were going to saiI home today.
I don't think anyone's sailing home now.
AchiIles.
You vioIated my command.
No, my lord. There was a mistake.
I ordered the Myrmidons to stand down.
You led them into combat.
I didn't Iead them, my lord. We thought you did.
Where's Patroclus?
Patroclus!
We thought he was you, my lord.
He wore your armor, your shield, your greaves, your helmet.
He even moved like you.
Where is he?
-Where? -He's dead, my Iord.
Hector cut his throat.
Don't! Don't!
ANDROMACHE: Where are you taking me?
Do you remember how to get here?
Yes.
HECTOR: The next time you come here, foIlow the tunnel.
There are no turns, so you can't get Iost. Just keep walking.
When you get to the end, you'lI be by the river.
FoIlow the river until you get to Mount Ida.
Why are you teIling me this?
-If I die... -No.
...l don't know how long the city will stand.
If the Greeks get inside the walls, it's over.
They'lI kiIl alI the men, throw the babies from the city walls.
-PIease. -The women, they'Il take as sIaves.
-That, for you, will be worse than dying. -Why are you saying such things?
Because I want you to be ready.
I want you to get our boy, and l want you to bring him here.
You save as many peopIe as you can, but you get here. And you run.
I kiIled a boy today.
And he was young.
He was much too young.
That boy has just saved this war for us.
[ARROW FLIES]
ACHILLES: Eudorus. EUDORUS: My Iord.
ACHILLES: I need my armor.
No.
BRlSEIS: Don't go!
Rope!
Hector's my cousin. He's a good man.
Don't fight him. Please don't fight him.
Please.
Ha!
HECTOR: No.
ACHILLES: Hector!
Father...
...forgive me for any offenses.
I've served you as best as l could.
ACHILLES: Hector!
May the gods be with you.
Hector.
No father ever had a better son.
ACHILLES: Hector!
ApoIlo guard you, my prince.
You're the best man l know.
You're a prince of Troy.
I know you'll make me proud.
ACHILLES: Hector!
Remember what I told you.
You don't have to go. You don't.
You remember what I told you.
ACHILLES: Hector!
[CRYING]
ACHILLES: Hector!
I've seen this moment in my dreams.
I'Il make a pact with you.
With the gods as our witnesses...
...let us pledge that the winner wiIl alIow the loser aIl the proper funeral rituals.
There are no pacts between lions and men.
Now you know who you're fighting.
I thought it was you I was fighting yesterday.
And l wish it had been you. But I gave the dead boy the honor he deserved.
You gave him the honor of your sword.
You won't have eyes tonight. You won't have ears or a tongue.
You'lI wander the underworld bIind, deaf, and dumb, and all the dead wilI know:
This is Hector, the fooI who thought he killed AchiIles.
HECTOR: Ah!
Get up, prince of Troy.
Get up. l won't let a stone take my glory.
HECTOR: Ah!
[GASPlNG]
[SOBBlNG]
You lost your cousin.
Now you've taken mine.
When does it end?
It never ends.
Who are you?
I have endured what no one on earth has endured before.
I kissed the hands of the man who killed my son.
Priam?
How did you get in here?
I know my own country better than the Greeks, I think.
You're a brave man.
I could have your head on a spit in the bIink of an eye.
Do you really think death frightens me now?
I watched my eIdest son die...
...watched you drag his body behind your chariot.
Give him back to me.
He deserves the honor of a proper burial. You know that.
Give him to me.
He killed my cousin.
He thought it was you.
How many cousins have you killed?
How many sons and fathers and brothers and husbands?
How many, brave AchiIles?
I knew your father.
He died before his time.
But he was lucky not to live Iong enough to see his son fall.
You have taken everything from me.
My eldest son...
...heir to my throne...
...defender of my kingdom.
I cannot change what happened. It is the will of the gods.
But give me this small mercy.
I loved my boy from the moment he opened his eyes...
...tilI the moment you cIosed them.
Let me wash his body.
Let me say the prayers.
Let me place two coins on his eyes for the boatman.
If l Iet you walk out of here...
...if I let you take him...
...it doesn't change anything.
You're stiIl my enemy in the morning.
You're stiIl my enemy tonight.
But even enemies can show respect.
ACHILLES: I admire your courage.
Meet me outside in a moment.
[SOBBlNG]
We'lI meet again soon, my brother.
Your son was the best I've fought.
In my country, the funeral games last for 1 2 days.
It is the same in my country.
Then the prince will have that honor.
No Greek wiIl attack Troy for 1 2 days.
PRlAM: Briseis?
We thought you were dead.
You are free.
If l hurt you...
...it's not what l wanted.
Go.
No one will stop you. You have my word.
PRlAM: Come, my girl.
You're a far better king than the one leading this army.
AchiIles makes a secret pact, and I have to honor it? What treason is this?
Consorting with the enemy king. Giving him 1 2 days of peace.
Peace! Peace!
Their prince is dead. Their army is IeaderIess.
This is the time to attack!
Even with Hector gone, we have no way to breach their walIs.
I will smash their walls to the ground...
...if it costs me 40,000 Greeks. Hear me, Zeus!
I will smash their walls to the ground.
ODYSSEUS: That's good.
For my son back home.
AGAMEMNON: WeIl, Odysseus.
You found a way to make the sheep invite the wolves to dinner.
Forgive me, Eudorus. I should never have struck you.
You've been a IoyaI friend all your life.
I hope I never disappoint you again.
It's l who have been the disappointment.
Rouse the men. You're taking them home.
Aren't you coming with us?
I have my own battIe to fight.
Let me march beside you.
No. I don't want our men to be a part of this.
It's a beautifuI night.
Go, Eudorus. This is the last order I give you.
Fighting for you has been my life's honor, my lord.
TROJAN ENVOY: Open the gates!
GLAUCUS: Here.
PRlAM: Plague.
GLAUCUS: Don't go too cIose, my king.
This is the will of the gods.
They desecrated the tempIe of Apollo...
...and Apollo desecrated their flesh.
They thought they couId come here and sack our city in a day.
Now Iook at them, fleeing across the Aegean.
PRlAM: What is this?
ARCHEPTOLEMUS: An offering to Poseidon.
The Greeks are praying for a safe return home.
This is a gift. We should take it to the temple of Poseidon.
-I think we should burn it. VELIOR: Burn it?
My prince, it's a gift to the gods.
Father, burn it.
[CROWD CHEERING]
PARIS: Look at them.
You'd think their prince had never died.
You are the prince now.
Make your brother proud.
[NElGHING]
[MEN GROANlNG AND SCREAMING]
[WOMAN SCREAMING]
[SCREAMS]
Briseis. Where is she?
-Where? -I don't know.
Please. l have a son.
Then get him out of Troy.
[NElGHING]
Briseis!
[CROWD SCREAMING]
Paris! Andromache!
Helen. We must go.
HELEN: Where? ANDROMACHE: I'Il show you.
HELEN: Paris.
It's a long way. Quick. We must go now.
ACHILLES: Briseis!
BRlSEIS: Paris!
[NElGHING]
[GASPS]
Let it burn! Let Troy burn!
Burn it! Burn it alI!
Burn Troy!
It's a long way. Quick.
HELEN: Come. PARIS: I stay.
HELEN: No. -My father will never abandon the city.
I can't leave him.
The city is dead. They're burning it to the ground.
PARIS: What's your name? -Aeneas.
-Do you know how to use a sword? -Yes.
The sword of Troy.
As long as it's in the hands of a Trojan, our people have a future.
Protect them, Aeneas. Find them a new home.
-I wilI. ANDROMACHE: Hurry.
Paris, Briseis wasn't in her room.
I'Il find her.
Go.
-I'll stay with you. -Go.
Please don't leave me.
-How could you Iove me if I ran now? -PIease.
We will be together again, in this world or the next. We wilI be together.
Go.
ODYSSEUS: To the gate!
Soldiers of Troy...
...you men are warriors!
To Iead you has been my honor!
WARRIORS: Yeah! -My prince!
The boatman waits for us.
I say we make him wait a little longer!
[CHEERING]
BRlSEIS: Paris!
PRlAM: Have you no honor?
Too late for prayer, priestess.
I aImost lost this war because of your little romance.
You'lI be my sIave in Mycenae.
A Trojan priestess scrubbing my fIoors.
And at night....
MAN: Get up!
Hold her.
ACHILLES: Come with me.
No!
Paris!
No!
Stop! Please!
Paris! Don't!
It's all right.
You gave me peace...
...in a lifetime of war.
Briseis, come.
ACHILLES: Go.
You must.
No.
Troy is falIing.
Go.
We must go. I know a way out.
[MEN SHOUTlNG]
It's all right.
Go.
PARIS: Briseis, come.
Go.
Find peace...
...my brother.
If they ever tell my story, let them say...
...I walked with giants.
Men rise and fall like the winter wheat...
...but these names will never die.
Let them say l lived in the time of Hector...
...tamer of horses.
Let them say...
...I lived in the time of Achilles.
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