Two Great Nations At War over a Woman. How Can It Fail?
Hollywood would probably define an epic as a war movie for kids, in three or more installments. But before The Lord of the Rings, before Star Wars and Star Trek--nearly three millenniums before--a blind bard named Homer sang of an Olympian spat and the decade-long battle it stoked between the great, ancient civilizations of Greece and Troy.
Wolfgang Petersen, the German director who has won worldwide audiences for manly crises under the water (Das Boot), on its roiling surface (The Perfect Storm) and in the sky (Air Force...
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