Troy : How Hollywood Kills Stories
By
Cathy Lynn Pagano
My friend says we breathe the world in through stories. I know that sometimes the only way to understand a situation is through a story. Yet our media feeds us stories 24/7 without really satisfying us. This is because it feeds us dead stories, stories emptied of meaning.
Once again Hollywood has missed an opportunity to tell us a story that matters; that could have made us contemplate our lives and the state of the world. Only Hollywood could take one of the seminal stories of Western culture and distort its meaning by the manner of its telling. Wolfgang Petersen
