Agamemnon

Chained (2012)

Actors: Philip Granger (actor), Mike Dopud (actor), Patrick Sabongui (producer), Patrick Sabongui (director), Aden Bahadori (editor), MacKenzie Porter (actress), Kyra Zagorsky (actress), Kyra Zagorsky (producer), Kyra Zagorsky (writer), Brian Lyster (composer), Ashley Alexander (actress), Corale Knowles (actor), Jocelyn Clarke (actress),

Plot: The great war-king Agamemnon's daughter is fated to be sacrificed to the gods. In a last ditch effort to rescue her, he calls upon his guardian goddess, Athena and entreats her her to defend Iphigenia from her death sentence. Set in a post-apocalyptic world, 'Chained' reflects how the bond between father and daughter and the relationship between mankind and their creators is timeless.

Genres: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Short,
Taglines: When the Gods force your hand, can you fight to change it? Would you fight the Gods to change your fate?

Troy (2004)

Actors: Julie Christie (actress), Brad Pitt (actor), Rose Byrne (actress), John Shrapnel (actor), Orlando Bloom (actor), Saffron Burrows (actress), Peter O'Toole (actor), Sean Bean (actor), Eric Bana (actor), Brian Cox (actor), Brendan Gleeson (actor), Julian Glover (actor), James Cosmo (actor), Wolfgang Petersen (producer), Diane Kruger (actress),

Plot: It is the year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age. Two emerging nations begin to clash after Paris, the Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to leave her husband, Menelaus, and sail with him back to Troy. After Menelaus finds out that his wife was taken by the Trojans, he asks his brother Agamemnon to help him get her back. Agamemnon sees this as an opportunity for power. So they set off with 1,000 ships holding 50,000 Greeks to Troy. With the help of Achilles, the Greeks are able to fight the never before defeated Trojans. But they come to a stop by Hector, Prince of Troy. The whole movie shows their battle struggles and the foreshadowing of fate in this remake by Wolfgang Petersen of Homer's "The Iliad."

Keywords: achilles'-heel, achilles-tendon, achilles-tendon-cut, adulterous-wife, adultery, aegean-sea, ancient-civilization, ancient-greece, ancient-troy, ancient-world
Genres: Adventure, Drama,
Taglines: For Honor For Victory For Love For Destiny For Passion For Troy

Quotes:

Agamemnon: Peace is for women and the weak.

Andromache: [to Hector] I can't imagine life without you.

Priam: I've fought many wars in my time. Some I've fought for land, some for power, some for glory. I suppose fighting for love makes more sense than all the rest.

Glaucus: [the Appolonians are making their last stand] Soldiers of Troy! You men are warriors! To lead you has been my honor! [to Paris] My prince! The boatman waits for us! I say, we make him wait a little longer!::[Trojans attack as the Greeks break down the last barricade]

Agamemnon: I see you're not hiding behind your high walls. Valiant of you. Ill-advised, but valiant.::Hector: You come here uninvited. Go back to your ships and go home.::Agamemnon: We've come too far, Prince Hector.::Menelaus: Prince? What prince? What son of a king would accept a man's hospitality, eat his food, drink his wine, embrace him in friendship, and then steal his wife in the middle of the night?::Paris: The sun was shining when your wife left you.::Menelaus: 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 all the warriors of Greece to your shores.::Nestor: You can still save Troy, young prince.::Agamemnon: I have two wishes. If you grant them, no more of your people need die. First, you must give Helen back to my brother. Second, Troy must submit to my command, to fight for me whenever I call.::Hector: You want me to look upon your army and tremble? Well I see them. I see 50,000 men brought here to fight for one man's greed.::Agamemnon: Careful boy, my mercy has limits.::Hector: And I've seen the limits of your mercy and I tell you now, no son of Troy will ever submit to a foreign ruler.::Agamemnon: Then every son of Troy shall die.

[Paris cowardly bows out of a duel with Menelaus, leaving everyone aghast, especially Menelaus]::Menelaus: [shouts to Helen] Is this what you left me for?

[Eyes closed, Briseis has blade against his throat]::Achilles: Do it. [Briseis doesn't do anything, but only stares at him. Achilles opens his eyes] Do it. Nothing is easier.::Briseis: Aren't you afraid?::Achilles: Everyone dies, whether today or fifty years from now.::Briseis: If I don't, you'll kill more men.::Achilles: Many.

Odysseus: [Achilles throws his spear into a nearby tree] Your reputation for hospitality is fast becoming legend.

Agamemnon: [approaches king] Good day for the crows.::Triopas: Remove your army from my land.::Agamemnon: Why, I like your land, I think we'll stay. I like your soldiers too.::Triopas: They won't fight for you.::Agamemnon: That's what the Messenians said, and the Acardians, and the Opeians, now they all fight for me.::Triopas: You can't have the whole world, Agamemnon. It's too big, even for you.::Agamemnon: I don't want to watch another massacre. Let's settle this war in the old manner. Your best fighter against my best.::Triopas: And if my man wins?::Agamemnon: We'll leave Thessaly for good.::Triopas: Boagrius!::[cheers from Thessalian army. Boagrius comes out from the centre of the army]::Agamemnon: Achilles!::[silence]::Triopas: Boagrius has this effect on many heroes.::Agamemnon: Be careful who you insult, old king.::Greek Soldier: My king, Achilles is not with the army.::Agamemnon: Where is he?::Greek Soldier: I sent a boy to look for him.

Achilles: If I hurt you, it's not what I wanted

Elektra (1981)

Actors: Hugo von Hofmannsthal (writer), Rolf Boysen (actor), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (actor), Götz Friedrich (director), Josef Greindl (actor), Pet Halmen (costume designer), Catarina Ligendza (actress), Leonie Rysanek (actress), Colette Lorand (actress), Kurt Böhme (actor), Hans Beirer (actor), Astrid Varnay (actress), Christopher Doig (actor), Olga Varia (actress), Carmen Reppel (actress),

Genres: Drama, Music,

Troilus & Cressida (1981)

Actors: Jonathan Miller (director), Vernon Dobtcheff (actor), Anton Lesser (actor), Jonathan Miller (producer), Harry Fielder (actor), Esmond Knight (actor), William Shakespeare (writer), John Shrapnel (actor), Charles Gray (actor), Benjamin Whitrow (actor), John Wilders (miscellaneous crew), Kenneth Haigh (actor), David Snodin (miscellaneous crew), Geoffrey Chater (actor), Tony Steedman (actor),

Genres: Drama,

Sköna Helena (1967)

Actors: Anneli Sauli (actress), Nils Brandt (actor), Gösta Bredefeldt (actor), Jukka Sipilä (actor), Carl Mesterton (director), Henri Meilhac (writer), Ludovic Halévy (writer), Stig Fransman (actor), Ritva Oksanen (actress), Runar Schauman (actor), Susanna Ringbom (actress), Ture Ara (actor), Dmitri Cheremeteff (miscellaneous crew), Berith Bohm (actress), Per Wager (actor),

Genres: Musical,

Ilektra (1962)

Actors: Malaina Anousaki (actress), Thodoros Exarhos (actor), Mihalis Kakogiannis (director), Mihalis Kakogiannis (writer), Mikis Theodorakis (composer), Mihalis Kakogiannis (producer), Irene Papas (actress), Manos Katrakis (actor), Kostas Kazakos (actor), Takis Emmanuel (actor), Giannis Fertis (actor), Euripides (writer), Notis Peryalis (actor), Afroditi Grigoriadou (actress), Giannis Kasdaglis (actor),

Plot: A powerful rendering of the tragedy of Elektra by Euripides, second in a trilogy. The film begins with a summary treatment without dialogue of the action of the preceding play, The Agamemnon, in which the wicked Queen Clytemnestra and her lover Aesgisthes murder her husband Agamemnon upon his return from the Trojan War.

Keywords: ancient-greece, argos-greece, armor, army, axe, bacchus, bare-chested-male, bare-feet, based-on-play, bath
Genres: Drama,

Quotes:

Chorus Leader: My child, you must talk to the gods. They will hear you.::Elektra: No god hears me. No human being is listening to my prayers.

Elektra's Husband: Why are you taking care of me? You have enough unhappiness. I keep repeating this to you but you don't listen to me.::Elektra: I've been very lucky to find in you a good and very loyal friend. It's a great pleasure to ease your harsh life. Let me look after the house for you. After a hard day's work, a man likes to find his house in order.

Elektra: I have a pitiful marriage.::Orestis: Now your brother must cry for you.

Orestis: And the mother who gave you life, why did she permit this marriage?::Elektra: That woman hears only her man.::Orestis: But why would Aegisthus allow this disgrace?::Elektra: So that our children would never be able to govern.::Orestis: It's fear that influences his conduct?::Elektra: He's afraid of vengeance, and that fear devours him.

Orestis: It's true. Nobleness is not easily recognized. You can be born noble and be worthless. To be born with a generous heart is true nobility.::Pylades: You're right. In rich people I've seen incredible pettiness, and among poor people a generous soul.

The Tutor: Prepare yourself to receive a gift that has no price.

Orestis: This man used to be a master, now he is slave.

Elektra: I would talk but I am afraid.::Orestis: No longer do you have to be afraid.::Elektra: Perhaps they'll accuse us of insulting the dead.::Orestis: Nobody would reproach you.::Elektra: People accuse and judge quickly here.

Orestis: How can I kill the one who gave me birth?::Elektra: Like she killed your father.

Elektra: [eulogy to Aegisthus] You, treacherous assassin. You, who threw both of us into a dark solitude, speak up and tell me, what did we do to you? Coward. You kept yourself away from battle to crawl into a stranger's bed. What did you think? That a woman who dishonors her husband can remain faithful to another man? But you knew, you and my mother, that your love was stained with blood, and you lived together as criminals, deceiving each other. And wherever you went, people said, "There goes Klytaemnistra's man. Here is her toy, her slave. SHE is the ruler of her household." But you were so insignificant that you didn't feel humiliated to be the toy of a woman. You threw yourself into the pleasures of life and walked round as an important man. You only thought about dancing and the women who you seduced with your libidinous eyes. You pretty-boy. Didn't you ever think that everything comes to an end, and that a man's character is his only help when Fate rolls the dice? Get lost, you fool. The way you lived brought forth the way you died.

La guerra di Troia (1961)

Actors: Nando Tamberlani (actor), Giorgio Ferroni (writer), Benito Stefanelli (miscellaneous crew), Nerio Bernardi (actor), Giovanni Cianfriglia (actor), Antonietta Zita (editor), Arturo Dominici (actor), Giorgio Ferroni (director), Ugo Liberatore (writer), Mimmo Palmara (actor), Nello Pazzafini (actor), Giovanni Fusco (composer), Carlo Tamberlani (actor), Giancarlo Bastianoni (actor), Juliette Mayniel (actress),

Genres: Adventure, Drama, War,
Taglines: The World's Mightiest Man In The Mightiest Spectacle Ever Filmed.

Helen of Troy (1956)

Actors: Jacques Sernas (actor), Brigitte Bardot (actress), Harry Andrews (actor), Stanley Baker (actor), Torin Thatcher (actor), Robert Douglas (actor), Riccardo Garrone (actor), Cedric Hardwicke (actor), Esmond Knight (actor), Marc Lawrence (actor), Robert Brown (actor), Eduardo Ciannelli (actor), Niall MacGinnis (actor), Guido Notari (actor), Rossana Podestà (actress),

Plot: Prince Paris of Troy, shipwrecked on a mission to the king of Sparta, meets and falls for Queen Helen before he knows who she is. Rudely received by the royal Greeks, he must flee...but fate and their mutual passions lead him to take Helen along. This gives the Greeks just the excuse they need for much-desired war.

Keywords: abduction, ancient-greece, arson, bare-chested-male, battle, battlefield, blonde, boat, bow-and-arrow, boxing
Genres: Adventure, Drama, History, Romance, War,
Taglines: Its towering wonders span the age of titans!

Quotes:

Priam: [on seeing the Greek naval fleet approaching] The face that launched a thousand ships!

Paris: Make me immortal with a kiss!

Helen: [seeing the Trojan horse] Beware Greeks bearing gifts.

Helen: Forgive me Helen. You're two women. Both wise and good. I am two men, one fairly good, I try to believe and the other very bad indeed.::Helen: One is a man, the other just a boy I think... Paris, let him be so always... Never let him grow old.

Paris: Oh Goddess come to Earth. Make me a mortal with your kiss and we'll live on nectar and ambrosia... [kiss]... But I am not sure I like being so ethereal.

Helen: There's away Gods have... To give with one hand and take with two.

Ulisse (1954)

Actors: Piero Pastore (actor), Renato Malavasi (actor), Piero Lulli (actor), Enzo Maggio (actor), Andrea Bosic (actor), Jacques Dumesnil (actor), Andrea Aureli (actor), Mario Feliciani (actor), Oscar Andriani (actor), Alberto Lupo (actor), Giovanni Di Benedetto (actor), Franco Interlenghi (actor), Daniel Ivernel (actor), Kirk Douglas (actor), Aldo Pini (actor),

Genres: Adventure,
Taglines: One of the greatest adventures of world literature! Packed with fury...excitement...cunning and tempestuous love! History's Greatest Romantic Adventure-Now Brought Magnificently to the Screen! Ulysses Leads His Warriors Through History's Greatest Adventure! the loves and adventures of Ulysses History's Greatest Epic...On the Screen at Last! PACKED WITH FURY...EXCITEMENT...CUNNING...AND TEMPESTUOUS LOVE! (original print ad - all caps) SEE Ulysses' adventures filmed where they happened -- 5000 years ago!

Sacrifice to the Wind (1954)

Actors: Wilfrid Brambell (actor), Rudolph Cartier (producer), Rudolph Cartier (director), Douglas Wilmer (actor), Margaretta Scott (actress), Andrew Cruickshank (actor), John Justin (actor), Tony Britton (actor), Harry Lane (actor), André Obey (writer), John Whiting (writer), Clare Austin (actress), Arthur Mason (actor),

Genres: Drama,