Hector and Achilles, was: matching game

[GavinRees at aol.com]

This is probably unhelpful, and I am going to apologise in advance for that. 
I can't think of any Japanese films that are particularly homeric, but The 
Thin Red Line, which is currently showing in Japan, perfectly captures the 
same sense of war that is  in the Iliad -- of slaughter that nobody can see 
any end to. In fact the character played  by Nick Nolte spends large sections 
of the film quoting from Homer "Rosy fingered dawn, the child of the morning, 
starts its chariot across the sky...." kind of thing. 

I suppose Seven Samurai contains the same idea of inevitable sacrifice, and 
of the divine bettered by grubby humanity. (ie the Sword Master who is shot 
by a bandit with a gun.).

Completely unhelpful, I am sure. Sorry! 


Gavin Rees