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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 dual with Menelaus, leaving everyone aghast, especially Menelaus]
Menelaus: [shouts to Helen] Is this what you left me for?
Achilles: I want what all men want, I just want it more.
Achilles: What's your name?
[no reply]
Achilles: Did you not hear me?
Briseis: You killed Apollo's priests!
Achilles: I've killed men in five countries, never a priest.
Briseis: Well, then your men did. The sun god will have his vengeance.
Achilles: What's he waiting for?
Briseis: The right time to strike.
Achilles: His priest's are dead, and his acolyte's a captive. i think your god is afraid of me.
Briseis: Afraid? Apollo is master of the sun, he fears nothing.
Achilles: Where is he?
Briseis: You're nothing but a killer! You wouldn't know anything about the gods!
Achilles: I know more about the gods than your priest's. I've seen them. You're royalty aren't you? Spent years talking down to men.
[sniffs her hair]
Achilles: You must be royalty. What's your name? even the servants of Apollo have names.
Briseis: Briseis
Achilles: Are you afraid, Briseis?
Briseis: Should I be?
Eudorus: [poking head through door flaps] My lord, Agamemnon requests your presence. The kings are gathering to celebrate the victory.
Achilles: You fought well today.
Eudorus: My lord.
Briseis: What do you want here in Troy? You didn't come for the Spartan queen.
Achilles: I want what all men want, I just want it more. You don't need to fear me girl, you're the only Trojan who can say that.
Achilles: [Eyes closed, Briseis has blade against his throat] Do it.
Achilles: [Briseis doesn't do anything, just 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: [approachs king] Good day for the crows.
Thessalian King: Remove your army from my land.
Agamemnon: Why, I like your land, I think we'll stay. I like your soldiers too.
Thessalian King: 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.
Thessalian King: 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.
Thessalian King: And if my man wins?
Agamemnon: We'll leave Thessaly for good.
Thessalian King: Boagrius!
[cheers from Thessalian army.Boagrius comes out from the centre of the army]
Agamemnon: Achilles!
[silence]
Thessalian King: 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
Menelaus: Princes of Troy, on our last night together, Queen Helen and I salute you!
Menelaus: May the Gods keep the wolves in the hills and the women in our beds!
Menelaus: I want her back.
Agamemnon: Well of course you do, she's a beautiful woman.
Menelaus: I want her back so I can kill her with my own two hands, and I won't rest till I've burned Troy to the ground.
Agamemnon: I thought you wanted peace with Troy.
Menelaus: I should have listened to you.
Agamemnon: Peace is for the women, and the weak. Empires are forged by war.
Menelaus: All my life I've stood by your side, fought your enemies. You're the elder, you reap the glory. This is the war of the world. But have I ever complained brother? Have I ever asked you for anything?
Agamemnon: Never. You're a man of honour.
Menelaus: Will you go to war with me brother?
Nestor: One more thing, we need Achilles and his Myrmidon.
Agamemnon: Achilles? He can't be controlled. He's as likely to fight us as the Trojans.
Nestor: We don't need to control him, we need to unleash him. That man was born to end lives.
Agamemnon: Yes, he's a gifted killer. But he threatens everything I've built. Before me, Greece was nothing. I brought all the Greek kingdoms together. I created a nation out of fire worshippers and snake eaters! I build the future Nestor, Me! achilles is the past. A man who fights for no flag. A man loyal to no country.
Nestor: How many battles have we won off the edge of his sword? This will be the greatest war the world has ever seen. We need the greatest warrior.
Agamemnon: There's only one man he'll listen to.
Achilles: Why? Are the Greeks tired of fighting each other?
Odysseus: For now.
Achilles: Flank! To the flank!
Achilles: Apparently you won some great victory.
Agamemnon: Ah, Perhaps you didn't notice. The Trojan beach belonged to Priam in the morning. It belongs to Agamemnon in the afternoon.
Achilles: You can have the beach. I didn't come here for sand.
Agamemnon: 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 kneel to Achilles. Kings did not pay homage to Achilles.
Achilles: Perhaps the kings were too far behind to see, the soldiers won the battle.
Agamemnon: History remembers kings! Not soldiers! Tomorrow we'll batter down the gates of Troy! I'll build monuments to victory on every island of Greece. I'll carve "Agamemnon" in the stone.
Achilles: Be careful king of kings. First you need the victory.
Agamemnon: Your men sacked the temple of Apollo yes?
Achilles: You want gold? Take it. It's my gift to honour your courage. Take what you wish.
Agamemnon: I already have. Aphareus! Haemon!
[Aphareus and Haemon appear dragging Briseis]
Agamemnon: The spoils of war.
Achilles: No argument with you brothers. But if you don't release her, you'll never see home again. Decide!
Agamemnon: Guards!
[Achilles draws his sword]
Briseis: [Breaking free from guards] Stop! Too many men have died today. If killing is your only talent, that's your curse. I don't want anyone dying for me.
[Achilles groans then sheaths his sword]
Agamemnon: Mighty Achilles, silenced by a slave girl. Tonight I'll have her give me a bath, and then, who knows?
Achilles: You sack of wine! Before my time is done, I will look down on your corpse and smile.
Menelaus: I want her back.
Agamemnon: Well of course you do, she's a beautiful woman.
Menelaus: I want her back so I can kill her with my own two hands, and I won't rest till I've burned Troy to the ground.
Agamemnon: I thought you wanted peace with Troy.
Menelaus: I should have listened to you.
Agamemnon: Peace is for the women, and the weak. Empires are forged by war.
Menelaus: All my life I've stood by your side, fought your enemies. You're the elder, you reap the glory. This is the way of the world. But have I ever complained brother? Have I ever asked you for anything?
Agamemnon: Never. You're a man of honour.
Menelaus: Will you go to war with me brother?
Achilles: [Eyes closed, Briseis has blade against his throat] Do it.
Achilles: [Briseis doesn't do anything, just stares at him. Achilles opens his eyes] Nothing is easier. Do it.
Briseis: Aren't you afraid?
Achilles: Everyone dies, whether today or fifty years from now. What does it matter?
Briseis: You'll kill more men if I don't kill you.
Achilles: Many.
Agamemnon: [approachs 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.
Agamemnon's Officer: My king, Achilles is not with the army.
Agamemnon: Where is he?
Agamemnon's Officer: I sent a boy to look for him.
Nestor: One more thing, we need Achilles and his Myrmidon.
Agamemnon: Achilles? He can't be controlled. He's as likely to fight us as the Trojans.
Nestor: We don't need to control him, we need to unleash him. That man was born to end lives.
Agamemnon: Yes, he's a gifted killer. But he threatens everything I've built. Before me, Greece was nothing. I brought all the Greek kingdoms together. I created a nation out of fire worshippers and snake eaters! I build the future Nestor, Me! Achilles is the past. A man who fights for no flag. A man loyal to no country.
Nestor: How many battles have we won off the edge of his sword? This will be the greatest war the world has ever seen. We need the greatest warrior.
Agamemnon: There's only one man he'll listen to.
Achilles: You sack of wine
Paris: Do you love me, brother? Will you protect me from any enemy?
Hector: Last time you spoke to me like this you were 10 years old and you'd just stolen Fathers horse, what have you done now?
Hector: Fight me!
Achilles: Why kill you now, Prince of Troy, with no-one here to see you fall?
Briseis: Am I still your captive?
Achilles: You're my guest.
Briseis: In Troy, guests can leave whenever they want.
Achilles: we should leave
Hector: I see 50,000 men brought here to fight for one man's greed.
Paris: [to Helen] Then I'll make it easy for him to find me. I'll walk right up to him and tell him you're mine.
Paris: [discussing the wooden horse] Father, burn it.
Achilles: [to Briseis] You are free. If I hurt you, it's not what I wanted.
[pause]
Achilles: Go. No one will stop you. You have my word.
Achilles: [to Hector] We will meet again my brother.
Priam: [to Achilles] I knew your father. He died well before his time. But he was fortunate enough to not have lived long enough to see his son fall.
Hector: [about his baby son] I want to see him grow tall. I want to see all the girls chasing after him.
Paris: Father, this is Helen.
Priam: Helen? Helen of Sparta?
Paris: Helen of Troy.
Achilles: Patroclus, put down your spear...
Patroclus: But I'm fighting the Trojans, cousin
Achilles: not today
Patroclus: but I'm ready you taught me how to fight
Achilles: You're a good student, but you're not a Myrmidon yet, look at these men, they are the fiercest soldiers in all of Greece, each of them has bled for me. You will guard the ship...
Patroclus: But this is a war!
Achilles: Cousin, I can't fight the Trojans if I'm concerned for you, guard the ship!
Priam: I have heard rumors of your beauty. And for once, the gossip is right.
Andromache: 50,000 Greeks did not cross the sea to watch your brother fight. You know this.
Achilles: [to Birseis] Trojan soldiers died protecting you. Perhaps they deserve more than your pity.
Eudorus: We were going to sail home today.
Odysseus: I don't think anyone's sailing home now.
Eudorus: [about Patroclus] He wore your armor. Your sheild, your greaves, your helmet. He even moved like you.
Glaucus: [the Appolonians are making their last stand] Soldiers of Troy! You men are warriors! To lead you has been my honor!
[to Paris]
Glaucus: 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]
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.
Agamemnon: A great victory was won today, but that victory was not yours. Kings do not kneel to Achilles. Kings do not pay homage to Achilles.
Achilles: Perhaps the kings were too far behind to see: the soldiers won the battle.
Agamemnon: History remembers KINGS, not soldiers! Tomorrow we'll batter down the gates of Troy. I'll build monuments for victory on every island of Greece. I'll carve Agamemnon in the stones.
Achilles: Be careful, king of kings. First you need the victory.
Agamemnon: [upon seeing Achilles' boat to land first on the beaches of Troy] The man wants to die!
Priam: [kneels, kisses Achilles' hands]
Achilles: Who are you?
Priam: I have endured what no one on earth has endured before.
Priam: I kissed the hands of the man who killed my son.
Achilles: [realizes, stands abrubtly] Priam?
Achilles: How did you get in here?
Priam: I know my country better than the Greeks, I think.
Achilles: [walks forward, lifts Priam] You are a brave man.
Achilles: I could have your head on a spit in the blink of an eye.
Priam: Do you really think death frightens me now?
Priam: I watched my eldest son die, watched you drag his body behind your chariot.
Priam: Give him back to me.
Priam: He deserves a proper burial, you know that.
Priam: Give him to me.
Achilles: He killed my cousin.
Priam: He thought it was you.
Priam: How many cousins have you killed?
Priam: How many sons and fathers and brothers and husbands?
Priam: How many, brave Achilles?
Priam: Do you love her, my son?
Paris: Father, 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 I love Helen.
Hector: You say you're willing to die for love but you know nothing about dying and you know nothing about love!
Achilles: Before my time is done I will look down on your corpse and smile.
Hector: All my life I'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 all. Fight for her!
Achilles: The gods envy us.
Hector: I've seen this moment in my dreams. I'll make a pact with you. With the gods as our witnesses, let us pledge that the winner will allow the loser all the proper funeral rituals.
Achilles: There are no pacts between lions and men.
[stabs spear into ground, and takes off helmet, throwing it to the side]
Achilles: Now you know who you're fighting.
Hector: [takes off helmet and throws it aside] I thought it was you I was fighting yesterday. And I wish it had been, but I gave the dead boy the honor he deserved.
Achilles: You gave him the honor of your sword. You won't have eyes tonight; you won't have ears or a tongue. You will wander the underworld blind, deaf, and dumb, and all the dead will know: This is Hector. The fool who thought he killed Achilles.
Hector: How many wives wait at Troy's gates for husbands the will never see again?
Achilles: Perhaps your brother can comfort them, I hear he's good at charming other men's wives. Go home Prince. Drink some wine, make love to your wife, tomorrow we will have our war.
Helen: I can't ask anyone to fight for me. I'm no longer queen of Sparta.
Hector: You're a princess of Troy now.
Hector: [pause] And, my brother needs you tonight.
Achilles: It's a beautiful night.
Achilles: You're still my enemy in the morning.
Priam: You're still my enemy tonight. But even enemies can show respect.
Paris: Pearls from the sea of Propontus.
Helen: They're beautiful, but I could never wear them, Menelaus would kill us both.
Paris: Don't be afraid of him.
Helen: I'm not afraid of dying, I'm afraid of tomorrow. I'm afraid of watching you sail away and knowing you'll never come back. Before you came to Sparta, I was a ghost. I walked and I ate and I swam in the sea... I was just a ghost.
Paris: You don't have to fear tomorrow... come with me!
Helen: Don't play with me, don't play.
Paris: If you come, we'll never be safe. Men will hunt us, the gods will curse us, but I'll love you. Until the day they burn my body, I'll love you.
Achilles: Go home, prince. Drink some wine, make love to your wife. Tomorrow, we'll have our war.
Hector: You speak of war as if it's a game. But how many wives wait at Troy's gates for husbands they'll never see again?
Achilles: Perhaps your brother can comfort them. I hear he's good at charming other men's wives.
Paris: Brother, do you love me?
Hector: The last time you asked me that, you were 10 years old and you have just stolen father's horse. What have you done now?
Achilles: Is there no one else? Is there no one else?
Helen: You should not have come here tonight.
Paris: That's what you said last night?
Helen: Last night was a mistake.
Paris: And the night before?
Helen: I have made many mistakes this week.
Achilles: You gave me peace in a lifetime of war.
Achilles: [when asked why he let Hector go] It's too early in the day to be killing princes.
Briseis: You lost your cousin, and now you have taken mine. Where does it end?
Achilles: It never ends.
Achilles: [to his men] Myrmidons! My brothers of the sword! I would rather fight beside you than any army of thousands! Let no man forget how menacing we are, we are lions! Do you know what's waiting beyond that beach? Immortality! Take it! It's yours!
Achilles: [to Hector] Get up, Prince of Troy! I won't let a stone rob me of my glory!
Nestor: This will be the greatest war the world has ever seen. We need the greatest warrior.
Priam: I loved my boy from the moment he opened his eyes until the moment you closed them.
Messenger Boy: They say you can't be killed.
Achilles: Well, I wouldn't be bothering with the shield then, would I?
Messenger Boy: Are the stories true? They say your mother was an immortal godess. They say you can't be killed.
Achilles: I wouldn't be bothering with the shield then, would I?
Messenger Boy: The Thesselonian you're fighting... he's the biggest man i've ever seen. I wouldn't want to fight him.
Achilles: Thats why no-one will remember your name.
Achilles: If you sailed any slower the war would be over.
Odysseus: I'll miss the start as long as i'm here at the end.
Thetis: Your glory walks hand-in-hand with your doom.
Odysseus: This war will never be forgotten, nor will the heroes who fight in it.
Achilles: Never hesitate.
Agamemnon: The Gods only protect the strong.
[to Briseis]
Achilles: You don't have to fear me, girl. You're the only Trojan who can say that.
Patroclus: Prince Hector, is he as good a warrior as they say?
Odysseus: The best of all the Trojans. Some would say
[side long glance at Achilles]
Odysseus: he's better than all the Greeks.
[Achilles snorts]
Odysseus: Even if your cousin doesn't come, I hope you'll join us, Patroclus. We could use a strong arm like yours.
Achilles: Play your tricks on me. But not on my cousin.
Agamemnon: Empires are forged by war.
Menelaus: I want her back.
Agamemnon: Well, of course you do. She's a beautiful woman.
Menelaus: I want her back so I can kill her with my own two hands. I won't rest until I've burned Troy to the ground.
Triopas: You can't have the whole world, Agamemnon. Its too big... even for you.
Briseis: Why did you choose this life?
Achilles: What life?
Briseis: To be a great warrior.
Achilles: I chose nothing. I was born and this is what I am.
Odysseus: [to Achilles] War is young men dying and old men talking. You know this. Ignore the politics.
Achilles: Imagine a king who fights his own battles. Wouldn't that be a sight?
[goes to fight Boagrius]
Agamemnon: Of all the warlords loved by the gods, I hate him the most.
Achilles: You won't have eyes tonight. You won't have ears or a tongue. you will wander the underworld blind, deaf and dumb and all the dead will know; This is Hector: the fool who thought he killed Achilles.
Hector: I thought it was you I was fighting yesterday. And I wish it had been you. But I gave the dead boy the honor he deserved.
Achilles: You gave him the honor of your sword!
Achilles: You won't have eyes tonight. You won't have ears or a tongue. You will wander the underworld blind, deaf and dumb and all the dead will know: this is Hector, the fool who thought he killed Achilles.
[pulls spear]
Briseis: I thought you were a dumb brute. It would have been easier to forgive a dumb brute!
Agamemnon: [on the death of Patroclus] That boy may have just saved the war for us.
Achilles: [to Priam] You are a far better king than the one leading this army.
Hector: I killed a boy today. He was young; too young.
Briseis: I thought you were a dumb brute. I could have forgiven a dumb brute.
Briseis: Stop! Too many men have died today! If killing is your only talent, that's your curse. I don't want anyone dying for me.
Achilles: There are no pacts between lions and men.
Achilles: [removing his helmet] Now you know who you are fighting!
Menelaus: May the Gods keep the wolves in the hills and the women in our beds.
Paris: The weather is good, Poseidon has blessed our voyage.
Hector: Sometimes the gods will bless you in the morning and curse you in the afternoon.
Paris: Do you love me brother? Would you defend me against any enemy?
Hector: The last time you spoke to me like this you were ten years old and had just stolen father's horse... what have you done now?
Paris: I must show you something.
Priam: I have endured what no one on earth has endured before. I just kissed the hands of the man who killed my son.
Achilles: Priam?
Ajax: [to his shipmates, as they approach the Trojan beach] Row you lazy whores, row! Greeks are dying!
Odysseus: It's no insult to say a dead man is dead.
Menelaus: [to Paris] See the crows? They've never tasted Prince before.
Agamemnon: Peace is for women and the weak.
Andromache: [to Hector] I can't imagine life without you.
Achilles: I'll tell 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 is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.
Achilles: We men are wretched things.
Thetis: If you stay in Larissa, you will find peace. You will find a wonderful woman, and you will have sons and daughters, who will have children. And they'll all love you and remember your name. But when your children are dead, and their children after them, your name will be forgotten... If you go to Troy, glory will be yours. They will write stories about your victories in thousands of years! And the world will remember your name. But if you go to Troy, you will never come back... for your glory walks hand-in-hand with your doom. And I shall never see you again.
Hector: Yesterday the Greeks underestimated us. We should not return the favor.
[last lines]
Odysseus: [voiceover] If they ever tell my story let them say that I walked with giants. Men rise and fall like the winter wheat, but these names will never die. Let them say I lived in the time of Hector, tamer of horses. Let them say I lived in the time of Achilles.
Achilles: It never ends.
Odysseus: Then fight for me. My wife will feel much better knowing you're riding beside me. I'll feel much better.
Helen: Menelaus was a brave man. He fought for honor. And every day I was with him, I wanted to walk into the sea and drown.
[about Achiles]
Nestor: That man was born to end lives.
Odysseus: We need you. Greece needs you.
Achilles: Greece got along fine before I was born. And Greece will remain Greece long after I am gone.
[first lines]
Odysseus: [voiceover] 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 are gone, and wonder who we were, how bravely we fought, how fiercely we loved?
Agamemnon: Achilles is one man!
Odysseus: Hector is one man! Look what he did to us today!
Agamemnon: Hector fights for his country! Achilles fights only for himself!
Odysseus: I don't care about the man's alliegence, I care about his ability to win battles!
Briseis: Would you leave this all behind?
Achilles: Would you leave Troy?
Achilles: You were brave to fight them. You have courage
Briseis: To fight back when I'm attacked? A dog has that kind of courage.
Hector: If I die...
Andromache: No...
Hector: If I die I don't know how much longer Troy will stand.
Agamemnon: Achilles can't be controlled!
Nestor: How many battles have we won off the edge of his sword?
Achilles: He killed my cousin!
Priam: He thought it was you. How many cousins have you killed? How many fathers and brothers and sons and husbands, how many, brave Achilles?
Achilles: At night I see their faces. All 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'.
Achilles: I told you how to fight but I never told you why to fight.
Patroclus: I fight for you.
Achilles: Yes, but who will you fight for when I'm gone? Soldiers fight for kings they've never even met. They fight when they're told to fight, they die when they're told to die.
Patroclus: Soldiers obey.
Briseis: Do you enjoy provoking me?
Agamemnon: I almost lost this war because of your little romance.
Patroclus: Prince Hector a good a warrior as they say?
Odysseus: The best of all the Trojans. Some say he's better than all the Greeks too. Even if your cousin doesn't come, I hope you'll join us Patroclus. We could use a strong arm like yours.
Achilles: Play your tricks on me. But not on my cousin.
Odysseus: You have your swords. I have my tricks. We play with the toys the gods give us.
Achilles: You don't have to fear me girl. You're the only Trojan who can say that.
Agamemnon: [to Briseis] You'll be my slave in Mycenae. A Trojan priestess scrubbing my floors. And at night...
[Briseis stabs him in the neck with a Trojan blade]
Helen: I can't ask anyone to fight for me. I'm no longer queen of Sparta.
Hector: You're a princess of Troy now.
[first title cards]
Title card: 3200 years ago
Title card: After decades of warfare, Agamemnon, King of Mycenae, has forced the kingdoms of Greece into a loose alliance. Only Thessaly remains unconquered.
Title card: Agamemnon's brother, Menelaus, King of Sparta, is weary of battle. He seeks to make peace with Troy, the most powerful rival to the emerging Greek nation.
Title card: Achilles, considered the greatest warrior ever born, fights for the Greek army. But his disdain for Agamemnon's rule threatens to break the fragile alliance apart.
Agamemnon: He's going to take the beach of Troy with 50 men?
Achilles: Things are less simple today.
Odysseus: Women have a way of complicating things.
Agamemnon: Mighty Achilles, silenced by a slave girl.
Odysseus: The men believe we came here for Menelaus' wife, he won't be needing her anymore.
Hector: [to priest] Bird signs? You want to planout strategy based on bird signs?
Agamemnon: Good day for the crows.
Messenger Boy: [walks into Achille's tent and sees him with two women] King Agamemnon has sent for you
Achilles: Tell the king it can wait until morning
Messenger Boy: Umm... it is morning.
Helen: [to Hector] All those widows. I still hear them screaming. Their husbands died because I'm here.
[from director's cut]
Priam: [from director's cut] When you were very young, you came down with scarlet fever, your little hand was so hot. The healer said you would not last the night. I went down to Apollo's temple, and I prayed until the sun came up. That walk back to the palace was the longest of my life. When I went into your mother's room, and you were sleeping in her arms, your fever had broken. I promised that day to dedicate my life to the gods, I will not break my promise. For 30 years I have worked for peace, THIRTY years. Paris is a fool sometimes I know that, but I will fight a thousand wars before letting him die.
Hector: Forgive me father, but you won't be the one fighting.
[from director's cut]
Helen: You're very young my love.
Paris: We're the same age.
Helen: You're younger than I ever was.
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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 dual with Menelaus, leaving everyone aghast, especially Menelaus]
Menelaus: [shouts to Helen] Is this what you left me for?
Achilles: I want what all men want, I just want it more.
Achilles: What's your name?
[no reply]
Achilles: Did you not hear me?
Briseis: You killed Apollo's priests!
Achilles: I've killed men in five countries, never a priest.
Briseis: Well, then your men did. The sun god will have his vengeance.
Achilles: What's he waiting for?
Briseis: The right time to strike.
Achilles: His priest's are dead, and his acolyte's a captive. i think your god is afraid of me.
Briseis: Afraid? Apollo is master of the sun, he fears nothing.
Achilles: Where is he?
Briseis: You're nothing but a killer! You wouldn't know anything about the gods!
Achilles: I know more about the gods than your priest's. I've seen them. You're royalty aren't you? Spent years talking down to men.
[sniffs her hair]
Achilles: You must be royalty. What's your name? even the servants of Apollo have names.
Briseis: Briseis
Achilles: Are you afraid, Briseis?
Briseis: Should I be?
Eudorus: [poking head through door flaps] My lord, Agamemnon requests your presence. The kings are gathering to celebrate the victory.
Achilles: You fought well today.
Eudorus: My lord.
Briseis: What do you want here in Troy? You didn't come for the Spartan queen.
Achilles: I want what all men want, I just want it more. You don't need to fear me girl, you're the only Trojan who can say that.
Achilles: [Eyes closed, Briseis has blade against his throat] Do it.
Achilles: [Briseis doesn't do anything, just 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: [approachs king] Good day for the crows.
Thessalian King: Remove your army from my land.
Agamemnon: Why, I like your land, I think we'll stay. I like your soldiers too.
Thessalian King: 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.
Thessalian King: 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.
Thessalian King: And if my man wins?
Agamemnon: We'll leave Thessaly for good.
Thessalian King: Boagrius!
[cheers from Thessalian army.Boagrius comes out from the centre of the army]
Agamemnon: Achilles!
[silence]
Thessalian King: 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
Menelaus: Princes of Troy, on our last night together, Queen Helen and I salute you!
Menelaus: May the Gods keep the wolves in the hills and the women in our beds!
Menelaus: I want her back.
Agamemnon: Well of course you do, she's a beautiful woman.
Menelaus: I want her back so I can kill her with my own two hands, and I won't rest till I've burned Troy to the ground.
Agamemnon: I thought you wanted peace with Troy.
Menelaus: I should have listened to you.
Agamemnon: Peace is for the women, and the weak. Empires are forged by war.
Menelaus: All my life I've stood by your side, fought your enemies. You're the elder, you reap the glory. This is the war of the world. But have I ever complained brother? Have I ever asked you for anything?
Agamemnon: Never. You're a man of honour.
Menelaus: Will you go to war with me brother?
Nestor: One more thing, we need Achilles and his Myrmidon.
Agamemnon: Achilles? He can't be controlled. He's as likely to fight us as the Trojans.
Nestor: We don't need to control him, we need to unleash him. That man was born to end lives.
Agamemnon: Yes, he's a gifted killer. But he threatens everything I've built. Before me, Greece was nothing. I brought all the Greek kingdoms together. I created a nation out of fire worshippers and snake eaters! I build the future Nestor, Me! achilles is the past. A man who fights for no flag. A man loyal to no country.
Nestor: How many battles have we won off the edge of his sword? This will be the greatest war the world has ever seen. We need the greatest warrior.
Agamemnon: There's only one man he'll listen to.
Achilles: Why? Are the Greeks tired of fighting each other?
Odysseus: For now.
Achilles: Flank! To the flank!
Achilles: Apparently you won some great victory.
Agamemnon: Ah, Perhaps you didn't notice. The Trojan beach belonged to Priam in the morning. It belongs to Agamemnon in the afternoon.
Achilles: You can have the beach. I didn't come here for sand.
Agamemnon: 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 kneel to Achilles. Kings did not pay homage to Achilles.
Achilles: Perhaps the kings were too far behind to see, the soldiers won the battle.
Agamemnon: History remembers kings! Not soldiers! Tomorrow we'll batter down the gates of Troy! I'll build monuments to victory on every island of Greece. I'll carve "Agamemnon" in the stone.
Achilles: Be careful king of kings. First you need the victory.
Agamemnon: Your men sacked the temple of Apollo yes?
Achilles: You want gold? Take it. It's my gift to honour your courage. Take what you wish.
Agamemnon: I already have. Aphareus! Haemon!
[Aphareus and Haemon appear dragging Briseis]
Agamemnon: The spoils of war.
Achilles: No argument with you brothers. But if you don't release her, you'll never see home again. Decide!
Agamemnon: Guards!
[Achilles draws his sword]
Briseis: [Breaking free from guards] Stop! Too many men have died today. If killing is your only talent, that's your curse. I don't want anyone dying for me.
[Achilles groans then sheaths his sword]
Agamemnon: Mighty Achilles, silenced by a slave girl. Tonight I'll have her give me a bath, and then, who knows?
Achilles: You sack of wine! Before my time is done, I will look down on your corpse and smile.
Menelaus: I want her back.
Agamemnon: Well of course you do, she's a beautiful woman.
Menelaus: I want her back so I can kill her with my own two hands, and I won't rest till I've burned Troy to the ground.
Agamemnon: I thought you wanted peace with Troy.
Menelaus: I should have listened to you.
Agamemnon: Peace is for the women, and the weak. Empires are forged by war.
Menelaus: All my life I've stood by your side, fought your enemies. You're the elder, you reap the glory. This is the way of the world. But have I ever complained brother? Have I ever asked you for anything?
Agamemnon: Never. You're a man of honour.
Menelaus: Will you go to war with me brother?
Achilles: [Eyes closed, Briseis has blade against his throat] Do it.
Achilles: [Briseis doesn't do anything, just stares at him. Achilles opens his eyes] Nothing is easier. Do it.
Briseis: Aren't you afraid?
Achilles: Everyone dies, whether today or fifty years from now. What does it matter?
Briseis: You'll kill more men if I don't kill you.
Achilles: Many.
Agamemnon: [approachs 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.
Agamemnon's Officer: My king, Achilles is not with the army.
Agamemnon: Where is he?
Agamemnon's Officer: I sent a boy to look for him.
Nestor: One more thing, we need Achilles and his Myrmidon.
Agamemnon: Achilles? He can't be controlled. He's as likely to fight us as the Trojans.
Nestor: We don't need to control him, we need to unleash him. That man was born to end lives.
Agamemnon: Yes, he's a gifted killer. But he threatens everything I've built. Before me, Greece was nothing. I brought all the Greek kingdoms together. I created a nation out of fire worshippers and snake eaters! I build the future Nestor, Me! Achilles is the past. A man who fights for no flag. A man loyal to no country.
Nestor: How many battles have we won off the edge of his sword? This will be the greatest war the world has ever seen. We need the greatest warrior.
Agamemnon: There's only one man he'll listen to.
Achilles: You sack of wine
Paris: Do you love me, brother? Will you protect me from any enemy?
Hector: Last time you spoke to me like this you were 10 years old and you'd just stolen Fathers horse, what have you done now?
Hector: Fight me!
Achilles: Why kill you now, Prince of Troy, with no-one here to see you fall?
Briseis: Am I still your captive?
Achilles: You're my guest.
Briseis: In Troy, guests can leave whenever they want.
Achilles: we should leave
Hector: I see 50,000 men brought here to fight for one man's greed.
Paris: [to Helen] Then I'll make it easy for him to find me. I'll walk right up to him and tell him you're mine.
Paris: [discussing the wooden horse] Father, burn it.
Achilles: [to Briseis] You are free. If I hurt you, it's not what I wanted.
[pause]
Achilles: Go. No one will stop you. You have my word.
Achilles: [to Hector] We will meet again my brother.
Priam: [to Achilles] I knew your father. He died well before his time. But he was fortunate enough to not have lived long enough to see his son fall.
Hector: [about his baby son] I want to see him grow tall. I want to see all the girls chasing after him.
Paris: Father, this is Helen.
Priam: Helen? Helen of Sparta?
Paris: Helen of Troy.
Achilles: Patroclus, put down your spear...
Patroclus: But I'm fighting the Trojans, cousin
Achilles: not today
Patroclus: but I'm ready you taught me how to fight
Achilles: You're a good student, but you're not a Myrmidon yet, look at these men, they are the fiercest soldiers in all of Greece, each of them has bled for me. You will guard the ship...
Patroclus: But this is a war!
Achilles: Cousin, I can't fight the Trojans if I'm concerned for you, guard the ship!
Priam: I have heard rumors of your beauty. And for once, the gossip is right.
Andromache: 50,000 Greeks did not cross the sea to watch your brother fight. You know this.
Achilles: [to Birseis] Trojan soldiers died protecting you. Perhaps they deserve more than your pity.
Eudorus: We were going to sail home today.
Odysseus: I don't think anyone's sailing home now.
Eudorus: [about Patroclus] He wore your armor. Your sheild, your greaves, your helmet. He even moved like you.
Glaucus: [the Appolonians are making their last stand] Soldiers of Troy! You men are warriors! To lead you has been my honor!
[to Paris]
Glaucus: 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]
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.
Agamemnon: A great victory was won today, but that victory was not yours. Kings do not kneel to Achilles. Kings do not pay homage to Achilles.
Achilles: Perhaps the kings were too far behind to see: the soldiers won the battle.
Agamemnon: History remembers KINGS, not soldiers! Tomorrow we'll batter down the gates of Troy. I'll build monuments for victory on every island of Greece. I'll carve Agamemnon in the stones.
Achilles: Be careful, king of kings. First you need the victory.
Agamemnon: [upon seeing Achilles' boat to land first on the beaches of Troy] The man wants to die!
Priam: [kneels, kisses Achilles' hands]
Achilles: Who are you?
Priam: I have endured what no one on earth has endured before.
Priam: I kissed the hands of the man who killed my son.
Achilles: [realizes, stands abrubtly] Priam?
Achilles: How did you get in here?
Priam: I know my country better than the Greeks, I think.
Achilles: [walks forward, lifts Priam] You are a brave man.
Achilles: I could have your head on a spit in the blink of an eye.
Priam: Do you really think death frightens me now?
Priam: I watched my eldest son die, watched you drag his body behind your chariot.
Priam: Give him back to me.
Priam: He deserves a proper burial, you know that.
Priam: Give him to me.
Achilles: He killed my cousin.
Priam: He thought it was you.
Priam: How many cousins have you killed?
Priam: How many sons and fathers and brothers and husbands?
Priam: How many, brave Achilles?
Priam: Do you love her, my son?
Paris: Father, 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 I love Helen.
Hector: You say you're willing to die for love but you know nothing about dying and you know nothing about love!
Achilles: Before my time is done I will look down on your corpse and smile.
Hector: All my life I'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 all. Fight for her!
Achilles: The gods envy us.
Hector: I've seen this moment in my dreams. I'll make a pact with you. With the gods as our witnesses, let us pledge that the winner will allow the loser all the proper funeral rituals.
Achilles: There are no pacts between lions and men.
[stabs spear into ground, and takes off helmet, throwing it to the side]
Achilles: Now you know who you're fighting.
Hector: [takes off helmet and throws it aside] I thought it was you I was fighting yesterday. And I wish it had been, but I gave the dead boy the honor he deserved.
Achilles: You gave him the honor of your sword. You won't have eyes tonight; you won't have ears or a tongue. You will wander the underworld blind, deaf, and dumb, and all the dead will know: This is Hector. The fool who thought he killed Achilles.
Hector: How many wives wait at Troy's gates for husbands the will never see again?
Achilles: Perhaps your brother can comfort them, I hear he's good at charming other men's wives. Go home Prince. Drink some wine, make love to your wife, tomorrow we will have our war.
Helen: I can't ask anyone to fight for me. I'm no longer queen of Sparta.
Hector: You're a princess of Troy now.
Hector: [pause] And, my brother needs you tonight.
Achilles: It's a beautiful night.
Achilles: You're still my enemy in the morning.
Priam: You're still my enemy tonight. But even enemies can show respect.
Paris: Pearls from the sea of Propontus.
Helen: They're beautiful, but I could never wear them, Menelaus would kill us both.
Paris: Don't be afraid of him.
Helen: I'm not afraid of dying, I'm afraid of tomorrow. I'm afraid of watching you sail away and knowing you'll never come back. Before you came to Sparta, I was a ghost. I walked and I ate and I swam in the sea... I was just a ghost.
Paris: You don't have to fear tomorrow... come with me!
Helen: Don't play with me, don't play.
Paris: If you come, we'll never be safe. Men will hunt us, the gods will curse us, but I'll love you. Until the day they burn my body, I'll love you.
Achilles: Go home, prince. Drink some wine, make love to your wife. Tomorrow, we'll have our war.
Hector: You speak of war as if it's a game. But how many wives wait at Troy's gates for husbands they'll never see again?
Achilles: Perhaps your brother can comfort them. I hear he's good at charming other men's wives.
Paris: Brother, do you love me?
Hector: The last time you asked me that, you were 10 years old and you have just stolen father's horse. What have you done now?
Achilles: Is there no one else? Is there no one else?
Helen: You should not have come here tonight.
Paris: That's what you said last night?
Helen: Last night was a mistake.
Paris: And the night before?
Helen: I have made many mistakes this week.
Achilles: You gave me peace in a lifetime of war.
Achilles: [when asked why he let Hector go] It's too early in the day to be killing princes.
Briseis: You lost your cousin, and now you have taken mine. Where does it end?
Achilles: It never ends.
Achilles: [to his men] Myrmidons! My brothers of the sword! I would rather fight beside you than any army of thousands! Let no man forget how menacing we are, we are lions! Do you know what's waiting beyond that beach? Immortality! Take it! It's yours!
Achilles: [to Hector] Get up, Prince of Troy! I won't let a stone rob me of my glory!
Nestor: This will be the greatest war the world has ever seen. We need the greatest warrior.
Priam: I loved my boy from the moment he opened his eyes until the moment you closed them.
Messenger Boy: They say you can't be killed.
Achilles: Well, I wouldn't be bothering with the shield then, would I?
Messenger Boy: Are the stories true? They say your mother was an immortal godess. They say you can't be killed.
Achilles: I wouldn't be bothering with the shield then, would I?
Messenger Boy: The Thesselonian you're fighting... he's the biggest man i've ever seen. I wouldn't want to fight him.
Achilles: Thats why no-one will remember your name.
Achilles: If you sailed any slower the war would be over.
Odysseus: I'll miss the start as long as i'm here at the end.
Thetis: Your glory walks hand-in-hand with your doom.
Odysseus: This war will never be forgotten, nor will the heroes who fight in it.
Achilles: Never hesitate.
Agamemnon: The Gods only protect the strong.
[to Briseis]
Achilles: You don't have to fear me, girl. You're the only Trojan who can say that.
Patroclus: Prince Hector, is he as good a warrior as they say?
Odysseus: The best of all the Trojans. Some would say
[side long glance at Achilles]
Odysseus: he's better than all the Greeks.
[Achilles snorts]
Odysseus: Even if your cousin doesn't come, I hope you'll join us, Patroclus. We could use a strong arm like yours.
Achilles: Play your tricks on me. But not on my cousin.
Agamemnon: Empires are forged by war.
Menelaus: I want her back.
Agamemnon: Well, of course you do. She's a beautiful woman.
Menelaus: I want her back so I can kill her with my own two hands. I won't rest until I've burned Troy to the ground.
Triopas: You can't have the whole world, Agamemnon. Its too big... even for you.
Briseis: Why did you choose this life?
Achilles: What life?
Briseis: To be a great warrior.
Achilles: I chose nothing. I was born and this is what I am.
Odysseus: [to Achilles] War is young men dying and old men talking. You know this. Ignore the politics.
Achilles: Imagine a king who fights his own battles. Wouldn't that be a sight?
[goes to fight Boagrius]
Agamemnon: Of all the warlords loved by the gods, I hate him the most.
Achilles: You won't have eyes tonight. You won't have ears or a tongue. you will wander the underworld blind, deaf and dumb and all the dead will know; This is Hector: the fool who thought he killed Achilles.
Hector: I thought it was you I was fighting yesterday. And I wish it had been you. But I gave the dead boy the honor he deserved.
Achilles: You gave him the honor of your sword!
Achilles: You won't have eyes tonight. You won't have ears or a tongue. You will wander the underworld blind, deaf and dumb and all the dead will know: this is Hector, the fool who thought he killed Achilles.
[pulls spear]
Briseis: I thought you were a dumb brute. It would have been easier to forgive a dumb brute!
Agamemnon: [on the death of Patroclus] That boy may have just saved the war for us.
Achilles: [to Priam] You are a far better king than the one leading this army.
Hector: I killed a boy today. He was young; too young.
Briseis: I thought you were a dumb brute. I could have forgiven a dumb brute.
Briseis: Stop! Too many men have died today! If killing is your only talent, that's your curse. I don't want anyone dying for me.
Achilles: There are no pacts between lions and men.
Achilles: [removing his helmet] Now you know who you are fighting!
Menelaus: May the Gods keep the wolves in the hills and the women in our beds.
Paris: The weather is good, Poseidon has blessed our voyage.
Hector: Sometimes the gods will bless you in the morning and curse you in the afternoon.
Paris: Do you love me brother? Would you defend me against any enemy?
Hector: The last time you spoke to me like this you were ten years old and had just stolen father's horse... what have you done now?
Paris: I must show you something.
Priam: I have endured what no one on earth has endured before. I just kissed the hands of the man who killed my son.
Achilles: Priam?
Ajax: [to his shipmates, as they approach the Trojan beach] Row you lazy whores, row! Greeks are dying!
Odysseus: It's no insult to say a dead man is dead.
Menelaus: [to Paris] See the crows? They've never tasted Prince before.
Agamemnon: Peace is for women and the weak.
Andromache: [to Hector] I can't imagine life without you.
Achilles: I'll tell 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 is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.
Achilles: We men are wretched things.
Thetis: If you stay in Larissa, you will find peace. You will find a wonderful woman, and you will have sons and daughters, who will have children. And they'll all love you and remember your name. But when your children are dead, and their children after them, your name will be forgotten... If you go to Troy, glory will be yours. They will write stories about your victories in thousands of years! And the world will remember your name. But if you go to Troy, you will never come back... for your glory walks hand-in-hand with your doom. And I shall never see you again.
Hector: Yesterday the Greeks underestimated us. We should not return the favor.
[last lines]
Odysseus: [voiceover] If they ever tell my story let them say that I walked with giants. Men rise and fall like the winter wheat, but these names will never die. Let them say I lived in the time of Hector, tamer of horses. Let them say I lived in the time of Achilles.
Achilles: It never ends.
Odysseus: Then fight for me. My wife will feel much better knowing you're riding beside me. I'll feel much better.
Helen: Menelaus was a brave man. He fought for honor. And every day I was with him, I wanted to walk into the sea and drown.
[about Achiles]
Nestor: That man was born to end lives.
Odysseus: We need you. Greece needs you.
Achilles: Greece got along fine before I was born. And Greece will remain Greece long after I am gone.
[first lines]
Odysseus: [voiceover] 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 are gone, and wonder who we were, how bravely we fought, how fiercely we loved?
Agamemnon: Achilles is one man!
Odysseus: Hector is one man! Look what he did to us today!
Agamemnon: Hector fights for his country! Achilles fights only for himself!
Odysseus: I don't care about the man's alliegence, I care about his ability to win battles!
Briseis: Would you leave this all behind?
Achilles: Would you leave Troy?
Achilles: You were brave to fight them. You have courage
Briseis: To fight back when I'm attacked? A dog has that kind of courage.
Hector: If I die...
Andromache: No...
Hector: If I die I don't know how much longer Troy will stand.
Agamemnon: Achilles can't be controlled!
Nestor: How many battles have we won off the edge of his sword?
Achilles: He killed my cousin!
Priam: He thought it was you. How many cousins have you killed? How many fathers and brothers and sons and husbands, how many, brave Achilles?
Achilles: At night I see their faces. All 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'.
Achilles: I told you how to fight but I never told you why to fight.
Patroclus: I fight for you.
Achilles: Yes, but who will you fight for when I'm gone? Soldiers fight for kings they've never even met. They fight when they're told to fight, they die when they're told to die.
Patroclus: Soldiers obey.
Briseis: Do you enjoy provoking me?
Agamemnon: I almost lost this war because of your little romance.
Patroclus: Prince Hector a good a warrior as they say?
Odysseus: The best of all the Trojans. Some say he's better than all the Greeks too. Even if your cousin doesn't come, I hope you'll join us Patroclus. We could use a strong arm like yours.
Achilles: Play your tricks on me. But not on my cousin.
Odysseus: You have your swords. I have my tricks. We play with the toys the gods give us.
Achilles: You don't have to fear me girl. You're the only Trojan who can say that.
Agamemnon: [to Briseis] You'll be my slave in Mycenae. A Trojan priestess scrubbing my floors. And at night...
[Briseis stabs him in the neck with a Trojan blade]
Helen: I can't ask anyone to fight for me. I'm no longer queen of Sparta.
Hector: You're a princess of Troy now.
[first title cards]
Title card: 3200 years ago
Title card: After decades of warfare, Agamemnon, King of Mycenae, has forced the kingdoms of Greece into a loose alliance. Only Thessaly remains unconquered.
Title card: Agamemnon's brother, Menelaus, King of Sparta, is weary of battle. He seeks to make peace with Troy, the most powerful rival to the emerging Greek nation.
Title card: Achilles, considered the greatest warrior ever born, fights for the Greek army. But his disdain for Agamemnon's rule threatens to break the fragile alliance apart.
Agamemnon: He's going to take the beach of Troy with 50 men?
Achilles: Things are less simple today.
Odysseus: Women have a way of complicating things.
Agamemnon: Mighty Achilles, silenced by a slave girl.
Odysseus: The men believe we came here for Menelaus' wife, he won't be needing her anymore.
Hector: [to priest] Bird signs? You want to planout strategy based on bird signs?
Agamemnon: Good day for the crows.
Messenger Boy: [walks into Achille's tent and sees him with two women] King Agamemnon has sent for you
Achilles: Tell the king it can wait until morning
Messenger Boy: Umm... it is morning.
Helen: [to Hector] All those widows. I still hear them screaming. Their husbands died because I'm here.
[from director's cut]
Priam: [from director's cut] When you were very young, you came down with scarlet fever, your little hand was so hot. The healer said you would not last the night. I went down to Apollo's temple, and I prayed until the sun came up. That walk back to the palace was the longest of my life. When I went into your mother's room, and you were sleeping in her arms, your fever had broken. I promised that day to dedicate my life to the gods, I will not break my promise. For 30 years I have worked for peace, THIRTY years. Paris is a fool sometimes I know that, but I will fight a thousand wars before letting him die.
Hector: Forgive me father, but you won't be the one fighting.
[from director's cut]
Helen: You're very young my love.
Paris: We're the same age.
Helen: You're younger than I ever was.
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