Achilles Video/Old Ideas

Latin 3's Achilles Video Old or Discarded Ideas

Old Outline

• Prequel: Thetis dips baby Achilles in river Styx
  • Covers heel
  • Narrated by Achilles as flashback
• Summoned to Troy with 50 ships
  • SFX
• Achillies ravages cities around Troy for 9 years, took 12 cities
• Agamemnon sends away Chryseis, Achilles angry
• Sulks in tent
• Patroclus slain, Achilles now re-involved
• Wants revenge on Hector
• Kills him + drags body around town
• Goes to marry Polyxena at Applo's temple
• Killed by Paris there
• Afterward: (Friends of modern scholars?) standing around funeral, saying he was good hero

Characters

• Achilles - Matt
• Mother - ?? women
• Hector - Steve
• Agamemnon - ?? strong man
• Chryseis - teen girl
• Patroclus - Greg?
• Apollo - Plaz
• Paris - ?Jeff
• Polyexna - Sara? teen girl

Stuff

• Matt - Camera, ?audio equipment
• Plaz - ?audio equipment
• ? -Baby Achilles
• ? - Tent?
• ? - spears/swords
• ? - wagon (to drag hector)
• ? - funeral stuff

Sets

(?how to do?)

• River Styx
• Walls of Troy
• Achilles' Tent
• Apollo's Temple
• Funeral

Costumes

• Sheets
• Apollo - gold sheet