Achilles Video

Achilles Video for Latin 3

Script

(begin fast paced, dramatic music) (camera follows Thesis running through fields to river Styx) (credits on top here) Voice Over Achilles: "My name is Achilles, son of Peleus, king of the Myrmidones. My grandfather was the son of Zeus. Thesis, my mother, in order to make me invulnerable, dunked me into the River Styx." (end fast music) (mid paced instrumental music) VO Achilles: My mother sent me to the island Scycros dressed as a women in fear that the Greeks would want me in their war. Odysseus, however, tricked me. He was dressed as a peddler." Odysseus: "I have here fine items for the ladies." (zoom in on trunk) (Achilles grabs sword, other ladies grab jewels/cloth) (Odysseus jumps on Achilles and pulls off dress) Odysseus: "Achilles you are fated to join us in the war against Troy." (water sounds) (battle music starting [Track 7 or 8]) ?(CGI ships sailing to Troy) ?VO Achilles: "I sailed to Troy" (battle 45 sec) VO Achilles: "For over 9 years I fought ?(and defeated 12 cities), but Troy would not fall. My love for Polyexna, daughter of Priam, overcame me. I decided to join the Trojans in order to marry her." (temple of Apollo - wedding) (soft music) (Show marriage in silence) VO Achilles: "But Paris, the greatest warrior of Troy, wanted me dead, and knew my weakness: the place where the hand of my mother held as she dipped me into the River Styx." (arrow shot) (Bam: cut to black) (end credits) (fast music)w

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