Achilles Video

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Achilles Video for Latin 3

Contents

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)

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

Shoot

  • Ridly State Park
  • Sun June 3, 2007

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

Edit

Matt and Plaz 6/4/2007 - 6/8/2007 On Matt's computer with Plaz's help