Continuing along the same avenue regarding a film that should be considered works of art due to their defamiliarizing effects on the viewer regarding the way in which Achilles character in the film Troy defamiliarizes us the idea of war by restoring glory to it. Therefore, go ahead and look at this dialogue that takes place between Achilles and his mother about going to fight in the Trojan War. Glory in battle was for what Achilles lived. Here is the point of descision for Achilles with respect to what he is going to choose to do. Listen to the two options he is presented with and based on the history, the story of the Trojan War, and the rest of the film, it is pretty clear what he decided to do. Now, I say that this is an example of defamiliarization revealed through the script because of the way that it makes the thoughts and ideas that we associate with going to war unfamiliar to us by giving us a completely different perspective on them. This mindset being communicated through the script is an implementation of defamiliarization due the effect that it has on the viewer's habitualized views and perceptions of going to war. It causes the viewer to think more intensely about the reason for why somebody would go to war in the first place.
A Lasting Legacy
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