There's a Fair(?) "Helen of Troy" on A&E, 1:25 ET

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Haven't seen Brad's "Troy" but the reviews have been pretty bad. This other made-for-t.v. item includes some sappy "modern" ideas (ours), like Helen telling her old man, "I'm a woman now." I don't think that in ancient days sentiments like that were expressed between a woman and her da, but oh well. But the costumes are scaled down, looking real as opposed to Fantasy, and there *is* an attempt at atmosphere. Btw, this Achilles is tubby, shaved bald, and sort of bursting out of concentric, wide leather straps. And Helen just stood nude, like at a stripper bar, on a platform for the assessment of a roomful of ancient Greeks.

Why is it so hard to make ancient history movies. There is certainly enough scholarship around and the storylines are dramatic enough in themselves without our modern sensibilities intruding.