Iliad/Troy Comparison

Some differences between the epic The Iliad and the movie Troy would be the use of the gods. In the epic The Iliad, it depends on the gods and the gods controlled everything unlike in the movie Troy where some of the gods are mentioned but they do not control everything and the movie is not based around the gods. Also in the Iliad Homer describes the pain the people went through unlike in the movie where they played mournful music. The movie also went beyond the epic in events that happened like the Trojan horse. Some similarities are that both the movie and the epic contained was the description of the armor the Trojans and Greeks wore. Also both the epic and the movie expressed how Achilles could not control his anger.