Here's what happened when I posted my Reveal Trailer script: 1. Members liked what they saw! Clear support & curiosity. After a long day, it's like wind in my sails ⛵️ 2. Confusion: Members didn't know how Priam had knowledge of future events In my mind, the answer was obvious - Priam's monologue was to his daughter Cassandra. She's a prophetess, and so she told Priam of the future events. It's just that he'd never believed her words until he saw that her warning about the horse was only too real. Here's the insight: All this was obvious only to ME 😅 Trailers aren't for the the creators - it's for the audience! Building in Public can highlight blindspots BEFORE they get set in stone. Imagine I had already paid $1000s of dollars for voice acting and animation! But I won't make that costly mistake, thanks to my community. So I rewrote the script, to weave in a bit of background. See comments if interested in new version! Regards, KR

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Been bashing my brain for days to figure out how to do the launch trailer for my upcoming novel "Diomedes of the War Cry" Was driving home, when I got it ⚡️ One of the most heartbreaking moments in the Trojan War is the "arming scene" of Priam, the aged king of Troy. Arming Scenes are a whole thing in the Iliad: the Achilles arming scene, the Agamemnon arming scene etc. are epic and powerful moments. But the arming scene of Priam..is painful. He sees his city burning, and he knows the Greeks will burst through his door at any moment. He starts to don his breastplate, but the straps hang loose upon his old bones, bereft of vigor. His sword belt sits askew on his aged hips. He used to a fighter once.. but those days are only a memory now. This is the perfect scene for my "Reveal Trailer" The following monologue is from Priam to his daughter Cassandra (the prophetess) === Scene: Priam weeping as he puts on his armor for the last time, and speaking he says: "Would that I heeded your warning, dear child. I should never have let that cursed horse into our city. Now, Troy burns because of me. In my final moments, I have but one consolation.. That the men who did this to us, will know only suffering! Shining Achilles, who killed my son Hector and dragged his body by his heels three times round the walls of Troy - he lays dead, never to return to his beloved father, Peleus. The far ruling king, Agamemnon will return to his home in Mycenae only to be butchered like a pig by his own dear wife and her lover. Mighty Ajax, who slaughtered so many of my men - died by his own hand, falling upon his own sword in shame for what he had done. His body a feast for dogs, crows and the flies. Odysseus, cunning Odysseus - who is surely the architect of this foul trickery - thinks that he will return home after the conclusion of this war. Little does he know that ten years will pass as his ships and men are battered this way and that by the will of Poseidon. And what of Diomedes - the man who raised his hand to strike at the immortal Gods!

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You may remember the scene in the movie Troy, when Achilles (played by Brad Pitt) kills Hector and ties his heels to his chariot. He then drags the dead body along the walls so that all Trojans may see their hero's body defiled. It is slightly different in the Iliad. Achilles doesn't tie Hector's heels to the chariot. Achilles slits Hector's heels and passes the girdle that Ajax had given Hector through the slits. Then he drags away the body. The details are fascinating: to have such clear visuals of events that happened thousands of years ago. The symbolism: First, that Achilles wove the girdle through what would later be called the Achilles Tendon. Secondly, that the girdle was a gift from Ajax (Greek) to Hector (Trojan) in an earlier part of the war - before things become so barbaric. In the Iliad we see the evolution of war: from organized and civilized duels, to absolute mosh-pit mud-slogs where even young men - teenagers - were butchered even if they begged for mercy. It is an INSANE read. Get the Caroline Alexander translation, or any other; just avoid the Emily Wilson one. Regards, KR PS: Latest Video! The kind of consistency that scares people