Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Glory!

Movies can be a great source of inspiration. Here are a few lines from Troy that inspire me.

If they ever tell my story, let them say
I walked with giants.

Men rise and fall like the winter wheat
but these names will never die.

Let them say
I lived in the time of Hector

tamer of horses.

Let them say
I lived in the time of Achilles.


Achilles. An embodiment of grief and a warrior everyone idolized.
If Achilles was anything, he was a man who believed his own press releases - Roger Ebert

I'm wondering if we will ever have lines like these to write about.
I lived in the the time of _____

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5 Comments:

Blogger Raj said...

Quite a bit can fill in that blank, fortunately :)
For one, an age where we can make movies like these and torrents for their free download? :D

April 12, 2009 at 11:40 AM  
Blogger Dark Covenant said...

Yes yes I agree!
For another, an age with geeks like Raj who can interpret everything electronically :D

November 8, 2009 at 10:23 AM  
Blogger Merin Mandanna said...

Lovely!
*Really* appreciate these lines after watching the movie. Yeah, something I should've done eons back!

November 8, 2009 at 3:27 PM  
Blogger Dark Covenant said...

Thanks Merin! Remember talking about it to you when you hadn't watched the movie. Glad you watched it now. Definitely one among my top ten :)

November 8, 2009 at 4:41 PM  
Blogger Merin Mandanna said...

Definitely! :)

November 8, 2009 at 6:21 PM  

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