Troy: The Reduced Script
FADE IN:
INT. MOVIE STUDIO
WOLFGANG PETERSON is discussing plans with a bunch of STUDIO EXECUTIVES.
WOLFGANG PETERSON
...Then I made his stomach my dogs' chew toy and he screamed like there was no tomorrow!
They laugh.
WOLFGANG PETERSON (CONT'D)
Excuse me gentlemen, nature's call.
He whips off his pants, shits on the TOMB OF ACHILLES and tears a page from ILIAD to wipe his ass.
WOLFGANG PETERSON (CONT'D)
What was I saying? Right, I want to make a Homer movie...based on what I thought Homer should've written.
STUDIO EXECUTIVES
(reading the script)
So basically, you want to make a hilariously dialogued and
absurdly chronicled movie that not only totally abandons the Greek writing
style altogether but also inexorably insists that Greeks are a bunch of
straight macho assholes who run around in miniskirts?
(pause)
Deal.
EXT. BRAD PITT'S ESTATE
BRAD PITT is SPITTING on everyone who is within a radius of 100 miles.
BRAD PITT'S GOD-AWFUL SUNTANNED SMIRK
(humiliating his movie cousin Garrett Hedlund by
holding him at knifepoint for no reason)
All I really want is glory.
SEAN BEAN
Hello Brad. I'm not sure why exactly I would require a brainless killing machine if that killing machine is too brainless to kill at all, but I'm really interested in a condemned partnership.
BRAD PITT'S GOD-AWFUL SUNTANNED SMIRK
Does the contract include glory that is strictly defined as allowing me to be remembered as ripping up people who are too different from me and hence unworthy of existence?
SEAN BEAN
Sure thing! You can also burn down their houses and rape their wives, not to mention have your name mentioned every time in homosexual studies for years to come...
BRAD PITT'S GOD-AWFUL SUNTANNED SMIRK
I'll take it!
INT. TROJAN PALACE
ERIC BANA'S SUCKER DAD PETER O'TOOLE is welcoming ORLANDO BLOOM and his NAÏVE AND DOE-EYED CAUSE OF WARFARE OF AN UNFAITHFUL WIFE, DIANE KRUGER OF TROY.
ERIC BANA
Dad, Troy is doomed if you keep that bitch.
PETER O'TOOLE
Jeez, I just don't know...lemme consult the Goddess of the Great Equalizer real quick...
He kneels before a twenty feet tall golden statue of a big coin and chants for eight hours before getting back to ERIC.
PETER O'TOOLE (CONT'D)
The Great Coin approves my half-baked notion of love and blind loyalty! Hurrahhh! I can't believe a moron like me could've held this position as long as I did without turning Troy into a chaotic mess of crying and flaming rubble!
Consequently, GREEKS begin to fight TROJANS.
EXT. TROJANS VERSUS GREEKS: ROUND ONE - TROJAN SHORE
BRAD PITT leads some GIANT MEN and wins an oversized battle with a ratio of twenty to one.
BRIAN COX
This is very convincing, especially since Brad Pitt is a brainless killing machine who has no strategic sense at all.
BRAD PITT'S GOD-AWFUL SUNTANNED SMIRK
(shoving and spitting on Brian)
GLORY! GLORRRRRRRRRRY MEEEEEEEEEEEE!
BRAD PITT proceeds to TRASH a TEMPLE and beheads everyone inside it. He then meets with ERIC BANA'S COUSIN ROSE BYRNE, who's survived his KILLING and promptly falls in love with him DESPITE ALL. They FUCK.
EXT. TROJANS VERSUS GREEKS: ROUND TWO - TROJAN WALLS
GREEKS continue to fight TROJANS.
BRAD PITT'S GOD-AWFUL SUNTANNED SMIRK
Brian Cox wronged me. I must wrong him back by doing nothing but fucking Rose.
SEAN BEAN
But aren't you simultaneously forfeiting your opportunity of getting glory, let alone violating all codes of honor?
BRAD PITT'S GOD-AWFUL SUNTANNED SMIRK
Hell, do you expect a dipshit like me to be intelligent enough to be consistent with my said priorities?
The TROJANS, with no major characters in their way, drive the GREEKS back to the SHORE.
EXT. TROJANS VERSUS GREEKS: ROUND THREE - TROJAN SHORE
The GREEKS continue to fight TROJANS. GARRETT HEDLUND dies disguised as BRAD PITT by donning his armor because PITT is too stupid to watch his things. EVERYONE mourns the demise of GARRETT particularly, because GARRETT is YOUNG, just like the majority of the soldiers in this movie.
BRAD PITT'S GOD-AWFUL SUNTANNED SMIRK
(fuming and spitting)
Jesus, Garrett Hedlund stole my glory of fighting Eric Bana! How very demeaning! I'LL KILL ERIC!
He runs off before abusing several of his own people.
EXT. TROJANS VERSUS GREEKS: ROUND FOUR - SPECIAL EVENT! ERIC VERSUS BRAD! READY...GET SET...GO!
ERIC BANA and BRAD PITT fight! ERIC loses and BRAD beats the shit out of him! BRAD goes on to drag ERIC'S CORPSE behind his chariot for twelve hundred miles! Around the entire TROJAN CITY three times then all the way to NEW ZEALAND!
BRAD PITT'S GOD-AWFUL SUNTANNED SMIRK
GLORY! SEE HOW I HATE AND CRUSH THE PEOPLE WHO MISPLACED MY GLORY!
INT. TROJAN VERSUS GREEKS: INTERMISSION - GREEK CAMP
PETER O'TOOLE, apparently a formidable secret agent in disguise, effortlessly bypasses BRAD PITT'S thoroughly incompetent security system without showing how and walks up to him.
PETER O'TOOLE
Dude, where's my son?
BRAD PITT'S GOD-AWFUL SUNTANNED SMIRK
(spitting as if there's some hidden meaning behind his
tantrum besides the obvious, which is that he's a motherfucker)
YOU are making demands? Don't you forget I'M the one who decides whether you live or die!
PETER O'TOOLE
(crying pathetically)
It doesn't matter! You've broken my spirit! I've got nothing to lose! And I don't care if you'll kill me to mess up my country's morale!
BRAD PITT'S GOD-AWFUL SUNTANNED SMIRK
Then I'll honor your request inexplicably, just to make my act of desecrating Eric Bana's corpse even more bizarre - but, just to further the self-contradiction, I'll first waste a few of your precious moments to cry on Eric Bana's face that aside from some dirt has miraculously sustained little mutilation.
ROSE BYRNE
(intruding abruptly in the company of Cheap Romance
Music)
Uncle!
BRAD PITT'S GOD-AWFUL SUNTANNED SMIRK
Go now, Rose. I've decided to set you free to a regime I'll go to extreme lengths to decimate. I'm doing this, like, for LOOOOVE. Please...do not forget me...you can have the necklace I stole from Garrett Hedlund's corpse.
ROSE BYRNE
Oh Brad, you destroyed my country and anally violated my favorite relative...but...this is alright...everything is alright...because I still love you DESPITE ALL.
BRAD PITT'S GOD-AWFUL SUNTANNED SMIRK
God I'm gorgeous.
EXT. TROJANS VERSUS GREEKS: ROUND FIVE PREPARATION - TROJAN SHORE
SEAN finally comes up with the movie climax - a brilliant plan that involves hiding in a hollow wooden horse conveniently inspired by a child's toy and praying somehow the enemies will bring it into their city against all common sense. They seek out WOOD out of no where and proceed to their plot.
CUT TO HOURS LATER:
The TROJANS discover a huge horse statue and some dead bodies.
PETER O'TOOLE'S LOSER ESCORT
Look Lord, those people were infected by Black Death! The Greeks were running away from it!
MUFFLED VOICE #1
What? No we did not! And how did we gain access to corpses infected by the disease we apparently didn't -
MUFFLED VOICE #2
Shut up you idiot!
The TROJANS look around but see nobody.
ORLANDO BLOOM
Dad, I'd say we do the logical thing and build a bonfire around this tainted plot device.
PETER O'TOOLE
What does the Great Coin say?
PETER O'TOOLE'S LOSER ESCORT
She decrees the Horse be carried within our walls and to the most heavily-populated and strategically most critical area of our city, then secured by as few of our guards as possible.
PETER O'TOOLE
Awesome!
EXT. TROJANS VERSUS GREEKS: ROUND FIVE - TERMINAL EPISODE! COMMENCEMENT OF TROY'S DESTRUCTION!
BRAD PITT actively contributes to the fall of TROY by immediately running off to find ROSE BYRNE.
BRIAN COX
Let him go; we don't need him after Eric Bana is out of the way, anyway.
GREEKS begin to majorly TRASH THE PLACE and SET THE CITY ON FIRE!
GREEKS
Burn, baby, burn!
THE CITY PANICS! SUDDENLY EVERYBODY IS RUNNING FROM EVERYBODY AND NOBODY! NATURAL DISASTER MUSIC SWELLS AND THE GREEKS SOMEHOW VANISH!
EVERYBODY
RUN! RUN IN EVERY DIRECTION! STEP ON THE WIDOWS' BELLIES AND RUN OVER THE ORPHANS!
BRAD PITT'S GOD-AWFUL SUNTANNED SMIRK
ROSE BYRNE! MY LOVE ROSE BYRNE!
He suddenly bears his first injury - in the heel.
BRAD PITT'S GOD-AWFUL SUNTANNED SMIRK (CONT'D)
Ow.
He DIES. Mercifully. Yeah. Just like that. Really. No kidding. And the credits roll.
INT. TROJANS VERSUS GREEKS: EPILOGUE - MOVIE THEATRE
AUDIENCE
What the hell? Did we just waste $9 and more than two hours of our life on a war that was initiated by a brat couple, plotted by assholes, fought by imbeciles and revolving around a semi-conscious dickhead who should be crucified upside-down while being smothered by his sunshine-flavored ass?
They fume and SPIT on DIRECTOR WOLFGANG PETERSON, trashing his studio with COINS and dragging his body behind their automobiles across SICKOVILLE.
END