Troy Director's Cut

I do think Batman -- not necessarily any of the movies, but the character -- is very much a stylized manifestation of some our cultural mores and complexion, yes. Superman certainly is. And it's a good example, because I think there's a good chance that far-flung future generations will study Superman and Batman AS archetypes, even though no one could seriously have believed that 50 years ago when they were just drawings in "funny books."

There certainly are better ways to adapt the Iliad than Troy, however. Some of those ways would probably considered VERY popcorn, even if they're also very good.
 
Agreed about the function of Batman and the other -mans.

But they are fictional characters and the Trojan wars were very real. Achilles, Paris and Agamemnon must have had very real prorotypes.

I don't think it's the same case.
 
While there may have been sieges of which Troy (if it has been correctly identified) was a part, there's not a whole lot to show that there was ever a "Trojan war" of the type described in the Iliad, any more than there was ever a real Romeo or Juliet -- or King Arthur, Camelot, and the Round Table. It's just a story passed down from generation to generation, perhaps based on some degree of historical fact, but with a great deal of distortion, mixing of legends, and fictional embellishment.
 
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