Troy (2004)

Sean Bean: Odysseus

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• [last lines] 

  Odysseus : [voiceover]  If they ever tell my story let them say that 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.

• Odysseus : [to Achilles]  War is young men dying and old men talking. You know this. Ignore the politics.

• [first lines] 

  Odysseus : [voiceover]  Men are haunted by the vastness of eternity. And so we ask ourselves: will our actions echo across the centuries? Will strangers hear our names long after we are gone, and wonder who we were, how bravely we fought, how fiercely we loved?

• Achilles : Play your tricks on me. But not on my cousin.

  Odysseus : You have your swords. I have my tricks. We play with the toys the gods give us.

• Achilles : Of all the kings of Greece, I respect you most. But in this war you're a servant. And I refuse to be a servant any longer.

  Odysseus : Sometimes you need to serve in order to lead. I hope you understand that one day.

• Odysseus : [Achilles throws his spear into a nearby tree]  Your reputation for hospitality is fast becoming legend.

• Patroclus : Prince Hector, is he as good a warrior as they say?

  Odysseus : The best of all the Trojans. Some would say...

  [sidelong glance at Achilles] 

  Odysseus : ...he's better than all the Greeks.

  [Achilles snorts] 

  Odysseus : Even if your cousin doesn't come, I hope you'll join us, Patroclus. We could use a strong arm like yours.

  Achilles : Play your tricks on me. But not on my cousin.

• Achilles : If you sailed any slower the war would be over.

  Odysseus : I'll miss the start as long as I'm here at the end.

• Agamemnon : Achilles is one man!

  Odysseus : Hector is one man! Look what he did to us today!

  Agamemnon : Hector fights for his country! Achilles fights only for himself!

  Odysseus : I don't care about the man's allegiance, I care about his ability to win battles!

• Achilles : Why? Are the Greeks tired of fighting each other?

  Odysseus : For now.

• Odysseus : Then fight for me. My wife will feel much better knowing you're riding beside me. I'll feel much better.

• Odysseus : It's no insult to say a dead man is dead.

• Odysseus : This war will never be forgotten, nor will the heroes who fight in it.

• Achilles : Things are less simple today.

  Odysseus : Women have a way of complicating things.

• Odysseus : The men believe we came here for Menelaus' wife, he won't be needing her anymore.

• Odysseus : We need you. Greece needs you.

  Achilles : Greece got along fine before I was born. And Greece will remain Greece long after I am gone.

• Eudorus : We were going to sail home today.

  Odysseus : I don't think anyone's sailing home now.

• Patroclus : Is Ajax going to fight in Troy?

  Odysseus : Of course. You've heard of Ajax, eh?

  Patroclus : They say he can fell an oak tree with one swing of his axe.

  Achilles : Trees don't swing back.

  [Odysseus chuckles, but he's alert to the boy's enthusiasm]