In terms of the plot, Troy is far less faithful to Homer than Nolan’s Odyssey.
Yet Troy better captures the Homeric ethos.
It understands how central the pursuit of glory (kleos) is to the poems. As many have now pointed out, Nolan doesn’t address glory at all in his film.
This was dead ass early in his career where he wasn’t trying to be a hero or an avenger. He built a murder suit to go and fucking kill the people that kidnapped him.
The jokes come later after he wraps up business 😭😭
Monarchism doesn’t mean blind loyalty to one house, it means to support the order that comes with monarchy. You can always support creating a new house for the state. Cromwell was structurally speaking a King who had a blood heir despite leading a Republic