In response to many emails commenting on my pieceabout the movie Troy and telling me about the "mistakes". These mistakes have to do with "leaving out things and changing things" about the original story.

These observations are totally invalid. "Talent" in the arts has everything do with the choices made by the artist(s). Picasso's "choices" were his talent, as were Mark Twain's, and every other artist you can think of. Many times the choices are intuitive. Sometimes they are thought out. In rare cases like Marlon Brando his choices are thrust upon him; the just come without effort; they just happen. Jazz improvisation is like that.

Wolfgang Peterson made choices. That's his talent, or lack of talent. If we go to a movie demanding to see the exact replica of our experiences, we will not like much.

Bad choices=bad art.