After a big 2019 that saw him star in bothQuentin TarantinosOnce Upon a Time… And he still thinks about aCoen brothersfilm calledTo the White Seathat got shut down.

2004 marked a new dawn for Pitt.

But that really made me think, Im following my gut from here on out.

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So I was put in Troy.

I made my own mistakes in it.

What am I trying to say about Troy?

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I could not get out of the middle of the frame.

It was driving me crazy.

Id become spoiled working with David Fincher.

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Its no slight on Wolfgang Petersen.

Das Boot is one of the all-time great films.

But somewhere in it, Troy became a commercial kind of thing.

Every shot was like, Heres the hero!

There was no mystery.

It was a distinct shift that led to the next decade of films.