patroclus' death really is one of the most chilling and cinematic moments in the iliad and it's kinda crazy that everytime it got adapted on screen it got reduced to a lackluster due with hector you literally have an entire scene rught in front of you down to the shot of the dust and blood soiling the helmet. i get why it's easier to reduce it to hector getting it wrong but it's so reductive of the scene as a whole. that eerie moment when apollo comes down clouded in mist and disarms patroclus, him being left completely helpless and dazed and unarmed, euphorbus' part in it, hector muscling through the crowd to get to him
it all amounts to creating a very vivid picture of the event, an event that's so intresting in how it's presented (especially intrestimg is the similarity to ritual sacrifice), i hate when people reduce it to him losing to hector cause it's genuinely one of the scenes in the poem i think would turn out best in a screen adaptation
