Round #04; Post #04

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[ninepointfivemm]

I still, to this day, hate Hercules. "Hey, let's toss about 5 different heroes into one guy and have Hercules do ALL of their tasks." And gaaaah. The villain! Hera actually liking Hercules... All the WTFery associated with Not. Even. Trying! It had a cool style and all, but aside from that, that movie is so freaking painful.

[_puchula_]

The day Disney'll being to be historically acurate the world will end.

[ninepointfivemm]

There's historical inaccuracy and then there's flagrant disregard for the mythology h0rs.

I mean, come on. The Lion King is a pretty accurate copy of Hamlet. Disney can do accuracy sometimes.

[_puchula_]

Lol, it's true. Don't get me wrong, I love Greek Mythology, I would spend hours reading mythological tales as a kid.

I just never tried to find sense in Disney, they're in some sort of parallel universe. Mulan is so wrong, no chineese woman at that time would have pulled that off, same with The Emperor's New Groove, that's such a silly way to portrait the Aztecz (or was he an Inca?). They can't even get kids tales right, look at the Little Mermaid.

[teaberryblue]

The Little Mermaid pissed me off as a kid, but then I came to realize that from a modern-day feminist perspective, teaching girls that disobeying their fathers, leaving home, and dealing for what they want on their own terms gets them killed is probably not the best lesson.

[_puchula_]

For me it was the other way around, I was all heart-broken when I found out as a teenager that she died. :P

But you're right.

[clytemnestra215]

We classicists made a drinking game out of Hercules. Every time it blatantly ignores established myth and does something stupid in its place (like making Hera his loving mother; wtfingf), we take a drink.

Then again, there's a bit of ego that has to be gotten over when a new version of an old myth comes out. I couldn't have gotten through Troy alive, I think, if I hadn't kept in mind that mythology is a story, and there are many versions of the story. It is a writer's prerogative to use a writer's license to give a new perspective or twist to a made-up tale.

Still, it's going a bit far to assert that Troy was conquered in about ten days, rather than ten years. But really, things like this are no surprise. It comes from Hollywood, and they're a touch psychotic there.

[_puchula_]

Hahaha, I love your icon!

Hera was way too much, what's the whole point of Hercules if Hera is all tender and cute?

I think the only reason I got through Troy was because of the nice men, and because me and my brother decided to laugh our butts off everytime the story didn't match. Don't even try to watch 300.

[clytemnestra215]

I actually liked 300, but the whole time I was keeping in mind that it was a fictional adaptation of the graphic novel (and in that it was a success), and not an actual accounting of the battle. (Also, my concentration was Greek literature rather than military history, so it didn't bug me as much. \o/ )

Here's me the geek: I went into Troy at the theater and, as the movie went on, had to take out my small notebook and pen from my purse and start taking tallying each time it flouted Homer. I think I was up to about seventy tally marks by the end of the movie. >.> And in this way, I got through it. (Also, we see Brad Pitt naked, and that was a balm to my wounds as well.)