This is why I wish modern moviemakers would leave most of the old myths alone. They are not in any position to do them correctly. Modern audiences come from a perspective where a dangerous disease outbreak might kill 40 people and food can be shipped in from somewhere else. On a deep level, most of the old myths are about the inevitable mortality of everything. Norse Man might have done everything exactly right and still died of a disease he didn't understand. Greek Farmer might have done everything exactly the way it succeeded last year and still had a crop failure. The capriciousness of the gods and the fatalism in most of their stories came from knowing they could die the next day just because. Don't get me wrong. I really prefer living in an age with better food and health care. But the kind of hero who struggles and does his part and dies in his turn is a completely different hero from the one who tells destiny where to go and averts his death. It doesn't translate well.
Yes, destruction/creation is a much more succinct version of what my rambling was trying to say. :D
Yes, destruction/creation is a much more succinct version of what my rambling was trying to say. :D
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