Famous Greek poets such as Homer once told from memory the adventures of Greek heroes, Ajax battling with Hector, Odysseus’ travels from Troy to Ithaca. These poets relied on their expression and voice to carry out the intensity and awesomeness of the stories. Later in history, writers depended on their use of words to portray the actions, triumphs, or failures in their tales. Modern film and games allows the storytellers to depict exactly how they saw the scene when they heard or read it. Many of these modern depictions show a more modern version to a classical story, while others keep to tradition and take the original story and add some unique twists. Films such as Jason and the Argonauts by Don Chaffey tried to show the story as the poets
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Films such as the 1981 Clash of the Titans and its sequels have many different mythological characters and creatures in their films. A modern example would be the 2004 rendition of Troy , which stars Brad Pitt as Achilles. The film is a retelling of Homer’s The Illiad and the battle for Troy, which makes it a mythological movie. The film has many characters from the story, the main three being Achilles, Hector, and Paris, with the supporting roles of Ajax, Agamemnon and Menelaus. The highlighted difference between this movie and the original text is the lack of Gods and the roles they played in the Illiad. In the original text, the gods often interfered with the battles, some favoring the Greeks and some favoring the Trojans. Examples of this would be gods sweeping away fighters who are near death. Apollo was one of these gods, who in Homer’s text would often speak to Hector and aid soldiers in battle. The audience knows immediately once they go to see the film, it is in relation to the Homeric …show more content…
This group includes movies use subtle references to stories of ancient myths, but the directors will not consider it as a mythological tale. The 2012 film The Hunger Games fits this category perfectly. The film begins by describing a different United States that is separated into 12 districts that rose against the ruling power known as The Capital. The Capital quelled a rising rebellion, and created a tournament known as the Hunger Games. In these games, each district must select one male and female who would be known as “tributes” to participate in the games, where they must travel to the Capital and enter the games. They would then undergo training to prepare for the battle ahead, and would be set loose into an arena-like area where they cannot escape and must fight each other to survive. On top of having to find resources and ways of staying alive, there are booby traps and creatures set upon them. The protagonist Katniss Everdeen, ends up being the last one standing is then crowned the victor and sent home to her district, District 12. This film give hints to the tale of Theseus and his slaying of the Minotaur in the tale of King Minos. In that story, the Minotaur is placed in an unnavigable labyrinth, and King Minos demanded 14 Athenian tributes, equal male and female, were sent into the labyrinth and had to survive the labyrinth, which they never did. This ended when the hero Theseus, son of the king of Athens, claimed he
Films such as the 1981 Clash of the Titans and its sequels have many different mythological characters and creatures in their films. A modern example would be the 2004 rendition of Troy , which stars Brad Pitt as Achilles. The film is a retelling of Homer’s The Illiad and the battle for Troy, which makes it a mythological movie. The film has many characters from the story, the main three being Achilles, Hector, and Paris, with the supporting roles of Ajax, Agamemnon and Menelaus. The highlighted difference between this movie and the original text is the lack of Gods and the roles they played in the Illiad. In the original text, the gods often interfered with the battles, some favoring the Greeks and some favoring the Trojans. Examples of this would be gods sweeping away fighters who are near death. Apollo was one of these gods, who in Homer’s text would often speak to Hector and aid soldiers in battle. The audience knows immediately once they go to see the film, it is in relation to the Homeric …show more content…
This group includes movies use subtle references to stories of ancient myths, but the directors will not consider it as a mythological tale. The 2012 film The Hunger Games fits this category perfectly. The film begins by describing a different United States that is separated into 12 districts that rose against the ruling power known as The Capital. The Capital quelled a rising rebellion, and created a tournament known as the Hunger Games. In these games, each district must select one male and female who would be known as “tributes” to participate in the games, where they must travel to the Capital and enter the games. They would then undergo training to prepare for the battle ahead, and would be set loose into an arena-like area where they cannot escape and must fight each other to survive. On top of having to find resources and ways of staying alive, there are booby traps and creatures set upon them. The protagonist Katniss Everdeen, ends up being the last one standing is then crowned the victor and sent home to her district, District 12. This film give hints to the tale of Theseus and his slaying of the Minotaur in the tale of King Minos. In that story, the Minotaur is placed in an unnavigable labyrinth, and King Minos demanded 14 Athenian tributes, equal male and female, were sent into the labyrinth and had to survive the labyrinth, which they never did. This ended when the hero Theseus, son of the king of Athens, claimed he