What Role Does Hollywood Play In Greek Mythology

Well it mostly, has to do with why media (films, video games, books, etc.) are made. The sole reason is to simply make money. Yes, sometimes creators have other reasons such as wanting to inspire people and what not, but most of the time, money is involved. When you want to maximize profit, you have to think what would bring in the most people. You have to throw in elements that people will enjoy to bring in more audience members. The problem with that is sometimes, the story gets lost trying to add in so many changes and the story is lost, and the movie is not as good as it could have been, which happens frequently in almost all of the mythology films. When you make a movie you have to think about your target audience, and what they would enjoy For example, if you are making a movie aimed at kids, you aren’t going to include slaughter and sex. As a filmmaker, you would be forced to make some changes. That is main reasons why Greek mythology movies, aren’t really strong in being accurate.
No matter how much it can anger people, Hollywood does, get some things right, even if it is a little bit. Movies such as the many movies involving Heracles, Troy, and Immortals, are not well received, but they do get some aspects of the mythology they incorporate in the movies right. In this paper, I will do a sort of personal …show more content…
In my opinion, Troy was not too bad. It definitely had major inaccuracies and focused less on the mythology and more on the big name actors. The film is “loosely” (we see that word a lot when it comes to Greek mythology in popular culture) based on Homer’s the Iliad, but focuses mainly on the Trojan War (or part of it). The Trojan War was a decade long conflict that started all because of a woman. In recent times, if a war was started all because of a woman, it would be deemed laughable. That just shows how much times have changed has changed and how different civilizations were throughout