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> > Hercules was SO full of mythological inaccuracies.
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> > One of them being that they shouldn't have used his ROMAN name when the story takes place in ANCIENT GREECE.
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> > They should've called the movie HERACLES.
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> > Or, considering how they never mentioned that Hera HATED Hercules, Hades wasn't REALLY a villain, or how Hercules was driven insane to the point where he killed his wife and children before taking his OWN life, they should have called it something completely different altogether.
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> > Adam "it also has the darkest, most morbid vision of Hell I've ever seen in a Disney movie" Bomb
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> Exactly my thoughts. I'm a mythology freak so it was especially annoying. Stupid people changing all the good stories.
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> illy"*grumbling*"andra

I'm not arguing with you, but I would like to point out that the myths about Hrcules are so full of contradictions that there really isn't one true plotline that anyone could stick to if they wanted to. From what I remember from my Classical Studies course, the tasks he had to perform vary from myth to myth--there are about thirteen tasks that he supposedly completed. I also seem to remember that the thing about killing his wife and children was not present in all versions of his story, and was directly contradicted in some.

Don "Of course, Disney could have picked SOME elements from the original stories and gone with them, but I can't blame them for just making up their own stuff--obviously, others have done so before, just not as recently" Monkey