> > >
> > > Hercules was SO full of mythological
inaccuracies.
> > >
> > > One of them being that they shouldn't
have used his ROMAN name when the story
takes place in ANCIENT GREECE.
> > >
> > > They should've called the movie
HERACLES.
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > Adam "it also has the darkest, most
morbid vision of Hell I've ever seen in a Disney
movie" Bomb
> >
> > Exactly my thoughts. I'm a mythology freak
so it was especially annoying. Stupid people
changing all the good stories.
> >
> > 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


All this makes want to go back and read some
of the good ol' Greek Mythology. It's been
awhile, or else I could comment with a little
more knowledge on the subject.

What I do remember: he was captured, forced
to perform x number of tasks. After that, he
lived happily ever after, until somebody gave
him a cloak coated in some sort of poison or
something, which drove him insane and
caused him to kill his family. He then asked
for the gods to remove his immortality from
him so that he could die, because he couldn't
live with himself any more. And I remember
that ending from all of the various versions
that I've read. Not to say that there are other
versions that I haven't.

The Other "At one time a Greek mythology
quasi-expert" Matthew