Sunday, December 9, 2012
Hercules...The Gospel Truth
This beloved Disney Classic does a good job of describing (to a varying degree) of the origin of the Greek Gods. It introduces Muses, Zeus, and the Titans. Disney also did a good job of changing and ignoring the violent or scary parts of the Hercules story. Do you think most religious cartoon shows (I can only think of Veggie tales)ignore the violent parts of the stories?
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Rather than ignore the violence/scary parts, I think they just dim them down a little. They're still in the stories, but they play up the hero's part and sort of glaze over the death and destruction. For example, they just say "it was a nasty place; there was a mess wherever you stepped" and then super quickly have a line about the mess meaning natural disasters, and immediately cut to the part about Zeus. Most kid's movies have a bit of this, even non-religious ones (although I'm no expert on religious cartoons besides some Veggie Tales and shouldn't be the one to compare).
ReplyDeleteThis is kind of interesting because according to Greek mythology the muses are Zeus's daughters so they are singing about their dad. I know it's a kid's movie but I always pick up on stuff like this. It's a good song though and gives some background before jumping into the movie. The information is filtered and broken down so that its easy to understand and give the viewers a chance to learn some ancient greek history and mythology.
ReplyDeleteIt's hard to describe what previously happend historically, when the foundation of the stories are concerning power, battles and violence. The producers focus on Hercules' attractiveness and other lustful ways of thinking in order to keep your attention. Although, I didn't realize how much this film can educate someone who knows little about Greece. As a child, this movie didn't strike me as educational; there's many perspectives one can view this.
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