To be fair, despite its horrendous inaccuracies, Hercules was a GREAT movie. That gospel soundtrack? Danny DeVito? James Woods? My god, Meg... I still blame her for my weakness for sarcastic women.
That one gets a pass.
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I don't think this post is a dig against the movie as a piece of entertainment, just as a source for ancient mythology.
But at the end of the day, be it a 2D animated Disney movie or the mythical canon of ancient Greece, it's all just stuff from a long time ago, right? Who's to say which of them actually came first? It's all he said / she said / Homer said at this point. I guess we just have to come to terms with the fact that we'll never really know.
The conversation was over as soon as he said Hercules instead of Heracles
When he pronounced it "Hur Cools"
This sounds like a Bill and Ted reference.
Now I'm going to start calling my friends' polycule Polycules. Yeah, pronounced that way.
Ah well, Disney also skipped over the whole incest part, Zeus and Hera...
Hera didn't like Zeus sleeping around at all, certainly not having a child (Heracles) with Alcmene. So she drove Heracles into madness and Heracles killed his wife and children.
Great Disney material.
Plus everyone knows Hercules is a demigod because he drank some magic humanitication juice as a baby but didn't drink the last drop, since both of his blood parents were definitely fully fledged gods. Not for any other, non-Disney-approved reason, no siree.
I know you probably wanted to write humanification or humanization juice but yeah, still laughed
Yeah that was meant to be an f, not a t
If it makes you feel any better, I read it with the f and not the t any way. I wouldn’t have noticed if not for this chain of comments.
"My ignorance is just as good as your knowledge"
Why is there a hashtag on “it” in the reply?
you mean the pound sign?
No, because I'm not a boomer reacting to #metro by playing out yet another #=pound "joke".
Right. Or the octothorp. I suppose I can expect people on Lemmy to know what a pound sign is. But since this isn’t a comment line in a shell script, given the context I think hashtag is appropriate.
Tumblr is a strange hellsite
Heracles 🤬 It's Heracles, for crying out loud...
*earnestness*
cough
Well, they never claimed to have a degree in English
Hey Vern
And while we're on it: "I had a man tell me..."
So this dude didn't tell you this on their own, but instead you made them tell you this?
"I had a [noun] [verb]" is a perfectly fine colloquialism for "a [noun] [verbed] (in a way that affected me)." It's very common in the parts of the US I've lived in, at least.
Hmm yeah. I was looking at it from a narrow perspective that didn't take popularity into account. Good point. Americans basically set the standards for the English language in the modern era, so that way would be the correct way to go about it nowadays wouldn't it?
I mean it's a kids movie. If they were going to be realistic, we would spend the full runtime of Disney's Hercules just counting how many fuck buddies bro had.
It was RIDICULOUS what kind of booty this chiseled Greek god was getting. Dude come get the abacus check this out.
Yeah, it's uncountable.
He never played Hades, huh?
There is only so much Greek mythology and religion you can pack in an hour and 33 minutes, Jim
Am I a Son of Zeus?
Given his proclivities, you might as well be
I am a living god!
There was no Zeus. So, no sons.
Does Genghis Khan have the most descendants?