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Tag Archives: Classical Mythology

August 29th, 2014: O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)

Aug29 by Professor Mortis

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2 Comments Posted in Adaptation, Adventure, Arthouse, Based on a Board Game, Based on a Poem, Comedy, Fantasy, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Prison, Road Trip, Slapstick Tagged 1930s, absent father, bank robber, Best Adapted Screenplay Nominee, Best Cinematography Nominee, buried treasure, chain gang, Charles Durning, Classical allusion, Classical Mythology, convict, crossroads, dam, deal with the devil, escaped convicts, father, George Clooney, Holly Hunter, homage, husband, John Goodman, John Turturro, Mississippi, music contest, pomade, radio station, Roger Deakins, Studio Canal, T Bone Burnett, Tim Blake Nelson, Touchstone Pictures, Universal Pictures, wife, Working Title Films

August 23rd, 2013: Xanadu (1980)

Aug23 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Animation, Based on Myths, Event Film, Fantasy, Movie of the Day, Musical, Romance Tagged album covers, artists, Barry De Vorzon, Big Band, California, Classical Mythology, disco, Don Bluth, flashback, Gene Kelly, Joel Silver, live action combined with animation, Michael Beck, montage, murals, muse, nightclub, Olivia Newton-John, Robert Greenwald, roller disco, roller skating, Sandahl Bergman, Santa Monica, shopping montage, Swing, Wilfred Hyde-White, Zeus

June 12th, 2013: The Man Who Would Be King (1975)

Jun12 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in "Based on a True Story", Adaptation, Adventure, Based on a Short Story(ies), Buddy Flick, Movie of the Day, Period Film, Road Trip Tagged "Are you a God?", "no man has lived to tell the tale", Afghanistan, Albert Moses, Alexander the Great, avalanche, Best Adapted Screenplay Nominee, Best Art Direction Set Decoration Nominee, Best Costume Design Nominee, Best Film Editing Nominee, British Army, British Empire, Christopher Plummer, Classical allusion, Classical Mythology, gods, husband and wife team, India, John Huston, journalist, less famous spouse, Martini Henry Rifle, Maurice Jarre, Michael Caine, mountains, natives, nepotism, pact, pith helmet, rope bridge, Rudyard Kipling, Saeed Jaffrey, Sean Connery, Shakira Caine, train, tribes

September 23rd, 2012: Hercules (1983)

Sep23 by Professor Mortis

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1 Comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on Myths, Event Film, Fantasy, Movie of the Day, Robots, So-Bad-It's-Good, Stop Motion Animation, Sword and Sandals, Sword and Sorcery Tagged bad animation, bad narration, bad rear projection, bad special effects, bear, Cannon, cash-in, Classical Mythology, Drive-In, gods, Hercules, Italy, killer robots, Lou Ferigno, low-budget, Luigi Cozzi, Menahem Golan, quest, quotably bad dialogue, rip-off, Sybil Danning, terrible bear suit, Yoram Globus

July 30th, 2012: Hercules in New York aka Hercules Goes Bananas aka Hercules -The Movie aka

Jul30 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on Myths, Comedy, Fantasy, Fish-Out-of-Water, Independent, Movie of the Day, Slapstick, So-Bad-It's-Bad, So-Bad-It's-Good, Spoof, Sword and Sandals Tagged Arnold Schwarzenegger, Arnold Stang, before they were famous, Classical Mythology, Drive-In, father, father-son relationship, Hercules, James Karen, low-budget, Michael Lipton, mobsters, New York City, wicked stepmother, wrestler

August 12th, 2011: Clash of the Titans (1981)

Aug12 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on Myths, Event Film, Fantasy, Kaiju, Monster, Movie of the Day, Stop Motion Animation, Sword and Sandals, The Original Tagged Athena, Britain, Burgess Meredith, Classical Mythology, gods, Greece, Harry Hamlin, Hephaestus, Kraken, Laurence Olivier, Maggie Smith, Medusa, MGM, oracles, Pegasus, Perseus, prophecy, Ray Harryhausen, Thetis, Ursula Andress, virgin sacrifice, wrath of the gods, Zeus

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