Comparing Clash of the Titans 2010 and 1981

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Movie Summary Paper: Clash of the Titans (2010)

The 2010 remake of Clash of the Titans was released to theaters on April 2, 2010. It made $493,214,993 in gross revenue and was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. The film begins with the introduction of the Titans. The titans ruled the earth before they were overthrown by the Olympians, specifically Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades. The ruler of the Titans was Cronus. Most of the Titans fought with Cronus against his father Zeus, but ended up being banished to Tartarus, which is located beneath the underworld.

2,000 years later, a fisherman named Spyros finds a coffin in the sea. A baby and with its dead mother are found in the coffin. Spyros adopts the boy, names him Perseus, and raises him as his own son. Years later, the grown-up Perseus is riding in boat with his family, when they witness a group of soldiers destroying a large statue of Zeus, as a declaration of war against the gods. Hades appears a group of demons and kills the soldiers. Then, Hades destroys the fishing boat as well, drowning Perseus and his family.

Perseus is later found by soldiers who take him to the city of Argos, where he is brought before King Cepheus and Queen Cassiopeia during their celebration of the war against the gods. King Cepheus makes arrogant statements towards the gods, and the Queen Cassiopeia compares their daughter Andromeda to Aphrodite. When Zeus finds out about the destruction of a statue of him and the celebration of war by Cepheus and Cassiopeia, he becomes furious. Hades then appears before his Zeus on Mount Olympus and argues that the gods must retaliate against the revolt, and convinces Zeus that he be allowed to destroy Argos. Hades appears in a courtroom in Argos, kills the so...

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... that sort of mentor him throughout the journey of the film. In both movies Perseus has to save Princess Andromeda, but only in the old version is Perseus actually in love with her. In the first version, Medusa rarely lets out a sound and has a two-headed dog to help her ward off unwelcome guests. In the more current version, Medusa makes laughing noises appears more human than in the first one. Also in the first movie, the Kraken is released twice while he is only releases once in the new one.

Overall I feel that both films actually have something different and unique to offer. The older version though more closely resembles the actual accounted myth in the book. I do believe that both movies should be considered in the classical cannon of mythology because they both depicted the same myth with just different perspective and ideas of how to present the myth.

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