Showing posts with label The Rock. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Rock. Show all posts

Monday, October 14, 2013

Who Is The Better Hercules: Kellan Lutz or Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson?

Both 'Hercules: The Legend Begins' and 'Hercules: The Thracian Wars' To Be Released in 2014


The internet spread the message saying that a new Hercules trailer was released so I was pumped up, eagerly waiting to see Dwayne Johnson as the Demi-God in Hercules: Thracian Wars. To my surprise, the trailer started off with Kellan Lutz. To even more surprise, it turned out that he was Hercules. I was

Saturday, March 9, 2013

Hercules May Be a Film Tragedy

Hercules: The Thracian Wars To Grace Theaters in 2014

I long for a movie that is able to portray Greek mythology in its raw immensity, richness and splendor. I long for this richness not just in the landscape and scenery of Ancient Greece but also in the relationships between Gods, Demi-Gods and humans. As a child, when I read these Greek stories what stood out were the connections formed between these entities and the emotions they evoked. In the Odyssey, Odysseus is ensnared in a perilous journey that separates him from his wife and family for decades. In The Iliad, Achilles is doomed to die in the Trojan War, a fate his mother knows all too well, so his decision to join Agamemnon’s forces would crush the hopes of any parent. The chronicles itself were enough. The sheer depth and velocity of the tale was enough to sear the anecdote into anyone’s memory.