Why can't we get a good Greek mythology movie?

Why can't we get a good Greek mythology movie?
What would you base it on and cast in it? How about the director?

There hasn't been anyone who really understands Greek mythology that has made one of those movies.

You'd have to find someone who isn't caught up with atheism or humanism to really get it right

>There hasn't been anyone who really understands Greek mythology
Oh yeah, its really fucking deep
>and then Zeus fucked someone, making Hera jelly

This guy is definitely going to play some type of Greek God

I think that the greatest thing would be a series of movies adapting Hesiod's Theogony. The battle of Zeus and the Olympians against the Titans could do for an incredible movie, to be honest.
Then you could also do Homer's Iliad (but with a heavy emphasis on the gods feud) and the Oddysey.
And then you could do H

The Odyssey miniseries with Armand Assante is really good

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The Greek mythological canon actually forms a complex symbolic framework that creates the means to express philosophical thought. You just have to understand it all in a scholarly context

Its not deep u asshat greek mytgology was basically soap operas to greeks 80% of greeks romans didn't believe in the gods they just followed the stories and rutuals for the keks

>Why can't we get a good Greek mythology movie?
Because a good Greek mythology movie would be porn.

involving bulls and swans and rape

Fucking This. The effects on the scylla/chrybdis scene still holds up... also based eric roberts is based

honestly this is probably the worst way to go about it. the bigger the scale of the events the more room for it go Hollywood overboard and to just become endless CGI action nonsense
they should go for a smaller, personal, more character-driven story. Starting with the Odyssey would be a lot better imo

You don't understand the complexities of these writings. This does not mean the complexities don't exist

Man, imagine the reactions of SJW because Zeus had her way with an unwilling/unknowing random woman.
It'd be worth having it if only for that.

I love how they got the Jim Henson Company to do many of the creature effects, and despite being made for television it's pretty dark. There are scenes then even watching them today I find them a bit unsettling

Oh, yeah, that's totally right. The mermaids and everything that happened with Circe won't become endless CGI action nonsense.

I'd like to see an Argonautica adaption that introduces Queen Medea followed by a Theseus movie with Medea as the antagonist and the Minotaur as the final boss

>the only directors willing to make it authentic would be terrible directors like with the two Titans movies
>all the good directors would shove a bunch of stupid shit into it, like feminism or other sjw crap like making Poseidon black or something

No thanks, I'll stick to my books.

The Iliad

>all the good directors would shove a bunch of stupid shit into it, like feminism or other sjw crap
Greek mythology is actually already fairly feminist in many respects, though. The goddess Athena was considered the foremost authority on military strategy and in the Iliad she actually defeats the war god Ares in single combat. In the same poem, Zeus's wife Hera repeatedly outwits and manipulates her husband to avoid bending to his will. Then you have Penelope in the Odyssey who relies entirely on her own wits and perseverance to successfully hold off the advances of the entire local nobility for a decade, and in doing so plays as important a role as Odysseus in preserving the honour and integrity of their household. You don't have to look very far to find strong, resourceful female figures in the source material.

The director would have to be Snyder

Greek Mythology is not politically correct, that's why nobody will risk making a good Greek Mythology movie.

Because Ben Hurr remake just bombed hard

You can say goodbye to Religious epics and Historical epics now.

Thank the retards at Paramount And MGM for remaking that movie

>tfw no The Odyssey movie with Sean Bean returning as Odysseus

I really like Jason and the Argonauts

Odysseus didn't die, retard

I thought it was rather dull, though I love the classic stop-motion effects

Sean Bean lived in Troy though so there is precedent for him to survive the film

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