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Disney's Hercules
I know that there are a lot of Disney's Hercules fans out there on the web. They write tribute pages to the Disney Hades and when this site was in it's infancy, a websearch for "Hades" would return many such pages dedicated to this "Disney character". Unfortunately, the Disney character, "Hades," perpetuates the exact misconceptions that this site is intended to combat. Although I am a fan of James Woods, and I generally do enjoy Disney movies (although their formula is getting stale), I don't like what Disney has done to the Greek myths.
One of the guys I used to work with was talking about how cool the "Hades" character was in the movie his kids were watching. Somehow I got around to telling him that the real Hades wasn't out to take over the universe, and that everyone, good or bad, went to the underworld. He was shocked. It just didn't occur to him that Disney would alter the myths so radically.
I can't help but think that other parents and children will also come away from that movie convinced that although the film had some Disney magic, the plot was more or less true to the original story. Why would they think otherwise? All the Disney movies about stories they were familiar with have pretty much followed the plot of the original. "The Little Mermaid", "Beauty and the Beast", and "Cinderella" are all pretty much as we remember them from our youth. But "Hercules" bears only a superficial resemblance to the myths of the ancient Greeks.
In the Disney film, "Hades" is an evil God who seeks to take over the universe. His plans are thwarted by Hercules, who instead of using his Greek name, Heracles, as all the other gods in the movie do, goes by his Roman name.
In the myths, Hades was a well respected God. He chose to remain in the underworld and mostly ignored the events of the upper worlds. He was not evil. He was a devoted husband to...
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