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Greek mythology media (1)

To begin this overview of Greek mythology in media, I originally wanted to start with some of the most famous American pieces of fiction - those that shaped, for the better and for the worse, the "Americanized" perception of Greek mythology... Including Disney's Hercules.

However after some thought, I think I need to cover something else beforehand... What I like to call the "Hercules saga".

(Picture courtesy of greekgodsparadise.com)

Have you ever wondered why Disney made a movie about Herakles and yet named him "Hercules"? Why would Disney commit such a blatant mistake, using the Roman name of the hero despite everything else being (vaguely) Greek-inspired? Because Roman mythology is better known than the Greek (see my Medusa posts)? Not exclusively...

The reason why Disney made a movie named "Hercules" instead of "Herakles" was because their animated piece was very obviously a follow-up of an entire GENERATION of movies based on the figure of Herakles, but being sold, publicized and shared with the name "Hercules". Beyond this "mistake of Disney" is actually an entire generation of cinema history that people today completely forgot about, and that explansi why, of all the Greek myths, the one of Herakles is supposedly the one with the most movies attached to it...

I/ The beginning of it all

To start this deep dive we need to begin with the movie that started it all. The 1958 "Hercules" movie - at least it was its English title. Its original title was "The Labors/Trials of Hercules", "Le fatiche di Ercole". For yes, this movie was an Italian production (with some Spanish and French collaborations).

This movie's story is... quite more confusing than you would expect. Yes, the title is correct: Hercules is the main hero of the story. This being an Italian production, all the names were taken from Roman mythology rather than Greek - Hercules, Jupiter, Venus... And this is precisely why the name Hercules would go on to become so famous, but that's for later. However, despite what the title hints, this story isn't about the Twelve Labors of Herakles. Two of these trials appear in the first third of the story: the Nemean Lion and the Cretan Bull. However, the actual literary work of Antiquity this movie is based on is... the Argonautica of Apollonios of Rhodes. Yes, this movie is also about Jason, and the Argonauts, and the quest for the Golden Fleece, but with Jason being only a secondary character. In fact, most of the Argonauts's adventures aren't even told since the actual quest for the Golden fleece is massively reduced, with a good quarter of the movie entirely dedicated to the Argonauts' stay on the island of the Amazons... So this movie is a bit of everything. A bit of Herakles but not too much, a bit of Argonauts but not too much - though there's a LOT of the Amazons...

Fun fact: the lighting and the special effects were done by Mario Bava, who would later become of the iconic names of horror in Italy.

The movie being in public domain, you can find it pretty easily online, and having watched it, what is my opinion? Well... On one side the movie definitively aged badly. Many elements of it at now laughable today. The main love interest's costume is to the toga what the bikini-chainmail is to an armor, and her obviously modern makeup is very distracting. The fights of Hercules with the Nemean Lion and the Cretan Bull very obviously involve him punching fluffy puppets. Somehow a very modern fountain sitting by an ancient Greece palace... Ominous storm clouds are just a mud-stain on the camera's lense in an otherwise clear blue sky. Of course when the Amazons arrive the camera focuses twice on their naked legs ; and their cemetery is properly hilarious. The adorable Nemean Lion forgets he is supposed to play dead and shouldn't blink one he is "strangled". Oh yes, and there is also a VERY racist moment during the arrival in Colchides, where our heroes are faced with what is supposed to be primitive, savage, cavemen-like people... But who are in effect just black men wearing furs, a few prosthetics, and making monkey sounds. Very racist.

One of the things with this movie is that there is also several versions of it going around. We are lucky to have the cinematic, clean and properly-dubbed version on Youtube for free - right here ; but you will also find around the Internet versions of a much poorer quality which were designed for television airing, and which have a different English dub. Such a version can be found here for example. And then you apparently have yet a third version somewhere with yet a third dub that makes pretty big flaws (such as changing Hercules' entire rant to the oracle/sybil about immortality into a rant about "strength" which changes the entire idea of the movie). That's one of the evils of the public domain: re-dubs are everywhere.

Now all that being said... While this movie has definitively aged, I can still see why it became one of the classics of mid-20th century cinema, and why it caused such a big reaction upon its release.

Some of the ideas and concepts brought up are very interesting - for example weaving an entire motif of "revenge is not the answer" in a story where both Hercules has to bent to the unfair treatment of a king, and Jason has to find the murderer of his father. The treatment of the characters can also be interesting - from an Hercules who actually seeks humanity instead of immortality, and has to live in a world where his divine powers are actually freaking out people and shunning him as a monster ; to a king Pelias that is not actually actively evil or cartoonishly malevolent, but rather a fearful, suspicious and worn-out man who still does evil things out of anger, cowardice and bad advice, but who has been exhausted and burdened by guilt and regret to the point he enters the story only wishing to give up the throne and die... There is also a fascinating angle where the movie insists on the fact that Hercules is just as much intelligence as strength - for example with a wonderful scene of him proving even an average human person can shoot incredibly well arrows without a divine strength, but just good advice and observation of the environment and a well-formed technique... that ends with the big twist that those excellent bow-lessons he gave to the "random boy" he selected where given to ULYSSES out of all people. Yep, we have a movie where Herakles was Odysseus' mentor...

Mind you, while there are great ideas and concepts which make the movie stand on its own, in terms of mythological adaptation it is very poor, because as I said it mixes together edulcorated and scrawny versions of the myth. You've got two of the 12 labors done in a very different context. You've got a brand new Hercules characterization that doesn't touch upon his actual legends. You've got a Jason and the Argonauts story without sirens, Medea or giant ship-crushing rocks, and where Jason is just a background character. This "mixed" nature extends to the very tone and focus of the movie. It is a rich movie, no doubt, that blends and mixes the genres - but while it is precisely its charm (you are never bored with it), it is also what causes it to feel a bit unfocused. It starts with the naive and cliche romance between Hercules and a princess, leading to the angsty "I don't want to be immortal" scene of Hercules... It continues in what is basically a Gothic story about a strange and dysfunctional family burdened by the dark mystery shrouding a past crime that still haunts the present, and who lives in a half-abandoned palace where a ghostly murderer and treacherous whisperer haunts the shadows... We then cut to what is basically a PSA for athletism and sports, and then we delve into your typica adventure-movie alternating comic book humor with fights against monsters ; and then we have an entire mini-movie inside the movie at the Amazons island which unfolds as a romantic tragedy... This movie has everything, and perhaps a bit too much of everything, and feels like four different movies crammed together in one.

The other big "good point" of this movie is DEFINITIVELY the visuals. This movie allows me touch upon what was one of the big qualities of the good mythological movies of the mid 20th century: they truly knew how to make visual delights. The opening visual of a sheperd playing a Pan's flute while being listened to by his goats? The oracle all shrouded in a black veil suddenly revealing a blood-red dress? The three royal children going to the throne room - only for the two actual innocents one to be fascinated by the Golden Fleece while the brat immediately sits on the throne? Hercules climbing a shadowy mountain towards the red-lit temple of the gods? The visual of the Golden Fleece hanging from its tree, above a mount of dead leaves that turn out to be the asleep dragon? There are so many parts of these movies that just speak so much with just the sights. And it isn't just the sights, but some details in this movie are particularly head-turning. Ranging from the subtle - Hercules and the oracle locking gaze upon first meeting, and not saying anything but clearly showing a link because they are two beings of the world of the gods recognizing each other, and are thus set apart from the other humans in the room... To the more obvious: this movie had the genius idea to decide that the dragons of Ancient Greece were actually just FRIGGIN DINOSAURS that the gods somehow protected from extinction X)

II/ Omphale comes on stage

1958's Hercules was a HUGE success in Italy - and by extension in most of Europe. It was such a huge success that its director, Pietro Francisci, released the VERY NEXT YEAR the sequel, known in English as "Hercules Unchained". A quite silly title given the "unchained" part refers to a segment of the original 1958 movie. The actual title of this movie is "Ercole e la regina di Lidia", "Hercules and the queen of Lydia". For this movie, Francisci took the same team: Mario Bava for the special effects, Steve Reeves to play Hercules (he had been selected for the first movie because he had freshly won the title of Mister Universe - in fact, people did note that due to lacking an acting background he was quite stiff and unnatural in the first movie).

Many people at the time - including Howard Hughues himself - considered that this movie was a better one than the original, with enhanced acting, a much more "punchy" writing, more convincing action scenes, as well as very impressive baroque sets (which, fun fact, had been heavily inspired by the art of Flash Gordon). But the same audiences and critics of the time recognized a structural flaw in the piece, saying the various elements and tones were unbaIanced and that the movie felt as if it continued dozens of minutes after its plot actually ended. I... kind of disagree?

Just like the original movie mixed together the legends of Herakles' labors with the Argonauts' journey, this movie tries to tie together Herakles' time at Omphale's palace and the "Seven against Thebes" events, aka the battle between Eteocles and Polynices for the throne of Oedipus their father. I have to say I much prefer the first movie somehow, perhaps because it was a bit simpler? This piece is even less faithful to the Greek mythology material (which wasn't hard given the first movie was already a very loose adaptation), and in fact here we really feel the "sword and sandal" flavor. As in, this movie bears more common points with your typical sword-and-sorcery or heroic-fantasy short story/novella than with Ancient Greek epics or theater plays. Though the latter point is to be nuanced, because this movie is VERY theatrical. It is very staged, very visual, very dramatic - and perhaps too much because in many scenes the dramatic overcomes just basic logic or common sense (Hercules' repeated "arms up while invoking the gods" scenes do get ridiculous), and while some scenes are impressive, they do feel like someone filmed a stage-play rather than a movie. Let's not talk of an even greater fantasmagoria when it comes to the setting (the usurper of Thebes has Roman "pit of tigers"-type of gladiator plays, while the queen of Lydia who works with Egyptians and has an Egyptian-decored lair, organizes "Arabian Nights"-like dances and wears definitively 20th century fashion dresses... My last grief would be that this movie is actually repeating its predecessor (Omphale's palace being the island of the Amazons, the final fight being identical to the one of the previous movie), though it does bring to the table some new elements that are quite charming (Ulysses grows on me here as we see him growing into his trickster self, while being a plucky, comical young clever sidekick ; and the fountain of the "Water of Oblivion", aka a non-trademarked Lethe, is a great set piece).

But no matter what I may think of it, this movie was still an even bigger success than its predecessor, to the point it made its producing company, the studio Galatea, one of the biggest movie companies of all of Italy. Unfortunately, it also was the end of the "original" Hercules movie series. The producer of the two first pieces, Lionello Santi, part of the Galatea studio, decided at the surprise of everyone to abandon the newborn ad successful franchise. He entrusted it to a certain Achille Piazzi, who decided to name as a new director for the third Hercules movie Vittorio Coffatavi, pushing Pietro Francisci away. Since Steve Reeves only wanted to work for Francisci and no one else, the actor of Hercules was also replaced, by Lou Degni - better known by his stage name, Mark Forest. And finally, "Hercules Unchained" marked the end of the Francisci-Bava collaboration. For you see, Mario Bava did even more work and poured even more effort (or so he claims) into "Hercules Unchained" than into the original "Hercules" , to the point he asked to be designated as a co-director in the movie's credits. But Francisci refused, claiming Bava hadn't done so much work as he claimed: Francisci insisted "Hercules Unchained" was his piece before all things, and that Bava just wanted to take credit for his work, and refused to change Bava's function in the official rolling credits. This battle led up to the two of them not working together anymore.

III/ Hercules becomes... Goliath?

The result of all these changes was a third Hercules movie release in 1960, called... "Goliath and the Dragon"?

This third movie's actual title is "Hercules' Revenge", "La vendetta di Ercole". However, the American distributors changed it to "Goliath and the Dragon" because they needed to make this movie a sequel to an earlier success, the Franco-Italian movie "Goliath and the Barbarians". Which... isn't even a movie about Goliath, but rather a historical movie about a guy named Emiliano in the 6th century... Ah those wacky American distributors, back at their hijinks...

New director, new actor, new team... But also new scenario! Indeed, with this movie we have a fresh start, and a return to a more accurate depiction of Greek mythology... Well kind of. They kept numerous elements of the old movies, but brought in many more from the old Greek legends - the Twelve Labours for example (that Hercules finishes at the beginning of the movie with the taming of Cerberus), or his wife Dejanira. The story in itself, while trying to be more "Greek myth-flavored", is still a unique story mixing elements from various other tales. Hercules' son (turned into Goliath's brother in the American dub) is in love with Thea, who is unfortunately the daughter of a wicked king that wants to take the control of Thebes, Hercules' city. At first it seems the story will be just about the various manipulations and schemes of the wicked king and his allies to try to get rid of Hercules (for example making his son believe he wants to take Thea for his own, and using treacherous messengers to try to convince the poor boy to poison his father without realizing what he is doing) ; but then the third/fourth act of the movie completely takes us into a different direction, as now a prophecy by the gods overlaps with the conflict against the wicked king and... Its a bit convoluted.

I kind of skimmed through the movie because by now the "sequelitis" had started to really kick in. I will admit two good points for this piece: one they attempt to return to more mythologically faithful material, and even though they tell a new story they try to keep Greek elements in it (impossible love triangle between a son and a father, betrayals and tragic deaths within a same family, a hero going up against a wicked usurper king, prophecies the hero will try to fight against...). These efforts are unfortunately completely ruined by the American dub which changes the nature of everything. The second positive point would be the final part of the movie - when we leave the simple "romantic drama and political treacheries and other Shakespearian schemes" to enter the "let's fight a prophecy" domain. Hercules receives a prophecy that his son will take over the throne of the wicked king... in exchange for the life of "the woman who loves Hercules" (interpreted as his wife, Dejanira). As a result, the entire family of Hercules will struggle against this prophecy and try to avoid it - from Hercules becoming obsessively protective of his wife, to his son growing suicidal to protect his mother ; and here we really go into a much more emotional and human side of the story. We even have Hercules turning against the gods for this prophecy - despite having just finally cleared up his curse and made peace with them after his Labours, he still can't accept having his family doomed like that - going for the help of an oracle only for her to get KILLED when she disobeys the gods to bring him aid ; and it comes to Hercules being forced to make a heroic sacrifice, destroying his life to save others... There's really something more unique and touching in all that, that also reasonates well with Greek myths.

All that being said: the bad points. The Hercules movie of the era grew by the 70s and 80s to be synonymous with "hilarious kitsch comedy". Nobody could take them seriously anymore - and this movie really shows why. The first two Hercules pieces have laughable elements - but many were intended as light-hearted comedy, and the others still leave room for the seriousness of the piece. But here? Nah. On one side you have the special effects that aged very, very badly - resulting in the goofiest dragon and most ridiculous Cerberus battle you will ever see and the cheapest lightning effect ever made. And if the bad special effects weren't enough, you also have the American dub that changes the whole stories and tries its harder to rewrite the Greek myth into a more generic-fantasy things (while also fitting to a previous unrelated movie), resulting in a plotline even MORE convoluted than what it already was... This movie can be fun to watch just to see how ridiculous it all got, and unfortunately the most serious and interesting parts only come to us after bunch and bunch of cliches, convoluted writing, very bad dialogues (like REALLY bad) and papier-mache monsters.

[As a quick note here, this movie was also a step-up in the genre when it comes to the supernatural. You see, the first two movies actually had a more... let's say "realistic" approach to the magical elements of mythology. The gods and the supernatural was definitively real, but the movies made sure to frame it in a quite "realistic" light. The gods themselves never appear, and only speak through oracles or manifest through sudden changes in the weather. The monsters our hero fights are all just regular animals (a lion, a bull - well a bison they try to pass off as a bull), and even the "strange land of Colchides filled with wonders" is framed realistically as a sort of patch of land where prehistoric times continued on untouched (with the "monsters" there being just cavemen/Prehistoric men ; and the "dragon" being a dinosaur). And from the realm of the divine we have people with clearly supernatural abilities (Hercules with his immense strength, the oracles able to predict the future), but they still look like ordinary people... This all served the purpose of conveying the fantasy of the myths while working within limitations of budget and special effects.

This movie decided to actually bring the fantasy to screen by having actual monsters, and having the oracle fade in and out like a ghost, and a centaur turning into a satyr, and having the gods speak directly to the heroes or shooting lightning bolts at those they dislike... But as I said those special effects aged very, very poorly, and it is precisely by trying to do a "big show" that they actually ruined this strange worldbuilding-charm that worked so fine for the first two movies. "Showing less does more", as they say.]

IV/ Hercules against... vampires?

While Francisci and Bava never worked together again, both returned to the making of Hercules movies later on, each on their own.

Francisci released in 1963 a movie called "Hercules, Samson and Ulysses" (in its original title "Ercola sfida Sansone"), taking back the duo of Hercules and his sidekick Ulysses from the original movies, and having them confront the Biblical Samson... But given we are entering mythological crossovers, I will not be looking at this movie in any more details.

As for Mario Bava, in 1961 he released a movie co-made with Francesco Prosperi (and with Western Germany), "Ercole al centro della terra" - Hercules at the center of the earth. In America it was released as "Hercules in the Haunted World", but in many European countries, includng France, this piece's title was... "Hercules against the vampires". Why? Simply put: because the main villain is played by none other than Christopher Lee, and he plays a character with similarities to Dracula... As a result advertisers decided putting a big "vampire" stamp on this movie would work, despite it having no actual vampire.

The story is simple: Hercules returns to his home in Italy (remember we are still in a Greco-Roman mythology setting) after a war, only to discover his fiancée Dejanira (or Deianira as you English people like to call her) has fallen into an unexplained state of madness... An oracle tells Hercules the only way to save her is a magical stone from the realm of Hades. Hercules and his friend Theseus descend into the Underworld, unaware that Dejanira' caring uncle (Christopher Lee) is actually the one who caused her madness, and an evil sorcerer conspiring with the forces of evil to conquer the world...

Unlike the previous movie, "Hercules in the Haunted World/Hercules at the Center of the Earth" is much more of a "must watch" - or rather of a far better quality than its predecessors. We return to the charm and power of the earlier Hercules movie, but are then taken into a completely different direction thanks to Bava being able to truly make a movie of his own, with all the experience he gathered since the first Hercules. While the story veer into a much more... "fantasy" tone and plot, it is still a definitively "Greek mythology-inspired" type of fantasy, as elements of the legends of both Herakles and Theseus abond (descending into the Underworld, Deianira, the Hesperides and their golden apple, Procrustes and other of the bandits/threats Theseus had to face during his journeys...). Mind you, it is not because the Greek mythology elements and influence are everywhere that this movie is faithful to the legends, oh no, great liberties are taken here... Medea is now an oracle for the gods, Pluto becomes an evil god, you have references to Dante's Inferno while travelling through Hades, the Hesperides become daughters of Helios cursed by Pluto and entrapped in a land of endless midnight... This is definitively not a class about Greek mythology.

But the real strength of this movie, its real greatness (beyond Christopher Lee's presence, because come on, every Christopher Lee scene is great), is its visuals. This movie is a visual delight. Bava really used all of his tricks as a lighting and special effects guy - despite the movie having a not so big budget, Bava managed to created a gigantic fantasmagoria and epic sets and deeply oniric scenes simply through the use of colors, ciaroscuro, optical illusions, set design, and the power of not doing too much. In many ways this movie is the complete reverse of "Goliath and the Dragon": the "Goliath" movie tried to have these big impressive special effects but just became a cheesy, badly-aged kitsch piece ; while the Mario Bava movie is deeply otherwordly and haunting despite a quite limited budget and not doing "too much". (Mind you, not all things aged well, for example Procrustes' costume aged a lot, but the scene of Hercules climbing the giant tree of the Hesperides for example is wonderful).

Another slight flaw I would point out is that they have a very annoying "comical relief sidekick character" that... literaly serves no real purpose and I don't know why he is here, and he kind of ruins the mood (except for maybe one good joke). But this is definitively a movie to WATCH (not obviously appreciate, but just watch) - and it is disponible freely on Youtube in HD if you ever want to watch it. This movie, in fact, caused a brief wave of "creepy peplum" movies, a sort of... sub-genre crossing the "sword and sandal" with elements of horror movies (the "trio" of these morbid peplum movies tend to include Riccardo Fera's "Maciste in Hell" (The Witch's Curse, by American title), and Corbucci & Gentilomo "Maciste against the ghost/Goliath and the vampires/Maciste contro il vampiro".

What else to say... This Hercules was played by Reg Park, who would become the mentor of Arnold Schwarzenegger, who himself would later play Hercules. And oh yes, as a side note here: I haven't talked about this before in detail, but a departure from the Greek mythology is that in all those movies, and it is a common link between all of them, the character of Hercules is not a mortal who after death becomes a god, but the reverse. A great deal and great stress is placed on the fact that Hercules is an immortal among mortals, and a "god among men", and many times you will see or hear Hercules deciding to renounce his immortality or use his immortality as a bargaining chip... This builds an entirely different character, and a sort of meta-continuity for the cinematic incarnation of Hercules that neatly separates him from his mythical counterpart.

V/ The importance of the Hercules saga, and why it shaped Disney's Hercules

So... four movies (plus one mentioned). I said that the 1958 Hercules movie had been a huge success not just in Italy but in Europe as a whole. What I however did not say, because I wanted to keep it more of a surprise, is that this movie was an ENORMOUS success in the USA. Probably much bigger than you think.

The first two movies, "Hercules" and "Hercules Unchained" as they were named in English, were bought, translated and transported to the USA by Joseph E. Levine. Levine poured a LOT of money into a very aggressive and intense advertisement campaign to promote those movies, which not only were everywhere in theaters, but also aired on television. And this all resulted in a massive success, which gave Levine an entryway to build a big career in the movie industry, and the Hercules movies a lasting fame up until the 70s. By the mid-70s their fame and success slowly died out, from the tastes changing (making these pieces look ridiculous by modern audiences) to the television-copies of the movies being of very poor quality and badly preserved. By the 80s, these movies were a laughingstock, and the original duo of "Hercules" and "Hercules Unchained" even got a full-on parody in 1997. The two movies were recut into one, a whole new comical dub was made, and this resulted in "Hercules Recycled", about a TV exercise show-host who battles dinosaurs, fast-food obsessed mutants and insurance salesmen to save Earth by retrieving a secret formula inscribed onto a golden bath-mat...

But another one of the reasons the "Hercules" movies ended up being rejected and mocked mercilessly was oversaturation.

When people saw that "Hercules" and "Hercules Unchained" were HUGE successes both in Europe and America... The hunt was open, and it was free market for all. Everybody tried to recreate the movies, everybody tried making sequels of the movies, everybody did blatant rip-offs of the movies... In Italy at least, which was where the whole craze took place. It was the era of the "mythological peplum", of the "sword-and-sandal", of the "muscle-opera". During the 60s, around TWO HUNDRED movies based on the same principles, cliches and formulas were made for European and American audiences: movies taking place in a vague and unclear Antiquty, inspired by Greco-Roman mythology or Biblical stories, with a very muscular, oily, barely-dressed bodybuilder playing the hero, and him punching his way through soldiers and bandits and monsters, while trying to win the heart of a beautiful princess (or avoiding the deadly charm of wicked queens and enchantresses) - and with sometimes a plucky sidekick or comical relief by his side. Many were the protagonists of these tales, but ultimately they were all avatars of the same archetype: Hercules, Samson, Goliath, Ursus, Maciste were all replacable with each other.

Such an intense and fast mass-production of course brought the early death of the genre, that became "out" just as fast as it was "in"... Before it was replaced by the new cinematic craze coming from Italy and imported to the USA: the "western spaghetti", star of the 70s.

But this era left a deep mark onto America (and Europe too). In America, they were the reasons why the name "Hercules" became more famous than "Herakles". These movies were a prolongation of the bodybuilding trend, and of the athletic culture and body-worship and sport craze that had been started by the Mister Universe contest and the Charles Atlas celebrity. And - more interestingly perhaps for this website - these movies were also very influential and appreciated by homosexual communities of the 60s and 70s... I mean you literaly had muscular hunks bare-chested, oily and sometimes almost entirely naked, wrestling constantly with other half-dressed men, and surrounded by pretty girls and erotic sex-icons and pin-ups, who wore the toga-equivalent of the "chainmail bikini" of Conan fantasies... These movies were bound to attract gays and lesbians of their time.

There is a LOT of those Italian Hercules movies in the 60s, like a LOT. I can't possibly cover them all, but I will leave here the titles of some I will definitively not talk about (due to not being "Greek mythology" enough for my taste): 1961's "Sansone"/"Samson against Hercules" ; 1962's "La furie di Ercole" (The fury of Hercules) ; 1963 "Ercole contro Moloch" (Hercules against Moloch), 1964's "Ercole contro Roma" (Hercules against Rome), 1964's "Il trionfo di Ercole" (Hercules' Triumph), 1964's "Hercules against the sons of the sun", 1964's "Ercole, Sansone, Maciste e Ursus gli invincibili", 1964's "Hercules against the tyrants of Babylon"...

And even by leaving out those eight movies, with the five others I described before, I have still left, in the span of the Italian 60s, SIX more movies I could possibly talk about... As I said, we know around 200 movies were released during this decade in Italy - though hopefully for us, all the lesser and cheap ones faded into obscurity...

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3 Fragrances To Try if You Like Tom Ford Fucking Fabulous

Tom Ford Fucking Fabulous is one of the eponymous brand’s most iconic scents. Released in 2017 as part of the Tom Ford Private Blend collection, it is a leather-forward fragrance that instantly drew both men and women in with gourmand notes of vanilla and bitter almond, bolstered by the freshness of iris and floral orris accord. Cashmeran and amber add to the decadence and spice of the scent, making it an excellent fall-winter head-turner.

If you like Tom Ford Fucking Fabulous but are looking for alternatives that possess a similar DNA, here are a few suggestions for you from Scent Split:

Ambar del Sur – Carner Barcelona Ambar del Sur captures the pure hedonism of Tom Ford Fucking Fabulous, though it forgoes the leather element.

Instead, the fragrance’s heat is provided by a combination of warm spices, including myrrh and Madagascar vanilla at the base. It opens with Italian bergamote before revealing a heart composed of water jasmine, Indonesian patchouli, Australian sandalwood, and grey amber accord. In addition to the spices, Venezuelan tonka bean and Spanish cistus, or labdanum, make up the foundation of this olfactory homage to the long, languorous days of al-Andalus.

Giardinodiercole – Agatho Parfum Giardinodiercole (Giardino di Ercole) is inspired by the myth of Hercules—more specifically, the Garden of Hercules in Pompei, where Agathó Parfum is based. The house where the garden is located is also called Casa del Profumiere, as archaeological evidence points to the presence of a perfumer’s workshop as well as a lush garden of blooms to supply it there.

The niche perfumery takes you back to the golden age of heroes with this citrus aromatic scent: top notes of juniper berries, labdanum, bergamot, lavender, and rhubarb combine with heady incense, black pepper, sage, saffron and pimento at the heart. The richness of the scent is further emphasized by its base notes of Virginia cedar, sandalwood, amber, patchouli, cashmeran, and musk, creating a beautifully unisex scent that smells as though it was crafted for the gods themselves.

MEM – Bogue Profumo Launched in 2017, MEM is a warm and woody amber fougere scent from Bogue Profumo, Antonio Gardoni’s niche fragrance brand. It makes use of a potent blend of lavender at the fore, combining lavender, lavender extract, wild lavender and blue lavender with juicy grapefruit and mandarin orange to create an unforgettably smooth first whiff.

Luxurious ylang-ylang, champaca, damask rose and bourbon geranium make up the heart, mixed with malt, laurel leaves, mint, and vanilla. Its base notes are no less decadent, featuring woodsy notes from sandalwood and Himalayan cedar, heat from ambergris, amber, and musk, as well as labdanum and Siam benzoin, a balsamic element that has a vanilla-like scent.

All of these scents, as well as Tom Ford Fucking Fabulous, can be yours today by visiting Scent Split. Expand your fragrance horizons this fall by ordering a genuine decant of these niche perfumes, allowing you to experience them without spending an arm and a leg. Decants are available at Scent Split in a variety of sizes, so check them out now. 

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Gli otto fari più belli del mondo

Solitari, ispiratori e romantici, i fari sono stati e sono una fonte di ispirazione letteraria e una meta di viaggio. Ovunque nel mondo troviamo questi splendidi edifici che resistono ai colpi dell'oceano e si ergono orgogliosi a guardare l'orizzonte. Questo percorso tocca alcuni dei fari più belli del mondo. Civitatis ha preparato un'incredibile lista degli 8 fari più belli del mondo. Fari: Pemaquid Point Lighthouse - Maine (Stati Uniti) Edward Hopper ne ha catturato la splendida silhouette e i dintorni in uno dei suoi acquerelli del 1929, Pemaquid Light. Entrò in funzione nel 1827 e oggi è uno dei luoghi più visitati di Bristol, nello stato del Maine (New England). Faro di Creac'h - Ilha Ouessant (Francia) Il "Guardiano del mare" nel Finistère francese è uno dei più potenti al mondo. Si trova nell'arcipelago delle Îles du Ponant e fa parte del Parco Naturale Regionale dell'Armorica. Fu acceso per la prima volta nel 1863 e dal 1988 ospita il Museo del Faro, ideale per scoprire tutti i segreti dell'affascinante segnalazione marittima. Torre di Ercole - La Coruña (Spagna) All'arrivo, l'immagine austera e potente del faro è davvero impressionante. Ma è ancora più impressionante se si pensa che sotto le sue facciate c'è un faro romano risalente al I secolo. Visitarlo significa contemplare la "finis terrae" dell'epoca. La Torre di Ercole è il faro romano più antico del mondo e l'unico in funzione. Un valore per il quale è stato riconosciuto come Patrimonio dell'Umanità dall'UNESCO. Faro di Santa Marta - Cascais (Portogallo) Questo pittoresco faro alto 28 metri e dipinto a strisce bianche e blu è una delle icone più belle di Cascais. Adiacente ad esso si trova un museo che raccoglie la storia dei fari della costa di Estoril, tra i primi ad essere costruiti in Portogallo. Fari: Trinidad Lighthouse - Califórnia (Stati Uniti) Questo storico faro è il simbolo della piccola città di Trinidad, nel sud della California. Situato nei pressi dell'omonima baia, è circondato da una splendida costa di rocce scoscese. Cabo da Roca - Sintra (Portogallo) Cabo da Roca è una splendida scogliera che emerge per 140 metri sull'Atlantico ed è il punto più occidentale d'Europa. Si trova a circa 18 chilometri da Sintra (circa 40 chilometri da Lisbona), all'interno del Parco Naturale Sintra-Cascais, circondato da piccoli villaggi di pescatori nascosti tra la foresta di Sintra. Fari: La Corbiere - Ilha de Jersey (Regno unito) Il faro di La Corbiere si trova sulla punta sud-occidentale di Jersey, su un piccolo isolotto. Si trova su una roccia collegata alla terraferma da un sentiero che si immerge durante l'alta marea. Per gli antichi leoni marini che navigavano dall'Inghilterra alla Francia, questo faro segnava la fine della parte più difficile della traversata. Faro Malariff - Penisola di Snaefellsnes (Islanda) La lava del vulcano Snæfellsjökull si avvicina ai piedi di questo faro situato nella parte occidentale del Paese e che dal 1946 sorveglia i 170 km2 del Parco Nazionale Snæfellsjökull. Conosciuto anche come faro di Karlstaðatangi, è alto 24 metri. Read the full article

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I posted 166 times in 2021

147 posts created (89%)

19 posts reblogged (11%)

For every post I created, I reblogged 0.1 posts.

I added 672 tags in 2021

#luca - 158 posts

#pixar luca - 158 posts

#alberto scorfano - 128 posts

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#luca x alberto - 18 posts

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#alberto is 14 in the movie this is the next year

My Top Posts in 2021

#5

Luca: We need to distract these guys.

Alberto: Leave it to me.

Alberto: Centaurs have six limbs and are therefore insects. Discuss.

Ercole, Ciccio and Gudio: *immediately begins arguing*

Luca: *watching in horror* Oh this. I don't like this. I don't like this at all.

455 notes • Posted 2021-07-17 17:57:14 GMT

#4

Massimo: I'm adopting a child.

Alberto: Awesome! Who's-

Massimo: *slams down adoption papers*

Massimo: It's you sign here.

497 notes • Posted 2021-07-07 19:24:22 GMT

#3

Alberto: Name a more iconic duo than my crippling fear of abandonment and my anxiety. I'll wait.

Luca: You and me!

Alberto: *tearing up* Okay.

523 notes • Posted 2021-08-02 09:24:12 GMT

#2

Massimo: *giving the phone to Alberto* It's your boyfriend Luca.

Alberto: He's not my boyfriend.

Also Alberto: *on the phone* Hi babe.

851 notes • Posted 2021-07-10 15:35:10 GMT

#1

Alberto: I don't need parents, I've already been born.

Massimo:

Massimo: Oh god.

1032 notes • Posted 2021-07-05 19:11:41 GMT

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top five favorite moments in luca?

In no particular order

When Alberto snatches Luca out of the water for the first time and the ensuing conversation ("First time?" "Of course it is I'm a good kid") The next meeting where Alberto teaches Luca to walk probably counts here too. ("No, that's just...lying on the ground 🤔")

This scene when they wake up in the rain and panic and scramble around is so fucking cute, I love the energy so much

From here on out the list is probably just going to be iconic Alberto moments/lines because (tears open shirt to reveal another shirt underneath that says I 💜 ALBERTO a la mckenna harris)

"I dunno. It felt like a fish."

"HEY my friend smells AMAZING"

"Why dont I just show you."

"Im just the kid who messes everything up"

"You're still okay." 😢

Lmao the way his pupils are just fully blown when he sees Ercole's vespa

God that gif sucks

Feels hateful not to have a Giulia moment because I love her so much but its probably in that first meeting where she decides she's gonna defend these two weirdos because that's how she do and then she slowly realizes these boys are unhinged and has gotten in over her head

Shout out to that giddy little giggle/wiggle Luca does when he goes to bed after his first full day with Alberto

Machiavelli being a cat in the background

Thats...more than five

#luca

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I posted 247 times in 2021

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#i like to think the two apologized for their actions under ercole because they clearly realized how much of an asshole he was at the end

My Top Posts in 2021

#5

luca was a direct hate crime against my emotions actually

66 notes • Posted 2021-07-26 04:14:57 GMT

#4

someone stop me before i watch it again

86 notes • Posted 2021-08-01 23:15:12 GMT

#3

pov you mentioned ercole

160 notes • Posted 2021-07-05 16:01:36 GMT

#2

THE WAY THEY ONLY GET FARTHER AND FARTHER FROM EACH OTHER AS THE DAYS GO ON…

and it’s all happening during the training montage, over the course of three days as giulia and luca got closer and bonded over learning and alberto felt he was becoming isolated again :(

1078 notes • Posted 2021-07-09 23:55:45 GMT

#1

I wanna talk about three specific moments here.

Number one, the scene where Alberto pulls Luca out of the water.

Number two, the scene where Luca saves Alberto during the Portorosso Cup.

And number three, the final scene. You know,

This heartbreaker.

(Apologies for the quality, by the way. Had to find these all from YouTube clips.)

And I just want to say a thought that I had about all these scenes, and how while I’m sure that the animators didn’t really have the intention of this,

I think all three scenes kind of represent something here, in some sort of case of… accidental symbolism, in a way?

And this isn’t even a full-blown theory or anything. Just me making connections ‘cause, well, I like to think about this movie.

Let me explain myself.

(LUCA SPOILERS AHEAD! Obviously. Uh, those screenshots are kind of spoilers too, really. This entire post is full of them.)

In the first scene, Luca is hooked from the ocean by Alberto and brought onto land for the first time. What I’m focusing on is the action of Alberto physically reaching towards Luca, and straight up pulling him out of the water. 

Luca has only ever known the ocean. He’s lived there his whole life, he has never been out of water. Except... Luca’s a dreamer. When the ocean felt too small for him, he had the desire to explore beyond the water, the longing to see the world. (”You wanna run off like your buddy Enrico? ‘Cause I’ve got news for you. He’s either dead, or he’s... out there, somewhere... seeing the world... but he’s probably dead!”) 

When Alberto pulls Luca out of the water and shows him what the world is like beyond the surface, he essentially fulfills this for him. He sort of... saves him from where he was trapped under the surface (literally - he has a daydream in the beginning where the ocean rises to cover his head so he can’t stick his head above the water). And it’s this whole thing, with Alberto reaching towards Luca to pull him from his confines and save him from his dissatisfaction with the ocean, that drives my entire point, why I’m making this post. Alberto makes the first move and reaches forward to save Luca from his dilemmas. 

Moving on to the second scene, which is where we start making connections. In this scene, Alberto is trapped in a net by Ercole, and Luca bikes forward to grab him and swipe him away before Ercole can hurt him. 

And... well...

He reaches forward, grabs Alberto, and saves him. I think you might be catching my drift here. We see yet again one of these boys reaching out for the other to save them from a bad situation. (And I know, I might be overdramatizing the first scene - Luca wasn’t in that bad of a tight spot - but the stakes weren’t as high in the beginning of the movie at all. It kind of reflects the tone of the movie and the way that it all escalated to this point.) 

But I’m kind of forming some sort of mirror here. 

In the first scene, Alberto is reaching forward towards Luca. He pulls him out of the water and saves him from the life he was unsatisfied with.

In the second scene, Luca is reaching forward towards Alberto. He pulls him from the ground, the dangerous situation that he was in, to safety. (Well, as safe as they could’ve been at that moment.)

And... I want to consider the ways they sort of “saved” each other in the movie. Not in the physical way, not like Luca pulling Alberto from a near-death situation, no - in an emotional way. 

I’ve already talked about the first. In the beginning, Alberto pulls Luca from the ocean - representing the way he sort of pulls Luca from the clustered life he lives, allowing him to explore the world and see all kinds of new things, just as he wanted. He freed Luca from the ocean when they first met, and consequently, freed him from being unable to see the surface, something that had been plaguing him for a while (”We’re a little worried about him, right?”). His liquid prison.

Luca’s is a lot more abstract. As we go through the movie, we learn that Alberto has been alone all his life, abandoned by his father, and clings onto the people important to him, and shoves away those who he thinks can take them away. But Luca helps him learn that he can accept people into his life, that he can trust others, and that he doesn’t need to rely on one single person or thing to get through it all. He saved Alberto from a life of loneliness and helped him grow into a better person - and while that’s not directly related to the moment he saved him during the race, it can be symbolized and represented by that moment. 

Alberto reaching for Luca, and in the end, Luca reaching for Alberto. Two boys who saved each other emotionally, represented by them saving each other physically. 

But wait. There’s one last thing.

The third scene is the well-known and tear-inducing train scene. I just wanna point out...

As they are pulled apart by the train, Luca and Alberto are both reaching for each other at the same time. 

The difference here is that in this moment, they have both already been saved. Luca, whose dream was to see the world and learn all about it, is reaching for Alberto as he’s being pulled towards a human school. Alberto, who was miserably living the loneliest life, reaches for Luca despite the fact that he now has a found family and is no longer desperate to cling to people. (”You got me off the island, Luca. I’m okay.”) They don’t have needs because they have already been fulfilled. They don’t need saving. 

They’re reaching for each other because they want to. They don’t need to - the other has already saved him. But they care for each other, and (ooh, can’t wait to get the callout post) love each other, and of course they’re going to hold onto one of the most important people of their lives. 

They don’t need each other. But they want to hold onto each other. 

It’s been Alberto reaching for Luca, and then Luca reaching for Alberto - until the final scene, when they don’t really need to - They hold each other until they can’t anymore, and they both reach for each other. Until Luca is pulled away, and it’s arrivederci. Until next summer. 

TL;DR: Alberto reaches for Luca and saves him in the beginning. Luca reaches for Alberto and saves him in the end. This represents the way they emotionally help each other throughout the movie. They both reach for each other despite not needing saving in the end - simply because they want to.

Thank you so much if you read through this whole thing and are still here! I know that I sounded a little repetitive, but I really wanted to drive my point across and hoped that I wasn’t sounding too unclear. I wanted to make this easy to understand, but it’s easier said than done, haha. It’s one of those thoughts that make sense in your head and not to anyone else, I think, but I tried my best to do it justice. 

Anyway, if you couldn’t tell, I love this movie a lot - and I hope this meta in which I drew way too many connections adds a little something more to the story. Anyway, grazie for getting this far, and I hope to see you around! 

1261 notes • Posted 2021-07-07 13:00:54 GMT

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The BB23 Houseguests as Disney Characters

Disclaimer: the cast did this last night, but a lot of them didn’t do it correctly. Like maybe one or two worked. This is purely based off of personality. AND YOU BETTER BELIEVE FRENCH FRY WILL NOT BE LOKI THE HOUSE WAS FUCKING SICK FOR DOING TOM HIDDLESTON LIKE THAT

Alyssa: Mertle from Lilo and Stitch- jealous bitch energy.

Azah: Violet Parr from The Incredibles- she can be moody at times and tends to make herself invisible. But given the opportunity, she could really prove herself.

Brent: Ercole Visconti from Luca- A loud punk ass Italian man with an ego bigger than his forehead. Thinks everyone loves him but everyone hates him. Little bitch who gets what he deserves in the end.

Britini: Peach from Finding Nemo- Today’s the day! The sun is shining! The tank is clean! GASP THE TANK IS CLEAN! yeah basically big Peach energy.

Christian: Dopey from Snow White and The Seven Dwarves- dumbass with big eyes. All the other dwarves do all the work and what is he doing? Too worried about kissing a girl. Dumbass.

Claire: Olaf from Frozen- she’s got an awkward kind of humor but there’s something very endearing about her. Also she says some of the most off the cuff shit sometimes.

Derek F: Eeyore from The Adventures of Winnie the Pooh- the way this man has been moping every day since the farmer left. Everyone is partying and what is he doing? Trying to rebuild his stick house.

Derek X: Wall-E from Wall-E- just a little robot trying to save the world (aka the house). Would go to ends of the earth for his EVE 🥺. Also he’s so cute!

Frenchie: Governor Ratcliffe from Pocahontas- I think this one is pretty self explanatory.

Hannah: Esmeralda from The Huntchback of Norte Dame- Wise beyond her years and understands what she needs to do. Also dressed to impressed at all times. Baddest bitch alive.

Kyland: Powerline from A Goofy Movie- IF WE LISTEN TO EACH OTHERS HEARTS WE’LL FIND WERE NEVER TOO FAR APART. He just radiates cool energy to me.

Sarah Beth: Tinkerbell from Peter Pan- Oh she’s cute? Yeah but she also is actively trying to kill Wendy. Literally tries to have her drowned and shot from the sky. Something’s off with this one.

Tiffany: Mama Odie from The Princess and The Frog- Listen sometimes you don’t know what this women is up to but you know it’ll be good. She’s makes the whole house sing and dance. She’s got a pet snake, and above all, SHES THE BEST CHARACTER IN THE CAST! Iconic.

Travis: HeiHei from Moana- He’s just…he was there I guess.

Whitney: Miss Piggy from The Muppets- Girl Kermit doesn’t want you! Leave him be! Jfc get a fucking clue.

Xavier: Cobra Bubbles from Lilo and Stitch- This man basically undercover. He wants what’s best for the family. He’s smart, but empathetic. He’s looking out for the girl. Also you can’t tell me this man wouldn’t look good in a black suit. WHEW.

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the fact that i can actually make an icon of ercole pulling guido by the hair makes me.... big sad

#004 : ( out of character ) #rip guido's wig..... hairline gonna go off to the stratosphere w how much it gets pulled