Actually, it was a good movie, the historie was great and the action escenes were very good, but it had almost nothing in common with the real myth of Persues. The only similarities between the myth and the movie are that Perseus and her mother were found in a box in the sea, that he go with the Graeae in search of clues to overcome his objective, that he killed Medusa and that he married Andromedae.
The differences are much bigger. In the first place the mother of Perseus was the daughter of the king of Argos Acrisius (who was the husband of Perseus mother in the movie) and that she survives when them two were in he box. The second was that Perseus and his mother arrived at the island of Seriphos and the brother of the king, Dictys, take care of them. In the third place the reason why Perseus killed Medusa is different between the myth and the movie, in the movie it was because with her head he could kill the kraken but actually it was because the king Polydectes (Dictys brother) asked him to do it.
This was because he had falled in love with Perseus mother, but Perseus doesn’t liked him, so, he think on a good plan to get off of Perseus.He pretended to tried to get the hand of Hippodamia, and asked for horses to give her as gifts, but Perseus doesn’t had horses, so he told the king that he would bring any give that he want and Polydectes asked the head of Meduse.
Well enough of the myth, continuing with the previous list of differences. The fourth one was that the girl that helped Perseus all around the movie really didn’t existed in the Greek mythologie, or, if she existed, never helped Perseus. Actually, Hades helps Perseus in the reality because he, Athenea, Hermes and Zeus give him some gifts to help him in his mission. He never fight with Medusa, he snake in her lair and killed her in complete silence and then go out quickly with the help of the helm of darkness of Hades. Other things is that the monster that he killed in order to save Andromeda was Cetus and it was a monster from Poseidon (though the crime of Andromeda was almost the same as in the movie) and the kingdom from where Andromeda was from was Ethiopia not Argos.
And with this ends my comparizon between the movie and the original myth
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