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<blockquote data-quote="maceochaid" data-source="post: 7752963" data-attributes="member: 6789608"><p>Well neither were the Greeks re: faithful to their subject matter. I feel canon is definitely a Judeo-Christian concept because of the single book. Perseus' story gets changed around a lot. What I find most interesting about Clash of the Titans is how the put Thetis as the mother of Calabos. I don't have any reason to believe this was intentional, but I do feel that this does something very interesting. Thetis, a goddess of Justice, plays one role in mythology, to give birth to Achilles the hero of the most important piece of literature in the Greek world. A birth that should have led to the overthrow of Zeus, but how to contain the threat he ensured that Thetis' son would be mortal. The Iliad deeply considers the role of justice and how unfair it is for mortals, and both Zeus and Achilles are in a deadlock, allied to the same code of glory and honor, but essentially enemies in that Zeus limited Achilles' glory from being the greatest immortal, to the greatest mortal which is achievable only through a heroic death. Essentially Man's greatest hero is the one willing to rail against the gods and die in a blaze of glory as a protest to the unfairness, and God loves him for it. (Yes I know that Achilles' death occurs outside of the Iliad, but the Greeks knew the story, and that is part of his theme throughout the Iliad). ANYWAYS, Calabos on the other hand is a more typical devil like creature. Representing a more Christian world view that the enemy of God is an enemy of all, and like Caliban and Grendel is a creature who is shunned for his sins and instead of repenting keeps retreating into evil in a kind of Miltonian Satan motivation. ANYWHO, if anyone is in charge of a journal for stop motion film studies, I'd be happy to send you an abstract</p><p>for your consideration for publication.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="maceochaid, post: 7752963, member: 6789608"] Well neither were the Greeks re: faithful to their subject matter. I feel canon is definitely a Judeo-Christian concept because of the single book. Perseus' story gets changed around a lot. What I find most interesting about Clash of the Titans is how the put Thetis as the mother of Calabos. I don't have any reason to believe this was intentional, but I do feel that this does something very interesting. Thetis, a goddess of Justice, plays one role in mythology, to give birth to Achilles the hero of the most important piece of literature in the Greek world. A birth that should have led to the overthrow of Zeus, but how to contain the threat he ensured that Thetis' son would be mortal. The Iliad deeply considers the role of justice and how unfair it is for mortals, and both Zeus and Achilles are in a deadlock, allied to the same code of glory and honor, but essentially enemies in that Zeus limited Achilles' glory from being the greatest immortal, to the greatest mortal which is achievable only through a heroic death. Essentially Man's greatest hero is the one willing to rail against the gods and die in a blaze of glory as a protest to the unfairness, and God loves him for it. (Yes I know that Achilles' death occurs outside of the Iliad, but the Greeks knew the story, and that is part of his theme throughout the Iliad). ANYWAYS, Calabos on the other hand is a more typical devil like creature. Representing a more Christian world view that the enemy of God is an enemy of all, and like Caliban and Grendel is a creature who is shunned for his sins and instead of repenting keeps retreating into evil in a kind of Miltonian Satan motivation. ANYWHO, if anyone is in charge of a journal for stop motion film studies, I'd be happy to send you an abstract for your consideration for publication. [/QUOTE]
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