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In the 2010 movie “Clash of the Titans” a man named Perseus discovers he is the son of Zeus, and is called upon the doomed city of Argos to save them from Hades and the monster known as the Kraken, set upon them by Zeus after the royals of the city insulted the gods; Perseus, tasked with finding a way to defeat the Kraken, went and cut of the head of Medusa, and used it to turn the monster to stone; and with the help of his father, sent Hades, who had betrayed Zeus, back to the underworld. The ancient greek tale which the movie was based on had a king Acrisius that was told that someday he would be killed and overthrown by his grandson; upon hearing this he imprisoned his beautiful daughter, Danae, in a dungeon, where she was visited and impregnated …show more content…

the first being Perseus's origin; in the original tale, king Acrisius locked his daughter away in fear of a prophecy, and she was impregnated by Zeus, afterwards Danae and Perseus were thrown to the sea, and rescued by a fisherman, whom Danae married; in the movie, king Acrisius waged war on olympus, and to teach the mortals a lesson, Zeus disguised himself as the king and impregnated his wife Danae, and afterwards they were thrown to the sea, killing Danae, and Perseus was rescued and raised by a fisherman. Acrisius’ death had two very different versions; in the movie, after Perseus killed Medusa, Kalabos attacked and killed io, and Perseus killed him in anger, and as he died, Acrisius told Perseus “don't become one of them”, them referring to the gods, and Perseus left to rescue Argos and Andromeda; in the original tale, king Acrisius’ death came later, after the princess’ rescue, when Perseus and his bride were traveling and competing in athletic events, Perseus threw a discus that hit and killed the king, fulfilling the prophecy; in the tale Perseus then became king, while in the movie he prefered to live his life as a simple man, working as a fisherman. When Perseus met the witches and they told him what he needed to do, in the tale the two of them gave him a sword, a mirrored shield, a sack, and winged shoes; in the movie the three of them gave him nothing, he received the sword from Zeus, his father, the shield a gift from the hunters that traveled with him, made from the skin of a giant scorpion, and he never got magic flying shoes in the movie, instead riding on the back of a black pegasus, another gift from his father; we never learned where he got the sack. Andromeda’s punishment occurred in different yet similar ways; her parents compared her to Aphrodite in the tale, and hearing this, a river god demanded she be sacrificed to the Ketos; while in the movie there was more

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