Disney and The Rock about to give Medusa the Maleficent treatment.
These fags have done more to turn men into misogynist morons than anyone else.
I hope they keep the rapes and god pettiness nonsense
>>156263579To be fair, Medusa got very fucked in the original myth.
>>156263579moment of silence for Lauren Faust's dead Medusa movie>>156263651why would you admit to being this much of a sheep?
>>156263651>Women get power fantasy movies>Billions must die
>>156263692kind of depends which one. Ovid really hated authority, hence all the petty dickery from the gods
>>156263651Only the weird hisotronic ones like yourself
>>156263579The hierarchy of power in the Disney universe is about to change.
>>156263692literally.all holes. by a literal angry god
>>156263651you lost nazi
>>156263579Medusa was the good guy though, the Greek gods are cunts.
>>156263579>Seven Bucks
>>156263579>Live actionWouldn't that make this not /co/?
>>156263579>>>/tv/
>>156263579>>156263692>>156263708God, I hate this shit. The "original myth" you're talking about comes from Ovid. Ovid(who died in 18 AD) fucking hated Augustus and essentially rewrote a number of well-known myths, portraying the gods as assholes. Now, the Greek gods certainly were assholes, but they operated according to an internal logic and set of rituals. Ovid's work wasn't theology; it was satire.As for Medusa, according to most ancient Greek accounts, she was believed to have originated from Libya (the term 'Libyan' back then referred broadly to people from North Africa) and was subsequently incorporated into Greek mythology as a child of the Typhon, as many monsters were. I also know they're going to depict Libyans/North Africans as black, as Americans seem obsessed with doing, even though ancient Greek depictions portrayed Libyans as having roughly the same skin tone as Greeks.
>>156263790Mutt's law
>>156263579If the Rock doesn't have a cameo as a man who looks at Medusa, it's worthless.
>>156263692That's not the original myth. It's fanfiction brewed up later. Originally gorgons like her were considered an entire race and not just one woman who got raped and turned into a monster for not being happy she was raped. Later they were three sisters born of godsThen she was changed into a single snake haired woman of the current pop culture version who was killed while she was asleep, not in a great epic battle.
>>156263833>theology it's a fairy tale bro stop taking imaginary magicians seriously they don't have a "real" or "official" story.
>comics and cartoons board
>>156263925>the scroll was better
>>156263707arguably more a rape revenge genre than a power fantasy
>>156263934not the fucking point you idiotsaying this belongs here is like saying PotC movies belong here
>>156263833>they're going to depict Libyans/North Africans as black, as Americans seem obsessed with doing, even though ancient Greek depictions portrayed Libyans as having roughly the same skin tone as Greeks.Anon, libiyan's at no point looked anything like the greeks back then. Their race didn't pour into that part of he world and outbreed and genocide the dark skinned tribes till centuries later.
>>156263692>the original mythI bet you're not even thinking of the actual original myth.
>>156263579No retard that's backwards. Maleficent is pure evil. Medusa was just screwed over by the gods. One is in character to be redeemed and one isn't
>>156263579>the Maleficent treatmentWhen you think about it, the Maleficent treatment is just the Wicked treatment.
>>156264017>Medusa was just screwed over by the godsOriginal Medusa wasn't.Also Maleficent being pure evil doesn't matter when her movie presented her as good and everyone else as evil and/or stupid except for the Prince and Princess.
And people wonder how the Lindsey Clancy fanclub happened.
>original>mythsI know it's hard for Americans to understand the concepts of culture and all but come on, it's magic and gods stories what make you believe there is one version that is "truer" than another. The events didn't happen.
>>156263579>Uhm, actually, Perseus was an EVIL man who only wanted to kill the misunderstood Medusa and her sisters to become famous and powerful!
>>156264143Yeah, but usually one version of the story is told before another.But there's also a difference between the original, and the most accepted.Like how the true original Superman is the evil one from Reign of the Superman, but no one thinks of him when talking about Superman.And even when they talk about the actual Superhero, the original Golden Age Superman is quite different from the modern interpretation.
>>156263579Not /co/Fuck off>>>/tv/
>>156264123yeah....clancy a woman who's job it was to take care of newbornswho didn't actually take care of her own children who's husband and a nanny did most of the parentingwho googled how to get husband out of the house and kill childrenwho lured her husband out of the house then lured her children to the basement and hunted them like the monster of an old fairy tale before it was changed into a nice little story about mommy knows best who strangled her children with a rubber band in full view of the still living children while they fought desperately for their small liveswho left them for her soon to be exhusband to findwho then faked a suicide attempt, but didn't try to kill herself later, ?her?it's her husbands faultit's the partiarchy's faultit's some man who she's never seen before in timbuktuu's faultit's not her faultAnon, I know this is your job. But no. Don't do that.
>>156264195That was the eradicator.
>>156263707I look like this and I say this
>>156263579The reason other live action disney movies about villains don't work is because they attempt to use the popularity of already existing disney adaptations while simultaneously shitting on them. This is just an adaptation. It will be shit, but it's not a remake that shits on their own legacy.Obviously it will go off the Ovid version, because it would be fucking retarded not to. Even if it's not the original, is a nearly 2000 year old version not old enough to be considered fair game? Every version of ancient myth we know isn't the original anyway.
He's gonna play Zeus, isn't he?
>>156264195>Yeah, but usually one version of the story is told before another.doesn't make it better. most folklore especially starts are really short nonense and you got centuries of that shit before someone collected and rewrote something more coherent about it. And worse, we don't even have 10% of each versions of any story ever written, we have no reason to assume which greek version was the earliest or the best because we have like 3 out of 50 000
>>156263845Yeah, sure. (((Mutts.)))
>>156263579of course they've got the rock in a medusa movie
>>156264060In modern society, Medusa as the victim IS the popular interpretation of the character. And the Greek Gods ARE the most cartoonishly evil Disney Villains of all. I'm infinitely more annoyed at Hercules making Hades bad, Zeus good, than fucking Medusa getting a redemption arc when she's already been a gray character for most of modern history.
He's still seething. Reminder he had producer credit on live action Moana.
How is this /co/?
>>156263579>Live-action Disney movieMedusa? More like SLOPdusa.
>>156263833The Gods WERE assholes. It is a fundamental part of Greek theology that the Gods were not "good" people in a benevolent sense. They had virtues, heroism and wisdom, but they were not friendly by nature to mortals because mortals are unvirtuous scum by comparison.This is key to explain the Problem of Evil in Greek paganism. "Why do bad things happen?" Because the Gods have power and can use that power however they see fit. You are an ant asking why you are stepped on, and the human's answer is "I had no idea you were there" or "you were a pest". That's Greek theology in a nutshell, and the only way to stop bad things from happening is to either get power for yourself or to appease the Gods and prove you are not a pest.
>>156263790lol we know that’s not the rock, dude might be rich and yolked but he definitely took steroids.
>>156263724>hisotronicdafuq is that?
>>156263579It's funny because while this is more deserved than most villain protagonist movies, they're undoubtedly going to make changes to the plot that will make Medusa less of a victim and undermine her actions.
