Immortals

In White’s review of new movie Immortals he describes director Tarsem SIngh how although this movie is very similar to a previous movie with similar plots “300”. Both movies are action packed historically based movies Immortals is about the greek hero Theseus while 300 is based on the spartans battle at Thermopylae. But White states that Singh has taken a new contemporary style to pay homage to the great story of previous eras. Sigh said that “Everyone is making comic strips, basically.” Sigh says this about the current way movies are made. He believes that these movies are based on comic strips but he wanted to make movies baseed on Renaissance paintings.

In Singh’s new movie a God comes down and fight humans.The war God Ares comes down and rescues Theseus. Obviously the humans were slaughtered and were left as mere patches of blood across the viewers face, seeing as this movie was in 3-D. This is a little strange, I haven’t really heard of movies where a God would actually come down and fight a human. I think that this insertion of this God-human battle is a little strange and doesn’t fit in with greek mythology because it went against the rule to interfere directly with mortal fights. And i personally feel that once the Ares came down the entire movie would be anti-climactic because you would know he would win and triumph. Even though the good-guy always wins, you still wonder aren’t a 100% sure if they will. But, once a God comes down and makes sure the hero doesn’t die then obviously he’s not going to die.

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  1. You’re right. There are always parts in a movie that always set out what will happen in the end and ruins everything as you already see where the movie is headed. However, there are those times when the movie progresses and there are twists that surprise you leaving you dumbfounded as to what just happened. I feel like movies and TV shows are using this technique a lot, but there are still many that don’t make a twist and just leave it out in the open as to what will happen.
    Anyway, you’re right about the good-guy always wins objective. It’d be nice if someone changed that, but I don’t believe it will happen as a lo of debates will most likely pop up.

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