| Immortals | |
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| Directed by | Tarsem Singh |
| Produced by | Mark Canton Ryan Kavanaugh Gianni Nunnari |
| Written by | Vlas Parlapanides Charley Parlapanides |
| Starring | Henry Cavill Stephen Dorff Luke Evans Isabel Lucas Kellan Lutz Freida Pinto Mickey Rourke |
| Music by | Trevor Morris |
| Budget | $75[1]–120[2] million |
| Box office | $226,904,017 [3] |
It was released in 2D and in 3-D (using the Real D 3D and Digital 3D formats) on November 11, 2011 by Universal Pictures and Relativity Media.[5]
Before the dawn of man or beast, immortals waged war against each other. The victors named themselves gods while the vanquished were named the Titans and imprisoned beneath Mount Tartarus. The Epirus Bow, a weapon of immense power, is lost on Earth during the war. In 1228 B.C., the mortal king Hyperion (Mickey Rourke)
of Heraklion searches for the Bow, intending to use it to release the
Titans to spite the gods for failing to save his family. Hyperion
captures the virgin oracle Phaedra (Freida Pinto), believing that she can find the Bow's resting place.
In a small village nearby, the inhabitants prepare to flee to Tartarus to avoid Hyperion's army. One inhabitant, Theseus (Henry Cavill), is a skilled warrior trained by his mentor, the old man (John Hurt).
Theseus and his mother Aethra (Anne Day-Jones), considered undesirables
because Theseus was born from Aethra being raped, are forced to stay
behind by villagers and Athenian soldiers including Lysander (Joseph Morgan). Theseus ably battles multiple opponents until the Athenian officer Helios (Peter Stebbings)
intervenes and discharges Lysander for his actions. Lysander travels to
Hyperion, offering his service and the village's location. Hyperion
accepts, but maims and castrates
Lysander for being a traitor. Hyperion's forces attack Theseus'
village, murdering the villagers and Aethra, and taking Theseus captive.
The old man, revealed to be Zeus (Luke Evans), meets with his fellow gods Athena (Isabel Lucas), Poseidon (Kellan Lutz), Ares (Daniel Sharman), Apollo (Corey Sevier), and Heracles (Steve Byers),
and warns them not to interfere in mortal affairs as gods, believing
that, until the Titans are released, they must have faith in mankind to
defeat Hyperion. Theseus is enslaved alongside the thief Stavros (Stephen Dorff).
Phaedra, who is held captive nearby, witnesses a vision of Theseus.
Phaedra organizes a riot, using the chaos to escape with Theseus,
Stavros, and the other slaves. Theseus decides to pursue Hyperion and
attempts to capture a boat, but he and his allies are overwhelmed by
Hyperion's forces. Poseidon purposefully falls from Olympus into the
ocean, causing a tidal wave that wipes out Hyperion's men. Phaedra sees
another vision of Theseus standing near a shrouded body. She determines
that Theseus must return home to bury Aethra.
While laying Aethra to rest, Theseus discovers the Epirus Bow
embedded in nearby rock. He frees the Bow, but is attacked by Hyperion's
henchman the Minotaur (Robert Maillet).
Theseus kills Minotaur, and uses the Bow to save his allies from being
executed, before collapsing from poisoned scratches inflicted by
Minotaur. Phaedra tends to Theseus and later falls in love with him,
stripping her of the visions she deemed a curse. The group returns to
Phaedra's temple while Hyperion and his forces are away at Mount
Tartarus. At the temple, Stavros and Theseus are lured into an ambush,
and Theseus loses the bow. Outnumbered by Hyperion's men, Ares directly
intervenes to save Theseus, and Athena provides the men with horses to
reach Mount Tartarus. Zeus arrives and angrily kills Ares for disobeying
his command. Zeus tells Theseus that they will receive no more aid from
the gods, and he must justify the faith Zeus has in him alone. The lost
bow is brought to Hyperion.
Theseus, Stavros, and Phaedra travel to Mount Tartarus. Theseus tries in vain to warn Hellenics King Cassander (Stephen McHattie)
of Hyperion's plans, but Cassander dismisses his talk of gods as myth,
intending to negotiate peace with Hyperion. The following day Hyperion
uses the Bow to destroy Tartarus' seemingly indestructible wall, killing
Helios. Theseus leads the Hellenic army to war against the Hyperion
forces, killing Lysander. Hyperion ignores the battle and storms through
to Mount Tartarus, killing Cassander. Hyperion uses the Bow to breach
the mountain and free the Titans before Stavros and Theseus can stop
him. The force of the release knocks the mortals down. Stavros takes the
Bow and kills a Titan, but he is massacred by the other Titans. Zeus,
Poseidon, Athena, Heracles and Apollo arrive and battle the Titans while
Theseus fights Hyperion. Zeus destroys the Epirus Bow with the
warhammer of Ares and the gods prove more powerful than the Titans, but
they are overwhelmed by the sheer number of Titans with all but Zeus and
Poseidon being killed. Theseus kills Hyperion, and Zeus collapses the
mountain before ascending to Olympus with Athena's body. The collapsing
mountain wipes out Hyperion's men. The mortally wounded Theseus is
transported to Olympus for his sacrifice and given a place among the
gods.
Several years later, Theseus' story has become legend and Phaedra has given birth to Acamas
(Gage Munroe), Theseus' son. Acamas is met by the old man who informs
the child that in the future he too will one day fight against evil.
Acamas sees a vision of the sky filled with gods and Titans fighting.
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Theseus /ˈθiːsiːəs/ (Ancient Greek: Θησεύς Greek: [tʰɛːsěu̯s]) was the mythical[1] founder-king of Athens, son of Aethra, and fathered by Aegeus and Poseidon, both of whom Aethra had slept with in one night. Theseus was a founder-hero, like Perseus, Cadmus, or Heracles, all of whom battled and overcame foes that were identified with an archaic religious and social order.[2] As Heracles was the Dorian hero, Theseus was the Athenian founding hero, considered by them as their own great reformer: his name comes from the same root as θεσμός ("thesmos"), Greek for "institution". He was responsible for the synoikismos ("dwelling together")—the political unification of Attica under Athens, represented emblematically in his journey of labours, subduing highly localized ogres and monstrous beasts. Because he was the unifying king, Theseus built and occupied a palace on the fortress of the Acropolis that may have been similar to the palace that was excavated in Mycenae. Pausanias reports that after the synoikismos, Theseus established a cult of Aphrodite Pandemos ("Aphrodite of all the People") and Peitho on the southern slope of the Acropolis.
Plutarch's vita of Theseus makes use of varying accounts of the death of the Minotaur, Theseus' escape and the love of Ariadne for Theseus, in order to construct a literalistic biography, a vita.[3] Plutarch's sources, not all of whose texts have survived independently, included Pherecydes (mid-sixth century BC), Demon (ca 300 BC), Philochorus and Cleidemus (both fourth century BC).[4]
Early years
Theseus and Aethra, by Laurent de La Hyre
Aegeus, one of the primordial kings of Athens, found a bride, Aethra who was the daughter of king Pittheus at Troezen, a small city southwest of Athens. On their wedding night, Aethra waded through the sea to the island of Sphairia that rests close to the coast and lay there with Poseidon
(god of the sea and earthquakes). The mix gave Theseus a combination of
divine as well as mortal characteristics in his nature; such double
fathers, one immortal and one mortal, was a familiar feature of Greek heroes.[5] After Aethra became pregnant, Aegeus decided to return to Athens. Before leaving, however, he buried his sandals and sword under a huge rock[6]
and told Aethra that when their son grew up, he should move the rock,
if he were heroic enough, and take the tokens for himself as evidence of
his royal parentage. In Athens, Aegeus was joined by Medea, who had fled Corinth after slaughtering the children she had borne Jason, and had taken Aegeus as her new consort. Priestess and consort together represented the old order in Athens.
Thus Theseus was raised in his mother's land. When Theseus grew up and became a brave young man, he moved the rock and recovered his father's tokens. His mother then told him the truth about his father's identity and that he must take the sword and sandals back to king Aegeus to claim his birthright. To journey to Athens, Theseus could choose to go by sea (which was the safe way) or by land, following a dangerous path around the Saronic Gulf, where he would encounter a string of six entrances to the Underworld,[7] each guarded by a chthonic enemy. Young, brave and ambitious, Theseus decided to go alone by the land route, and defeated a great many bandits along the way.
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Phaedra and Hippolytus
Phaedra, Theseus's second wife, bore Theseus two sons, Demophon and Acamas. While these two were still in their infancy, Phaedra fell in love with Hippolytus, Theseus's son by Hippolyta. According to some versions of the story, Hippolytus had scorned Aphrodite to become a devotee of Artemis, so Aphrodite made Phaedra fall in love with him as punishment. He rejected her out of chastity.
Alternatively, in Euripides' version, Hippolytus, Phaedra's nurse told Hippolytus of her mistress's love and he swore he would not reveal the nurse as his source of information. To ensure that she would die with dignity, Phaedra wrote to Theseus on a tablet claiming that Hippolytus had raped her before hanging herself. Theseus believed her and used one of the three wishes he had received from Poseidon against his son. The curse caused Hippolytus' horses to be frightened by a sea monster, usually a bull, and drag their rider to his death. Artemis would later tell Theseus the truth, promising to avenge her loyal follower on another follower of Aphrodite.
In a version by Seneca, the Roman playwright, entitled Phaedra, after Phaedra told Theseus that Hippolytus had raped her, Theseus killed his son himself, and Phaedra committed suicide out of guilt, for she had not intended for Hippolytus to die.
In yet another version, Phaedra simply told Theseus Hippolytus had raped her and did not kill herself, and Dionysus sent a wild bull which terrified Hippolytus's horses.
A cult grew up around Hippolytus, associated with the cult of Aphrodite. Girls who were about to be married offered locks of their hair to him. The cult believed that Asclepius had resurrected Hippolytus and that he lived in a sacred forest near Aricia in Latium.
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Theseus /ˈθiːsiːəs/ (Ancient Greek: Θησεύς Greek: [tʰɛːsěu̯s]) was the mythical[1] founder-king of Athens, son of Aethra, and fathered by Aegeus and Poseidon, both of whom Aethra had slept with in one night. Theseus was a founder-hero, like Perseus, Cadmus, or Heracles, all of whom battled and overcame foes that were identified with an archaic religious and social order.[2] As Heracles was the Dorian hero, Theseus was the Athenian founding hero, considered by them as their own great reformer: his name comes from the same root as θεσμός ("thesmos"), Greek for "institution". He was responsible for the synoikismos ("dwelling together")—the political unification of Attica under Athens, represented emblematically in his journey of labours, subduing highly localized ogres and monstrous beasts. Because he was the unifying king, Theseus built and occupied a palace on the fortress of the Acropolis that may have been similar to the palace that was excavated in Mycenae. Pausanias reports that after the synoikismos, Theseus established a cult of Aphrodite Pandemos ("Aphrodite of all the People") and Peitho on the southern slope of the Acropolis.
Plutarch's vita of Theseus makes use of varying accounts of the death of the Minotaur, Theseus' escape and the love of Ariadne for Theseus, in order to construct a literalistic biography, a vita.[3] Plutarch's sources, not all of whose texts have survived independently, included Pherecydes (mid-sixth century BC), Demon (ca 300 BC), Philochorus and Cleidemus (both fourth century BC).[4]
Thus Theseus was raised in his mother's land. When Theseus grew up and became a brave young man, he moved the rock and recovered his father's tokens. His mother then told him the truth about his father's identity and that he must take the sword and sandals back to king Aegeus to claim his birthright. To journey to Athens, Theseus could choose to go by sea (which was the safe way) or by land, following a dangerous path around the Saronic Gulf, where he would encounter a string of six entrances to the Underworld,[7] each guarded by a chthonic enemy. Young, brave and ambitious, Theseus decided to go alone by the land route, and defeated a great many bandits along the way.
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Phaedra and Hippolytus
Phaedra, Theseus's second wife, bore Theseus two sons, Demophon and Acamas. While these two were still in their infancy, Phaedra fell in love with Hippolytus, Theseus's son by Hippolyta. According to some versions of the story, Hippolytus had scorned Aphrodite to become a devotee of Artemis, so Aphrodite made Phaedra fall in love with him as punishment. He rejected her out of chastity.
Alternatively, in Euripides' version, Hippolytus, Phaedra's nurse told Hippolytus of her mistress's love and he swore he would not reveal the nurse as his source of information. To ensure that she would die with dignity, Phaedra wrote to Theseus on a tablet claiming that Hippolytus had raped her before hanging herself. Theseus believed her and used one of the three wishes he had received from Poseidon against his son. The curse caused Hippolytus' horses to be frightened by a sea monster, usually a bull, and drag their rider to his death. Artemis would later tell Theseus the truth, promising to avenge her loyal follower on another follower of Aphrodite.
In a version by Seneca, the Roman playwright, entitled Phaedra, after Phaedra told Theseus that Hippolytus had raped her, Theseus killed his son himself, and Phaedra committed suicide out of guilt, for she had not intended for Hippolytus to die.
In yet another version, Phaedra simply told Theseus Hippolytus had raped her and did not kill herself, and Dionysus sent a wild bull which terrified Hippolytus's horses.
A cult grew up around Hippolytus, associated with the cult of Aphrodite. Girls who were about to be married offered locks of their hair to him. The cult believed that Asclepius had resurrected Hippolytus and that he lived in a sacred forest near Aricia in Latium.
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