With the help of Agenor (Toby Kebbell), a mortal son of Poseidon, they eventually find their way to where Hephaestus (Bill Nighy) lives, who designed the prison.Īt the entrance to the underworld, Ares shows up and kills Hephaestus, but not before he manages to unlock the entrance to the labyrinth. Along the way, he runs across Andromeda (now played by Rosamund Pike), who is leading the army of Argos against the monsters. Perseus now has to go to the underworld to liberate his father. Poseidon tells Perseus that Zeus has been captured by Hades and Ares. The action sequence that follows is neat and the resolution of the battle between Perseus and the monster is clever. It’s not exactly comparable with classical representations of the creature, but it’s close enough and visually interesting. Perseus’ village is attacked by a Chimera, which in the movie is represented as a fire-breathing, winged, double-headed, lion-like creature with a serpent as a tail. (The basic plot as well as the look of Cronus, represented as a gargantuan creature made from molten rock, recalls the game Age of Mythology!) The god is chained to rocks and then drained of his strength, which is used to empower the Titan Cronus, who was locked away in Tartarus – described as “the prison of the underworld” – after the Titanomachy. Hades (Ralph Fiennes) and Ares (Édgar Ramírez) conspire together and capture Zeus. This brief exchange sets the stage for the rest of the movie. Monsters will flood the earth and the gods will become mortal and die. Zeus visits Perseus and says that since humanity stopped praying, the gods are growing weak and there will be consequences. But as Zeus (Liam Neeson) says in the opening voice over, he won’t be able to hide forever. Io has died and Perseus (Sam Worthington) lives a normal life as a mortal, with his son, in a village on the coast. The story picks up some time after Clash of the Titans and has nothing to do with the original Perseus myth. Wrath of the Titans was directed by Jonathan Liebesman (of Battle Los Angeles “fame”) and based on an original story that cribs liberally from Greek mythology. It all began with a simple prophecy that stated that his sons would overthrow Cronus.While the remake of Clash of the Titans was not a critical success, it performed well enough at the box office to warrant a sequel. Nevertheless, he went on to rule as king of the Olympian gods. Because of the draw, Zeus became the king, Poseidon ruled over the seas, and Hades ruled the underworld.ĭespite the fact that Zeus won the draw, many believe that he was destined to be king anyway because he was considered to be the most powerful. Rather than fight violently, they decided to draw lots over who would have the honor. Who will become king?Īfter Cronus was defeated, Poseidon, Hades, and Zeus bickered over who would become the next king. Thus, the prophecy was fulfilled because his own sons took down Cronus. In some versions of the story, Gaia is the one who caused Cronus to regurgitate the children.Īfter they were freed, Poseidon and Hades banded together with their brother, Zeus, to overthrow Cronus. When Cronus vomited, he expelled all of his swallowed children. Zeus tricked Cronus by giving him an emetic, which causes vomiting. Once he left Crete, Zeus knew that he had to confront Cronus and rescue his siblings. When he was old enough, he left the island of Crete in order to rescue his siblings. In other versions, exclusively Gaia raised him. In one version of the story, he was nursed by the Nymph Amaltheia and raised by Gaia. He was taken to the island of Crete and raised on Mount Dicte. So, she tricked Cronus by giving him a rock wrapped in swaddling clothes, which he then swallowed. Rhea was tired of watching her own children be swallowed by her husband. To prevent this from happening to Zeus, Rhea enlisted the help of Gaia. As a result, he swallowed each of his children whole to prevent them from taking his throne. Cronus was told that one of his children would overthrow him. Cronus, at the time, was king – a title he usurped from his father, Uranus. Zeus was the son of the Titans, Cronus and Rhea. Eventually, it was the actions brought on by this that led Zeus to become king. Gaia told Cronus that it was his fate to be overthrown by his sons, just as he had overthrown his own father.
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