Hercules (1997) - 19 corrections

starring Danny DeVito, James Woods, Rip Torn, Susan Egan, Tate Donovan (add more)

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Entry That river of souls thing was made up entirely for this movie. There were five rivers in Hades but the dead were either in Tartarus or the Elysian Fields or the Asphodel Fields depending on if they were good or bad or if they had been judged yet. (There is one more area, whose name I forget, where the really good guys go who have been reincarnated three times...and of course the Plain of Judgement where they were judged). [Perhaps this is trivia, but it's not a mistake. The movie is not supposed to be a filmed version of the exact myths, it's supposed to be based on myths but mostly new material.]
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Entry When Hephaestus is shown making lightning bolts for Zeus, he is standing straight and tall. According to Greek mythology, though, Hephaestus was a cripple. [By site policy, differences between a film and its source material are generally not considered valid mistakes. ]
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Entry In Disney's Hercules 1997 movie the facts are wrong. It portrays Hera as loving Hercules. One problem with that. Hera never gave birth to Hercules. Alcemene did. Hera disliked Hercules intensely and caused him to have to do the 12 labors. I understand it was a kid's movie.but they could have gotten it factual partially. [It is a myth. Heracles (Greek name) never existed. They can change up the myth to meet their storylines and as you stated it is a kid's movie not a documentary. Even Gladiator was not held up to such standards and it involved real people.]
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Entry When one of the Fates throws her eyeball to her right, Hades catches it and throws it to his right where it is caught by Pain and Panic. In turn, they throw it to their right and it is caught by the Fates, but in the first shot, the Fates, Hades and Pain and Panic were standing in a line. [This mistake is completely messed up. First of all, what happens is that the Fates' eyeball falls out, Pain and Panic catch it, and Hades catches it again once they kick it. Second, the "first shot" takes place about 30 seconds before the incident with the eyeball, meaning that the characters had plenty of time to move around between shots.]
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Entry When the painter is scribbling out the painting on the pot, in slow motion, he has three arms. [It's a classic animation trick to make his actions appear faster and angrier. This is animation artistic license.]
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Entry When the Titans are shown in their prison, they all have two eyes. But when they are released by Hades, one of the Titans is a cyclops. [If you look closely enough, just as Hades says "look at you" a little yellow spot comes up in the bottom left hand corner - the cyclops' eye.]
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Entry Hera isn't actually Hercules's mother; his mother is a mortal woman. She hated him, and on many occasions tried to kill him. [And you think they'd just add that fact into a kids movie? A mother-hating-child relationship isn't exactly something you'd want your children talking about, you know. Plus, the movie does not claim to be historically accurate.]
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Entry In the beginning, Hades says Zeus bestowed the job of ruling the underworld upon him. This is incorrect. Zeus, Hades, and their brother drew lots to see who would rule what. (Zeus got the sky, their brother, Poseidon, got sea and Hades got stuck with the underworld. The earth was left for the goddesses.). [The film is only based on Greek mythology, there is such a thing as creative license. The whole plot is based on Hades wanting to get back at Zeus for being left with the Underworld, it would make little sense if the brothers had drawn straws.]
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Entry Notice Hades normally has blue hair, but when he gets angry he gets the yellow and red flames? The problem is, a blue flame is hotter than a red or yellow flame, so therefore, he cools off when he gets angry. [The colors are not about indicating heat, they are about indicating temperament. Blue is known to represent coolness and red to represent "hot" emotions such as anger.]
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Entry We see Hermes napping when the Titans march...no way that would ever happen. He was kept busy with escorting the dead the underworld or running errands for the gods. [Although he did take a nap every once in a while. The myths state that he did lots of other things than those appointed tasks.]
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Entry Why didn't the Lord of the Underworld know that Hercules wasn't dead? [You are giving the "Lord of the Underworld" too much credit. He isn't omniscient (or omnipotent for that matter...) and only knows if someone is dead after they arive at his gates.]
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Entry If the Fates can see into the future, how come they didn't know that Pain and Panic weren't going to kill baby Hercules? [They could have known - they said something along the lines of "If Hercules fights, you will fail".]
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Entry This is a Greek legend, so why do they use Roman numerals? [If this were the Greek version of the legend, the title would be "Heracles" which is his name in Greek not "Hercules" which is his name in Latin (Roman).]
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Entry Hercules is the Roman name for the hero Heracles, but they use the Greek names of the gods. [The names were used as what most people recognize the name as. Of course not many people are going to recognize Zeus if he was called Jupiter, his Roman name.]
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Entry If the fates knew about the future, why did they even bother trying to cut his "thread of life" if the knew that he was going to turn into a god again? [It is quite possible that in the excitement, any thought or realisation that Hercules would actually become a full god was forgotten. Wouldn't you, in their position, be so excited that you were about to kill the King of the Gods' son that you would forget what you might have seen for the future? I know I would.]
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Entry When Hercules punches that blue horse guy that's holding Meg, at least 5 horseshoes fly after him, but only 4 come back down. [If you watch it in slow motion (or just watch carefully) you'll see that only 4 horseshoes fly up.]
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Entry When Hercules first visits the Temple of Zeus, he is carrying a pack. When he leaves the temple, he is no longer carrying it, and it's nowhere to be seen. [Hercules has just discovered that he's the son of a god, so I doubt he'd care about his backpack.]
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Entry If they are in Greece B.C., why are they singing about the "Gospel truth"? [They're just modern muses singing about old times. ]
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Entry In the scene where the young Hercules is toppling the pillars, the direction of the domino-effect changes from shot to shot. In one shot they are going outward from the center. In the next they are going from the outside in. [Actually, when Hercules grabs the pillar to stop it from toppling, he hits two pillars with it. They both fall in opposite directions and, as the courtyard is circular, the domino effect runs in a circle, eventually falling on the pot guy.]
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