Movies

Movie: Sandlot "Smalls, Babe Ruth is the greatest baseball player that ever lived. People say he was less than a god but more than a man. You know, like Hercules or something." Another allusion in the movie Sandlot is the dog, an English Mastiff known by the group of boys as The Beast, is actually named Hercules (because he's so strong, powerful and unstoppable, //like// the "real" Hercules. --//Charlotte Beach//

Movie: //Mama Mia//

I couldn't find this scene in movie version either, so here's the screenplay:

Skye: I'm designing a website. I just think this place has so much potential. and no one knows we're here, so if I market it really really well, then hopefully people willcome flooding in.

Sophie: We just want this to be the ultimate romantic destination. This was once supposed to be the site of Aphrodite's fountain, you know, the goddess of love, and if you drank the water you were supposed to find true love and perfect happiness.

Tanya: I'll have a glass of that!

Rosie: Yeah, I'll have a bucket.

Tanya: Aphrodite's spa!

Sophie lives on a small island in Greece, so this allusion is accurate. Later in the movie, the fountain erupts from underground and all the movie's star couples dance in the water, hinting that this is a happily ever after ending. Although Aphrodite's fountain was not explored in depth during the course of "Mamma Mia", the mention of it made for an undercurrent of romance, which was the essential theme of the movie. --Erin Cofrancesco

I know we have categories for allusions from greek/roman mythology to Ads, Art, Literature, Music, and Vocabulary, but i mentioned in class creating a category for allusions to movies. Ms. Johnston seemed to like the idea, so here is my attempt at starting the Movie Allusion page (attempt being the key word in that sentence.)

Movie: Juno (i couldn't find this scene in its movie version online, so i had to settle for posting it in screenplay form.)

JUNO So, have you and Vanessa thought of a name for the baby yet? MARK Well, sort of. Vanessa likes Madison for a girl. JUNO (aghast) Madison? Isn’t that kind of...I don’t know, gay? MARK God, pretentious much? I guess everyone should have a mysterious name like Juno, huh? JUNO My dad went through this phase where he was obsessed with Greek and Roman mythology. He named me after Zeus’s wife. I mean, Zeus had other lays, but I’m pretty sure Juno was his only wife. She was supposed to be really beautiful but really mean. Like Diana Ross.

MARK That suits you. JUNO Uh, thanks.

Comments: I think it's so interesting that a movie as popular as Juno that came out last year, still references greek and roman mythology from thousands of years ago. Not only does this movie reference ancient mythology, but the main character's name is Juno, and the title of the entire film is Juno (much more than just a small mention in the dialogue.) Now you may have noticed that when reading through this scene, Juno says that the god Juno was married to Zeus. Your reaction may have been, ''Hey! That's technically incorrect because Juno is a Roman god, and Zeus a Greek god. If the writer, Diablo Cody, were mythologically correct, then she would say that Juno was married to Jupiter (Zeus's Roman equivalent)." However, Diablo Cody used her poetic license in this scene, choosing to site Zeus as opposed to Jupiter because (or at least i believe this to be the reason) Zeus is more commonly known than Jupiter. On the other hand, Diablo Cody could have even made this "mistake' on purpose, having Juno say this to develope her character. A kid like Juno is the type who would mix up the gods' greek and roman names, so it's fitting that she would make this slip-up. --//Charlotte Beach//


 * Movie:** __Remember the Titans__ (2000)

The coach of a high school football team, during training, tells his team the orogin of their name: the Titans.

Coach Boone: "In Greek mythology, the Titans were greater even than the gods. They ruled their universe with absolute power. Well that football field out there, that's our universe. Let's rule it like titans."

I think that quote doesn't need any explaining. Coach Boone says it all right there, the Titans //were// stronger than the gods and //did// rule the universe at one point.

//--Paul Roeller// Roelout!

Movie: //**Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)**// [|//**http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_member**//]

In the fith scene (about), Austin Powers travels back in time in a swingin' 60s time-traveling beetle, to rescue his father, who had been kidnapped by the aptly named Goldmember, a Dutch evil genius, who had had his genitiles turned to solid gold in an unfortunate smelting accedent. When Austin enters the club in which he believes that Goldmember is hiding, he is met with roller dancing, and singing by Foxy Cleopatra, his (Austin's) lover from another era. She is sing a form of funk tribute, with the lyrics altered a bit. The Lyrics go to say:

"It's gold, it's gold, it's gold, it's made of gold, baby. He's got midas' touch, he touched it too much, it's gold member. Goldmember, baby!"

When Foxy says midas' touch, she means the smelting incedent, for Midas was the greek king, that was granted the "gift" of having whatever he touched turned to gold. //--ReedBeeley

// The SS //Poseidon//, a luxury ocean liner named for the Greek god of the sea, is making a transatlantic crossing. -Luis Blanco

This is the disney remake to the story of hercules. - Alexandra Scasino