Was Disneys Hercules faithful to Greek mythology?
Disney essentially went downhill with the death of its founder, Walt Disney. Notable exceptions are The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and The Lion King. When Walt Disney died, the magic gradually faded away, overall. What Disney did to Hercules is just like taking the plot of Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ, changing important Biblical details, and transforming it into a comedy, whilst Mel Gibson’s film is more melancholy. Though the following of the ancient Greek religion is now past its prime, the ancient Greeks took their belief in the gods and the legends of them very seriously.
