Hercules - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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Fan of Hercules or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Hercules

[francisco]

Besides Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's American English, all spoken roles were British English, or spoken by actors and actresses with English not their native language.

[ronnie]

In the second last act, Amphiaraus revealed that "tonight, a spear of flame will pierce my heart." As he finished his narration in the final scene, he looks up to the sky and a lightning flashes, with the thunder sounding closer than normal. This might indicate that the lightning struck him, seeing how a lightning looks close like a spear of blue flames to people then.

[jessica]

This was one of two Hercules movies released in 2014. The other was The Legend of Hercules (2014). Unlike the former, this movie experienced moderate worldwide box-office success and was better received critically. The Legend of Hercules (2014) bombed at the box office and was universally panned by critics.

[violet]

When writer Steve Moore died in 2014, the producers promoted the movie in the condolences and obituaries that followed, despite his disowning of it. His friend, acclaimed writer Alan Moore, accused the filmmakers of using his death as "free advertising" and urged a boycott of the movie.

[albert]

Hercules drops a statue of Hera down on Cotys. This is a fitting punishment for Cotys as Hera is the goddess of family and childbirth; after he had attempted to kill his own daughter and grandson, she would be offended by this act and would seek to punish him.This implies that Hera brought aid to Hercules. While Hera is Hercules' rival in Greek myth, it stems from him being her husband Zeus's child with another woman, something she as a marriage goddess considers an offense; however as Cotys committed a greater offense she punished him using his rival Hercules.

[kyle]

King Rhesus of Thrace was a Trojan ally in Homer's Iliad. His name has been given to a type of monkey from the macaque family, native to Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, China, Myanmar (Burma), and a few neighboring countries.

[chad]

Joseph Fiennes played King Eurystheus. His older brother, Ralph Fiennes, played Hades in Clash of the Titans (2010) and Wrath of the Titans (2012), which were also based on Greek mythology.

[ivan]

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's paycheck of $12 million was 1,000 times the amount earned by Steve Reeves for his role in Hercules (1958).

[tamara]

Typically for modern adaptations of Greek mythology, the Roman name Hercules is used in place of the Greek name Heracles, despite Greek names being used for all other characters, places and things.

[melinda]

This movie was based on the Steve Moore graphic novel "Hercules: The Thracian Wars".

[ruby]

During shooting of the scene where Hercules breaks free of his chains, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson stated that he "blacked out" after every take, "I asked the prop department to lock me in with real steel chains that I couldn't break, so the performance would be real. When Hercules finally accepts his fate of being the son of Zeus, it's the epic moment of the mythology, and our movie. We shot this scene eight times. I blacked out every time. Down to my knees. Well worth the pain. This moment is iconic. I'm excited for you to see it."

[gabriel]

In this movie, the Trojan War is spoken of as being in the past. In the original Trojan War myths, Hercules died before the Trojan War, and is a crucial part of its backstory.

[claude]

This movie was not screened in advance for critics.

[tamara]

The "centaurs" are revealed to simply be men on horseback. Riding on horses was not at all common in Ancient Greece, so it is plausible that, seeing a horse and rider galloping past, a person might mistake what they saw for a man's head on a horse's body.

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