![]() ![]() The technology is better today, but Harryhausen was and is unsurpassed at getting his "mythologicals" to act and interact with the cast. ![]() It is hard not to like Ray Harryhausen's superior special effects. Note the differing ways in which Caliban and Perseus handle misfortune-how many ordinary mortals become so sorry for themselves that they much worsen their own condition? To be sure, it is an invented tale, but it is a myth, not a pack of lies. It is a grand story told on a grand scale with the best tools which were available in 1981. The story line is-not surprisingly-mythic. Here is my view and I speak as a casual student of psychologist Carl Jung. To my way of thinking, that accounts for the radical differences in how this film has been evaluated by various viewers. When most modern people hear the word "myth", they often "translate" it into the word "lies".
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