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Stung (German: Stung – Sie werden dich stechen!) [2] is a 2015 science fiction comedy horror film directed by Benni Diez, written by Adam Aresty, and starring Matt O'Leary, Jessica Cook, Lance Henriksen, Clifton Collins Jr., Cecilia Pillado and Eve Slatner. In the film, a fancy garden party is thrown into chaos when killer wasps mutate into 7 ...
Odysseus then stood up, delivered a sharp rebuke to Thersites, which he coupled with a threat to strip him naked, and then beat him on the back and shoulders with Agamemnon's sceptre; Thersites doubled over, a warm tear fell from his eye, and a bloody welt formed on his back; he sat down in fear, and in pain gazed helplessly as he wiped away ...
Odysseus and the Isle of the Mists is a 2008 feature film directed by Terry Ingram and produced by Plinyminor in association with the Sci Fi Channel in Vancouver, B.C. King Odysseus has been away from Ithaca for twenty years. The first ten he spent fighting the Trojan War; the last ten he spent fighting to get
The film portrays the journey home after the experience of war. This amphora dated to c. 540 BC shows Odysseus killing an enemy.. Central to Nostos: The Return is the theme of homecoming—known as nostos in Homer's Odyssey—which is illustrated throughout the film by images of childhood. [9]
Odysseus and his men escape, but Odysseus brashly taunts the Cyclops who asks his father Poseidon to avenge him. This makes Odysseus' journey home harder. Odysseus travels to an island where Aeolus (Michael J. Pollard) provides him with a bag of wind to help him home, instructing him to open it when he gets close to Ithaca. One of his men opens ...
Bred by Odysseus to be a hunting dog before he leaves for the Trojan War, he is neglected after Odysseus is presumed dead. Twenty years later, Odysseus returns to Ithaca and finds him lying in piles of manure, immobile from age and neglect and infested with parasites. When Argos sees Odysseus, he immediately drops his ears and wags his tail ...
Cyclops (Ancient Greek: Κύκλωψ, Kyklōps) is an ancient Greek satyr play by Euripides, based closely on an episode from the Odyssey. [1] It is likely to have been the fourth part of a tetralogy presented by Euripides in a dramatic festival in 5th Century BC Athens, although its intended and actual performance contexts are unknown. [2]
The original choice for director was Georg Wilhelm Pabst but he quit at the last minute. [2] The film's cinematographer Mario Bava co-directed the cyclops Polyphemus segment (uncredited). In the film Silvana Mangano plays two roles, as Penelope , the faithful wife of Ulysses and the sorceress Circe .