‘They are distorting our history and our culture’: Disney in the 90s angered many people in its country of origin.

When the famous Disney studios decide to revisit a work, a legend or revive the culture of another country, sometimes the result does not completely satisfy the people mainly interested.

Although the artists of the Enchanted Company literally had a series of critical and commercial triumphs in the early 1990s, they tried to tell the famous legend of Hercules, taken from Greek mythology.

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The result: a colorful feature film full of humor and a stark departure from the original story, which prominently featured Hercules launching his own brand of sneakers, Hades smoking a cigar, and the Muses singing gospel.

“A situation where foreigners distort our history and culture…”

These liberties, although they allowed the film to be truly enjoyable entertainment for most audiences, were not always well received in Greece. As a local newspaper article attests, Reported in 1997 by Julia Llewellyn Smith and Ciaran Byrne of the Daily TelegraphIn which we clearly perceive the journalist’s indignation at the portrayal of his culture in a feature film:

“This is another example of foreigners distorting our history and culture just to serve their commercial interests.”We read in the columns of Adsmevtos Typos.

“Launch pads for even more profit.”

“To top it all off, they now want us to use Pnyx Hill and our history as a launching pad to make even more profits.

easily Still according to the Daily Telegraph articleThe preview of Hercules was originally planned to be held at the Pnyx, the mecca of Greek mythology in the center of Athens. A request that the Greek government refused after noting the controversy that had arisen on the subject.

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