Worthington’s Perseus Not A Golden Hero
Written by Ian Cullen on October 16, 2009 – 11:25 am -
One movie that has many people talking is the remake of Clash Of The Titans, which takes more a gritty approach to the material than the 1981 Ray Harryhausen version, in terms of both characters and look.
Over the last few months we’ve heard about many the changes that have been made to the movie. For example real locations as apposed to studio build minitures and CGI creatures as apposed to Stop Motion Animation, but we’ve heard little about the actual character that the movie centres on, and in a recent interview for Empire Sam Worthington addressed this by talking about his take on Perseus.
In the 1981 movie Perseus was played by a very young Harry Hamlin, whose somewhat wooden interpretation of the role saw Perseus as the true blue and flawless hero. Whereas Worthington’s take on Perseus is more about what happens to the character while on a quest for vengeance than the quest itself.
“He’s just your golden hero that you’re meant to follow,” said Worthington of the 1981 interpretation of Perseus. “And that didn’t really appeal to me. I feel when my Perseus starts out, he should be this bombastic tank. [The gods] have killed his family. He’s Charles Bronson! He’s gonna go for revenge, and the best way to achieve that is to kill the Kraken. Well, to kill the Kraken you gotto kill Medusa. To get to Medusa, you gotta take on the Witches. Then once he kills the Kraken, he’s gonna kill F***in’ Hades and Zeus and everybody else! But along the way he needs to learn to calm down, ask for help. And out of that comes the true hero. A hero isn’t someone who leads men – a hero is someone that’s in the trench with the men.”
You can read more of this in the new issue of Empire Magazine, which is out now.
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Tags: Clash Of The Titans, Harry Hamlin, Medusa, Sam Worthington, The Kraken
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