http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labours_of_Hercules
Did they ever do this with that Kevin Sorbo? Has anyone ever read them?
Did they ever do this with that Kevin Sorbo? Has anyone ever read them?
TV show based on this?
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You clearly have no taste whatsoever.
^ what I was going to post too!
I loved the Kafka-esque bureaucracy involved in one of the tasks in that movie. Little did I know when I watched it as a child, that I would be involved in a real-life version of it when I worked in the NHS...
That was probably the one scene in the movie that I remember best too.
^ what I was going to post too!
I loved the Kafka-esque bureaucracy involved in one of the tasks in that movie. Little did I know when I watched it as a child, that I would be involved in a real-life version of it when I worked in the NHS...
That was probably the one scene in the movie that I remember best too.
^ what I was going to post too!
I loved the Kafka-esque bureaucracy involved in one of the tasks in that movie. Little did I know when I watched it as a child, that I would be involved in a real-life version of it when I worked in the NHS...
Dude, we don't just remember it, we lived it.
Marvel Comics did a comic book mini-series where the idea was that Hercules was re-creating his Labors for a reality TV show.
Are you calling me Continental?! I feel insulted.
(it's generally used to refer to mainland Europe only. Asterix is continental, however!)
Actually, on a serious note, if you haven't read the Asterix comics, they're well worth your time. Although ostensibly a children's series (with plenty of the expected slapstick humour, wordplay/puns and sight gags), it also works exceptionally well with a more adult audience, because plenty of the situational humour requires at least a teenager's understanding of how the world works (including an understanding of things like politics, finance, literature and even labour relations). A few of the jokes would go over the head of anyone without a little basic Latin or vague familiarity with the Classics.
The English translations by Anthea Bell & Derek Hockridge are truly top-notch, adding a number of gags that an English audience will appreciate and some are genuinely very clever. They really adapt the material rather than just translating it. Admittedly, a very small number of those new gags are more obvious to someone who was familiar with the UK than an American audience but I think anyone who speaks English would enjoy them a lot.
See if you can find a Howard Waldrop story, called 'A Dozen Tough Jobs', which is the 12 Labours transposed to the US Deep South in the 1930s.
You don't see al the Labours, but it's a great story, as you always get from Waldrop.
As to a TV version, it's not a bad idea, but very reliant on 2 things:
1) good CGI, to make it as believable as possible, which is achievable on a budget these days.
2) a really good Hercules. Read up on why he had to do the Labours - penance for the death of his children by his own hand. He would be a man in pain, a man filled with anger, at the world, at the gods, and at himself. It's not just a superman striding about and doing big things while sticking his jaw out.
You should do it. Before I do.
(no, I'm kidding, my hands are full right now.)
You don't see al the Labours, but it's a great story, as you always get from Waldrop.
As to a TV version, it's not a bad idea, but very reliant on 2 things:
1) good CGI, to make it as believable as possible, which is achievable on a budget these days.
2) a really good Hercules. Read up on why he had to do the Labours - penance for the death of his children by his own hand. He would be a man in pain, a man filled with anger, at the world, at the gods, and at himself. It's not just a superman striding about and doing big things while sticking his jaw out.
You should do it. Before I do.
(no, I'm kidding, my hands are full right now.)
I seem to remember an episode of G.I.Joe being based on one or more of those.
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