Plot
Eons after the Gods won their mythic struggle against the Titans, a new evil threatens the land. Mad with power, King Hyperion (Mickey Rourke) has declared war against humanity. Amassing a bloodthirsty army of soldiers disfigured by his own hand, Hyperion has scorched Greece in search of the legendary Epirus Bow, a weapon of unimaginable power forged in the heavens by Ares. Only he who possesses this bow can unleash the Titans, who have been imprisoned deep within the walls of Mount Tartaros since the dawn of time and thirst for revenge. In the king's hands, the bow would rain destruction upon mankind and annihilate the Gods. But ancient law dictates the Gods must not intervene in man's conflict. They remain powerless to stop Hyperion...until a peasant named Theseus (Henry Cavill) comes forth as their only hope. Secretly chosen by Zeus, Theseus must save his people from Hyperion and his hordes. Rallying a band of fellow outsiders-including visionary priestess Phaedra (Freida Pinto) and cunning slave Stavros (Stephen Dorff)-one hero will lead the uprising, or watch his homeland fall into ruin and his Gods vanish into legend.
Keywords: 3-dimensional, armored-warrior, army, athena, bare-chested-male, bas-relief-sculpture, battle, beast, begins-with-a-quotation, betrayal
The Gods Need a Hero
Theseus: Stand your ground! Fight for honor! Fight for the man beside you! Fight for those who bore you! Fight for your children! Fight for your future! Fight for your name to survive! Fight! For immortality!
Zeus: It's not living as such that's important, Theseus. It's living rightly.
Stavros: Good to see you're still alive. Worried that cow had gotten the best of you.::Theseus: It almost did. She saved my life.::Stavros: Looks like she did more than that.::Phaedra: [Looks down embarrassed]::Theseus: Careful.::Stavros: Just 'cause you have that bow doesn't mean I'm going to treat you any differently.::Theseus: Good. We march to the monastery. [Turns and starts walking away] We have a war to fight.
Stavros: Hyperion's legions are gathering at Tartarus. That's where Hellenists will fall.::Phaedra: That future's not set.::Stavros: But likely. It'll be a slaughter.::Phaedra: You have no faith.::Dareios: Heathens.::Stavros: That is true, Dareios. But not always. When I was just a boy, I prayed to the Gods, for a horse. The Gods never answered me. So I stole one, instead.::Dareios: We're surrounded by heathens. [Falls dead with a knife in his back]
Phaedra: To those whom much is given, much is taken away.
Heracles ( /ˈhɛrəkliːz/ HERR-ə-kleez; Ancient Greek: Ἡρακλῆς, Hēraklēs, from Hēra, "Hera", and kleos, "glory"), born Alcaeus (Ἀλκαῖος, Alkaios) or Alcides (Ἀλκείδης, Alkeidēs), was a divine hero in Greek mythology, the son of Zeus and Alcmene, foster son of Amphitryon and great-grandson (and half-brother) of Perseus. He was the greatest of the Greek heroes, a paragon of masculinity, the ancestor of royal clans who claimed to be Heracleidae (Ἡρακλεῖδαι) and a champion of the Olympian order against chthonic monsters. In Rome and the modern West, he is known as Hercules, with whom the later Roman Emperors, in particular Commodus and Maximian, often identified themselves. The Romans adopted the Greek version of his life and works essentially unchanged, but added anecdotal detail of their own, some of it linking the hero with the geography of the Central Mediterranean. Details of his cult were adapted to Rome as well.
Bless my soul
Herc was on a roll
Person of the week in ev'ry Greek opinion poll
What a pro
Herc could stop a show
Point him at a monster
And you're talkin' S.R.O.
He was a no one
A zero, zero
Now he's a honcho
He's a hero
Here was a kid with his act down pat
From zero to hero--
In no time flat
Zero to hero--
Just like that
When he smiled
The girls went wild
With oohs and aahs
And they slapped his face
On ev'ry vase
(On ev'ry "vahse")
From appearance fees and royalties
Out Herc had cash to burn
Now nouveau riche an' famous
He could tell you
What's a Grecian urn?
Say amen
There he goes again
Sweet and undefeated
And an awesome 10 for 10
Folks lined up
Just to watch him flex
And this perfect package
Packed a pair of pretty pecs
Hercie, he comes, he sees, he conquers
Honey, the crowds were going bonkers
He showed the moxie brains and spunk
From zero to hero--
A major hunk
Zero to hero--
And who'da thunk?
Who put the glad in gladiator?
Hercules!
Whose daring deeds are great the-a-ter?
Hercules!
Is he bold?
No one braver
Is he sweet?
Our fav'rite flavor
Hercules, Hercules
Bless my soul
Herc was on a roll
Undefeated
Riding high
And the nicest guy
Not conceited
He was a nothin'
A zero, zero
Now he's a honcho
He's a hero
He hit the heights at breakneck speed
From zero to hero
Herc is a hero
Now he's a hero
If there's a prize for rotten judgement,
I guess I've already won that.
No man is worth the aggravation,
That's ancient history,
Been there done that.
Who'd ya think you're kiddin'?
He's the Earth and heaven to you.
Try to keep it hidden;
Honey, we can see right through you.
Girl, ya can't conceal it;
We know how ya feel and
Who you're thinking of.
Oh no, no chance, no way
I won't say it, no, no.
You swoon, you sigh
Why deny it, uh-oh?
It's too cliché,
I won't say I'm in love.
I thought my heart had learned its lesson
It feels so good when you start out
My head is screaming "get a grip, girl"
Unless you're dying to cry your heart out
You keep on denying
Who you are and how you're feeling
Baby, we're not buying
Hon, we saw ya hit the ceiling
Face it like a grown up
When ya gonna own up
That ya got got got it bad
Oh no chance, no way
I won't say it, no, no
Give up, give in
Check the grin
You're in love
Your doin' flips, read our lips you're in love!
This scene won't play
I won't say I'm in love
You're way off base
I won't say it
Get off my case
I won't say it
Girl don't be proud
It's okay you're in love
Oh at least out loud
I have often dreamed,
Of a far off place,
Where a great warm welcome,
Will be waiting for me.
Where the crowds will cheer,
When they see my face,
And a voice keeps saying,
'This is where I'm meant to be'.
I will find my way,
I can go the distance,
I'll be there someday,
If I can be strong,
I know every mile,
Will be worth my while,
I would go most anywhere,
to feel like I belong.
I am on my way,
I can go the distance,
I don't care how far,
Somehow I'll be strong,
I know every mile,
Will be worth my while,
I would go most anywhere,
Bless my soul
Herc was on a roll
Person of the week in ev'ry Greek opinion poll
What a pro
Herc could stop a show
Point him at a monster
And you're talkin' S.R.O.
He was a no one
A zero, zero
Now he's a honcho
He's a hero
Here was a kid with his act down pat
From zero to hero--
In no time flat
Zero to hero--
Just like that
When he smiled
The girls went wild
With oohs and aahs
And they slapped his face
On ev'ry vase
(On ev'ry "vahse")
From appearance fees and royalties
Out Herc had cash to burn
Now nouveau riche an' famous
He could tell you
What's a Grecian urn?
Say amen
There he goes again
Sweet and undefeated
And an awesome 10 for 10
Folks lined up
Just to watch him flex
And this perfect package
Packed a pair of pretty pecs
Hercie, he comes, he sees, he conquers
Honey, the crowds were going bonkers
He showed the moxie brains and spunk
From zero to hero--
A major hunk
Zero to hero--
And who'da thunk?
Who put the glad in gladiator?
Hercules!
Whose daring deeds are great the-a-ter?
Hercules!
Is he bold?
No one braver
Is he sweet?
Our fav'rite flavor
Hercules, Hercules
Bless my soul
Herc was on a roll
Undefeated
Riding high
And the nicest guy
Not conceited
He was a nothin'
A zero, zero
Now he's a honcho
He's a hero
He hit the heights at breakneck speed
From zero to hero
Herc is a hero
Now he's a hero
”Meet me in the drowning pool of tears, and wash away my
innocence and fear”
Nevermore
Now after all what happened
I'm here thrown by the shore
Freezing on these sands
I feel like I'm drowning down
All alone again
These waves will never wash
The sins that I have done
Stop the time is done the change won't
I hear the voices of the elders calling
My soul and the sea became one
All alone again
In fear and regret
I stand alone here
My eyes can't see
My skin can't feel
“From rivers of sorrow to oceans deep with hope I have
traveled them, now there is no turning back, the limit
the sky. Still I ask my questions why? What today? When
tomorrow?!”
Chuck Schuldiner
Could this be only a dream?
Oh what a sweat nightmare I see.
"The sands can't climb up again now…the hands can't
turn back…the curse can't be lifted and the fault can't
be corrected…but one day they will return!"
The first: “Vienna is waiting for u
Sell these lands, u will be happy to
I’ll take them for tow times or more
Your future is great don’t waste that too”
The second: “I’ll think about it cus this land is mine,
And for some reason I don’t feel it’s the time
To leave this house forever for others
And leave this ground for someone could bothers”
Their fate was sealed
It couldn’t be changed
It couldn’t be healed
The third: “why accepting his offer my son?
Do you need any cloths or anything done?
In this place we had our finest hour
Our history here is the greatest treasure”
the first :“have you thought for a second of it
The answer is “no”, you will pay for it
So be warned that this place you will leave
your history ends where ours deceive”
Their fate was sealed
It couldn’t be changed
It couldn’t be healed
They never knew
That the time is running short
To pay the due
Of something they never thought
That cursed prophecy became true
All the pain and agony they lived through
By no reason or justice it was caused
“And remember it is forever. The Face will always be
there to be stamped upon. The heretic, the enemy of
society, will always be there, so that he can be
defeated and humiliated over again. Everything that you
have undergone since you have been in our hands-all
that will continue, and worse. The espionage, the
betrayals, the arrests, the tortures, the executions,
the disappearances will never cease.”
1984
Day one: torture and pain will start
Sizzling whips and an iron rod
Will leave you wounds and scars
Stab my eyes
Take my life
I don't want to see
What you're doing to me
Stab my eyes
Let me die
Who gave you the right
To tear me apart
Day two: electric field
Will pass through you
Your nails will be cut from you
Your hands will be burned
Your skin will be torn
Now you are ours
No one can save you
The more you scream
The more they won't hear you
Shut up and strip
You'll be raped, you'll be stretched
Now you are ours
No one can save you
At the land of the east
Here u were born
You didn't have the choice
You didn't need to know
It wasn't your fault
Surely it wasn't ours
Now face your fate
And pray you fuckin' die
Day three: as a dog you will be forgotten
You were never here before
You never exist
“Indeed God will shatter the heads of his enemies…
blessed be God”
Psalms 68:21
Behold the acts of God
The master of the sword
He allows He forbids
He avenges He forgives
Beware the wrath of God
The lord of the worlds
He'll annihilate you all
If you change his words
“You must destroy all the people whom the Lord your God
is about to deliver over to you; you must not pity
them”
Deuteronomy: 7:16
“Understand today that the Lord your God who goes
before you is a devouring fire”
Deuteronomy: 9:3
“I will exact great vengeance upon them and angrily
punish them”
Deuteronomy: 25:17
“It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the
living God”
Hebrews: 10:31
“I WILL DESTROY YOU!!; then you will know that I am the
Lord.'"
Ezekiel : 25:7
"Destroy everything that they have. Don't spare them.
Put them to death man, woman, child, infant, ox, sheep,
camel, and donkey alike."
Samuel 1: 15:3
We are the slaves of God
The wise and the guard
We whip the flesh
We spill the blood
These are the works of God
The sole and the lord
He'll baptize you in fire
And the Holy Ghost
We rule by The Book
With a chain and a hook
We stone and maim
All for His name
“I testify to the one who hears the words of the
prophecy contained in this book: If anyone adds to
them, God will add to him the plagues described in this
book. And if anyone takes away from the words of this
book of prophecy, God will take away his share in the
tree of life and in the holy city that are described in
this book.”
"They are everywhere! Beneath that mask there is a
horrifying monster with a deformed face…don't get
fooled by it! take a gun and kill everyone!!"
The lies are written on the walls
The people of fire were born
In every breath they take
Evil has its own share
In every house there’s a bad seed growing
(On) every night there’s a sin burned and blowing
(In) the hearts of their men hate is brewing
The night has come…
Religious lies are stuck on their brains
Thoughts of fools has scares of hate
Envy is the master of them all
Shadows of Satan they are
[chorus:]
Poisoned tongues
And Evil masks
Faceless eyes
They have
Destroys your life
Change all your days
Here they’ve carved
Your fate
Do you believe that we’ll make it alive from here?
Time is consuming us madly
The city of the evil ones is the place to be
"Only one will survive…a cockroach"
(December 2020)
Even in death you couldn’t give mercy
The seas are dry, the sun has died
All the green has turned to gray
Death is in the air
Planet of cockroaches
Planet of cockroaches
(December 3020)
Now after a thousand years
Life extinct, too late for tears
Humans’ history has been put to death
Cockroaches fill the earth
Planet of cockroaches
Planet of cockroaches
Down to earth
Your greed has ruined u
Mankind…you've taken
What you've always deserved
Not me
Nor HIM
Could stop now
What your hands were doing
Since the dawn of time
“Mythology versus technology…who will win?”
Robert Fisk
Now after a dozen years
Under merciless skies
They returned again
Used abused
Controlled accused
All of his life
It's time to pay back
Time for revenge
Suicidal form
Die to reborn
Suicidal form
Forever, evermore
Body parts mixed with blood and fire
Burning skin, bones and fingers
Melting metal, steel and glass
Shattered corpses all around
They are screaming
They all will die
Suicidal form
Die to reborn
Suicidal form
Forever, evermore
Now his flesh will mix with theirs
“Good Arab is Dead Arab”
Raphael Etan
“…then he will drive out all these nations from before
you and you will dispossess nations greater and stronger
than you. Every place you set your foot will be yours;
your border will extend from the desert to Lebanon and
from the River (that is, the Euphrates) as far as the
Mediterranean Sea . Nobody will be able to resist you;
the Lord your God will spread the fear and terror of you
over the whole land on which you walk, just as he
promised you”
Suddenly I awoke, I thought that I have died!
The sand, the stones, the walls, spoke again tonight
For us time was meaningless, cuz we have never met the
...The night here has ended, a new life has begun
Is this the heaven u have promised, u deceived us all I
must confess
All I know that I deny u forever, our game here is
nearly over
“how could my time come. I’m a lord, im a saint, im a
god”
I realize now that there is no way out, I smiled to the
irony and died.
Why u still believe?
Look down and see!
The truth lies beneath
The footprints are so clear
The elders gathered now
To a god they will bow
Why u still believe?
U shouldn’t cant u see!
Now we’ve crossed the night
Blindly followed the false light
Our life in ruins our dreams are sand
And our time is nearly close at hand
Now the end is clear as glass, death and pain forever
lost
Am I lost forever?
Are we lost forever?
An Ancient hope has died!
In the City of the Evil Ones, a Deceptive Light was
born
In The Land of the Free, an Ancient Hope has died
In this Horrid Dream the first family is Trapped
The snow is falling on the land
The torches are burning in our hands
The night has come the fear is gone
Time to avenge all our sons
[Chorus]
Blood calls for blood - there’s no escape
The elders are calling now from the grave
Hate…Sword…Faith
Holy rage….holy rage
Your blackened blood will paint the draw
Of your nation’s death and heroes’ fall
Condemned to face our raging storm
An axe and chain our only law
Holy rage will reach you all
Killing your men raping your whores
In fear and faith you’ll kneel and pray
With blood and death we’ll knock your door
Holy rage….holy rage
"Forever…"
Awakening!
The sun is shining!
On a beautiful world
The ice is melting
The time is done
The change has come
The truth unleashed
Our lives are saved
The birds will sing
And the bells will ring
We opened our eyes
The dream will rise
"Could this be only a dream?
Oh What a sweet nightmare I see
"We have no other choice!!"
Here we were born
Never knowing why
The seeds were sown
On this shameful ground
The walls can’t speak
To tell us the answer
Of thousands questions
Buried in this soil
A flame of hope
Flicker as a dancer
Burning all the sand
The hourglass pour
The sin that we did
The sin that we thought
It could be the savior
Of all our souls
Suddenly the savior
Became our nightmare
The clock is ticking
Forever evermore
A future is gone
Torn are our dreams
A heritage is lost
Our lives are deceived
An old man appeared
In the middle of nowhere
Sowing all the seeds
Of hate and anger
Unknown to light
And unknown to darkness
As sirens were singing
To bring us all the sadness
Bring me a knife
Bring a sword
Cus I’ll kill anyone
Who’ll walk on this floor
In nothing we believe
In nothing we trust
The night is coming
Forever evermore
Is this the heaven that you’ve promised?
U deceived us all…I must confess
All I know now that I deny you forever
Now it is time to welcome the end…your end
Trapped in darkness
No sense of time
We’re not living nor dying
I wonder when this horrid dream will end?
The moment will come when we’ll open our eyes
"Somebody always pays"
Look at me in the eye my fellow
I can make your dreams come true
I’ll make you catch the rainbow
And touch and bring the moon
You walked on water, you cut off the bread
You brought life for those who are dead
You lived in vanity, you believed in yourself
Your power and strength without me are fake
Till the end I’m your friend
Trust what I preach you won’t regret
See how the pain fades away
Just by the words that I say
Now you have crossed my night
Blindly followed my false light
Your life in ruin your dreams are sand
And your time is nearly close at hand
I know that you never deserve it. No!
But somebody must pay for it all
In your case I’ll believe it is you
Who should die for what I do
Now the end’s clear as glass
Death and the pain - forever last
Left all alone - a flood of tears
No time is left – wasted years
One day you will pay for what you have done to me,
"We will never know who we are, nor what we’ve been…yes
I am who I am…a dead man…"
After the last fight with my father the tragedy
continues, no one knows what happened to the rest,
maybe they reached that nameless place but all I know
now is that nobody cares anymore
The boy kept on spitting blood
And my son never forgot
That the closer is the boy to death
The sooner we will pay the debt
There is a traitor within us
Come out now, unleash your mask
A smell of treachery within us
I feel betrayal is close at hand
The boy finally died
And my son was surprised
What could be that kind of fate
That makes a boy's life simply fade
There is a traitor within us
Come out now, unleash your mask
A smell of treachery within us
I feel betrayal is close at hand
As the family continued its walk
In a quicksand spot I was caught
I cried and cried for help
But rituals they only did at the end
Why this is happening to me?
Why u turn in blasphemy?
Eternal life and timeless death neither side we choose
But in this game I am meant to lose
How could my time come?
I'm a lord, I'm a saint, I'm a god!
Could the traitor be my son?
Yes I know now that u r
I realize now that there's no way out
I smiled in irony and died
My life was carved since the day I was born
We will never know who we are
Nor what we've been
I am who I am
…a dead man
If I lay my head down
I will see you in my dream
Wearing that polka dot dress
And sitting by the stream
Leaning in to hear you
You will whisper in my ear
And everything I need to know
I finally hear
I wish I could remember
But my selective memory
Won't let me
When I was a baby we would
Go out to the park
And sit out in the fountain
And splash around until it's dark
The days go on forever
When you only know that much
And everything you need to know
Is answered with one touch
I wish I could remember
But my selective memory
"Somewhere…not in our time…the first step was made…"
Never been asked to be one of them
But this is the fate I’m forever condemned to face
Eternal Life and timeless death neither side is chosen
Here where the sun is never born
And the path never ends
“So my child you ask what does this mean…cut off the
chains and chase the dream.”
Savatage
[Instrumental]
“ …Job argued with his God, but who I can argue with?!
Only this little lonely certainty is left for me now…from
the darkness I came and to the darkness I return.”
"No!! This can’t be the truth!! Everything lies…the
sand the stone the air…the Elders have lied!!! But I
still believe…."
For us time is meaningless
Cus we have never met the sun
Here the night is endless
And the moon was never done
Are we victims or fools?
Or simply invented tools
In desperate existence we will live
And the liar hope he will give
We’ve been here for centuries
And we’ll be for many more
For we are only nameless shadows
Live in search for a hidden door
The footprints are the history of our lives
Built from fear - a sea of lies
Can we really make it out of here?
Empty words we only hear
Stop!! The time is done
The change must come
Now!! Unleash the truth
And change all the rules
In the name of fate
You annihilate, you create
Now!! The time is done
The change must come
The family still wants to believe
Maybe hope they only seek
No one listened to me that day
That the light will fade away
Now!! I’m again
Where dreams lost in vain
Stop!! The time is done
The change won’t come
I cracked down a fake smile
Fearing their denial
The truth they won’t see
It will die forever with me
And shall not I reveal what has yet to come
Nor shall I deny the forthcoming betrayal
For the face of truth will be masked forever
And all the burden will be mine
We all….Shall fall
“Man should busy himself in sciense. For the lives of
men could purge from the mud and darkness of this world
and be saved for the next only by the study of
philosophy”
Abu Baker Alrazi
Welcome home
Here where dreams are bind
And you're blindfolded
With a cloth behind the eyes
And a chain words
...you're dreams are bind and your blindfolded!!!
Mental poverty
Proof of identity
All lies are told...
Distortion of thought!!
Welcome home
Here where all thoughts
Are tied and minds are sold
Lies, religion, history
And a national cause
All minds are sold!!
Mental poverty
Proof of identity
All lies are told...
Distortion of thought!!
Generations have been taught
To praise the Lord and use the sword
Brainwash them all!!!