Priam (/ˈpraɪ.əm/, Greek Πρίαμος Priamos) was the king of Troy during the Trojan War and youngest son of Laomedon. Modern scholars derive his name from the Luwian compound Priya-muwa-, which means "exceptionally courageous".
Priam had a number of wives; his first was Arisbe, who had given birth to his son Aesacus, who met his death before the Trojan War. Priam later divorced her in favor of Hecuba (or Hecebe), daughter of the Phrygian king Dymas. By his various wives and concubines Priam was the father of fifty sons and many daughters. Hector was Priam's eldest son by Hecuba, and heir to the Trojan throne. Paris (also known as Alexander), another son, was the cause of the Trojan War. Other children of Priam and Hecuba include the prophetic Helenus and Cassandra; eldest daughter Ilione; Deiphobus; Troilus; Polites; Creusa, wife of Aeneas; Laodice, wife of Helicaon; Polyxena, who was slaughtered on the grave of Achilles; and Polydorus, his youngest son.
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What would you do if you knew the exact day you were going to die and you knew exactly who was going to kill you? Iliad's past comes back to haunt him as he is thrust into an immediate world where he must struggle to save his own life or give in and accept the expected.
Keywords: revenge-murder
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Tantalus: Behind the Mask follows the tumultuous creation of one of the most ambitious feats in the modern theatre -- the 12-hour recreation of the Epic Cycle, the sprawling Greek creation story which spawned all of Greek mythology. The production became a struggle between writer John Barton and director Sir Peter Hall, who had been fast friends since founding the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1961, but left the battlefields of Tantalus bitter enemies.
Keywords: based-on-play
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Hamlet, son of the king of Denmark, is summoned home for his father's funeral and his mother's wedding to his uncle. In a supernatural episode, he discovers that his uncle, whom he hates anyway, murdered his father. In an incredibly convoluted plot--the most complicated and most interesting in all literature--he manages to (impossible to put this in exact order) feign (or perhaps not to feign) madness, murder the "prime minister," love and then unlove an innocent whom he drives to madness, plot and then unplot against the uncle, direct a play within a play, successfully conspire against the lives of two well-meaning friends, and finally take his revenge on the uncle, but only at the cost of almost every life on stage, including his own and his mother's.
Keywords: 1800s, 19th-century, 70mm-film, actor, based-on-play, betrayal, brother-sister-relationship, castle, character-name-in-title, classic-literature
Hamlet: 'Tis now the very witching time of night, when church yards yawn and hell itself breathes out contagion to this world.
Hamlet: Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio - a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath bore me on his back a thousand times, and now how abhorred in my imagination it is! My gorge rises at it. Here hung these lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? Your gambols? Your songs? Your flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table on a roar?
Hamlet: If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart, absent thee from felicity awhile and in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain to tell my story.
Hamlet: O, from this time forth my thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth!
Hamlet: If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all.
Hamlet: But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue.
Hamlet: To be or not to be, that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing, end them.
Hamlet: I have of late, but wherefore I know not, lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed, it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire! Why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculties! In form and moving, how express and admirable! In action how like an angel! in apprehension, how like a god! The beauty of the world! The paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?
Hamlet: I lov'd Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not with all their quantity of love make up my sum.
Hamlet: There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
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The polar ice caps have melted, and the earth is covered by water. The remaining people travel the seas, in search of survival. Several different societies exist. The Mariner falls from his customary and solitary existence into having to care for a woman and a young girl while being pursued by the evil forces of the Deacon.
Keywords: bag, bare-butt, blockbuster, boat, boat-chase, boots, box-office-flop, cage, child-prostitution, cigarette-smoking
Beyond the horizon lies the secret to a new beginning.
Deacon: Don't just stand there, kill something!
Deacon: Well, I'll be damned. It's the gentleman guppy. You know, he's like a turd that won't flush.
Deacon: If I ever see him again, I'm going to cut open his head and eat his brain.
Deacon: Dry land is not just our destination, it is our destiny!
[speaking of dry land]::Mariner: Because I haven't seen it. And I've sailed further than most men have dreamed.
Deacon: Look, it's the gentleman guppy.
Deacon: He'll see what's left of you in a goddamn jar!
Enola: He doesn't have a name so Death can't find him!
Deacon: Wanna cigarette? You're never too young to start.
Mariner: What are the markings on her back?::Helen: Some say it's the way to dry land.::Mariner: Dry land is a myth.::Helen: No, you said it yourself, that you've seen it.::Mariner: You're a fool to believe in something you've never seen.::Helen: But the things on your boat...!::Mariner: The things on my boat, what?::Helen: There are things on your boat that no one has ever seen. These shells, the music box and the reflecting glass. Well, if not from dry land, then where? Where?::Mariner: You wanna see dry land? You really wanna see it? I'll take you there.
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Prince Paris of Troy, shipwrecked on a mission to the king of Sparta, meets and falls for Queen Helen before he knows who she is. Rudely received by the royal Greeks, he must flee...but fate and their mutual passions lead him to take Helen along. This gives the Greeks just the excuse they need for much-desired war.
Keywords: abduction, ancient-greece, arson, bare-chested-male, battle, battlefield, blonde, boat, bow-and-arrow, boxing
Its towering wonders span the age of titans!
Priam: [on seeing the Greek naval fleet approaching] The face that launched a thousand ships!
Paris: Make me immortal with a kiss!
Helen: [seeing the Trojan horse] Beware Greeks bearing gifts.
Helen: Forgive me Helen. You're two women. Both wise and good. I am two men, one fairly good, I try to believe and the other very bad indeed.::Helen: One is a man, the other just a boy I think... Paris, let him be so always... Never let him grow old.
Paris: Oh Goddess come to Earth. Make me a mortal with your kiss and we'll live on nectar and ambrosia... [kiss]... But I am not sure I like being so ethereal.
Helen: There's away Gods have... To give with one hand and take with two.