Jason & The Argonauts [v4.0]: Talos – Myth Versus Movie. Essay, Research Paper

Jason & the Argonauts [v4.0]: Talos – Myth versus Movie.

Ryan Kunnemann L.A. 2 Oct 6, 1996

Talos – Myth versus Movie.

The characterization of Talos’ in “Jason and the Argonauts” is portrayed very

different in the myth and the movie. One major contrast was that Talos was the

last Bronze person in the myth. In the movie, Talos was lifeless until

Hercules broke into Talos’s chamber and stole a hairpin. However, in the myth,

he was awake and ready to take on Jason and the Argonauts. The film had Talos

picking up the ship, Argo, and throwing it in a violent way, but in the myth it

says he hurls a crag at the Argo. In the original legend, Hercules, one of the

Argonauts, did not fight against Talos, but in the movie, Hercules is there to

help. Hercules then leaves Jason and the Argonauts to look for a friend that

was killed in the fight. The true story had Hercules leaving long before this,

on the first Island, to look for a long lost friend. The motion picture altered

many of the actions in the myth, don’t you think this added to the excitement

of the film?