I have always been interested in Greek mythology, and with the coming movie, Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, my interest in the myths has been renewed. Those who know, I have been reading the 5 Percy Jackson books these few days and I must say, the intertexuality in those books challenge my knowledge of Greek mythology. I found the need to search on the internet at times for more information or clarification of what I read in the books.
In a nutshell, Percy Jackson is a half-blood (mixed breed) son of Poseidon and a human female. According to this article (http://www.web-articles.info/e/a/title/Poseidon-and-the-sea-monsters/), Poseidon loves women, goddesses and demi-goddesses. Poseidon has got to be one of my favourite Greek gods, followed by perhaps Aphrodites. Anyway, this article was interesting because it presents different views from the different sources (like Homer). This almost makes up for my deficit classical knowledge. Alongside this article about Poseidon there are also many other articles about Greek mythological characters like Zeus and Athena. This ought to come in handy when I read the Percy Jackson series. Heck, there’s an entire section at that website dedicated to user-created articles on Greek Mythology. Altough the articles are somewhat long, I think it’s good reference material.
Speaking about the movie, have you see the trailer yet? Sometimes when I look at a trailer like this I wonder if the actors ever leave the blue screen. Or green screen. Movies nowadays rely so much on digital and 3D effects that I don’t even though actors run around in forests and dirt paths anymore. I’m not sure how this works for production crews and production costs. Is it cheaper to get your actor to run through set with prop bombs going off or have them run around the blue screen and have post-production add in the bomb? I should read up about this, that ought to answer my question.
Greek Mythology
I have always been interested in Greek mythology, and with the coming movie, Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, my interest in the myths has been renewed. Those who know, I have been reading the 5 Percy Jackson books these few days and I must say, the intertexuality in those books challenge my knowledge of Greek mythology. I found the need to search on the internet at times for more information or clarification of what I read in the books.
In a nutshell, Percy Jackson is a half-blood (mixed breed) son of Poseidon and a human female. According to this article (http://www.web-articles.info/e/a/title/Poseidon-and-the-sea-monsters/), Poseidon loves women, goddesses and demi-goddesses. Poseidon has got to be one of my favourite Greek gods, followed by perhaps Aphrodites. Anyway, this article was interesting because it presents different views from the different sources (like Homer). This almost makes up for my deficit classical knowledge. Alongside this article about Poseidon there are also many other articles about Greek mythological characters like Zeus and Athena. This ought to come in handy when I read the Percy Jackson series. Heck, there’s an entire section at that website dedicated to user-created articles on Greek Mythology. Altough the articles are somewhat long, I think it’s good reference material.
Speaking about the movie, have you see the trailer yet? Sometimes when I look at a trailer like this I wonder if the actors ever leave the blue screen. Or green screen. Movies nowadays rely so much on digital and 3D effects that I don’t even though actors run around in forests and dirt paths anymore. I’m not sure how this works for production crews and production costs. Is it cheaper to get your actor to run through set with prop bombs going off or have them run around the blue screen and have post-production add in the bomb? I should read up about this, that ought to answer my question.
link: http://www.webworldarticles.com/e/a/title/Digital-cinema-covers-the-entire-movie-production/