Τρίτη 3 Οκτωβρίου 2017

Ancient Hellenes (Greeks) mentioned in movies, Part 1


Αιγέας (Aegeus)
Θησέας (Theseus)
Μινώταυρος (Minotaur)


The Two Faces Of January (2014)
Τα Δυο Πρόσωπα Του Ιανουαρίου
(imdb, wiki)

Rydal (Oscar Isaac):
Take a look at that view.
Spectacular, isn't it?

It was here, on the Acropolis hill,
that some believe Theseus's father,

King Aegeus, looked out to sea,
waiting for his son to return.

See, Theseus had promised his father
that if he defeated the Minotaur,
he'd hoist a white sail on his ship
as a tribute

but he was so excited to get back home
he forgot and he flew the same
black sail that he set out with.

Well, thinking his son was dead,
the heartbroken king
flung himself onto the rocks below,

another victim of the cruel tricks
gods play on men.




Αισχύλος (Aeschylus)


Six Degrees Of Separation (1993)
Απρόσκλητος Επισκέπτης
(imdb, wiki)

Tess (Catherine Kellner):
He offered you parts in Cats? I thought you hated Cats. You said it was an all time low in a lifetime of theatre going. You said, "Aeschylus did not invent the theatre to have it end up a bunch of chorus kids in cat suits prancing around wondering which of them will go to kitty-cat heaven."

Watch @ 58'18''

https://123movies.co/movie/six-degrees-of-separation/?watching=NLoWqtJyTS



Αριστοτέλης (Aristotle)


Legally Blonde (2001)
Η Εκδίκηση Της Ξανθιάς
(imdb, wiki)

Professor Stromwell (Holland Taylor):
"The law is reason free from passion." Does anyone know who spoke those immortal words? Yes?

David Kidney (Oz Perkins):
Aristotle.

Professor Stromwell (Holland Taylor):
Are you sure? Would you be willing to stake your life on it?

David Kidney (Oz Perkins):
I think so.

Professor Stromwell (Holland Taylor):
What about his life?

David Kidney (Oz Perkins):
I don't know.

Watch @ 0'35''



The Name Of The Rose (1986)
Το Όνομα Του Ρόδου
(imdb, wiki)

Brother William of Baskerville (Sean Connery), plays a Franciscan who has come to a Benedictine monastery in Italy for a debate among Benedictines, Franciscans and Papal delegates as to whether the clergy should take vows of poverty or not.
He believes that a mysterious death that is being attributed to the devil & a series of murders have something to do with a copy of Aristotle's Poetics, Book II, on Comedy.

1st reference:

Adso of Melk:
Master? Have you ever been in love?

William of Baskerville:
In love? Yeah, many times.

Adso of Melk:
You were?

William of Baskerville:
Yes, of course. Aristotle, Ovid, Vergil...

Adso of Melk:
No, no, no. I meant with a...


2nd reference:

William of Baskerville:
...and yet, Aristotle devoted his second book of poetics to comedy...
as an instrument of truth.

Jorge de Burgos:
You have read this work

William of Baskerville:
No, of course not. It's been lost for many centuries   

Jorge de Burgos:
No, it is not! It was never written!


Watch @ 2'05''



Pay It Forward (2000)
Χωρίς Αντάλλαγμα
(imdbwiki)


Dialogue between prisoner Sidney Parker (David Ramsey) & reporter Chris Chandler (Jay Mohr)

00:53:04 I mean, people are listening to me. (S.P.)

00:53:07 People are staying clean.

00:53:11 I mean, it's like some cosmic Aristotle shit. You feel me?

00:53:16 -Yeah. -Yeah, no doubt. (C.C.)

00:53:18 -I feel you. -No doubt, dog, no doubt.




Αρχιμήδης (Archimedes)


24 Hour Party People (2002)
(imdb, wiki)

Tony Wilson (Steve Coogan):
The smaller the attendance the bigger the history. There were 12 people at the last supper. Half a dozen at Kitty Hawk. Archimedes was on his own in the bath.

Watch @ 4'44''



There is also an indirect reference in the movie Six Degrees Of Separation made by actress Stockard Channing, She replies ''Eureka in the bathtub'' (15'33''), commenting on Will Smith.



Δαίδαλος (Daedalus)


Long Kiss Goodnight (1996)
Ένα Σκληρό Φιλί Για Καληνύχτα
(imdb. wiki)

About Daedalus in the movie:
Luke (David Morse), one of the villains in the movie, is a CIA agent with the code-name Daedalus.


Space Cowboys (2000)
(imdb, wiki)

About Daedalus in the movie:
The elderly stars (Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland & James Garner) were members of NASA's Daedalus team




Επίκτητος (Epictetus)


Serendipity (2001)
Έρωτας Μετ'εμποδίων
(imdb, wiki)

Dean (Jeremy Piven):
Remember the philosopher Epictetus? You remember what he said? He said, 'If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid"

Watch @ 1h 09' 10''

https://fmovies.is/film/serendipity.yjpx/6y70q7




Ευκλείδης (Euclid)

Angela's Ashes (1999)
Οι Στάχτες Της Άντζελα
(imdb, wiki)

Paddy Clohessy (Frank Laverty):
Sir, What use is Euclid when the Germans are bombing everything in sight?

Teacher Dotty O'Neill (Sean Kearns):
What use is Euclid? Without Euclid, the Messerschmitt could never have taken to the sky and dart from cloud to cloud and bomb the bejesus out of the English who deserve it after what they did to the Irish for 800 years. Euclid is grace and beauty and elegance. Do you understand that boys?

Watch @ 43'28''



Battlefield Earth (2000)
Πεδίο Μάχης: Γη
(imdb, wiki)

Plot:
It is the year 3000. The race of Psychlos has conquered the earth.

Humans survive in scattered bands, living like actors auditioning for the sequel to "Quest for Fire."
Soon they leave the wilderness and prowl through the ruins of theme parks and the city of Denver. The ruins have held up well after 1,000 years. (Library books are dusty but readable and a flight simulator still works, although where it gets the electricity is a mystery.)

The hero, named Jonnie Goodboy Tyler (Barry Pepper), is a smart human
who gets smarter, thanks to a Pyschlo gizmo that zaps his eyeballs with knowledge.

He learns Euclidean geometry (why would an alien program call it Euclidean geometry?) and how to fly a jet and proves to be a quick learner for a caveman.

The villains are two Psychlos named Terl (John Travolta) and Ker (Forest Whitaker).

Dialogues:
Carlo (Kim Coates):
This is the masters’ language.

Jonnie Goodboy Tyler (Barry Pepper):
No, no, this is mathematics, the unifying language of the entire universe. Look, this symbol is called the triangle. If all its sides are equal, then these three angles must also be equal.

Carlo (Kim Coates):
Equal to what?

Jonnie Goodboy Tyler (Barry Pepper):
"To each other. It's the basic foundation of Euclidean geormetry''

Watch @ 50'47''




Ηλέκτρα (Electra)


For Your Eyes Only (1981)
Τζέημς Μποντ, πράκτωρ 007: Για Τα Μάτια Σου Μόνο
(imdb, wiki)

James Bond (Roger Moore):
The Chinese have a saying: "When setting out on revenge, you first dig two graves".

Melina (Carol Bouquet):
I didn't expect you to understand, you're English. But I'm Half-Greek. And Greek Women, like Electra, always avenge their loved ones.

Watch @ 29'07''

https://gostream.is/film/for-your-eyes-only-james-bond-007-1953/watching.html?ep=846625



Ηρόδοτος (Herodotus)


You've Got Mail (1998)
Έχετε Μήνυμα Στον Υπολογιστή Σας
(imdb, wiki)

Frank Navasky (Greg Kinnear):
The places Herodotus called the ''Happy Land of Absolutes''

Watch @ 51'28''

http://putlocker.io/watch/XvjPzYGe-you-ve-got-mail.html





Θεαγένης (Theogenes)


Warrior (2011)
(imdbwiki)

Announcer:
Tommy told me that he's chasing the record of Theogenes, apparently a mythical Greek fighter said to be unbeaten in over 1400 bouts...

....

Paddy Conlon (Nick Nolte):
Chasing Theogenes. It'll be kind of like the old times.




Θεμιστοκλής (Themistocles)


Lawrence Of Arabia (1962)
Ο Λόρενς Της Αραβίας
(imdb, wiki)


T.E.Lawrence (Peter O'Toole)
"I cannot fiddle but I can make a make a great state from a little city.... Themistocles, Sir, A Greek philosopher"

...though no educated Hellenas would refer to General Themistocles as a philosopher







Θουκυδίδης (Thucydides)


Pay It Forward (2000)
Χωρίς Αντάλλαγμα
(imdb, wiki)

Eugene Simonet (Kevin Spacey):
You know what you're getting?
A new encyclopedia.
Leather bound.
Thucydides History of
the Peloponnesian War.

Watch @ 1h26'49''

https://estream.to/7mi1zxlljsre.html




Ιάσων (Jason)


Argo (2012)
Επιχείρηση: Argo
(imdb, wiki)

LA Times Reporter (Nelson Franklin):
What does the title refer to?

Lester Siegel (Alan Arkin):
The Argo. You know, it's the thing.

LA Times Reporter (Nelson Franklin):
Like Jason and the Golden Fleece, or what?

Lester Siegel (Alan Arkin):
No, no. It's the ship. It's the spaceship. It goes everywhere. It goes all throughout space.

LA Times Reporter (Nelson Franklin):
So, it's Argonaut.

Lester Siegel (Alan Arkin):
No.

LA Times Reporter (Nelson Franklin):
What does Argo mean?

Lester Siegel (Alan Arkin):
I don't know.

LA Times Reporter (Nelson Franklin):
You don't know?

Lester Siegel (Alan Arkin):
It means "Argo fuck yourself."

Watch @ 39'20''

https://gomovies.pet/film/argo-4792/watching.html?ep=1005988




Ιπποκράτης - Ο Όρκος του Ιπποκράτη
(Hippocrates - The Hippocratic Oath)


Patch Adams (1998)
(imdb, wiki)

Patch Adams (Robin Williams):
What if a doctor becomes emotionally involved with a patient?
Does a doctor explode? No.
Who came up with these rules?
It's against the Hippocratic oath, I think.
I don't really have time for this. Sorry.
Bye.

During the same movie Patch Adams (Robin Williams) quotes Nikos Kazantzakis:

I love to read. What do you like to read? Who's your favorite author?
- Mmm, Kazantzakis. - Kazantzakis.
Oh. "World is trouble. Man needs a little madness, or else--"
"Or else he dare not cut the rope and be free."
(refers to his book ''Zorba The Greek'')


Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001)
Το Μαντολίνο Του Λοχαγού Κορέλι
(imdb, wiki)

Dr. Iannis (John Hurt)
If you love your wife...
... my advice is be nice to her.
Bring in the wood before
she asks you for it.
If she is cold, then put a
shawl around her shoulders.
And bring her a flower every time
you come back from the field.

Mr. Stamatis (Gerasimos Skiadaressis)
You won't put the pea back in my ear?

Dr. Iannis (John Hurt)
Oh, no.
That'd be against the
Hippocratic Oath.

Watch @ 3'50''



Diarios De Motocicleta (2004)
The Motorcycle Diaries
Ημερολόγια Μοτοσυκλέτας 
(imdb, wiki)

Fire Chief (Fernando Farias):
Guys, let me introduce you to two Argentinean volunteersthat will be staying here with you. Let me introduce you to Dr. Che Skinny and Dr. Che Fatty
- Nice to meet you
- Hey, would you like to see more of the town? 
- Yes
- But... 
- Don't worry sir
- Excuse me... 
- Yes?
- I wouldn't like to bother you, but are you really doctors?
- No
- Yes 
- No
- I'm a biochemist
- Could you visit a lady that is sick   
- Yes, when you tell me...
- Could it be right now, cause she is really sick. It's been a very long time since she saw a doctor
- Ok, let me pick up my things and we will go.
- Is nice to be faithful to the Hippocratic oath, Fuser

Watch @ 45'10''

http://9putlocker.io/watch/ovlXjNvP-the-motorcycle-diaries.html


A Good Man In Africa (1994)
Ένας Άντρας Στην Αφρική
(imdb, wiki)

Morgan Leafy (Colin Freals):
"and what about the fucking Hippocratic Oath, eh? You're a fucking doctor, aren't you, you sanctimonious Scottish bastard!"

Watch @ 34'40''

http://www.themoviejagg.pro/watch-a-good-man-in-africa-online-free-streaming-v1-41006



Κασσιόπη (Cassiopeia)

Serendipity (2001)
Έρωτας Μετ'εμποδίων
(imdbwiki)

Jonathan Trager (John Cusack):
Here's the story.
 A long time ago in Ethiopia, there was this queen named Cassiopeia,
who taught she was the most beautiful woman in the entire world,
and there wasn't anybody in the kingdom who wasn't offended
by this woman's relentless vanity.
And then one day, she really screwed up and offended the gods.
I don't remember what she did and I don't remember who she offended.
But it was bad.
She crossed the line.
But anyway, Poseidon, the sea god,
punished Cassiopeia by placing her in the heavens upside down in her throne, stuck for eternity with her skirt around her shoulders and all the blood rushing to her head.
And now she's just a constellation in the sky, a bunch of English freckles in the shape of a throne.
So she made one tragic mistake.
Sara: And paid for eternity.




Μήδεια (Medea)


Wild Things (1998)
(imdb, wiki)

Suzie (Neve Campbell):
Before Medea sailed away on the Helios she killed king Creon and the princess, with what? A: A rock. B: Spear-gun or C: a bit of Poison.

Sam (Matt Dillon):
P-oison...





Μορφέας (Morpheus)

Death Warrant (1990)
Εντολή Θανάτου
(imdb, wiki)

Douglas Tisdale (Joshua John Miller):
"Morpheus was the Greek God of sleep"

Watch @ 44'52''

https://gomovies.pet/film/death-warrant-7345/watching.html?ep=998135



Ξενοφών (Xenophon)


Gods & Generals (2003)
Θεοί Και Στρατηγοί
(imdb, wiki)

General Stonewall Jackson (Stephen Lang):
Drill, Professor White, drill and drill. Remember Alexander in Anatolia, Caesar in Gaul, Napoleon in Iberia

Captain James J. White (Keith Allison):
We march by day and read Xenophon by night. We will be your Greek phalanx.

General Stonewall Jackson (Stephen Lang):
Then you must begin with the bayonet. The bayonet must be for a Virginian what the sarissa was for a Macedonian

Watch @ 29'03''

https://fmovies.is/film/gods-and-generals.zl1jw/6j7o1p



Οιδίπους (Oedipus)


Analyze This (1999)
Ανάλυσέ Το
(imdb, wiki)

Dr. Sobel (Billy Crystal):
Oedipus was a Greek King who killed his father and married his mother

Paul Vitti (Robert De Niro):
Fucking Greeks!




Όμηρος (Homer)


Battleship (2012)
(imdb, wiki)


Admiral Shane (Liam Neeson): [Reprimends Alex Hopper]:
What is wrong with you? You've got skills, but I have never, EVER seen a man waste them like you. Keep the ship out of the surf and spray...

Alex Hopper (Taylor Kitsch): [interrupts Admiral Shane] ... or you'll plunge to destruction. Homer, Sir.

Admiral Shane (Liam Neeson): The fact that you know that infuriates me beyond words. What my daughter sees in you is a great mystery to me. You're a very smart individual, with very weak character, leadership and decision-making skills. Do you have anything to say to me, ANYTHING?

Alex Hopper (Taylor Kitsch): Negative, Sir.



The Natural (1984)
Ο Καλύτερος
(imdb, wiki)

Harriet Bird (Barbra Hershey)
Have you ever read Homer?

Watch @ 17'05''

https://fmovies.is/film/the-natural.llx6n/zqy55m


The Thin Red Line (1998)
Η Λεπτή Κόκκινη Γραμμή
(imdb, wiki)

Lt. Col. Gordon Tall (Nick Nolte):
Eeos rododactylos.... rosy-finger dawn. You're Greek aren't you Captain?
Did you ever read the Homer? We were read the Homer at the Point. In Greek!

Watch @ 41'20''

https://fmovies.is/film/the-thin-red-line.m59z/q818vw



Περικλής (Pericles)


City Hall (1996)
(imdb, wiki)

Plot:
New York Mayor John Pappas (Al Pacino) delivered the eulogy during a service for an accidentally-slain 6 year-old New York black boy named James Bone, an innocent victim caught in crossfire between a paroled drug dealer and a NYPD cop in a North Brooklyn street shooting:

Mayor John Pappas (Al Pacino)

...The first and perhaps only great mayor was Greek. He was Pericles of Athens, and he lived some 2,500 years ago, and he said: 'All things good of this Earth flow into the City, because of the City's greatness.' ...




Πλούταρχος (Plutarch)


24 Hour Party People (2002)
(imdbwiki)

Tony Wilson (Steve Coogan):
So, you have to try and control it.
i took advice from Plutarch's Life of Caesar...
...where it says, ''Keep your friends close,
but your enemies closer.

Watch @ 1h 27' 18''

https://gomovies.tech/film/24-hour-party-people-19965/watching.html?ep=965259



Προμηθέας (Prometheus)


A Beautiful Mind (2001)
Ένας Υπέροχος Άνθρωπος
(imdb, wiki)

Alicia (Jennifer Connelly):
I was wondering Professor Nash, if I could take you to dinner?...You do eat, don't you?

Professor Nash (Russell Crowe):
On occasion. Table for one, you know how it is. Prometheus, chained to the rock, birds circling overhead.








Batman Vs Superman: Dawn Of Justice (2016)
Batman Vs Superman: Η Αυγή Της Δικαιοσύνης
(imdbwiki)

Lex Luthor (Jesse Eisenberg): The word philanthropist comes from the Greek, meaning a lover of humanity. It was coined about twenty-five hundred years ago...between gods and men. Prometheus went with us, and he ruined Zeus's plan to destroy mankind, and for that he was given a thunderbolt



Πυθαγόρας - Πυθαγόρειο Θεώρημα
(Pythagoras - Pythagorean theorem)

Grizzly Falls (1999)
Στη Σκιά Της Φύσης

Teacher:
Pythagoras' theroem is known in history as ''the 47th Proposition''

Watch @ 4'33''

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7tVqdF8ED4





Σωκράτης (Socrates)


A Love Song For Bobby Long (2004)
Μοναχικές Καρδιές
(imdb, wiki)

Lawson Pines (Gabriel Macht):
I Think We should stick to the Socratic method

Bobby Long (John Travolta):
Oh you do! Now just exactly who is Plato and who is Socrates in this equation? Cause fuck, I'll just stay out.

Lawson Pines (Gabriel Macht):
You are Socrates, of course. You are the teacher.

Bobby Long (John Travolta):
Goddamn right I am.

Watch @ 50'23''



Love & Death (1975)
Ο Ειρηνοποιός
(imdb, wiki)

Boris (Woody Allen):
If I don't kill him he'll make war all through Europe. But murder... the most foul of all crimes. What would Socrates say? All those Greeks were homosexuals. Boy, they must have had some wild parties. I bet they all took a house together in Crete for the summer. A: Socrates is a man. B: All men are mortal. C: All men are Socrates. That means all men are homosexuals. Heh... I'm not a homosexual. Once, some cossacks whistled at me. I happen to have the kind of body that excites both persuasions. You know, some men are heterosexual and some men are bisexual and some men don't think about sex at all, you know... they become lawyers.

Watch @ 1'39''



Wonder Woman (2017)
(imdb, wiki)

Saneer (Saïd Taghmaoui):
I know Chinese too, tricky girl!

Diana (Gal Gadot):
But can you recite Socrates in ancient Greek?

Watch @ 1h 01' 45''

https://putlockers.sexy/watch-Wonder-Woman-online-free-putlocker56-141.html#

There is also a reference to Thucydides in the film. The following phrase quotes the famous historian:

“Peace is only an armistice in an endless war”

I couldn't find any verification of that statement though....

https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/article/thucydides-quote-wonder-woman-it-legit


Continue to Part 2


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