![]() ![]() Jack Nicholson, Willem Dafoe, and David Bowie were all considered for the voice of Hades.Phil's physical appearance was partly inspired by Danny DeVito's.James Woods ate a watermelon while recording to make the slurping sounds more authentic in the scene where Hades is eating worms.Even after the script was rewritten, Woods ad-libbed many lines. Hades was scripted as a slow, menacing character until James Woods took the role and impressed the crew with his rapid-fire style.USA - 14 June 1997 (New York City, New York) (premiere).Despite the positive critical reception, the film under-performed in its theatrical release notably in comparison to its predecessors before ultimately earning $252.7 million in box office revenue worldwide. Hercules was released on Jto positive reviews from film critics who praised James Woods's performance as Hades, but the animation (particularly the visual style) and music received a mixed response. Computer animation was utilized in several scenes, predominantly in the Hydra battle sequence. Animation for the film was done in California and Paris. Research trips to Greece and Turkey provided inspiration for the background designs. British cartoonist Gerald Scarfe was recruited as production designer and produced over seven hundred visualization designs of the characters. Donald McEnery, Bob Shaw, and Irene Mecchi were brought on board to revise the script. The project underwent multiple story treatments and a first script draft was inspired by the screwball comedy films of the classic Hollywood era and popular culture of the 1990s. Following an unused treatment by Haidar, Clements and Musker studied multiple interpretations of Greek mythology before abandoning Zeus's adulterous affair with Alcmene. Their project was removed from development in 1993, and Musker and Clements joined Hercules later that same year. Meanwhile, Clements and Musker re-developed their idea for Treasure Planet following the critical and commercial success of Aladdin. The film is loosely based on the legendary hero Heracles (known in the film by his Roman name, Hercules), the son of Zeus, in Greek mythology.ĭevelopment of Hercules began in 1992 following a pitch adaptation of the Heracles mythological stories by animator Joe Haidar. The 35th Disney animated feature film and the eighth animated film produced during the Disney Renaissance, the film was directed by Ron Clements and John Musker. Θάλεια is the Ancient Greek spelling of her name.Hercules is a 1997 American animated adventure musical fantasy comedy film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation for Walt Disney Pictures. Her name means "the joyous, the flourishing" in Ancient Greek. Thalia (first woman) alongside her sisters in Disney's Hercules. She is given a sassy, humorous, eccentric, yet very kind personality, adding much comic relief into the film, she has the deepest and most powerful singing voice of The Muses provided by Roz Ryan, singing much of the high and low notes within The Muses' songs. She is by far the most petite of The Muses with a thick, plump figure, her outfit is a cream Greek style dress, with a split revealing her left leg, with cream ballet pumps, she wears purple lipstick and plays the trumpet. Disney's Thalia is depicted as a Goddess with deep brown skin, dark brown hair worn in an updo, consisting of her hair tied into a ponytail, split into two, that sits on top of her head, instead of hanging low, she has wide dark brown eyes and takes on a Black African appearance like her sisters. Even though, they live in Olympus, the muses are very in tune with the mortal realm, humble, friendly and driven to help humans, providing helpful advice and encouragement to them, such as with Meg, within the song, I Won't Say I'm In Love. During the movie, the goddesses also have the ability to manifest themselves as statues or paintings in the mortal realm, to interact with the humans when neccesary. Thalia is featured as a character in the Disney film, Hercules, alongside four other Muses, Melpomene, Calliope, Clio and Terpsicore, they are supporting characters and narrators in the movie, telling the stories of Hercules' life through songs. Many of her statues also hold a bugle and a trumpet (both used to support the actors' voices in ancient comedy), or occasionally a shepherd's staff or a wreath of ivy. Thalia was depicted with the form of a youthful woman, with an ivy crown, wearing boots and holding a comic mask in her hand. She and her sisters were taught by their half-brother and leader, Apollo, God of the Sun, on Mount Olympus, who helped them develop their talents, according to Apollodorus, she and Apollo later had The Corybantes together. The group takes after their mother, being Goddesses of memory, knowledge and art. ![]() Thalia and her sisters were bore in only one day. Thalia is the eighth born of The Nine Muses, daughters of Zeus, King of the Gods and Mnemosyne, Titan Goddess of Memory. ![]()
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