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Hollywood's Hercules Through the Decades
As Armond White writes: "In the new Hercules, a comic version of the Greek myth (adapted from a graphic novel by Steve Moore), The Rock stays solidly bemused but the film itself is torn--between genre panic and erotic guilt...By turning The Rock into a Greek god, it becomes a version of the myth that rings new changes even on Hollywood's unacknowledged Sword & Sandal sensuality.