The true story of icarus
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Vogele and his crew have put forth an estimated release date (for presumably France/Europe) in 2019. Icarus ’s art direction looks gorgeous and the twist on the tale may be just enough to distract me from how shitty Greek gods are like, all the time. So I have to say that I’m pretty excited to watch this film when it comes out. Strangely, the tale of Icarus was never one of the stories that I covered during my mythology units in school. Would it really have been so hard to have at least one of them not be white, especially since they seem to be working in our modern era and aren’t just looking back on the story? Zeus, Aphrodite, and Poseidon-the film’s narrators, and the aforementioned story-crafting gods-are all white and have looks which are very influenced by white European standards of beauty. Yet, if these mortal players in the myth are diverse, it confuses me that their gods are not.
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Both Icarus and his father, and many of the people of Crete, appear to have the olive/darker skin tone associated with the Mediterranean. What I’m thrilled to see is that for once the people in mythology are not presented as uniformly white. I’m also tentatively excited for Aphrodite’s sass in the face of a Zeus who seemingly embodies all the gross old white man-ness that we’ve all come to know and love (?) from this leader of the gods. Add on top of that the fact that Icarus’s secondary premise appears to be that the gods themselves are putting forth their own version of events as the “true” version of the myth, and my interest is piqued, if only to see if the writing can keep this movie from becoming a jumbled mess while still having compelling character arcs for Icarus and company. The players in Greek myths are already difficult to relate to (mostly because 90% of them are terrible people), but trying to get the audience to bond with both Icarus and the Minotaur against the knowledge that they both inexorably die is an even larger challenge. While this new angle of the story is definitely something I’m interested in, I feel that Vogele has a lot of work in front of him. Moreover, Vogele seeks to define an entirely new friendship between Icarus and the Minotaur. A cheery tale for the ages.įrench Pixar veteran Carlo Vogele is less interested in the final fate of our young hero, however, and more interested in exploring Icarus’s adolescence. Icarus was too excited to try out his wings and flew too close to the sun (literally), melting the wax and sending him plummeting back down to earth. In order to escape Crete, Daedalus crafted two sets of wings, both made with wax, for both him and his son. (The Minotaur also happened to be the king’s stepson, but that’s another myth entirely.) Daedalus was then imprisoned by the king because he aided one of the adventurers cast into the labyrinth, and they ended up defeating the Minotaur. Icarus’s father Daedalus was a brilliant craftsman whom the the king of Crete petitioned to craft a labyrinth to house the Minotaur in. The tale of Icarus, as the mythology has it, is mostly a tale about his father.