Minotaur (film)

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Minotaur
Promotional poster for Minotaur
Directed by	Jonathan English
Produced by	Jonathan English
Written by	Nick Green Stephen McDool
Starring	Tom Hardy Tony Todd Rutger Hauer Ingrid Pitt
Music by	Martin TodSharow
Cinematography	Nic Morris
Editing by	Eddie Hamilton
Distributed by	Lions Gate
Release date(s)	March 11, 2006 May 11, 2006 July 26, 2006
Running time	93 min.
Language	English
Budget	$7,000,000 (US)
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Minotaur is a 2006 horror film, directed by Jonathan English. It stars Tony Todd, Ingrid Pitt, Tom Hardy and Rutger Hauer. It was filmed in Luxembourg.

[edit] Plot

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Long ago in the Iron Age a shadow loomed over a lonely village of Thens. For over five years, eight village youths are stolen from their families to the capital of the Minos Empire and placed in the underground labyrinth to be a sacrifice the Minotaur, the Minoan god. Theo, haunted by the loss of his love, Fion, in an earlier sacrifice, is convinced that the beast is not a deity and that his girl still lives within the labyrinth. His father Cyrnan, the village leader, tries to reason with Theo not to go but Theo is driven by blind rage and made his way in with six other youths to be sacrifical lambs. However, Theo intends to kill the Minotaur.

[edit] Differences Between the Film and Mythology

The first major difference between the film and classic mythology is that the Minotaur is presented as being a large, ugly, wrinkled, and almost stripped to the bone creature, rather than the familiar, classical half-man–half-bull.

Another difference is in that Theseus (or Theo as he is called in the film) travels to the labyrinth to find some lost love, whereas in the historical accounts Theseus simply traveled into the labyrinth with the sole intention of destroying the monster.

Another deviation is in that in the film the Minotaur is worshiped as a god by the inhabitants and is relatively unknown by most outside the kingdom, another motive that entices film Theseus to travel to the kingdom of Minos, while in historical text the Minotaur was seen as a blood-thirsty monster by all, including Minos, who is non-existant in the film.