8 Movie Plots That Could Have Been Solved If The Main Character Just Stood Still

3. He's The Only Reason The Villains Have An Army - Hercules

The Plot... Hercules is very keen to get across that this isn't the story about the demi-God you think you know. Oh no, all the character's love to wink to the audience about how self-promoted the myth actually is. Those labour-y things he did that one time? Gross exaggeration his team helped with. That whole son of Zeus bit? Maybe that's all made up or maybe it's not. Ever heard he doesn't look like The Rock? Oh, he totally looks like The Rock. It'd work if there was a popular existing myth of Hercules in modern culture beyond a clearly non-definitive, Vegas-themed cartoon, but we can't knock Brett Ratner for trying something other than flat-out destroying a franchise. The plot is that rarest of beasts in modern Hollywood; a story in which the hero isn't the centre of the universe. Just as Dirty Harry gave us everything we needed to know about Inspector Callahan through his hunting of Scorpio, Hercules tells us everything about the hero by putting him as part of a bigger story. Looking to retire, Hercules takes one last job, saving the land of Thrace from a warlord, which he does with relative ease. But just as everything's going perfectly Hercules realises he's been played;. It turns out that he's been fighting for the wrong side all along; John Hurt's King of Thrace is planning to take over all of Greece, leading to a final battle that sees a four time BAFTA winner hilariously killed by the head of a giant statue. Why The Main Character Should Have Just Stood Still... The only reason Cotys, King of Thrace became powerful enough to take over the whole country was because Hercules built him an army and helped him beat the militarily superior Rhesus. Had Hercules realised John Hurt has entered that stage of his career where he can exclusively be villain or mentor he could have turned around and left him to his own crazed devices. Given that your entire life has (sigh, allegedly) been dogged by resentful and deceiving Gods surely you'd not just take whatever your employer says at face value.