They almost immediately show one of Hercules' identifying traits, his enormous strength, when Zeus (Torn) wiggles his finger at the baby and Hercules grabs his dad's finger and lifts him over the cradle.Įverything is going perfectly, everyone is oohing and sighing over the beautiful baby boy and his baby horse, everyone's happy and then Hades (Woods) arrives to spoil the mood. Olympus where Hercules has just been born and the gods are having a party to celebrate his birth. Olympus and we head away from the narration at that point and go to the "present day" on Mt. They continue to explain how the Greek gods lived on Mt. Though, honey it may seem impossible, that's the gospel truth!" sing the Muses. "Zeus tamed the globe while still in his youth. Zeus was the king of all gods and traps the Titans by throwing thunderbolts that chain them into their prison. They take over the narration of the story of Hercules and take us back to the beginning of the world way before Hercules was even born in the opening number song "The Gospel Truth I." They begin by telling the story of the god, Zeus taking control of the world and saving the people of Greece from the gigantic and menacing Titans by locking them in a vault under the ocean. Hercules starts off with a majestic sounding narrator, (Charlton Heston!), beginning to tell the story of Hercules, however he is soon interrupted by the 5 Muses, Goddesses of the Arts and Proclaimers of Heroes, who claim that the narrator is making the story sound like "a Greek tragedy" and that he needs to lighten up.
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