Jason and the Argonauts is a 1963 film detailing the classic Greek myth of Jason (Todd Armstrong) and his quest for the Golden Fleece.
The story itself is fairly simple and monolithic. Jason's whole family gets killed by King Pelias (Douglas Wilmer), but a prophecy states that Jason would one day kill Pelias. Fate being what it is, Jason ends up questing for the Golden Fleece in order to take revenge on Pelias. And from that spring many separate adventures.
The film is most known for its stop motion sequences. And for a reason. These are still amazingly detailed, comprehensive and mind-blowingly awesome scenes. Especially the end battle scene where Jason and his remaining Argonauts battle against undead skeletons. Nowadays such a scene would be trivial to accomplish with modern CGI, but back then people had to be extra inventive to accomplish such detail and grace in a shot.
Overall it might be a film that's more remembered for its technical achievements than anything else, but even aside from that it's a fetching story and an entertaining film to watch.
The story itself is fairly simple and monolithic. Jason's whole family gets killed by King Pelias (Douglas Wilmer), but a prophecy states that Jason would one day kill Pelias. Fate being what it is, Jason ends up questing for the Golden Fleece in order to take revenge on Pelias. And from that spring many separate adventures.
The film is most known for its stop motion sequences. And for a reason. These are still amazingly detailed, comprehensive and mind-blowingly awesome scenes. Especially the end battle scene where Jason and his remaining Argonauts battle against undead skeletons. Nowadays such a scene would be trivial to accomplish with modern CGI, but back then people had to be extra inventive to accomplish such detail and grace in a shot.
Overall it might be a film that's more remembered for its technical achievements than anything else, but even aside from that it's a fetching story and an entertaining film to watch.