Friday, October 23, 2009

In the 2008 movie, Hancock, Will Smith portrays a superhero that is not always on some people's good side. At the beginning of the move he stops the bad guy's car but then takes it too far and flies to the top of a building and drops the car on a spike at the top of the building. We can pull from the movie that he has done something like this many times before. Gilgamesh is like Hancock because he is a guy that does not always appeal to the people. He, also like Hancock, is a questionable hero. In the beginning we know that he was sleeping with the most of the women in Uruk and no one could stop him just as Hancock was alone and everyone thought that he was the only one of his kind. One other similarity is the companion that each of the characters has but they have an opposite reaction. In Gilgamesh, Enkidu was Gilgamesh's counterpart and his only match. He and Gilgamesh were apparent best friends after their fight and were by each other until Enkidu's death. In the movie, Hancock's opposite was his only weakness. The longer they stayed together, the weaker he got. They are the only two of their kind on the planet and somehow always seem to find each other. Both of these stories have a questionable main character that ends up being the good hero.

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