The Storyteller: Greek Myths (TV Series)

Perseus & the Gorgon (1991)

Michael Gambon: The Storyteller

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Quotes 

• The Dog : Who were these other Gorgons? You never mentioned three Gorgons.

  The Storyteller : If I told the whole story your head would burst. There is no one story, there are branches, rooms, like this place. Rooms, corridors, dead ends.

• The Dog : [having found a statue of Medusa's head]  That face, it's horrible. Where does it come from?

  The Storyteller : A long way away on a rock at the edge of the world, lived a woman with terrible claws, wings of bronze and breath as foul as corpses. Her hair was a nest of poisiones snakes. Hissing, alive. Catch her stare, and she could turn you to stone. Her name was Medusa. The Gorgon. Imagine her looking away and then starting to turn towards you. Slowly... slowly...

  Medusa : Shall we turn and look at them, sisters?

• The Dog : Is that it? The cap of invicibility? Nice!

  The Storyteller : It's dogskin.

  The Dog : I don't believe you! That cap of dogskin? That's disgusting.

  The Storyteller : Well, it is.

  The Dog : Yuck!

• The Dog : So the Oracle was wrong?

  The Storyteller : What?

  The Dog : Acrisius. The Oracle said Perseus would kill his grandfather and he didn't.

  The Storyteller : I went to the Oracle once. Never ask. You never hear what you hope for.

• The Storyteller : Oh, yes, oracles are true. Stories are true. There are monsters at the end of the world. There are looks that can kill. And who has not been petrified with fear? Ask Athena, warrior daughter of Zeus, weaver, maker of spiders. She will tell you the things I cannot. She will sing the praises of Perseus the hero, father of the Argus, the Gorgon-slayer.