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The 1981 original of Clash of the Titans itself is a small-medium sized blockbuster (the 2010 remake was bigger but not better) and the writer Beverly Cross follows the Greek myth closely, apparently with producers Charles H. Sheener and Ray Harryhausen in the background. Based on the Greek mythological story, the god Zeus (Laurence Olivier), the head of the pantheon of gods on Mount Olympus, bestows to his very human son, Perseus (Harry Hamlin), armoury and weapons worthy of a knight about to go into battle.
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