Aphrodite is a supporting character in the 1981 film Clash of the Titans and its 2010 reboot. She is the wife of Hephaestus and the Olympian goddess of sexual love and beauty.
In the original, she was portrayed by Ursula Andreas and in the remake, portrayed by Agyness Deyn.
Aphrodite is based on the goddess of the same name from Greek mythology and, in the original film alludes to Athena in the Perseus / Medusa myth.
History[]
Clash of the Titans (1981)[]
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Aphrodite in the original film
In the original continuity, Aphrodite was regarded as the most beautiful goddess in the world. She resided on Mount Olympus presiding love between mortals and beauty. Beck
Years before the original film, Aphrodite grew jealous of her priestess Medusa, fearing her to be more beautiful than her. Further infuriated when Medusa and Poseidon did away in her own temple, Aphrodite cursed Medusa into becoming a hideous Gorgan while also turning her beautiful hair locks into snakes. Whoever looked into her eyes, they would immediately turn to stone.
In the film, she appears on Mount Olympus when Poseidon informs his brother Zeus, that King Acrisius sentenced his daughter and grandson to death by having them thrown in a wooden box and into the sea. Zeus immediately orders for Poseidon to unleash the Kraken and destroy Argos for their cruel kings crime as punishment. When discussing with the other goddesses about Perseus's birth, Aphrodite reveals Zeus came down to Danae in a glittering shower of gold and visited her, resulting in Perseus' origin.
2010[]
Unlike the original, Aphrodite was not the one to curse Medusa. It is also mentioned in the sequel that Aphrodite was married to Hephaestus, as they were originally.
Clash of the Titans[]
Aphrodite is present at the beginning of the film, where the other gods are discussing the humans' uprising against the gods and later, when Zeus tells the other deities. Unlike the original Aphrodite did not curse Medusa and the role was given to Athena instead.
When Andromeda stands up to her parents' for their arrogance, Queen Cassiopeia believes the humans to be better. Andromeda warns her mother as the Queen goes too far with her boasting. However, Cassiopeia ignores her daughter's warnings as she (rather foolishly) compares Andromeda to being more beautiful than Aphrodite herself.
In a deleted scene, she and Apollo have a conversation about the war down below.
Wrath of the Titans[]
When Andromeda, Perseus and Agenor visit Hephaestus, the disillusioned God refuses to help them. However, Andromeda persuaded him to aid them, by giving him words of wisdom with gentleness and kindness. Touched by Andromeda's words, Hephaestus tells the young queen how she reminds him of Aphrodite.
Personality[]
Aphrodite was born from the sea after Kronos casted his father, Ouranos' genitals into the sea. She was so beautiful that Zeus had her married to Hephaestus, who was malformed from birth and to prevent war breaking out among the gods. In the original myths, Aphrodite was unhappy with her marriage with Hephaestus that she cheated on him with his half-brother Ares. However in the movie, it is implied that Aphrodite was kind towards Hephaestus because he was reminded of her beauty from when he met Queen Andromeda
Powers and Abilities[]
Aphrodite is omniscient when it comes to love or beauty. She was aware of how Zeus had fallen in love with Danaë and how he visited her as a glittering shower of gold. Aphrodite was also aware of how beautiful Medusa was, causing her to curse the woman.
Trivia[]
- According to mythology, Aphrodite was born from the sea. In some stories, she was born in the union between Zeus and the Greek goddess Dione. However, another myth states Aphrodite was to be the daughter of Ouranos. After Kronos chopped his father up into millions of pieces, he threw his father's Jenna told into the sea. Aphrodite was born from the foam while the Giants, the Erinyes (furies), and the Meliae emerged from the drops of his blood.
- Unlike the movie, Athena was the one to curse Medusa in the myths, not Aphrodite, as stated earlier in the film. Instead, the creators of the reboot restored Athena's role closer to the accurate myth.
- In the original film Queen Cassiopeia compared andromeda's beauty to Thetis, their patron goddess. In the remake the queen compares Andromeda's beauty to Aphrodite instead.
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