Hercules (2014)

Macedonia has been good to us. Plenty of villages ripe for pillaging. We are here to stay. they are to fight.
 * [first lines; on a stormy night, we see Hercules being born]
 * Iolaus: [voice over] You think you know the truth about him? You know nothing. His father was Zeus. The Zeus. King of the gods. His mother, Alcmene, a mortal woman. Together, they had a boy. Half human, half God. But Zeus’ queen, Hera, saw this bastard child as an insult, a living reminder of her husband’s infidelity. Alcmene named the boy Hercules, which means “glory of Hera,” but this failed to appease the goddess. She wanted him dead.
 * [one night as Alcmene puts young Hercules down to sleep, suddenly two serpents emerge from the eyes of a Hera statue in the room and slither their way to Hercules, but he snaps their necks]
 * Iolaus: [voice over] Luckily, he took after his father.
 * [we see an adult Hercules treads through a swamp in the middle of the night]
 * Iolaus: [voice over] Once he reached manhood, the gods commanded him to perform Twelve Labors, twelve dangerous missions. If he completed them all and survived, Hera agreed to finally let him live in peace.
 * [suddenly the Lernaean Hydra emerges from the swamp in front of Hercules]
 * Iolaus: [voice over] He fought the Lernaean Hydra!
 * [Hercules slices off their heads one by one; next we see Hercules running through the wintry woods]
 * Iolaus: [voice over] He battled the Erymanthean Boar!
 * [Hercules takes down the boar with his club]
 * Iolaus: [voice over] But his greatest labor was the Nemean Lion.
 * [we see Hercules in a cave, the lion’s hiding place who Hercules suddenly comes face to face with]
 * Iolaus: [voice over] This was no ordinary beast. It had a hide so tough, no weapon could penetrate it.
 * [Hercules shoots an arrow at the lion but the arrow doesn’t penetrate and the lion jumps to attack Hercules]
 * Iolaus: [voice over] But even this monster was no match for the son of Zeus.
 * [as the lion goes to attack, Hercules grabs its jaws and snaps it in half]
 * [Macedonian Coast, Northern Greece, 358 BC]
 * Gryza: What a load of crap!
 * [we see Iolaus, Hercules’ nephew, tied up and hanging over a wooden pike right below his groin]
 * Iolaus: Every word is true.
 * Gryza: You know what I think? This friend of yours doesn’t even exist.
 * [the other men laugh]
 * Iolaus: Laugh all you want. He’s coming, and be warned, Gryza, he despises pirates.
 * [to one of his men]
 * Gryza: Finish him.
 * [the pirate starts to burn the rope that holds Iolaus]
 * Gryza’s Pirate: The more you struggle, the faster you drop.
 * Iolaus: Indeed, your fleet is strong. But…
 * [just then Iolaus sees a massive shadow behind them, Iolaus smiles]
 * Iolaus: Yet, as I was about to explain before I was so rudely interrupted. The Nemean Lion was strong, too. Yet, he still destroyed it. And not with a sword or a spear or arrows. No!
 * [suddenly Hercules appears wearing the skin of the Nemean Lion on his head]
 * Hercules: I did it with my bare hands! Or so they say.
 * Gryza: Hercules.
 * Hercules: Is this all the men you have?
 * Gryza: There’s forty of us, one of you!
 * Hercules: The king of this land has offered me gold to dispose of you. So leave, or die. I get paid either way.
 * [to his men]
 * Gryza: Make him bleed.
 * [five men charge towards Hercules and he knocks them all down with a single blow]
 * Iolaus: Five men with a single blow! Still think you can destroy the son of Zeus?
 * Gryza: Bring me his head!
 * [the rest of Gryza’s men start charging]
 * Hercules: Seems they need more convincing, Autolycus.
 * Autolycus: That’s why we’re here.
 * [Autolycus throws his knives at some of the men killing them]
 * Hercules: Atalanta.
 * [Atlanta starts killing them with her arrow]
 * Hercules: Amphiaraus.
 * [Amphiaraus kills one of the pirates with his spear]
 * Amphiaraus: May Zeus forgive you.
 * Hercules: Tydeus.
 * [Tydeus jumps down and takes out more men with his axe, then together they take down the pirates one by one]
 * [Gryza hears Hercules killing all his men]
 * Gryza’s Pirate: Die, Hercules!
 * [suddenly there’s silence and one of Gryza’s pirates appears making Gryza think he’s killed Hercules]
 * Gryza: Ah, good man.
 * [suddenly the man collapses revealing Hercules standing behind him, just then Iolaus ropes begin to burn off and gets closer to falling onto the pike]
 * Iolaus: Hurry! Hurry! Uncle! Uncle, hurry! Hurry! Hurry!
 * [Hercules walks over to Iolaus and pushes him to safety before he falls onto the pike]
 * Iolaus: Any longer, Uncle…
 * Hercules: And the girls would finally be safe from your attentions.
 * [Hercules smiles at Iolaus then turns to the rest of the pirates]
 * Hercules: The rest of you may go.
 * [pointing to Gryza]
 * Hercules: But not you.
 * [suddenly Hercules takes one powerful swing of his club at Gryza]
 * [Autolycus counts the dead bodies of the pirates they’ve just killed]
 * Autolycus: Thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen…
 * Atalanta: That was fun.
 * Autolycus: …eighteen, nineteen, twenty. Twenty pirates at two gold pieces a head, minus the headless ones. Let’s see.
 * Hercules: Not a bad night.
 * Iolaus: You see how the pirates ran? My story softened their resolve.
 * Autolycus: Their resolve must be broken, Iolaus. When you spread the legend of Hercules, make it bigger, scarier. The more they believe Hercules is truly the son of Zeus, the less likely
 * [just then Amphiaraus makes the fire they’re seating in front rise by dropping herbs into it]
 * Amphiaraus: Oh!