One Last Hope is scene from the Disney movie Hercules. This Disney movie is a favourite among many, but has specific stereotypes and implications about masculinity.
Everyone knows Disney's iterpretation of the story of Hercules. A newborn God to Zeus is stolen by Hades' minions Pain and Panic who turn Hercules into a demigod. Hercules then grows up on Earth with god-like strength, and has to become a hero on Earth to return home to Mount Olympus. To become this "hero" Hercules seeks out Philoctetes who taught all the greats everything they knew. One last hope shows Hercules' transformation from a scrawny boy, to a manly, muscular, "hero".
The real Greek myth of Hercules is similar, but not the same as Disney's interpretation. In the real story, Hercules is a demigod, who is very strong, but to offset his strength, he is rather unintelligent. With his strength, came an ego, which bruised easily, and a large appetite for food, wine, and women.
If you put the two stories together, we have the media's construction of what masculinity is. The "tough guise".
Similar to the Dove commercial, and the idea the public doesn't want to look at "ugly" or unattractive people, the media has made it so people think when they see men in the media, if they aren't strong, tough- showing the "tough guise"- they are weak, not real men.
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