List of Satyrs in Popular Culture - Film and Television

Film and Television

  • The Pastoral Symphony section of Disney's Fantasia features baby satyrs, sometimes called Fauns.
  • In Guillermo del Toro's 2006 film Pan's Labyrinth, a young girl encounters a faun at the entrance to a magical kingdom. He gives her three challenges to determine if she is the long-lost princess of the Underworld.
  • In Disney's 1997 film Hercules, the character Phil is an amalgamation of the hero Philoctetes and the stereotypical satyr; his circumstances are those of the classical Philoctetes, but he looks like a satyr and exhibits satyr-like desires for wine and women.
  • In Ridley Scott's Legend, the villain Darkness bears many similarities to a satyr (both in appearance and in nature). Scott said that he wanted Darkness to be "very sexual", so wanted him to be a satyr.
  • In 1981 film Clash of the Titans, Zeus transforms Calibos into a satyr-like creature who is subsequently shunned and forced to live as an outcast in the swamps and marshes.
  • Satyr is also the title of an award winning adult film starring Jenna Jameson.
  • In Manos: The Hands of Fate, one of the characters, Torgo, was intended to be a satyr.
  • In the 2008 Disney film Bedtime Stories the character Mickey (Russell Brand) is seen in one of Skeeter Bronson's (Adam Sandler) stories as a Satyr–Faun.
  • In the adverts for O2 the actor Jim Howick plays a Satyr–Faun.
  • Satyrs appear as the main antagonists in the Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (TV series) episode "The Satyr".

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