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Mythology is defined as a discursive practice that involves the beliefs and thoughts of ancient societies on nature, human relations, historical events and religion. Each culture and nation has its own myths, gods, heroes, monsters, and miracles in mythological narratives. These mythological narratives, which are the guiding lights of man's own existence and the meaning of the world, are reproduced in the fields of literature, painting, theater, sculpture, music and cinema and continue to survive until today. The general trend in cinema, which often uses mythology as an inspiration source, is to adapt the mythological story and present it in an epic-fantasy film genre. Furthermore, there are various forms of narratives that pave the way to create modern interpretation of mythology. Nevertheless, even though the preferred methods of using mythological references vary, the ideological subtexts of the mythological texts which hold concepts such as good/bad, right/wrong, justice and morality at their core remain the same. The object of this study is to analyze the relationship between the modern interpretations of mythology in cinema and the mythological text in relation to the concepts of loyalty and difference in order to reveal the ideological and cultural implications of reinterpretation. Within this frame, the movies O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000, Joel & Ethan Coen) and The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017, Yorgos Lanthimos) are explored as case studies. Despite the fact that the movies in question are different in terms of style, atmosphere and story, both movies manifest common points in terms of ideological associations.

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