The parallels between the movie Taken and the abduction of Europa.

I love the movie Taken. (Not Taken 2 because that was a terrible movie.) I was watching it the other day and I realized, the plot behind it is a lot like the abduction of Europa. Taken starts off with a (naive) girl who believes nothing bad can happen to her as she and her friend go to Paris. There they meet a handsome stranger (the equivalence to the bull in my mind) who has them abducted so that he can satiate his own desire. (Money in this case instead of rape). While this happens, her father hears what happens and swears he will rescue her. He is pretty much the biggest B.A. around and so he can do just this. (Just like how Europa's brother Cadmus goes after her when Zeus abducts them). Both characters brought a lot of destruction in their wake. It is after this that the stories differ. Cadmus at a point decides to stop hunting his lost sister (probably due to the fact he did not want to take on Zeus) and because of this could never return home. Brian (the father in Taken) does not give up his search for his daughter and so when he finds her, he kills the man who bought her (a wealthy shiek who could be considered Zeus' counterpart) and returns home with his daughter. I think Taken shows what could have been if Cadmus has stayed true to his search for his sister instead of abandoning her to her captor Zeus. (Of course in the Greek version she didn't mind Zeus). I think the change in the ending can also be attributed to modernization. What person wants to see a loved one give up on finding a damzel in distress? You don't just let things happen like that in a movie because the audience will get mad at you. It makes for a much more touching ending to have the dad save his daughter rather than the brother leaving his sister to find his own glory. Which goes to show again that Ovid's works can be messed up. (of course they may be more realistic in the sense that most family members would not risk their lives even for a loved one. People are more selfish than that).