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Gerard James Butler (born 13 November 1969) is a Scottish actor and film producer. After studying law, he turned to acting in the mid-1990s with minor roles in productions such as Mrs Brown (1997), the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), and Tale of the Mummy (1998). In 2000, he starred as Count Dracula in the gothic horror film Dracula 2000. He played Attila the Hun in the miniseries Attila (2001), then appeared in the films Reign of Fire (2002) and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – The Cradle of Life (2003) before starring in the science fiction film Timeline (2003). He played Erik, The Phantom in Joel Schumacher's 2004 musical The Phantom of the Opera. Butler gained wider recognition for portraying King Leonidas in Zack Snyder's fantasy war film 300 (2007). In 2010, he began lending his voice to the How to Train Your Dragon franchise. Also in the 2010s, he portrayed a Secret Service agent in the action thriller Has Fallen film series, played military leader Tullus Aufidius in the 2011 film Coriolanus, and Sam Childers in the 2011 action biopic Machine Gun Preacher. Butler had further action film roles in Geostorm (2017), Den of Thieves (2018), Greenland (2020), and Plane (2023).
After Calypso receives word from Olympus that Odysseus is to be freed, she bids him farewell before he leaves her island, heartbroken that her love for him could never be reciprocated. Later, while Odysseus is adrift on a handmade raft, Hermes reappears and offers guidance on how to return home, also giving him Aeolus's wind bag. Odysseus evades the sea monster Charybdis before seeing the shores of Ithaca, where he encounters Poseidon again. Poseidon gives Odysseus the ultimatum of either choosing to drown or watching all of Ithaca be submerged by a tidal wave. Odysseus is dragged to the bottom of the ocean, but opens the wind bag one final time to fight back, striking Poseidon with the might of six hundred men as retribution for his six hundred dead comrades. Poseidon tells Odysseus that opening the wind bag and releasing the storm has destroyed his last chance of returning home. Enraged, Odysseus tortures the god by repeatedly stabbing him with his own trident until he relents and ends the storm.
