LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Oedipus: Father
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Featuring a garden-fresh cast, digital filmmaker Jason Wishnow's delectable retelling of "Oedipus" runs a mere eight minutes -- just long enough to make you crave a salad. It took more than a year to produce this imaginative interpretation of Sophocles' timeless play about the mythical Greek who kills his father and weds his mother. The stop-motion animated short stars a potato, broccoli, garlic, an onion and … a hot tomato.
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Oedipus issues a policy statement, that whoever comes forward with information about the murder of Laius will be rewarded, and that if the killer himself confesses, he will not be punished beyond having to leave the city permanently. On the other hand, if anyone conceals the killer, Oedipus says he will be cursed. Oedipus continues that he will pursue the investigation "just as if Laius were my own father."
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When Oedipus grew to manhood... he had also learned from the oracle in Delphi, that he would kill his father and marry his mother. Thinking that Polybus was his real father, Oedipus decided to never return to Corinth, hoping to avoid this horrible fate.
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After they were married, the city of Thebes suffered a terrible plague, so Oedipus again journeyed to Delphi to consult the Oracle. This time the Oracle told him that to be rid of the plague he must banish the one who had killed his father and married his mother. Only then did Oedipus and Jacosta learn the truth.
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When Oedipus grew up, he ... listened to an oracle, and the oracle told him that he would kill his father and marry his mother. He was horrified, and ran away from Corinth that night, trying to escape his fate.
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Many years later Oedipus heard of the oracle that he was going to kill his father and marry his mother. He was frightened and in his attempt to evade the dictates of the oracle he decided to flee from home to Thebes on the other side of the mountain.
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