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The metopes (carved space on a Doric frieze) around the entablature depict the legendary feats of Heracles and Theseus.
Hoffman evidently thinks that he has chosen the last Western society in which a young woman, Hermia (Anna Friel), could plausibly be threatened with death for not obeying her father's command to marry his choice of suitors, in this case Demetrius (Christian Bale)--although David Strathairn's Theseus is such an apologetically lightweight patriarch that the threat seems incongruous.
Titania, queen of the fairies, has already seduced Theseus, duke of Athens, and the struggle between her and her mate, Oberon, for possession of an orphaned changeling boy has generated hurricanes, floods, and "contagious fogs."
It doesn't help that Theseus' own erotic pas de deux with Hippolyta (Sophie Marceau, divested of most of her lines along with her Amazonian spirit) is less sexually charged than an average coffee commercial.
Hoffman uses nudity for laughs, to the point where Theseus' hunting party stumbles on the lovers in their birthday suits--a discovery that would surely result in their arrest on the spot instead of the genial interrogation provided by Shakespeare.