@NolanAnalyst The Cyclops speaking in the original poem gave him so much more humanity making the scene hit harder. There was a chance to show real horror with him devouring the soldiers. The Cyclops ends up feeling lifeless, especially his motionless hand as they escape.
While the diabetes and obesity rates in America soar, while we spend hundreds of billions of dollars to treat diabetes, the food and beverage industry spends $14 billion a year on advertising to make many of their unhealthy products irresistible to the American consumer.