One movie director portrays Hercules as having superhumanstrength due to a magical spell, while another director portrays his strength coming from hard work and training APEX
Nobody plans it, it just happens
The past perfect refers to a time earlier than before now. It is used to make it clear that one event happened before another in the past. It does not matter which event is mentioned first - the tense makes it clear which one happened first.
They are in different tenses
