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Almost the end of the first Harryhausen movie I ever saw, "Clash of the Titans."Related content
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Yes!
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You're welcome
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Harryhausen did a lot of great work for the film, which is honestly why we still watch it. The Kraken was a great monstrous giant critter in the master's classic style. The toy figure was sadly deficient in many respects.
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I kind of liked the toy line that came out of this movie, including that giant plastic Kraken. It's extremely 80's.
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Yes, the toy line was classic Eighties goodness.
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Harryhausen's last film...the remake didn't even come close.
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As CLASH OF THE TITANS proves, you can't beat the Classics but you CAN tinker with them for your own vicarious satisfaction!
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It's been widely admitted that the reason people have heard of the Perseus and Andromeda myth is because of this movie. Moreover, they take for granted that the plot of this movie IS the myth.
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Ah well, sometimes an adaptation will do its work a little TOO well!
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Good ol' Clash of the Titans. I used to watch it so much when I was a kid. My dad would record it onto a VHS from AMC or something. Good times.
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It's good stuff to grow up with!
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I got the DVD of this classic. My all time favorite Harryhausen flick.
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So do I 
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I was obsessed with this movie when it came out. I had a few of the toys but my friend had them all including the Kraken. It was an awesome toy. Probably because of bathtub play his Kraken took up permanent residence in his bathroom but was eventually relegated to holding his toothbrush. But still, what a magnificent toothbrush holder the Kraken was.
I actually recently picked up the Charon the boatman figure from the original toy line and I'm using it to create some sculptural pieces^^
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That Kraken toy was a real monster (in more ways than one). Though toothbrush holder is not too ignoble a job for an old toy
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Thanks!!
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I'm afraid it didn't, though I wish it had. It only won the Saturn award for best actor (Burgess Meredith), and the Young Artist Award for best picture.
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The Kraken's a great Harryhausen creature and you did him justice here. Too bad he didn't get more screen time.
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I don't know why (since it's so quick) but one of my fave moments is still when the Kraken first bursts out of the ocean in its first scene.
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This was dope for my 10-year old mind!
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It's a great age to arrest your development
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I remember being scared of the monsters when I was little even though I loved this movie. The remake was pretty meh, though I found its sequel far more enjoyable.
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The remake can eat shit, but strangely I kind of enjoyed Wrath of the Titans better.
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I think it's because they put a lot more effort into developing the characters. The story also had a lot more punch to it and the climax wasn't as anti-climatic. They even spread little bits of humor throughout rather than the edginess of the first. It's a shame that it performed so badly. Another case where a superior sequel suffers from the mediocrity of the original.
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Well, you started with a good one, indeed! That explains a lot...
It was my first Harryhausen’s too! The kraken was a blast, indeed, but my fave always was Medusa... Well..., and Andrómeda...
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Yes; it's still a big influence
I had the hots for Athena, whoever played her.
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Oh, had you? It does not surprise me; I remember Andromeda’s preparation scene, with her servants bathing and dressing her...
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I’m thinking both women, Medusa and Andromeda, are both sides of the same coin in the movie: And horrendous and aggressive femme fatale , and a beautiful passive damsel in peril... Not very feminist nor actual, is it?
...Ah, the eighties!
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Athena was apparently played by Susan Fleetwood, who looks great in absolutely everything she's ever done (I looked her up, of course).
Apparently, they used a body double for Andromeda's bathing scene, which doesn't put the lovely Judy Bowker to shame in any way. A producer's decision, I suppose.
The classic myths are seldom PC according to todays very hard norms, but they do have many strong female characters. Our current brave band of Social Justice Warriors have torn pop culture apart in every conceivable way, making the "Mary Sue" the only acceptable female representative -a female which can do absolutely no wrong to the point of being invincible, and therefore completely uninteresting. It's a type of character which no traditional school of storytelling would ever have allowed -Rey in Star Wars and Michael Burnham in Star Trek Discovery, to name the most obvious offenders. I hope we can get rid of this silly and boring trend as fast as possible, though I suspect that Marvel's upcoming Captain Marvel will keep running with it.
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Susan Fleetwood… I’ve googled her name, and recognised her inmediatly as… Ethar/
Moriarty’s sister in “The Young Sherlock Holmes”!!
About Andromeda’s, it seems that every artist has taken advantage of her as erotic motif
(I can remember Rubens and di Cosimo paintings, for example), but I’ve reviewed the
legend, and it specifies that she was tied naked to the rock, at the mercy of Cetus, and
waiting for her manly savior, Perseus, so I’m afraid that was her role since the begginig.
Surely, all that has a lot of interesting Freudian or Jungian roots, but I’m not gonna go
deeper into that subject.
So, her appearance in this movie probably could be considered quite prudish, only
exceeded by the lame Andromeda from the 2010 version.
Of course, not happy with stealing all her fleshy eroticism, 2012 “Wrath of the Titans” had to
make a warrioress Mary Sue of her, as you well explain.
Times, and society, changes, and that’s right. It’s good. What it’s not right is judging
the past from our limited point of view, and concealing what we don’t like.
Writers should create NEW strong and interesting characters, instead of making up the
old ones, or cloning all that lame Mary Sues, as you wrote.
Let’s have faith about that, and hope it was for good: Western culture changes so fast
this times, that barely has time to adjust itself before new changes.
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That's right; Susan Fleetwood's in "Young Sherlock Holmes" too. I forgot about that one. I think she's past away now, sadly.
Yes, Andromeda was never anything but a sex object, perfect for artistic nudies, as you say. It's interesting that the Mary Sue film character, which is a backlash to the traditional objectification of the female, is just as exaggerated as the model they're trying to crush.
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Yeah, humans have the irritating habit of extinguishing a fire with a flood.
We're not a balanced species. And those stereotypes crushers you mention are fallible humans, like the rest, after all.
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Final moments before Medusa’s head makes it’s cameo, turning Kraken into oversized statue. Loved this movie! Terrific job!
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"Eat Gorgon stare, ya ugly brute!"
Kraken(technically Cetus): "Shoo! Begone! I'm allergic to flying pests!"
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He was especially allergic to gorgon stare.
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They never tell you that in the henchmonster manual...
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That's how it is for the big boys
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