See, in movies like The Killer Shrews, the "monsters" - ROUS's in this example - are just mindless attackers. The Creature is sympathetic - humanish, but not uncanny valley - you have to root for the Creature. So the white bros automatically become the bad guys
@OliviaVespera
#monsterdon #WrongCreatureFromTheBlackLagoon
Their year-two funding finally came through.
Anyway this concludes my #monsterdon thread for Creature From the Black Lagoon (1954)!
This movie has inspired me to watch Free! Iwatobi Swim Club, which also has swim scenes, just with more bishonens in them.
Thanks to all creatures who have participated in this fishman-themed monster movie and to @Taweret for hosting this Boat Adventure Movie.
@klu9 @sam That is a muppet. #Monsterdon
@LingLass Not dead. There are two sequels. Can't kill off a great monster in the first go around, you know!
The crew lets the mortally wounded Creature pass, to dive into the waters of its lagoon one last time before sinking lifeless into the seaweed of its murky depths. The waters of the Amazon welcome back the Creature where it lived for thousands of years... and perhaps others live for thousands more..?
And that's a wreck! A watery grave and a scientific expedition gone horrifyingly awry.
Thank you for hosting, @Taweret ! Thank you for the bingo card, @cherizilla !
Dead? Not dead? #Monsterdon
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Wonderful choice #Monsterdon ! Thanks to @Taweret and all you monsterdonners out there; it's always fun to revisit a classic. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go to a lab and blow tobacco smoke all over the specimens 🚬🚬🚬
When I was about 12 I bought a pith helmet from a thrift store so I could look as cool as all these folks.
In retrospect, I think I'm starting to understand why I never really fit in, in that tiny redneck northern Montana town.
@davesdogmaggie that was Progressive for the 50s #Monsterdon
The lair of the Creature is protected by what seemed to be a seagull on a wire. Truly horrifying. Worse than most Dracula bats on fishing poles.
The Creature attacks David, destroying his speargun, and lifts David as if it smash him to a paste against the rocky wall of the cave! The crew arrives and opens fire with rifles, apparently more worried about perforating Kay than David. The Creature drops David and staggers towards a hail of deadly rifle fire.
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Uhm ok
Thanks @Taweret and all the #monsterdon heroes who helped us all get through it again
“Let him go. We’ve killed him enough.”
How convenient that the creature has a heroine altar with which to bait the main character. #monsterdon
😢 Poor creature.
No. Don't kill him. We need sequel bait.
OR IS IT!?
The end. Gillman fucks off back into his Lagoon.
#Monsterdon #CreatureFromtheBlackLagoon
Hopefully the real monsters, er "scientists" fucked off back to their universities.
Oooh, Gill-Man has a sunken living room!
"Dracula, Prisoner of the Creature from the Black Lagoon"
@Lazarou 3D bat scare
YES! We have extended monster caring a woman scene! Soon to be redrawn and referenced by monster pinup artists for decades.
#Monsterdon #CreatureFromtheBlackLagoon
A bat? Did the mummy turn into a bat? This is a thing, right?
@Taweret Right! Could be a whole gang. #monsterdon
my dude walks off a harpooning like it's nothing
Oh my god the creature is coming back for the victim’s dick!
Underwater fight scene is pretty good
Let's science the shit out of this predicament!
Retrieving Mark's body, people normally just leave their friends behind in these movies.
You killed mark and blamed the merman
He got a floater. Someone grab the pool net.
#monsterdon
Bandage-face guy is waking up and going "WT actual F?"
#monsterdon I've seeing a ship here
Great scene: I'm the Capt., and here's my knife to prove it.
Pipe guy looks to be dead gringo #1
You can tell this isn't Star Trek or we would have tried communicating with it like half an hour ago. #Monsterdon
"enough of your shoddy mentorship!" exclaimed the merman.
Eh, I'm under the impression that more animal calls are about being horny than hungry.
"socially awkward person tries to join the conversation"
He looks like he's getting ready for a panty raid. #monsterdon
Mark is a dick
Waiting for fat Brando to show up and mutter some nonsense
🦖#MONSTERDON 🎞️
TRIVIA FROM THE BLACK LAGOON
The scenes filmed outdoors (not that many) were completed mostly at Wakulla Springs, Florida. Ironically, the water there is known for how clear it is.
The stuntman in the "land suit" and the second stuntman in the "underwater suit" never met each other. That is, until 20 years later at a convention.
there already are aquatic guys, they just end up looking like dolphins because looking like a guy underwater makes no sense #monsterdon
Does this help you "learn about the water and all its secrets" guy??
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotenone
These days you wouldn't be able to pour poison powder in a lagoon without an environmental review. Which is exactly why we have environmental reviews. #monsterdon
Extra points for those coffee mugs.
Can we please kill a gringo?
Do you think it's intelligent enough to seek revenge? I mean it fucking climbed on the boat so I wouldn't put calculus past it at this point. #Monsterdon
Single tear rolls down the creature's cheek
Our so-called ichthyologist slash financier with the spear gun just landed a direct hit on the kidney of our hero Creature, while it was swimming away from them and posing no threat.
Not cool. Justice for the Creature.
We saw something! Let's kill it!
@skatem got 99 problems but a fish ain't one
I think these underwater scenes are neat, because we get submerged logs, fish and seaweed and swimming. They do go on for a while.
@diazona @rebeld new Markov corpus idea unlocked. Would be great fun to build a chain from the dialogue in #Monsterdon movies
#monsterdon The net is wrapped around the propeller. Sillypants.
Okay, so the girl gets back to the boat. Then the boat's net catches something, but then we find out that it didn't really catch anything. They still think there's a live monster there.
Back on the boat, the banker boy gets a harpoon and wants to shoot it to study it later. The main boy doesn't like this because he sounds like a big game hunter and not a scientist. The banker says "remember u work for me bitch!" but not in those exact words. Then they go scuba diving together.
lol, oh good, MORE underwater scenes....
speargun dude will die prolly
#monsterdon
@plaidtron3000 damn that must have been hard to pull off those shots like a minute at a time #monsterdon
Creature is a great monster design. Definitely deserves to be one of the best known
So does the dude in the suit have an aqualung in there or is he just holding his breath because either is impressive
@ramsey @YsengrinWolf yeah, this is how we identify ages of the oldest rocks on Earth. I think uranium is the slowest-decaying naturally occurring element, or close to it.
Fun and slightly related video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9G_p-kasL4
MONSTER LURK
Our two rival scientists are unaware that a monster from the Devonian age stalks them in the deep water of this Amazonian lagoon that time forgot!
We park our boat and two boys go scuba diving for about nine hours. There are a lot of unique characters in this movie, but my brain has sorted all the white people into "boys" and "the girl" and all the brown people into "shirtless" and "shirted".
Back on the boat, a science master (boy) explains that uranium lead tests can determine the ages of fossils. Then more swimming. Then we see a swimming monster. Then the scuba boys find a dead monster and take its hand off.
@jadebees "Marry us" she says to Monster, who is a priest in his culture #Monsterdon
Why did Kay put on her swimsuit?
"Uranium-Lead Test"
Uranium-Lead test mentioned.
(but are these igneous rocks?)
"AQUALUNG!" he exclaims in Jazz
i think i posted about this when i saw this the first time fairly recently (for shame) but i was surprised at how competent this movie is compared to all the derivatives of it i've seen over the years #Monsterdon
Boats in this #monsterdon rated by coolness:
1. the Rita (big boat, has steamship and sails, super awesome)
2. scuba diving motorboat (I call this one the "Butt Explorer")
3. regular rowboat (dinghy, towed by the Rita, still cool).
Jaguar like, "STOP TALKING HER TO DEATH AND KISS HER" #Monsterdon
Checkovs Gas Harpoon
*monster claw reaches for the ankle of the distracted lady scientist*
*she is called away by the rest of the group*
*monster flipper snaps fingers in frustration, retreats back into the boggy water of the Amazon*
@xerozohar "Nazi fish. I *hate* Nazi fish." #Monsterdon
So... What, the Creature is mad they're digging up his grandma? #Monsterdon
We're having some boat conversations. I think the banker guy is expecting results. Then the girl is like "wow this river is bigger than the Mississippi", which is correct, but the footage in the background is showing a river smaller than the Mississippi.
The boy is like "yeah, and even the animals here are like animals in the Devonian! There's giant centipedes and shit!" which I'm pretty sure is wrong. Maybe big centipedes, but not like, Devonian big.
CATFISH FROM THE BLACK LAGOON, I'd watch it. #Monsterdon
MONSTER FLIPPER ONCE AGAIN
Exactly the same shot as before, in fact. A callback, or a second emergence..?
MONSTER FLIPPER HAS ENTERED THE CHAT er TENT
*monster flipper palms the entire face of one of the hapless research assistance, roars horribly as the tent shakes*
Oh @nev Oh, that title. swoons
The author should be on here...
@forestine yes, definitely, for science
and by that I mean being able to do proper science without the men getting in the way
Humanity threw the first punch, remember that
#monsterdon ooh. The underwater photography looks really good in 3D.
Nature failed with lungfish, but succeeded with me
I like how in movies archaeologists take it for granted that there will be a "rest of the skeleton."
#monsterdon I also picked up on IMDB, that you can tell the actors apart by counting their air-tanks. There's one guy with two tanks, and one guy with just one tank.
@ottaross Friend Chicken sounds very sinister and I love it #Monsterdon
@socketwench do i want to be with them (the creature) or be them? (the creature)
always the question #Monsterdon
Is that colonel Sanders? This might be the backstory where he decides if it's friend chicken or fried fish he'll run with.
... the lagoon farts, and the Gill-Man shows a hand, grasping the very regular edge of the pond.
"Oh, sorry, I thought this was the nail place." #Monsterdon
well at least they got actual people from the Amazon for this and didn't do 'brownface'
That's standard paleontology, a couple of whacks then rip the thing out of the ground.
IN THE BEGINNING GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH
AND THE EARTH WAS WITHOUT FORM AND VOID
*gasoline explosions*
THIS IS THE PLANET EARTH - NEWLY BORN AND COOLING RAPIDLY
so extremely cool
"Here, life begins"
...Hot. #Monsterdon