From what I've heard... when I was looking in vein for real news on CNN whilst watching the hotel television, Johnny Depp made the Disney connection because of his young child.
I enjoyed a hearty laugh when I realized you were comparing the movement of the facial tentacles to actual cephalopod behaviour in order to analyze its realism. My high-school Zoology teacher had a thing for cephalopods, I'm certain she must have been terribly excited at the video footage of the real-life Kraken, Architeuthis, last year. Did they make this movie one an octopus a la 20,000 Leagues or did some nerdy fellow advise the production team that squids are more aggresive and are known in larger sizes? Or maybe, just to be different, they made it a cuttlefish?
They were very coy about letting us see its central body mass, so I couldn't tell. We got to see the underside of the limbs with the huge suckers, but I don't know enough about sucker morphology to distinguish octopods from squids. I got the impression of octopus.
Hey, I saw an Architeuthis in the Smithsonian - they had it in a big closed vat of formilyn or something and it looked pretty beat up. Sure was big, though.
I enjoyed a hearty laugh when I realized you were comparing the movement of the facial tentacles to actual cephalopod behaviour in order to analyze its realism.That does sound odd, when you put it like that. :) But I figure everyone has seen TV shows with these beasties in them, so they have a mental movie of octopus movement in the basement of their head somewhere, and if you want to suggest octopus, you would draw from the movie like the animators did here. (I personally enjoyed that Sparrow, as the monster rears up to eat him, unsheaths his sword, steps up to the giant undulating sets of radula and meets his
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You're so funny! I never even gave his horrible makeup too much thought, other than he had purty eyes, but that the makeup made them look smaller and more slanted.
So Johnny Depp bugs the living shit out of you? I like it.
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I enjoyed a hearty laugh when I realized you were comparing the movement of the facial tentacles to actual cephalopod behaviour in order to analyze its realism. My high-school Zoology teacher had a thing for cephalopods, I'm certain she must have been terribly excited at the video footage of the real-life Kraken, Architeuthis, last year. Did they make this movie one an octopus a la 20,000 Leagues or did some nerdy fellow advise the production team that squids are more aggresive and are known in larger sizes? Or maybe, just to be different, they made it a cuttlefish?
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Hey, I saw an Architeuthis in the Smithsonian - they had it in a big closed vat of formilyn or something and it looked pretty beat up. Sure was big, though.
I enjoyed a hearty laugh when I realized you were comparing the movement of the facial tentacles to actual cephalopod behaviour in order to analyze its realism.That does sound odd, when you put it like that. :) But I figure everyone has seen TV shows with these beasties in them, so they have a mental movie of octopus movement in the basement of their head somewhere, and if you want to suggest octopus, you would draw from the movie like the animators did here. (I personally enjoyed that Sparrow, as the monster rears up to eat him, unsheaths his sword, steps up to the giant undulating sets of radula and meets his ( ... )
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Ah, but you forget Dr. Strangelove. ;)
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So Johnny Depp bugs the living shit out of you? I like it.
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