I found a great movie clip from the movie
'Clash Of The Titans.'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYJJDiLAt_0It's the scene where
Perseus (actor, Harry Hamlin) meets up with snake-haired, freaky-eyed
MEDUSA!!!
The movie was made in 1981 and for its time, the special effects were pretty cool during some scenes. Admittedly cheesy (effects) in other scenes, the film has nonetheless become a 'sci-fi-mythology' staple particularly due to its great CAST.
Cast:
Laurence Olivier (Zeus)
Claire Bloom (Hera)
Maggie Smith (
Thetis)
Ursula Andress (Aphrodite)
Jack Gwillim (Poseidon)
Susan Fleetwood (Athena)
Pat Roach (Hephaestus)
Harry Hamlim (Perseus)
Judi Bowker (
Andromeda)
Burgess Meridith (
Ammon)
Sian Phillips (
Cassiopeia)
Flora Robson,
Anna Manahan &
Freda Jackson as the Stygian Witches!!
Tim Pigott-Smith (
Thallo)
This is an MGM film by
Ray Harryhausen (and Charles H Schneer with John Palmer as associate producer).
A few GREAT and dramatic lines from the film:
"Let the stars be named after then forever. As long as man shall walk the Earth and search the night sky in wonder, they will remember the courage of Perseus forever. Even if we, the gods, are abandoned or forgotten, the stars will never fade. Never. They will burn till the end of the time."(explaining the heroes within the constellations/stars)
"[...] for the moment, there is sufficient cowardice, sloth and mendacity down there on Earth to last forever."(a conversation with Hera, Thetis and Zeus...Zeus responding to Thetis' question about the danger of a mortal 'Hero' like Perseus becoming more important than the Gods)
...Zeus (Laurence Olivier as Zeus)
I love the part where Hera, Thetis and Athena are discussing Zeus' problematic WOMANIZING! Thetis shares with the other goddesses, her awareness that Zeus uses disguises in order to trick women into having sex with him. Hera asks if Zeus has ever succeeded in tricking Thetis and Thetis replies in the negative. When Athena asks what Thetis did to avoid one of Zeus' trick-advances, where he pretended to be a cuttlefish, Thetis replied that she got back at Zeus by playing his own game -
"I simply turned into a shark."Here's the film-clip link again - be sure to let the page load and buffer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYJJDiLAt_0Keep an eye on
Medusa's HAIR!! Geeeeze - that's creepy! Look closely...despite some of the other cheeseball effects in the rest of the movie - the wriggling hair ought to make most people get the shivers! AAaaargh her hair NEVER QUITS undulating - even after her head is OFF *blech*
Gotta go - I have the shivers.
