The monsters of our imagination. I came across this documentary series of the famous brand BBC by accident. The title caught my attention immediately. What about? After all, a team of brave guys with great interest and unrelenting enthusiasm tells about monsters! About those very monsters that excite the imagination of mankind from distant, distant times. Admit it, because in childhood or in youth you at one time (or even to this day) worried about this topic. Me, yes.
Since Legends of Monsters consists of several episodes, for myself I chose the one that told about perhaps the most terrible and ferocious monster on the list. Meet - this is the great and powerful Kraken.
For the first time Kraken I met in the magnificent execution scenes of the film "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" by Gore Verbinski. I was struck by the enormous scale of that monster from the deep ocean. Always attracted to giants! You see, there's, to put it more precisely, a terrifyingly attractive scale. That is, on the one hand, incredibly scary, but on the other hand, you can not take your eyes off a creature that is 50 or even 100 meters larger than you! Here and in "Legends about monsters" the researchers are trying to recreate the computer-simulated visual appearance of Kraken by the end of the transfer. The end result is really captivating! If you dare to look to the end, you will find out how much the Scandinavian mythological creature would theoretically reach, what its auxiliary and even hidden tentacles would look like, and how it would attack huge sperm whales with massive sea vessels.
Let the guys present only hypotheses and guesses, but they do not chase after scientific evidence. Using the allotted (probably pretty) budget to its fullest, they travel to Canada, New Zealand, and France to try to gather more information about the imaginary characteristics of Kraken. There is nothing to complain about - the program is 46 minutes, but there are no extra frames or long chewing arguments about this. Everything is as clear, unobtrusive, tasty and intriguing as possible. Honestly, you look at these people and believe that they are doing what they love.
In addition to the above-mentioned film about the adventures of Captain Jack Sparrow, several other works can be recalled as excellent films about sea monsters. This and "Pacific Rim" by Guillermo Del Toro, in which the luxuriously depicted kaiju swim out of the depths and bring terror to the entire population Earth. This is a gaggy, but rather fascinating "Rise from the depths" with Trit Williams in the title role, in which a bloodthirsty cephalopod mollusk arranged an unforgettable terror in a huge ship for professional robbers. This is the version of "Battle of the Titans" with Sam Worthington in the role of Perseus, in which the Scandinavian Kraken was amusingly crossed with ancient Greek mythology. I remember from a distant childhood a half-forgotten scene from Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (the era of the great Ray Harrihausen!): a giant walrus emerges from under the ice and attacks desperate travelers (that’s when I think I realized that giants are shaking me). I cannot help but recall the most magnificent Charibd in the TV movie "Odyssey" by Andron Konchalovsky: there was a feeling that this monster-whirlpool could swallow the whole world. How can you not remember Howard Phillips Lovecraft? Read "Call of Cthulhu" and understand what both beckons and repels the high seas at night (hear Cthulhu R'leh - to be trouble). This is only a part of all known works!
Our world is so vast that it is clear to everyone how many secrets and mysteries it hides. What the hell are aliens from space, when dangerous and deadly monsters are full (enough?) on our planet? Thanks to programs like "Legends of monsters", viewers can spend interesting and informative hours. Instead of watching all sorts of nonsense, why not give in to the excitement of imaginary adventures on the screen and spend time with pleasure? Remember: if people are constantly beginning to think about monsters and even admit their existence, then these are obvious failures in the Matrix programs. If so, then there would be more such failures!
10 out of 10
P.s. Sigur Ros - "Brennistein" Starting from the fifth minute, I always imagine a hero wandering on the smooth ice, while the weather rages behind him, and huge tentacles crush the mountain ranges and reach for the sky. Epic shot!