Crack

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
(In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.)

http://www.cthulhuthemovie.com/ Looks interesting...

http://www.dagonbytes.com/thelibrary/lovecraft/ The Complete works of H.P. Lovecraft

















That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die.

The Call of Cthulhu
by
H. P. Lovecraft
1926

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Hain

I thought I saw this trailer a while back. What makes me mad is I knew about the Cthulhu creature, so watching the trailer I expected something that would hint at it's appearance... and it doesn't seem so. Maybe I need to read the book?

Just a thought: since Cthulhu was covered a lot in the Cloverfield thread, this thread might do better in Entertainment.

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Reese

Cthulhu is the Flying Spaghetti monster's son.

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Fly

man i freakin' love hp lovecraft





thanks crack

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lotsofmagnets

pastafarism - able to link global warming to pirates....

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physics of a bicycle, isn't it remarkable?

Hain

...through statistical analysis which makes it more likely than any other religion.

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Redlemon

Baby Cthulhu! He's so cute!

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Hain

Awww. I want one!


Can someone spoiler for me why the trailer has none of the fantastic imagery found in this thread? It just looks like your garden variety film about some guy with a bad history facing tough stuff back home only to uncover a cult- you know, something that happens everyday.

And, does anyone else get a David Lynch vibe from that preview? It might just be the actor's resemblance to Kyle MacLachlan.

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Redlemon

Hain, I totally agree. I got zero Lovecraftian vibes out of that trailer. I suspect that Lovecraft only works in a text medium; I can't imagine how to translate it into movie.

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Baraka_Guru

Spoiler: In Lovecraft's "The Call of Cthulhu," Cthulhu isn't awoken until the end.

I don't think this film is a direct interpretation of Lovecraft's story "The Call of Cthulhu." (Cthulhu makes other appearances elsewhere in his fiction.) It might be based on the symbolic idea. Here's the story's first line:

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance amidst the black seas of infinity; and it was not meant that we should stray far.

You don't need a tentacled-faced monster to make a film based on that. (But, sure, it would be cool.) This trailer showed that the film is possible doing just that.

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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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Hain

That sounds like something I would hear in Doctor Who... props to Lovecraft.

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Baraka_Guru

It's also quite Romantic. Think Coleridge, and both Shelleys.

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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot

Hain

Romantic? It focuses on our ignorance of the infinite, while I thought the Romantic movement was very much about our connection to the infinite (this leading to transcendental thought).


Either way, I am going to quote that line for a while.

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Baraka_Guru

The Romantic poets viewed themselves as being able to tap into this infiniteness, though they admittedly knew they were in over their heads. Think of the idea of terror and the sublime. Reference Edmund Burke if you must. The Romantic mind would view Lovecraft's line knowingly but may argue on the last clause as to whether we were not meant to stray far.

But, yes, either way, it's a great line--it makes me want to actually get around to reading Lovecraft.

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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot

Crack

Check out the link in the original post, there is a site with his complete works.

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Baraka_Guru

I saw that. But I prefer books. You know, the papery kind.

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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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Crack

Fine OLD MAN, take your paper books and walk up-hill in the snow both ways with your brother on your back, barefoot and on your way to your fifth job.

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Leto

My question is, why is ctulthu considered evil? What's the driving motivation?

Baraka_Guru

Can it be a grassy knoll instead?

He represents the most horrific thing inconceivable to the human mind. (Wrap your head around that one.) It is the terror of the unknown; it is the sublime. It is evil because we can see this as madness and a source for self-destruction. (Okay, that last bit was my interpretation, which I should reserve considering I haven't read the story yet.)

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—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot

Hain

I read Reanimator last night. Pretty cool, but I must confess Jeffrey Combs is the one and only Herbert West in my opinion.

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telekinetic

Wow, thanks! Just read Call of Cthulhu

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Crack

Then I have achieved what I set out to do.

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telekinetic

An I achieved a very pleasant morning at work Reading an ebook in the outlook preview pane when you don't have any real work to do but want to look busy FTW!!

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MSD

Because that would completely defeat the purpose of telling the story. Lovecraft's creatures are horrific because they're created by the imagination and only briefly revealed. The monster isn't the focus of the story, it's the psychology.

I'm trying reread The Call of Cthulhu right now, but Lovecraft's writing style is so grating, like the textual equivalent of listening to a song with feedback and static on the radio, that I'm not sure if I'll bother to go more than a few pages.


edit: watched the trailer, pretty sure Lovecraft didn't have that many women in his stories.

edit 2: The writing got a lot better after a few pages, I'm actually enjoying it now.

ring

It's primal.
Stirring.
Sexy.

Go figure.

bobby

Kracken.............xoxoxoo

WOW....filmed in th GPNW....must rent...xoxoxoo

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