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Along with rough seas, sailing ships, beautiful southern ladies, sea wrecks [he always has to have that disasterous wreck] a giant squid in a spectacular underwater scene in the hull of a wrecked ship, villains and heroes, DeMille rounds up a stellar cast in the likes of Paulette Goddard, fresh from her almost getting the role of Scarlett O'Hara in GONE WITH THE WIND, as Loxi Claiborne, who is in love with handsome Captain Jack, [John Wayne] who was just beginning to gain world wide fame and Steve Toliver, played by suave and sharp tongued Ray Milland, one of his best acting roles, along with a young Robert Preston and Susan Hayward as young lovers who become victims of the war over salvage rights of wrecked ships.
An extraordinary finale with an attack of a giant squid.
The title reveals itself at the end when Walt runs to the museum to see the large representation of a Squid and a Whale with Lou Reed's monotonous voice in the background giving the film a polished ending.
People unfamiliar with John Wayne's vast filmography are often surprised to discover he actually starred in a Cecil B. DeMille extravaganza, although everybody seems to recall "The Film with the Octopus" that Wayne made (it was actually a giant squid, but that's really unimportant).
The Squid and the Whale is a film by Noah Baumbach about his childhood in New York in the 1980s.
Kraken is an interesting film about a giant squid that links the monster's murderous rampage to a Greek myth.
Second was the pig-like squealing of the squid.
Unfortunately Nicole & her crew are hampered by a few unforeseen problems, first off is Maxwell Odemus (Jack Scalia) the son of a Greek mafia gangster who wants the two relics returned to Greece by any means necessary & there's also the small fact that a gigantic squid is guarding the precious bounty & basically kills anyone who goes near it.
Squid in the Bobsled, Otter for the swimming, Frog for the high jump, Bull in the boxing etc etc etc) but also because of the terrific soundtrack and songs by Graham Gouldman of 10CC.
It seems that I've hit an awkward patch, in that my last several choices for a family movie (The 40 Year Old Virgin, The Weather Man and, most recently, The Squid and the Whale), while great films all, were not exactly family appropriate.
The biggest disappointment however in this film is the non existent fight with the giant squid, instead you get some sort of alien that gets defeated in a very silly way.
Noah Baumbach, the immensely talented writer, and director of "The Squid and the Whale" clearly demonstrates he is one of the brightest young directors working in America today.
There's plenty of fights, a trial, and an entertaining squid.
The Kraken, these days primarily known as the thing that swallowed Johnny Depp in "Pirates of the Caribbean", is a gigantic type of squid that can reach a size of nearly 46 feet and reigns over the darkest depths of the sea.
The journalist Matt Taibbi’s memorable description in 2009 of Goldman Sachs – “a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money” – still resonates, and for good reason.
What looks at first like a barren and forbidding wasteland is actually the largest biome on the planet, populated by fantastical creatures such as the anglerfish, vampire squid, and ancient corals that have been around since the Bronze Age.
Your quill pen will be whalebone, your ink a juice secreted by cuttlefish or squid.
Its navigating was marked by an encounter with an immense school of squid, unusual mollusks that are near neighbors of the cuttlefish.
As for mollusks, they consisted of exhibits I had already observed: turret snails, olive shells of the "tent olive" species with neatly intersecting lines and russet spots standing out sharply against a flesh-colored background, fanciful spider conchs that looked like petrified scorpions, transparent glass snails, argonauts, some highly edible cuttlefish, and certain species of squid that the naturalists of antiquity classified with the flying fish, which are used chiefly as bait for catching cod.
"Squid, ordinary squid from the class Cephalopoda?"
Aristotle put the dimensions of one squid at five cubits, or 3.1 meters.
Accordingly, people have proposed naming this devilfish Bouguer's Squid."
"Well, with all due respect to master," Conseil replied serenely, "if this isn't Bouguer's Squid, it's at least one of his close relatives!"
It was a squid of colossal dimensions, fully eight meters long.
"The arms and tails of these animals grow back through regeneration, and in seven years the tail on Bouguer's Squid has surely had time to sprout again."
When this cloud had dispersed, the squid was gone, and so was my poor fellow countryman!
At every thrust Ned Land's harpoon would plunge into a squid's sea-green eye and burst it.
The squid's fearsome beak was wide open over Ned Land.
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