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Post by huscarle on Jul 31, 2007 4:08:19 GMT -6
No not porn...
Anyone else seen the John Huston classic film Moby Dick starring Gregory Peck? A watched it again recently as we got a free copy in some Sunday paper. A wonderful film with some very Lovecraftian moments. It opens in some small port in a New England town were some chap is seeking a ship to work on and ends up getting on Captain Ahab's. Ahab could be straight out of a Lovecraft story obsessed by his vengeance against the Great White Whale which has crippled him.
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Post by Madguten on Jul 31, 2007 5:52:02 GMT -6
Im not sure if i have seen the original movie version. But i have read the danish translations of the story. Its a great story. Quite filled with terror.
Yeah, he actually could.
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Post by huscarle on Jul 31, 2007 6:56:06 GMT -6
Im not sure if i have seen the original movie version. But i have read the danish translations of the story. Its a great story. Quite filled with terror. I should have mentioned- Hermann Melville wrote the original novel. I haven't got round to reading that though.
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Post by luxcthonis on Aug 20, 2007 12:41:00 GMT -6
Ironically, I HAVE the novel by Hermann Melville but have not read it through yet. Procrastination be damned! Also check out the funeral doom band AHAB. Their debut album "The Call of the Wretched Sea" provides the perfect soundtrack to read the book by. -M.
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Post by huscarle on Aug 20, 2007 14:26:02 GMT -6
I'm going to have to invest in it. I'll have a root round some second hand bookshops. If you haven't caught the film though, have a look, some of the imagery is awesome. They have a church wherein the pulpit is a vast ship front with Orson Welles playing a proper fire and brimston style preacher.
Also it's set in New England so has a similar feel to all things Lovecraftian.
I'll look out for AHAB. There is an excellent French band by the name of ASMOROD who did a great album entitled "Involution Towards Chthonian Depths". Excellent, evocative music involving some AI CTHULHU FHTAGN chanting.
Which is nice.
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Post by luxcthonis on Aug 31, 2007 10:09:47 GMT -6
"But as in landlessness alone resides the highest truth, shoreless, indefinite as God~so, better is it to perish in that howling infinite, than to be ingloriously dashed upon the lee, even if that were safety! For worm-like, then, oh! who would craven crawl to land! Terrors of the terrible! is all agony so vain? Take heart, take heart, O Bulkington! Bear thee grimly demigod! Up from the spray of thy ocean-perishing~straight up, leaps thy apotheosis!" -quote from Moby Dick, Chapter 23 "The Lee Shore," final paragraph.
(Moby Dick could be a "manifestation" of Cthulhu in the form of a white whale?) -M.
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