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what's with the fisherman and that octopus?

posted 15 years ago by albersbrian
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Even though it's totally inconsequential to the movie, I always wondered about this-

At the 12 minute mark on my VHS copy of Bay of Blood, the scene switches from the man and woman out to the fisherman in his boat. In that very first shot of him, he's doing something to an octopus or squid. Is he trying to take a bite out of it? Trying to taste it? Later in the scene he mentions something about eating everything he catches but I doubt he means eating it raw just as he pulls it in from the depths. Just wondering.

[–] mccainda 15 years ago

Have never seen this movie. BUT, many years ago I was watching a documentary about octopi. A fisherman in some European country was fishing for them. His fishing line was a long rope with small containers attached to it at regular intervals. He would lower it into the water so that it rested on the surface. Octupi live in caves so they would seek out the containers and crawl inside. He would reel in the rope and remove the octopus. He would then bite the octopus on the head near the eyes. The narrator said that that stunned or paralyzed the octopus so that it could not crawl out of the boat. Maybe that is what the guy in the movie was doing.

Don't ask me why I remember that

[–] Cee_H 13 years ago

on the dvd they talk about it being the fishermans way of killing them when caught. Bite into its head and it'll die instantly according to the bloke.

"Get to the chopper!"

[–] Simplythebest11962 9 years ago

I wondered why he was biting the squid's head too.

Thanks, for the explanation.