I noticed the Harryhausen did this in a lot of his movies. his rocs had two heads his cyclopes had horns and goat legs his medusa had a rattlesnakes body and his centaur had green skin and (I think ) one eye. Why did he feel the need to screw around with the classic immages of these creatures? Did he ever say why?
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The caveman was obviously NOT a direct ancestor of modern humans. Also, he was quite tall, much taller than any known hominids. Maybe Ray Harryhausen wanted to give the caveman a weird look and not do what the audience expected.
"Why did he feel the need to screw around with the classic images of these creatures?"
Probably it was artistic interpretation. Although I remember that he did once say that he gave his cyclops goat legs so the viewer would know that it's NOT a man in a suit playing the part. I like it, it makes the cyclops look part satyr. Besides I never met any two cyclops from two different stories to look alike. As for Medusa he wanted her to be more snake-like. Also Ray Harryhausen was not the first person to interpret these creatures from a different perspective. Judging from their artwork even the ancient Greeks had different concepts of what these beings looked like. Over the ages the satyr became less goat-like and more human in the Roman world.
He was not a caveman.. thats why! he was a troglodite, a mythical creature. the old prophet milanthius explains in the film..
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Didn't Milanthius say he was one of man's early ancestors????
BTW- Troglodyte simply means "cave-dweller" which is NOT a mythical creature. After all, how would you explain these real-life "troglodytes" that don't even live in caves????: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Chimpanzee
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Why did Trog have a horn? Well... have YOU seen Jane Seymour?
Can't believe I'm the first one to say it. Yup, I've lowered the tone. ;-)
"Why did Trog have a horn? Well... have YOU seen Jane Seymour?"
LOL...that's true. Jane is hot.
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You might have found the real answer by now, but Ray explained that he was keeping a theme to the creatures in the film. The ghouls, minaton, sabre tooth, and walrus all had accentuated horns to show a primitive side. So he continued that with Trog.
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