Thursday, 27 December 2018

Undersea War

The film, Aquaman (see also here and here), has up-to-date cinematic special effects, including underwater battle scenes. We want to see cinema adaptations of:

the encounter with the aquatic being in "The Horn of Time the Hunter" (see here);

the fight against the aquatic monster, A'u, in "The Game of Glory" (see here);

the fight against the kraken in The Merman's Children (see here);

the exorcism of Liri and the long swim across the Atlantic in The Merman's Children (see here).

The sea, like the atmosphere and interplanetary space, is a three-dimensional environment so we can vicariously enjoy the adventures of beings free to move in three directions.

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

Just a correction about that "long swim" of the merpeople exorcised from their old home in THE MERMAN'S CHILDREN. They did not try swimming all the way to a possible new home. Rather, their king seized a human ship named (in English by, rather than the Latin) the "Most Precious Blood." It was not practical for the merpeople to literally swim hundreds of miles. They would need a shelter on which to rest. And their children needed protection from harsh extremes of weather and climate.

Sean