Boisterous Bruiser: Captain Lucas is a burly man with a larger-than-life personality.Big "NO!": Kay lets out one when Gill Man tries to capture her.Beware the Nice Ones: Captain Lucas is a perfectly friendly man, but if you try to overrule his authority as captain he will pull a knife on you.There's a line suggesting that there were giant rats in the Devonian period - two hundred million years before the first mammals, give-or-take.The Gill Man, being a clawed, super strong, bipedal amphibious creature, doesn't resemble any kind of Devonian lifeform whatsoever.
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In the Novelization, he gets to say the full line and reveal exactly what that "other thing" was (specifically he voices his concern that Mark is taking advantage of Kay). And Another Thing.: During his conversation with Kay before the Gill Man escapes, Thompson says this very line but gets interrupted when the creature busts free.Alas, Poor Villain: Unusually for a '50s monster movie, the Gill Man's demise at the end of the film is portrayed as tragic.
Not to be confused with the manga and anime Black Lagoon. Universal's own Monster on the Campus also takes a few cues from Creature From the Black Lagoon. There's Monster From the Ocean Floor, The She-Creature, The Monster of Piedras Blancas, The Alligator People, Creature from the Haunted Sea, during the days of the beach party genre The Beach Girls and the Monster and The Horror of Party Beach, and Blood Waters of Dr. Many films copied the idea of Creature From the Black Lagoon, possibly more than any other Universal Horror film. There's also a musical based on it, as well as a pinball machine. The 1950s being the era of scifi, this discovery inspired the final script's origin for the creature as an aquatic lifeform from ancient times. The twist to the script's final form came when in 1952 the coelacanth was confirmed to be a thriving species still. Among others, he could've heard about the yacuruna or the boto. It is not known which creature Alland exactly heard about.
This story Alland reworked into a Beast and Beauty proto-script that would later evolve into Creature From the Black Lagoon. In 1941, producer William Alland attended a dinner party where he heard about the folklore of humanoid aquatic creatures in the Amazon River. Little do they know that a live specimen of the creature, the Gill Man (or "Devonian Man") lives in the waters, who's highly territorial, lonely and intelligent, and has no intention of letting any of them leave alive.Ĭreature From the Black Lagoon has two points of inspiration. After showing it to his colleagues at the Brazilian Marine Institute, an expedition is organized to go find the rest of the fossil. In the heart of the Brazilian Jungle, a scientist named Carl Maia finds a unique fossil which suggests an amphibious, transitional creature. Creature From the Black Lagoon is a Universal Horror film from 1954 and one of the key components of the " Universal Horror" canon.
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