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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
i did like black lagoon, yeah, good sunday mantinee. i didn't love it, but i liked it--found many good things about it.
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I watched it again recently and if I wrote an all time top now, regardless of genre, It'd be on the list. Plenty of monster movies from that era flirted with romance but I don't think any went as far or were as convincing. Bits of it, like the scene where they swim together, are genuinely erotic.
Julia Adams was the ultimate 50s monster movie bombshell. Universal apparently insured her legs for mega $s as a publicity stunt and mostly cast her in Westerns but the publicity shots of her with the monster are some of the most iconic in all horror films.
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the monster itself didn't do a lot for me and i couldn't figure if he was intelligent or a dumbshit.
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I absolutely had no problem sympathising with him. Although you might be interested to know that he was originally designed to look more human, but test audiences didn't like it. I like him just the way he is. Had he been more human, the love-angle might've been too obvious and corny. As it is it feels more mysterious, but somehow never perverse.
There's been talk of a remake for years, with names like Guillermo Del Toro and John Carpenter mentioned. The last thing I heard was that Scarlett Johansson will play Kay. Just leave the thing alone. It's perfect in a way that no film made now could ever understand. The only director who I think would get it is Spielberg, who's apparently obsessed with it. But even so, leave it be.