Happy 90th Ray Harryhausen!

mike65

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYz1J97kdE0

Skeleton Fight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOZK4MiIMZM

Interview with Joe Dante

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYIPPvUXD1A

Museum For Monsters

pixelburp

He's still alive? Yowsers.

Happy Birthday mr. 'Hausen, I grew up on his movies (that is to say, when they were often repeated during the 80s, I'm not that old ), and he really showed how there's a certain ... cottage-industry craft missing from hollywood these days

Duggy747

This name mightn't be familiar to a lot of people but this guy was one of the most influential people of behind the scenes in art production in movies. This guy created those creepy stop-animation creatures in those old matinee films you see now on a lazy Saturday or Sunday on TV.

You'll probably already have seen a lot, if not most of his work in movies from Clash Of The Titans, Sinbad movies, Jason & The Argonauts, etc. One of his more famous bits was the infamous skeleton fight in Jason & Argonauts, it took him and his crew everyday for 4 months just to create a 3 minute segment. Back in the day when there was no green screen or digital touch ups it made the scene more alive considering every frame and movement was physically done by a person. You appreciate the work that's gone into that rather than some cheap CGI tricks.

That and they looked bizzare, just the movement of them is a bit freaky. Adds to the monster image I suppose.

I grew up watching these movies and the bits I always remembered were the monsters, they were just so fùckin' creepy!! I always admired the blending of the live actors with the animated monsters too, it took real talent from the animation artists to make it appear seamless and part of the actual physical scene!

Here's a compilation of his stuff:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9kmjW73-v4

That famous skeleton fight scene:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yYeZMx1Y7U

And the man himself talking at Jackson's King Kong remake about Clash Of The Titans being remade:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4K4I59jUTs

Real hollywood talent there, apparently he's a lovely guy too.

EDIT: Whoops, my bad. I think I'm going blind, dunno how I missed this thread. At least Mike's on the ball :pac:

Kess73

An immense talent and a genuine cinema legend.

His name on the credits of a film is a guarantee of me watching it. He is responsible for a huge amount of movie scenes that became iconic for me.

mike65

Good article here any film fan would want to have been at that event for Ray H

The Recliner

Like a few here I grew up watching movies he was involved in on TV on Saturday/Sunday afternoons

Great great movies

Sure they are dated now but some of his work stands up as being more realistic than cheapo CGI

karma_

Love all of his films. The Skeleton fight I never actually got over when I seen it as a kid, fantastic.

borov

:D:D:D
good post)))

geoffraffe

Wow, I've seen loads of his film but didn't realise he was behind the effects. He seems like a genuine guy and I completely agree with him about CGI. Jackson's King Kong will date horrendously, while I'll always love his.

Kess73

geoffraffe wrote: »

Wow, I've seen loads of his film but didn't realise he was behind the effects. He seems like a genuine guy and I completely agree with him about CGI. Jackson's King Kong will date horrendously, while I'll always love his.

He had nothing to do with the original version of King Kong. It was the film that inspired him to get into stop motion animation.


Mighty Joe Young in the late 1940's was Harryhausen's gorilla movie.