{"id":13464,"date":"2014-01-09T10:25:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-08T23:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/?p=13464"},"modified":"2014-01-09T14:22:03","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T03:22:03","slug":"tarzan-in-india-with-cyclops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2014\/01\/09\/tarzan-in-india-with-cyclops\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarzan In India, With Cyclops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/thecyclops3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13466\" alt=\"thecyclops3\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/thecyclops3.jpg\" width=\"852\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/thecyclops3.jpg 852w, https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/thecyclops3-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 852px) 100vw, 852px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The mythic critter Cyclops, with one eye and optional horn, has turned up a few times in the history of cinema, usually in a cameo role. Though he did take the lead, sans horn, in the not-overly-memorable <em>Cyclops<\/em> (US-2008; dir. Declan O&#8217;Brien) and once gave his name to a mad scientist who shrank people in <em>Dr. Cyclops<\/em> (US-1940; dir. Ernest B. Schoedsack), he was most notably brought to life by animation giant Ray Harryhausen in the classic <em>The 7th Voyage of Sinbad<\/em> (US-1958; dir. Nathan Juran):<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[youtube rCYfrAPEz38]<\/p>\n<p>However, it doesn&#8217;t end there. An unusual, virtually unknown cyclops also appears in the typically weird Hindi film <strong>Tarzan Aur Jadui Chirag<\/strong> [aka Tarzan and the Wonderful Lamp] (India-1966; dir.\u00a0Baboobhai Bhanji), perhaps inspired by Harryhausen&#8217;s efforts, though hairier and given an Indian ambiance. Note the three people &#8212; presumably the protagonists &#8212; who calmly sit there watching as the cyclops rampages, as though they&#8217;re referees ready to assign points&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[youtube EycxWgf03ho]<\/p>\n<p>Decent man-in-suit creature, with some very basic split-scene blend FX&#8230;. Still, I love coming across this sort of thing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Monster-Blog\/144408175674853\" target=\"_blank\">Monster! Blog <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mythic critter Cyclops, with one eye and optional horn, has turned up a few times in the history of cinema, usually in a cameo role. Though he did take the lead, sans horn, in the not-overly-memorable Cyclops (US-2008; dir. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2014\/01\/09\/tarzan-in-india-with-cyclops\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[126,4,44,63],"tags":[1294,1292,1293,118,1291],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13464"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13464"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13473,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13464\/revisions\/13473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}