Creature from the Black Lagoon
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"And nobody believes him. Then one day,
when the time came for him to go away,

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she follow him, far out into the Amazon,
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only to lose her way and be
devoured by the crocodiles."

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"Who knows? - Maybe this mermaid was
even the wife of this half-man half-fish."

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That dialogue was meant to be heard as
narration over water and jungle images.

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It would have explained the gill-man's
fascination with Julie Adams.

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I'm trying to tell the story
in chronological order,

:15:29
but I wanna jump ahead and mention
that according to Chris Mueller,

:15:32
the sculptor who sculpted
the head and hands of the gill-man,

:15:35
when Universal was making
the second Creature movie,

:15:38
there was talk of having the gill-man
and a female creature in the sequel.

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There is no female creature in the sequel,
Revenge of the Creature,

:15:45
nor have I seen a draft of the Revenge of
the Creature script that mentions one,

:15:49
and I think I've seen all of them. I guess
it was just an idea being kicked around.

:15:53
I'll talk a little more about that later.
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All the scenes in and
around Dr Maia's camp -

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the fossilised arm sticking out of the rock,
the gill-man killing the natives in the tent,

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and these digging scenes -
were shot on the Universal back lot,

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at a spot called Sierra Canyon.
A few months earlier,

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Jack Arnold shot another movie in Sierra
Canyon: It Came from Outer Space.

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Most desert exteriors for that film were
shot on location in the Mohave Desert.

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But when Richard Carlson goes into
the crater and finds the spaceship,

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those scenes were shot
here in Sierra Canyon.

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They avoided showing the water
and trees, because in that movie

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Carlson was supposedly in a crater
in the middle of the Arizona desert.

:16:39
Ernest Nims, the supervisor of the
editorial department at Universal,

:16:42
often made script suggestions.
A recommendation he made for Creature

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was for the early scene where the
gill-man's arm reached out of the Amazon

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for Julie Adams' ankle
as she stood on the riverbank.

:16:52
In a memo he asked "Is the creature
that we see in the inland water

:16:56
the same as the one in the Black Lagoon?
This will be confusing to the audience."


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