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Description:
The mythological
sea monster
referred to as the
Kraken
appears frequently in
popular culture
, including
literature
,
feature films
,
television
and
video games
.
Literature
In 1830
Alfred Tennyson
published the
sonnet
The Kraken
, which described a massive creature that dwelled at the bottom of the sea. The theme was continued in
Jules Verne
's 1870 novel
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
, in which a group of
giant squid
attack the
submarine
the
Nautilus
.
John Wyndham
's 1953 novel
The Kraken Wakes
features Tennyson's poem in the preface, the story itself referring to an invasion by sea-dwelling aliens.
China MiƩville
's 2010 novel
Kraken
features a cult devoted to the worship of the creature.
Comics
Film
A version of the Kraken (a giant, four-armed scaled humanoid with scales and a fishtail) appears in the 1981 film
Clash of the Titans
and the
2010 version of the film
as a servant of the
Olympian Gods
. In 2006 a
telemovie
called
Tentacles of the Deep
featured a different variation (an atypical mouth and fangs), while the film
Dead Man's Chest
featured a more typical version of the creature that followed the commands of the equally mythical
Davy Jones
.
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