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Clip description
Dr Claude Belgon (Helmut Bakaitis) watches from the shadows as Jasper Morello (Joel Edgerton) is attacked by the creature they discover on the island.
Curator’s notes
The mythical nature of the film is highlighted by Jasper’s comparison of the creature’s call to the 'fabled sirens’ whose songs drew sailors to their deaths. Claude’s lack of concern for humanity is highlighted by the dispassionate way he watches as the creature is transformed into a monster whose tentacles ensnare Jasper. Blood, a recurring motif in the film, is depicted here by the redness of the monster’s inner organs and provides one of the film’s rare usages of sharp colour contrasts, thereby heightening its drama. The clip also demonstrates Anthony Lucas’s method of combining real 3D objects such as sticks and leaves with 2D paper cut outs and drawings which are then digitally manipulated.
