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BEACH BLANKET BIKINI BULL BINGO???
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I've had this for years in the Warner Epic Movies DVD box set...& still haven't got around to watching it yet...
Then it's not too late. Don't do this to yourself, you have everything to live for.
If somebody else mentions three-breasted women I'll be very disappointed.
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THE KAPER OF THE GOLDEN BULL
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And the idol, minus snake and scepter, was in the 1959 remake of TARZAN THE APE MAN, with Dennis Miller and Joanna Barnes.
Love that idol.
Wonder where they got the design.
So pagan-looking!
(Which is, of course, the point...)
Interestingly, the idol itself was on display in the U.S. pavilion at Expo '67, in Montreal. I know, because I saw it there. It's quite imposing. There was a whole section there devoted to the impact U.S. movies have had on world culture, and they had these little booths, where there were groups of different types of scenes from various films, in a loop, repeating for the viewer. I remember one that had spectacle sequences, like an excerpt from the chariot race in BEN-HUR, or the destruction of the temple from SAMSON AND DELILAH, things like that. Another booth showed only famous love scenes; I remember the sequence where Clark Gable carries Vivien Leigh up those steep stairs... The whole exhibition was quite impressive, but I, at the tender age of 18, was most impressed by that idol, which had its snake and scepter restored. Even though I'd only seen it in the TARZAN film, ATLANTIS, I had a great time.
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Love that idol.
Wonder where they got the design.
They got it from a cleaned-up interpretation of Moloch, the ancient Syrian and Near Eastern god to whom child sacrifices were made. A bull's head, but he actually had an oven in his belly, tastefully removed by Hollywood.
He's not Baal, the fertility thunder god, who was the consort of Ashtaroth (or Astarte) the 'divine mother' whose priests were all castrated. The idea of an emasculated priesthood goes back a long way, via Diana and Artemis to Astarte, a direct derivation.
Children were placed on the hands of the idol Moloch, and would roll into his 'belly'.
'still think he's a barrel of fun? Or even, not to be too prudish about it, a suitable titillation for a Lana Turner potboiler? It's as well it was a terrible film.
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First of all 12th and 14th century armour, and now history of idols part 3 - William you are a font of knowledge !
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First of all 12th and 14th century armour, and now history of idols part 3 - William you are a font of knowledge !
All of it totally useless.
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