Thanks for your work on the Tuckerman article. I had never heard of this guy, and you have doen a good job on the earticle.
I just changed a bunch of links from generic last names to full names, which is part of the process we call process we call " disambiguation" (a truly ugly neologism.) I'm fairly sure I picked the correct names in all cases, but please check Bryant. Did you mean William Cullen Bryant, or John Delavau Bryant? For your future refrence, you can create a dab link by using "pipe syntax." for example, [[William Cullen Bryant|Bryant]] displays as Bryant but links to the William Cullen Bryant page. - Arch dude ( talk) 18:24, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for your help and kind words.
DagorausWhear (
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00:09, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
Hi. I was reading your latest edit to the Godzilla page, and while it is fascinating you have to realize that not once has any of Godzilla's creators cited that book as an inspiration. Tomoyuki Tanaka was the man who created Godzilla and he cited King Kong and The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms as his influences. He wanted to make a giant monster film ever since he saw King Kong breaking box offices records in Japan in 1933. When he was able to get his project off the ground at Toho he even stated, "I want to make a movie where a big monster attacks Japan the same way King Kong attacked New York". In fact one of the early designs for Godzilla was a creature that was more simain looking than reptilain. He was also inspired by The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms after he read about the movie in a trade magazine and was marvelling at its box office success. Giantdevilfish ( talk) 18:57, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
The reasons I included the edit were that the resemblance was so striking and the book cited was a very popular serial and novel in Japan. Plenty of creative artists willfully avoid naming certain sources of inspiration -- the old "Anxiety of Influence" thing a la Harold Bloom -- so that does not preclude it being an inspiration. If it had been written by a Russian and was circulated in samizdat form, the stretch I was taking would be inexcusable. Do you feel it has no value in this article, or could it be titled differently?
Something like "Resemblance of monster concept to fantasy segment in popular Japanese literary work of the 1920s and 1930s"? Please advise. DagorausWhear ( talk) 07:58, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the advice. "Possible influences" are part of the intellectual activity of even the highest brands of "scholarship", so I would like to leave it in with the added qualifications you recommended. It is a commonplace in literary scholarship for poets and prose writers to willfully avoid making mention of certain influences. So, I do not believe that it is beyond the realm of possibility that the creator of a Japanese monster movie could do the same. Thanks again for your help. DagorausWhear ( talk) 14:41, 4 December 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for your work on the Tuckerman article. I had never heard of this guy, and you have doen a good job on the earticle.
I just changed a bunch of links from generic last names to full names, which is part of the process we call process we call " disambiguation" (a truly ugly neologism.) I'm fairly sure I picked the correct names in all cases, but please check Bryant. Did you mean William Cullen Bryant, or John Delavau Bryant? For your future refrence, you can create a dab link by using "pipe syntax." for example, [[William Cullen Bryant|Bryant]] displays as Bryant but links to the William Cullen Bryant page. - Arch dude ( talk) 18:24, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for your help and kind words.
DagorausWhear (
talk)
00:09, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
Hi. I was reading your latest edit to the Godzilla page, and while it is fascinating you have to realize that not once has any of Godzilla's creators cited that book as an inspiration. Tomoyuki Tanaka was the man who created Godzilla and he cited King Kong and The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms as his influences. He wanted to make a giant monster film ever since he saw King Kong breaking box offices records in Japan in 1933. When he was able to get his project off the ground at Toho he even stated, "I want to make a movie where a big monster attacks Japan the same way King Kong attacked New York". In fact one of the early designs for Godzilla was a creature that was more simain looking than reptilain. He was also inspired by The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms after he read about the movie in a trade magazine and was marvelling at its box office success. Giantdevilfish ( talk) 18:57, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
The reasons I included the edit were that the resemblance was so striking and the book cited was a very popular serial and novel in Japan. Plenty of creative artists willfully avoid naming certain sources of inspiration -- the old "Anxiety of Influence" thing a la Harold Bloom -- so that does not preclude it being an inspiration. If it had been written by a Russian and was circulated in samizdat form, the stretch I was taking would be inexcusable. Do you feel it has no value in this article, or could it be titled differently?
Something like "Resemblance of monster concept to fantasy segment in popular Japanese literary work of the 1920s and 1930s"? Please advise. DagorausWhear ( talk) 07:58, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the advice. "Possible influences" are part of the intellectual activity of even the highest brands of "scholarship", so I would like to leave it in with the added qualifications you recommended. It is a commonplace in literary scholarship for poets and prose writers to willfully avoid making mention of certain influences. So, I do not believe that it is beyond the realm of possibility that the creator of a Japanese monster movie could do the same. Thanks again for your help. DagorausWhear ( talk) 14:41, 4 December 2010 (UTC)