From oletheros

[wolven7]

Cthulhu movie. Terrible. Fish people as a metaphor for homosexuality. The makers deon't respect the horror genre or Lovecraft's work, as a whole. Who the fuck is RUNNING things, over there, and can we make Hollywood disappear, so we can start over somewhere new?

Make it end. Don't go see this horrible film. Just... let it end.

Dear god why...

Comments

[bluesummers.livejournal.com]

On one hand, whether he deliberately meant them to be or not, most of Lovecraft's otherworldly terrors were certainly manifestations of his own bigotry and fear of racial/cultural miscegenation (which were largely dated even in his own time)...

But above that, the insistence on following only that reading - not to mention accentuating it to update that reading - does the man a grave disservice (as does the tone of this article): It neglects that Lovecraft recanted and publicly apologized for his bigotry, and that his work is (warts and all) some of the most influential and creative literature of the twentieth century.

And that's not even to touch the stupid things they seem to be doing with this film narratively. No, thanks.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Precisely. That's the thing most people who only know a little about the man tend to forget most easily: He realised that he was Wrong, and apologisd for it.

Fear of the unknown was behind even Lovecraft's bigotry, and so can be said to be the root of allhis fiction: That being said, to make that fear serve a personal agendum... well... Fuck.

I want make Hollywood GO AWAY.

[hametsunosaturn.livejournal.com]

Wow, just wow.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Exactly.