As a confessed movie lover, I constantly am comparing things I read to movies I’ve seen. Less than halfway through Pratchett and Gaimen’s Good Omens I have already found a few connections to movies from the last few years that I have watched numerous times.
The first movie connection is with one of my personal favorites, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, aka the 2nd Pirate movie.
On page 54, Crowley and Azriphale discuss the Kraken, a sea monster. According to Aziraphale, the Kraken is a “great big bugger… sleepth beneath the thunders of the upper deep.”
As a Pirates fan, I remember the Kraken all too well and was able to visualize this “said terrible beasty” (as Capt. Jack would call it) that Crowley and Aziraphale discussed. In the movie, the Kraken was also a great big bugger that was found in the sea. The movie also showed how fierce this sea creature was, which can be seen in the following clip. (I'm including the URL at the end in case the video doesn't embed properly)
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