The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1974) - Battle with Kali

In one of Ray Harryhausen's most dazzling accomplishments, Sinbad and his men do battle with the six-armed goddess Kali...who brandishes a sword in each arm!

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[ZernanToledo]

This incredible scene pisses over the swordfights in the Star Wars prequels AND stars Tom Baker as an evil Arab Wizard. What more do you need?

[eddiefuzz]

Harryhausen is the undisputed master of any period in special effects. How can CGI realistically compare with this?

[revolutionpm]

yep, he was the best.

[zeiss33]

@TheTitan606

2 more swords than Grevious, and it uses all of them. I liked the Grevious scene, but it felt like they couldn't wait to disarm him and make the fight easier to choreograph.

[Friendofkong]

@wolverineminer

You dont seem to have read my post. I didn't say that fx doesn't look smoother today, just that the real reason it's better, is because people like Jackson can afford to spend tens of millions of dollars on them, and employ hundreds of technicians to do the work. No single fx artist from LORD OF THE RINGS could outdo Ray, unless he had 199 of his friends to help him.

[wolverineminer]

@Friendofkong So? I'm not knocking on Hausen by saying that, he worked wonders with what he had at the time, but if you try to convince people that Kali looks more realistic than a Mumakil, you either have a serious case of nostalgia goggles or are 15 and trying to sound sophisticated.

[Friendofkong]

@wolverineminer

Motion blur in stop-motion was possible back in the 50's, but it was too time consuming and expensive. We have smooth CGI today, not because the FX are better, but because people like Lucas and Jackson can afford to have 200 people working on them. Harryhausen did all this by himself. I'd like to see one person create all the animation for LORD OF THE RINGS, or even JURASSIC PARK.

[soujanya9288]

They show lord nataraj the avatar of lord shiva as maa kali :O,Maa kali is the mother goddess who runs the universe but not someone who listens to some evil magician,she's a compassionate mother she destroys only the evil forces ,she's not destructive to everyone she's so misunderstood by ppl of other cultures :(

[draconian45]

I use to love this scene when I was a kid.

[wolverineminer]

@eddiefuzz By moving smoothly.

[hjfgjafk2]

One of the best scenes of the movie

[wellofthesouls]

@TheBratzBirne Wow I've watched this scene probably more than a hundred times and I've never noticed the swords being different very good observation! One of all time favorite characters from Harryhausen there's something very surreal about seeing a statue come to life! thanks!