Talk:The 7th Voyage of Sinbad

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External Links?
I'm new to Wikipedia and wish to discuss the proper use of an external link on film sites including this one.

Is it permitted to enclose an external link for a site where the film in question is reviewed and presented? The external link points to a site run by a published film writer, director, actor and television personality in Tokyo, Japan (English language).

I am trying to keep the link to The Cinemated Man alive and well because it is informative, useful and the author is a recognized authority.

But each day the links are removed under the guise of 'personal website'. The Cinemated Man site is published by blogspot and the editors are removing it for that reason or claiming the edit is 'spam'.

First of all, it is clearly not spam.

Secondly, even though is is published by blogspot, it is not a daily blog but rather a film review and presentation site. The site is non profit and contains no ads of any kind - not even ad sense, it is informational and is not a 'social networking' entity such as Myspace or Facebook.

Finally, the inclusion of The Cinemated Man link on Wikipedia is a helpful resource for those interested in the films in question. Keeping the link alive can only add to the wealth of resources at Wikipedia. Deleting it can only narrow Wiki's scope.

Also, the external links to Google Video, which has the film in its entirety are also being removed by the same editors for the same reasons. Humbleradio (talk) 01:37, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

The cyclops
I have altered part of the reference to this creature, because the original text had incorrectly asserted that the beast's goat legs and cloven hoves are based upon the ymir (the monster featured in the film 20 Million Miles To Earth). Whilst the cyclops featured in the 7th Voyage certainly did have some attributes which were similar to the ymir, the latter did not possess any of these particular features. As anyone with a rudimantary knowledge of Greek mythology knows, the goat's legs and cloven hoves of the cyclops were lifted directly from the god Pam. This was part of a deliberate attempt by Harryhausen to make the cyclops more 'beast' and less 'humanoid' than the original cyclops featured in Greek mythology. This is in accordance with his decision to make his version of the cyclops incapable of speech, a characteristic which was necessary in order to fit in with the film's plot. (In the original Greek tale, the cyclops does speak). Multiculturalist (talk) 16:51, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Pam? Surely you mean Pan :-) By the way, the acting in this film is horrible. It's as if all the actors are reading their lines from a teleprompter. 173.174.85.204 (talk) 21:36, 4 September 2016 (UTC)Eric

The Score
I have added a brief section about this, because the music Bernard Herrmann composed for The 7th Voyage of Sinbad is really quite highly acclaimed among fans of this genre of film. (If you click on 'Bernard Herrmann' you will see that he did, indeed, compose the score for this film - although most of his Wikipedia article concentrates on his collaboration with Alfred Hitchcock). I hope no one will revert this - as it is hardly contentious - but I cannot find a definitive internet reference for the fact that Harryhausen regards Herrmann's score for the 7th Voyage as being his personal favourite. I may have read this in his tome "The Film Fantasy Scrapbook" but the reference certainly exists somewhere - and Harryhausen's comment was along the lines of "It was Herrmann's finest score, certainly out of the ones he composed for us" ("us" being himself and producer Charles H Schneer). The importance of the score for this film cannot be underestimated - it really does give the movie an extra dimension, and many Harryhausen fans regard the melodic sequences of the prelude as fitting perfectly with the naive drawings which feature in the main title (and which were designed to convey the mythology of the film's storyline). Since the original motion picture soundtrack was released in 1958, a number of renditions (or 'cover versions' if you prefer) have been made of the score. Multiculturalist (talk) 17:38, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

Have just checked out the Wikipedia entry for Jason and the Argonauts and it transpires that it does actually contain a larger and more detailed section devoted to the score than the one I have added here for the 7th Voyage. This, I would contend, vindicates the notion that the 7th Voyage should have a section devoted to its soundtrack. The Argonauts article correctly identifies the fact that that was Harryhausen's personal favourite as an overall film - but his personal favourite SCORE was certainly the 7th Voyage. Multiculturalist (talk) 18:04, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

Have now further expanded this section together with citation. Multiculturalist (talk) 12:19, 18 February 2011 (UTC)

Film genre
Shall we call The 7th Voyage of Sinbad an action-adventure fantasy film or is that just fine as is? --TMProofreader (talk) 19:09, 29 July 2020 (UTC)