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Inspired by the works of Willis O'Brien (''Film/TheLostWorld'' and ''Film/{{King Kong|1933}}'' most notably), he became the most prominent StopMotion animator in the film industry from TheFifties all the way to TheEighties and worked on such classics as ''Film/JasonAndTheArgonauts'', ''Film/{{Clash of the Titans|1981}}'', three ''Literature/SinbadTheSailor'' films (''Film/The7thVoyageOfSinbad'', ''Film/TheGoldenVoyageOfSinbad'' and ''Film/SinbadAndTheEyeOfTheTiger''), as well as some of the most notable UsefulNotes/{{dinosaur|s}} films of the pre-''Film/JurassicPark'' era. A lesser known fact: most of the settings in these films were made using [[MatteShot matte painting]], another visual effect technique he was a master of.
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Inspired by the works of Willis O'Brien (''Film/TheLostWorld'' and ''Film/{{King Kong|1933}}'' most notably), he became the most prominent StopMotion animator in the film industry from TheFifties all the way to TheEighties and worked on such classics as ''Film/JasonAndTheArgonauts'', ''Film/{{Clash of the Titans|1981}}'', three ''Literature/SinbadTheSailor'' films (''Film/The7thVoyageOfSinbad'', ''Film/TheGoldenVoyageOfSinbad'' and ''Film/SinbadAndTheEyeOfTheTiger''), as well as some of the most notable UsefulNotes/{{dinosaur|s}} films of the pre-''Film/JurassicPark'' era. A lesser known fact: most of the settings in these films were made using [[MatteShot matte painting]], another visual effect technique he was a master of.\n
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* ''Film/TheThreeWorldsOfGulliver'' - An adaptation of ''Literature/GulliversTravels''.
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* ''Film/SinbadAndTheEyeOfTheTiger'' - The last of Harryhausen's Sinbad movies. Sinbad goes to a LostWorld and battles a giant saber toothed cat. There's also a prince who is turning into a baboon and a gigantic, good-natured [[FrazettaMan "troglodyte"]], the latter of whom is often considered one of Ray's most sympathetic and appealing creations.
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* ''Film/SinbadAndTheEyeOfTheTiger'' - The last of Harryhausen's Sinbad movies. Sinbad goes to a LostWorld and battles a giant saber toothed cat. There's also a prince who is turning got turned into a baboon and a gigantic, good-natured [[FrazettaMan "troglodyte"]], the latter of whom is often considered one of Ray's most sympathetic and appealing creations.
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* ''Film/{{Clash of the Titans|1981}}'' - Ray's swan song, featuring his last act in the Medusa battle done by flickering firelight. The complexity of that scene wows FX artists to this day. Also the film in which Sir Creator/LaurenceOlivier gives the memorable order to "release the [[KrakenAndLeviathan kraken]]".
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* ''Film/{{Clash of the Titans|1981}}'' - Ray's swan song, featuring his last act in the Medusa {{Medusa}} battle done by flickering firelight. The complexity of that scene wows FX artists to this day. Also the film in which Sir Creator/LaurenceOlivier gives the memorable order to "release the [[KrakenAndLeviathan kraken]]".
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* ''Film/SpyKids2IslandOfLostDreams'' has a skeleton army too; the island itself, full of creatures of varying sizes and natures, wouldn't be out of place in the Harryhausen canon either. Although most of it is done with CGI, it's CGI that is designed to capture the look of stop motion.
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* ''Film/SpyKids2IslandOfLostDreams'' has a skeleton army too; the island itself, full of creatures of varying sizes and natures, wouldn't be out of place in the Harryhausen canon either. Although most of it is done with CGI, it's CGI that is [[{{retraux}} designed to capture the look of stop motion.motion]].
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* ''Film/OneMillionYearsBC'' - A [[OneMillionBC cavemen-and-dinosaurs movie]] often noted more for Raquel Welch as a NubileSavage in a FurBikini than for Ray's special effects. But they're very good effects. Supposedly, the Archelon model had a lot of critics complaining that Harryhausen used [[{{Slurpasaur}} a real turtle]]. A remake of the 1940 film ''One Million Years B.C.'' which ''did'' use real animals and is generally considered to be not as good.
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* ''Film/OneMillionYearsBC'' - A [[OneMillionBC [[HollywoodPrehistory cavemen-and-dinosaurs movie]] often noted more for Raquel Welch as a NubileSavage in a FurBikini than for Ray's special effects. But they're very good effects. Supposedly, the Archelon model had a lot of critics complaining that Harryhausen used [[{{Slurpasaur}} a real turtle]]. A remake of the 1940 film ''One Million Years B.C.'' which ''did'' use real animals and is generally considered to be not as good.
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* DemBones: The hero fighting animated skeletons only comes up in two of his movies -- ''Film/The7thVoyageOfSinbad'' and ''Film/JasonAndTheArgonauts'' -- but it's become one of his trademarks. The ghouls scene from ''Film/SinbadAndTheEyeOfTheTiger'' is close in spirit since these creatures have visible ribcages.
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* DemBones: The hero fighting animated skeletons only comes up in two of his movies -- ''Film/The7thVoyageOfSinbad'' and ''Film/JasonAndTheArgonauts'' -- but it's become one of his trademarks. The ghouls [[OurGhoulsAreCreepier ghouls]] scene from ''Film/SinbadAndTheEyeOfTheTiger'' is close in spirit since these creatures have visible ribcages.ribcages and are seemingly impervious to being stabbed.
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* DemBones: The hero fighting animated skeletons only comes up in two of his movies (one in ''Film/The7thVoyageOfSinbad'' and several in ''Film/JasonAndTheArgonauts'') but it's become one of his trademarks. No Harryhausen homage is complete without a sword-wielding skeleton or two.
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* DemBones: The hero fighting animated skeletons only comes up in two of his movies (one in -- ''Film/The7thVoyageOfSinbad'' and several in ''Film/JasonAndTheArgonauts'') ''Film/JasonAndTheArgonauts'' -- but it's become one of his trademarks. No Harryhausen homage The ghouls scene from ''Film/SinbadAndTheEyeOfTheTiger'' is complete without a sword-wielding skeleton or two.close in spirit since these creatures have visible ribcages.
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* ''Film/MysteriousIsland'' - Sequel to ''20,000 Leagues Under the Sea''. Charles Shneer threw in [[AttackOfThe50footWhatever various giant animals]] to give Harryhausen something more to do.
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* ''Film/MysteriousIsland'' - Sequel to ''20,000 Leagues Under the Sea''. Charles Shneer threw in [[AttackOfThe50footWhatever [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever various giant animals]] to give Harryhausen something more to do.
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* The skeleton fight between Brendan Fraser and a bunch of skeletons in ''[[Film/TheMummy1999 The Mummy]]'' is acknowledged by the director and art department as a deliberate tribute and throwback to ''Jason and the Argonauts'', right down to looking ever so slightly slapstick.
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Inspired by the works of Willis O'Brien (''Film/TheLostWorld'' and ''Film/{{King Kong|1933}}'' most notably), he became the most prominent StopMotion animator in the film industry from TheFifties all the way to TheEighties and worked on such classics as ''Film/JasonAndTheArgonauts'', ''Film/{{Clash of the Titans|1981}}'', three ''Literature/SinbadTheSailor'' films (''Film/The7thVoyageOfSinbad'', ''Film/TheGoldenVoyageOfSinbad'' and ''Film/SinbadAndTheEyeOfTheTiger''), as well as some of the most notable dinosaur films of the pre-''Film/JurassicPark'' era. A lesser known fact: most of the settings in these films were made using [[MatteShot matte painting]], another visual effect technique he was a master of.
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Inspired by the works of Willis O'Brien (''Film/TheLostWorld'' and ''Film/{{King Kong|1933}}'' most notably), he became the most prominent StopMotion animator in the film industry from TheFifties all the way to TheEighties and worked on such classics as ''Film/JasonAndTheArgonauts'', ''Film/{{Clash of the Titans|1981}}'', three ''Literature/SinbadTheSailor'' films (''Film/The7thVoyageOfSinbad'', ''Film/TheGoldenVoyageOfSinbad'' and ''Film/SinbadAndTheEyeOfTheTiger''), as well as some of the most notable dinosaur UsefulNotes/{{dinosaur|s}} films of the pre-''Film/JurassicPark'' era. A lesser known fact: most of the settings in these films were made using [[MatteShot matte painting]], another visual effect technique he was a master of.
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* ''Film/TheAnimalWorld'' - Started as a Documentary about life, but the StopMotion [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs dinosaurs]] stole the show. It also reunited Harryhausen with his idol Willis O'Brien.
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* ''Film/TheValleyOfGwangi'' - [[TheWestern Cowboys]] [[CoolVersusAwesome versus]] [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs Dinosaurs]], noted for the epic scene where the cowboys rope Gwangi himself, a vicious Allosaurus.
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* ''Film/TheValleyOfGwangi'' - [[TheWestern Cowboys]] [[CoolVersusAwesome versus]] [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs versus Dinosaurs]], noted for the epic scene where the cowboys rope Gwangi himself, a vicious Allosaurus.
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* ''Film/TheBeastFromTwentyThousandFathoms'' - While not the first [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever monster to attack a city]], it was the first monster to be [[NuclearNasty created by The Bomb]]. [[InNameOnly Very loosely based]] on the short story of the same name by Harryhausen's friend and fellow guy-named-Ray, Creator/RayBradbury. Because of the movie's success and only vague connection to the story, Bradbury renamed his work "The Fog Horn" to differentiate the two.
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* ''Film/TheBeastFromTwentyThousandFathoms'' - While not the first [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever monster to attack a city]], it was the first monster to be [[NuclearNasty [[NuclearMutant created by The Bomb]]. [[InNameOnly Very loosely based]] on the short story of the same name by Harryhausen's friend and fellow guy-named-Ray, Creator/RayBradbury. Because of the movie's success and only vague connection to the story, Bradbury renamed his work "The Fog Horn" to differentiate the two.
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These {{adventure}} / {{fantasy}} movies would often be more [[StarringSpecialEffects showcases for Harryhausen's talent than anything else]], but this is [[JustHereForGodzilla reason enough to watch them]]. The man has inspired many special effects artists to this day.
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* ''The Animal World'' - Started as a Documentary about life, but the StopMotion [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs dinosaurs]] stole the show. It also reunited Harryhausen with his idol Willis O'Brien.
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Inspired by the works of Willis O'Brien (''Film/TheLostWorld'' and ''Film/{{King Kong|1933}}'' most notably), he became the most prominent StopMotion animator in the film industry from TheFifties all the way to TheEighties and worked on such classics as ''Film/JasonAndTheArgonauts'', ''Film/{{Clash of the Titans|1981}}'', three ''Sinbad'' films (''Film/The7thVoyageOfSinbad'', ''Film/TheGoldenVoyageOfSinbad'' and ''Film/SinbadAndTheEyeOfTheTiger''), as well as some of the most notable dinosaur films of the pre-''Film/JurassicPark'' era. A lesser known fact: most of the settings in these films were made using [[MatteShot matte painting]], another visual effect technique he was a master of.
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Inspired by the works of Willis O'Brien (''Film/TheLostWorld'' and ''Film/{{King Kong|1933}}'' most notably), he became the most prominent StopMotion animator in the film industry from TheFifties all the way to TheEighties and worked on such classics as ''Film/JasonAndTheArgonauts'', ''Film/{{Clash of the Titans|1981}}'', three ''Sinbad'' ''Literature/SinbadTheSailor'' films (''Film/The7thVoyageOfSinbad'', ''Film/TheGoldenVoyageOfSinbad'' and ''Film/SinbadAndTheEyeOfTheTiger''), as well as some of the most notable dinosaur films of the pre-''Film/JurassicPark'' era. A lesser known fact: most of the settings in these films were made using [[MatteShot matte painting]], another visual effect technique he was a master of.
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These {{adventure}} movies would often be more [[StarringSpecialEffects showcases for Harryhausen's talent than anything else]], and they had several similarities:
* {{Fantasy}} plots: ''Jason'' and ''Clash'' are both adapted from Myth/ClassicalMythology, the ''Sinbad'' movies come from [[ArabianNightsDays Arabian myths]][[note]](with some classical mythology monsters thrown in the mix; the Islamic Golden Age was heavily influenced by Greek ideas)[[/note]] and ''Film/OneMillionYearsBC'' is set in a [[ArtisticLicensePaleontology prehistorical world where humans and dinosaurs coexist]].
** TheQuest: In the Greek Mythology films and ''Sinbad'' films especially, the heroes embark on a journey to find magical artifacts.
** {{Evil Sorcerer}}s as enemies.
* Monster {{Behemoth Battle}}s:
** ''Film/TwentyMillionMilesToEarth'' (1957) - Alien/elephant battle
** ''Film/The7thVoyageOfSinbad'' (1958) - Cyclops/dragon battle
** ''Film/OneMillionYearsBC'' (1966) - Carnosaur/ceratopsian battle and pterosaur/pterosaur battle
** ''Film/TheValleyOfGwangi'' (1969) - Allosaurus/styracosaurus battle, and later the same Allosaurus fights an elephant
** ''Film/TheGoldenVoyageOfSinbad'' (1974) - Griffin/centaur battle
** ''Film/SinbadAndTheEyeOfTheTiger'' (1977) - Troglodyte/smilodon battle
* [[LargeHam Hammy acting]], the [[EvilIsHammy villains in particular]].
* {{Classically Trained Extra}}s: [[Creator/LaurenceOlivier Sir Laurence Olivier]] and Creator/MaggieSmith were both in ''Clash of the Titans''. Why? {{Awesome|Dear Boy}} / MoneyDearBoy.
* [[MsFanservice Gorgeous actresses]]: Creator/RaquelWelch in ''Film/OneMillionYearsBC'', Creator/CarolineMunro in ''The Golden Voyage of Sinbad'', Creator/JaneSeymourActress and Taryn Power in ''Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger''... and really, Creator/MaggieSmith fits here too.
* MonumentalDamage: Harryhausen helped to codify this trope in a few of his earlier films, with ''Film/TheBeastFromTwentyThousandFathoms'' climaxing in the destruction of the Coney Island amusement park, ''Film/ItCameFromBeneathTheSea'''s SignatureScene being the Golden Gate Bridge getting pulled into the sea, and ''Film/EarthVsTheFlyingSaucers'' showing a saucer crashing into the Washington Monument and the Supreme Court dome.
* TheHero getting into {{sword fight}}s with [[DemBones skeletons]]: only comes up in two of his movies (''Film/The7thVoyageOfSinbad'' and especially ''Film/JasonAndTheArgonauts'') but it's become one of his trademarks. No Harryhausen homage is complete without a sword-wielding skeleton or two.
* {{Fantasy}} plots: ''Jason'' and ''Clash'' are both adapted from Myth/ClassicalMythology, the ''Sinbad'' movies come from [[ArabianNightsDays Arabian myths]][[note]](with some classical mythology monsters thrown in the mix; the Islamic Golden Age was heavily influenced by Greek ideas)[[/note]] and ''Film/OneMillionYearsBC'' is set in a [[ArtisticLicensePaleontology prehistorical world where humans and dinosaurs coexist]].
** TheQuest: In the Greek Mythology films and ''Sinbad'' films especially, the heroes embark on a journey to find magical artifacts.
** {{Evil Sorcerer}}s as enemies.
* Monster {{Behemoth Battle}}s:
** ''Film/TwentyMillionMilesToEarth'' (1957) - Alien/elephant battle
** ''Film/The7thVoyageOfSinbad'' (1958) - Cyclops/dragon battle
** ''Film/OneMillionYearsBC'' (1966) - Carnosaur/ceratopsian battle and pterosaur/pterosaur battle
** ''Film/TheValleyOfGwangi'' (1969) - Allosaurus/styracosaurus battle, and later the same Allosaurus fights an elephant
** ''Film/TheGoldenVoyageOfSinbad'' (1974) - Griffin/centaur battle
** ''Film/SinbadAndTheEyeOfTheTiger'' (1977) - Troglodyte/smilodon battle
* [[LargeHam Hammy acting]], the [[EvilIsHammy villains in particular]].
* {{Classically Trained Extra}}s: [[Creator/LaurenceOlivier Sir Laurence Olivier]] and Creator/MaggieSmith were both in ''Clash of the Titans''. Why? {{Awesome|Dear Boy}} / MoneyDearBoy.
* [[MsFanservice Gorgeous actresses]]: Creator/RaquelWelch in ''Film/OneMillionYearsBC'', Creator/CarolineMunro in ''The Golden Voyage of Sinbad'', Creator/JaneSeymourActress and Taryn Power in ''Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger''... and really, Creator/MaggieSmith fits here too.
* MonumentalDamage: Harryhausen helped to codify this trope in a few of his earlier films, with ''Film/TheBeastFromTwentyThousandFathoms'' climaxing in the destruction of the Coney Island amusement park, ''Film/ItCameFromBeneathTheSea'''s SignatureScene being the Golden Gate Bridge getting pulled into the sea, and ''Film/EarthVsTheFlyingSaucers'' showing a saucer crashing into the Washington Monument and the Supreme Court dome.
* TheHero getting into {{sword fight}}s with [[DemBones skeletons]]: only comes up in two of his movies (''Film/The7thVoyageOfSinbad'' and especially ''Film/JasonAndTheArgonauts'') but it's become one of his trademarks. No Harryhausen homage is complete without a sword-wielding skeleton or two.
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These {{adventure}} movies would often be more [[StarringSpecialEffects showcases for Harryhausen's talent than anything else]], and they had several similarities:
* {{Fantasy}} plots: ''Jason'' and ''Clash'' are both adapted from Myth/ClassicalMythology, the ''Sinbad'' movies come from [[ArabianNightsDays Arabian myths]][[note]](with some classical mythology monsters thrown in the mix; the Islamic Golden Age was heavily influenced by Greek ideas)[[/note]] and ''Film/OneMillionYearsBC'' is set in a [[ArtisticLicensePaleontology prehistorical world where humans and dinosaurs coexist]].
** TheQuest: In the Greek Mythology films and ''Sinbad'' films especially, the heroes embark on a journey to find magical artifacts.
** {{Evil Sorcerer}}s as enemies.
* Monster {{Behemoth Battle}}s:
** ''Film/TwentyMillionMilesToEarth'' (1957) - Alien/elephant battle
** ''Film/The7thVoyageOfSinbad'' (1958) - Cyclops/dragon battle
** ''Film/OneMillionYearsBC'' (1966) - Carnosaur/ceratopsian battle and pterosaur/pterosaur battle
** ''Film/TheValleyOfGwangi'' (1969) - Allosaurus/styracosaurus battle, and later the same Allosaurus fights an elephant
** ''Film/TheGoldenVoyageOfSinbad'' (1974) - Griffin/centaur battle
** ''Film/SinbadAndTheEyeOfTheTiger'' (1977) - Troglodyte/smilodon battle
* [[LargeHam Hammy acting]], the [[EvilIsHammy villains in particular]].
* {{Classically Trained Extra}}s: [[Creator/LaurenceOlivier Sir Laurence Olivier]] and Creator/MaggieSmith were both in ''Clash of the Titans''. Why? {{Awesome|Dear Boy}} / MoneyDearBoy.
* [[MsFanservice Gorgeous actresses]]: Creator/RaquelWelch in ''Film/OneMillionYearsBC'', Creator/CarolineMunro in ''The Golden Voyage of Sinbad'', Creator/JaneSeymourActress and Taryn Power in ''Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger''... and really, Creator/MaggieSmith fits here too.
* MonumentalDamage: Harryhausen helped to codifythis trope in a few of his earlier films, with ''Film/TheBeastFromTwentyThousandFathoms'' climaxing in the destruction of the Coney Island amusement park, ''Film/ItCameFromBeneathTheSea'''s SignatureScene being the Golden Gate Bridge getting pulled into the sea, and ''Film/EarthVsTheFlyingSaucers'' showing a saucer crashing into the Washington Monument and the Supreme Court dome.
* TheHero getting into {{sword fight}}s with [[DemBones skeletons]]: only comes up in two of his movies (''Film/The7thVoyageOfSinbad'' and especially ''Film/JasonAndTheArgonauts'') but it's become one of his trademarks. No Harryhausen homageis complete without a sword-wielding skeleton or two.
[[JustHereForGodzilla reason enough to watch them]].
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* {{Fantasy}} plots: ''Jason'' and ''Clash'' are both adapted from Myth/ClassicalMythology, the ''Sinbad'' movies come from [[ArabianNightsDays Arabian myths]][[note]](with some classical mythology monsters thrown in the mix; the Islamic Golden Age was heavily influenced by Greek ideas)[[/note]] and ''Film/OneMillionYearsBC'' is set in a [[ArtisticLicensePaleontology prehistorical world where humans and dinosaurs coexist]].
** TheQuest: In the Greek Mythology films and ''Sinbad'' films especially, the heroes embark on a journey to find magical artifacts.
** {{Evil Sorcerer}}s as enemies.
* Monster {{Behemoth Battle}}s:
** ''Film/TwentyMillionMilesToEarth'' (1957) - Alien/elephant battle
** ''Film/The7thVoyageOfSinbad'' (1958) - Cyclops/dragon battle
** ''Film/OneMillionYearsBC'' (1966) - Carnosaur/ceratopsian battle and pterosaur/pterosaur battle
** ''Film/TheValleyOfGwangi'' (1969) - Allosaurus/styracosaurus battle, and later the same Allosaurus fights an elephant
** ''Film/TheGoldenVoyageOfSinbad'' (1974) - Griffin/centaur battle
** ''Film/SinbadAndTheEyeOfTheTiger'' (1977) - Troglodyte/smilodon battle
* [[LargeHam Hammy acting]], the [[EvilIsHammy villains in particular]].
* {{Classically Trained Extra}}s: [[Creator/LaurenceOlivier Sir Laurence Olivier]] and Creator/MaggieSmith were both in ''Clash of the Titans''. Why? {{Awesome|Dear Boy}} / MoneyDearBoy.
* [[MsFanservice Gorgeous actresses]]: Creator/RaquelWelch in ''Film/OneMillionYearsBC'', Creator/CarolineMunro in ''The Golden Voyage of Sinbad'', Creator/JaneSeymourActress and Taryn Power in ''Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger''... and really, Creator/MaggieSmith fits here too.
* MonumentalDamage: Harryhausen helped to codify
* TheHero getting into {{sword fight}}s with [[DemBones skeletons]]: only comes up in two of his movies (''Film/The7thVoyageOfSinbad'' and especially ''Film/JasonAndTheArgonauts'') but it's become one of his trademarks. No Harryhausen homage
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* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: ''Film/OneMillionYearsBC'' is set in a prehistorical world where humans and dinosaurs coexist.
* BehemothBattle: There's very often more than one monster in his films, and some can end up fighting each other to the death.
** ''Film/TwentyMillionMilesToEarth'' (1957) - Alien/elephant battle
** ''Film/The7thVoyageOfSinbad'' (1958) - Cyclops/dragon battle
** ''Film/OneMillionYearsBC'' (1966) - Carnosaur/ceratopsian battle and pterosaur/pterosaur battle
** ''Film/TheValleyOfGwangi'' (1969) - Allosaurus/styracosaurus battle, and later the same Allosaurus fights an elephant
** ''Film/TheGoldenVoyageOfSinbad'' (1974) - Griffin/centaur battle
** ''Film/SinbadAndTheEyeOfTheTiger'' (1977) - Troglodyte/smilodon battle
* DemBones: The hero fighting animated skeletons only comes up in two of his movies (one in ''Film/The7thVoyageOfSinbad'' and several in ''Film/JasonAndTheArgonauts'') but it's become one of his trademarks. No Harryhausen homage is complete without a sword-wielding skeleton or two.
* EvilIsHammy: Expect the villains (the EvilSorcerer kind especially) to be grandiose.
* {{Fantasy}}: ''Jason'' and ''Clash'' are both adapted from Myth/ClassicalMythology, the ''Sinbad'' movies come from [[ArabianNightsDays Arabian myths]][[note]](with some classical mythology monsters thrown in the mix; the Islamic Golden Age was heavily influenced by Greek ideas)[[/note]].
* MonumentalDamage: Harryhausen helped codifying this trope in a few of his earlier films, with ''Film/TheBeastFromTwentyThousandFathoms'' climaxing in the destruction of the Coney Island amusement park (that film directly inspired ''Film/{{Godzilla|1954}}'', besides), ''Film/ItCameFromBeneathTheSea'''s SignatureScene being the Golden Gate Bridge getting pulled into the sea, and ''Film/EarthVsTheFlyingSaucers'' showing a saucer crashing into the Washington Monument and the Supreme Court dome.
* MsFanservice: There were some gorgeous actresses to accompany the heroes with {{Fanservice}}-filled outfits such as Creator/RaquelWelch in ''Film/OneMillionYearsBC'', Creator/CarolineMunro in ''The Golden Voyage of Sinbad'', Creator/JaneSeymourActress and Taryn Power in ''Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger''.
* TheQuest: In the Greek mythology-based films and ''Sinbad'' films especially, the heroes embark on a journey to find magical artifacts and battle an EvilSorcerer.
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* The giant stone heads at the very beginning of Capcom's ''VideoGame/LegendaryWings'' are similar to the head of the Talos statue in ''Jason and the Argonauts'', including the way they turn around.
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* The horned cyclops appears in ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'''s "Imaginationland" trilogy among the evil imaginary characters.
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* Harryhausen had an upscale restaurant named after him in Creator/{{Pixar}}'s ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc''.
* Speaking of Shout Outs, two stop-motion films that came out in the same year had the exact same nod to the man: both ''WesternAnimation/TheCurseOfTheWereRabbit'' and ''WesternAnimation/CorpseBride'' had a "Harryhausen" piano in there.
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* Harryhausen had an upscale restaurant named after him in Creator/{{Pixar}}'s ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc''.
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* Creator/PhilTippett's SurrealHorror stop-motion series ''WebVideo/MadGod'' has a statue of the cyclops show up in one scene.
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* Guys getting into {{sword fight}}s with [[DemBones skeletons]]: only comes up in two of his movies (''Film/The7thVoyageOfSinbad'' and especially ''Film/JasonAndTheArgonauts'') but it's become one of his trademarks. No Harryhausen homage is complete without a sword-wielding skeleton or two.
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* Guys TheHero getting into {{sword fight}}s with [[DemBones skeletons]]: only comes up in two of his movies (''Film/The7thVoyageOfSinbad'' and especially ''Film/JasonAndTheArgonauts'') but it's become one of his trademarks. No Harryhausen homage is complete without a sword-wielding skeleton or two.
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Raymond Frederick "Ray" Harryhausen (June 29, 1920 – May 7, 2013) was a movie visual effects pioneer and a genius in that field.
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* ''Film/SinbadAndTheEyeOfTheTiger'' - The last of Harryhausen's Sinbad movies. Sinbad goes to a LostWorld and battles a giant saber toothed cat. There's also a prince who is turning into a [[EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys baboon]] and a gigantic, good-natured [[FrazettaMan "troglodyte"]], the latter of whom is often considered one of Ray's most sympathetic and appealing creations.
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* ''Film/SinbadAndTheEyeOfTheTiger'' - The last of Harryhausen's Sinbad movies. Sinbad goes to a LostWorld and battles a giant saber toothed cat. There's also a prince who is turning into a [[EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys baboon]] baboon and a gigantic, good-natured [[FrazettaMan "troglodyte"]], the latter of whom is often considered one of Ray's most sympathetic and appealing creations.
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* [[MsFanservice Gorgeous actresses]]: Raquel Welch in ''Film/OneMillionYearsBC'', Caroline Munro in ''The Golden Voyage of Sinbad'', Jane Seymour and Taryn Power in ''Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger''... and really, Creator/MaggieSmith fits here too.
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* [[MsFanservice Gorgeous actresses]]: Raquel Welch Creator/RaquelWelch in ''Film/OneMillionYearsBC'', Caroline Munro Creator/CarolineMunro in ''The Golden Voyage of Sinbad'', Jane Seymour Creator/JaneSeymourActress and Taryn Power in ''Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger''... and really, Creator/MaggieSmith fits here too.
