I guess the Krull cyclops is a fantasy standard now?

cbwjm · 2026-03-12T00:31:11+0000

Deset Gled said:
Robbie Coltrane (Hagrid) was, too.

I guess all of these people had to start somewhere, I think I just have a set decade where I know them from and so get surprised when I see them (or hear about them being in) something from before that time.

Artamo · 2026-03-12T00:33:29+0000

cbwjm said:
I guess all of these people had to start somewhere, I think I just have a set decade where I know them from and so get surprised when I see them (or hear about them being in) something from before that time.

Even better, people forget that Liam Neeson was in Excalibur too. The guy’s been around a long time before he hit it big!

Bagpuss · 2026-03-12T00:57:32+0000

MarkB said:
I was going to look for some other material to compare, but Googling "cyclops in movies" gets around a 95% ratio of X-Men to anything else.

There was that overseer guy in the Fallout series who is basically just a normal guy with an unusual eye placement, but somehow that feels more unnatural to me - like, where's he keeping the bridge of his nose?

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Why does he have two eyebrows neither of which is above his eye?

Bagpuss · 2026-03-12T01:01:55+0000

These are from the recent Percey Jackson series on Disney+ I think it works pretty well. One is full cyclops, a giant several times larger than man while the first is only a half cyclops, and human in stature.

Deset Gled · 2026-03-12T01:33:58+0000

Bagpuss said:
These are from the recent Percey Jackson series on Disney+ I think it works pretty well. One is full cyclops, a giant several times larger than man while the first is only a half cyclops, and human in stature.

Umbran · 2026-03-12T02:17:24+0000

Deset Gled said:
So, I guess Rell the Cyclops from Krull is a bit of a fantasy standard now?

I don't think that follows. One makeup person referencing an older work does not a "standard" make.

Sacrosanct · 2026-03-12T02:23:23+0000

Deset Gled said:
Robbie Coltrane (Hagrid) was, too.

And Alun Armstrong! And Freddie Jones (although he already had a well established career by then).

Artamo said:
Even better, people forget that Liam Neeson was in Excalibur too. The guy’s been around a long time before he hit it big!

He and Helen Mirren had a fling during that movie as well. Guy has lived his life, that's for sure.

Paul Farquhar · 2026-03-12T06:50:35+0000

It all boils down to how you do your cyclops. Percy Jackson uses CGI, and shortens the bridge of the nose to make room for the central eye - the error in the Fallout cgi cyclops was not to do that. Rell is a masterpiece of how to do it with prosthetics and leave the actor able to see, so it’s not surprising it was copied. The HH stop motion cyclops is probably closest to the original myth, based around mammoth skulls. Having the advantage of not needing to map onto a human performer. The eye is relatively higher up in an enlarged forehead.

Aeson · 2026-03-12T09:39:34+0000

Artamo said:
Even better, people forget that Liam Neeson was in Excalibur too. The guy’s been around a long time before he hit it big!

And the movie Next of Kin with Patrick Swayze and Bill Paxton. If you haven't seen it, drop everything and watch it. This movie is jam packed with "he/she was in this?"

Morrus · 2026-03-12T10:27:15+0000

cbwjm said:
Wait, what? Liam Neeson was in Krull?! I guess I haven't seen the movie since the 80s/90s so there's no reason I should remember, but I had no idea.

Huh. Me too!