Talk:Dagon (film)

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Contents 1 Article name 2 References 3 Dagon 4 Fair use rationale for Image:Dagonmovieposter.jpg

[edit] Article name

Shouldn't this article be called Dagon (film)? Is there another movie called Dagon? Nareek 11:50, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Moved it. - LeonWhite 22:59, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] References

These seems like weak links. It seems more likely to me that the similarity of Resident Evil 4's plotline to Dagon's is simply coincidence. It's similarly unlikely for the RE remake, especally since it came out only a few months after the movie. Unless someone can provide evidence that these games were actually referencing Dagon (the movie) specifically, I'd like to remove this section shortly.

[edit] Dagon

This piece of information in the article seems suspect:

The god Dagon was simply mentioned, while in the movie it actually appears, even though it resembles the Lovecraftian god Cthulhu more than the fish-like humanoid depicted in the short story "Dagon".

If you actually read Lovecraft's short story you will find that 'the vast Polyphemus like', aquatic Dagon DOES appear and that it is NOT a 'fish-like humanoid'.

As far as I remember, Dagon doesn't appear in "The Shadow Over Innsmouth", which is the original source of the movie as it is also specified at the beginning of the article.

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Dagonmovieposter.jpg

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BetacommandBot (talk) 07:26, 2 January 2008 (UTC)