Bigfoot in popular culture

Bigfoot or Sasquatch, is an alleged ape-like creature purportedly inhabiting forests, mainly in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. More than forty-five years have passed since the first supposed sightings of Bigfoot were reported in California. The character of Bigfoot has been used frequently in popular culture including film, TV, advertising, and literature. Bigfoot has also been the subject of several tourism campaigns.

Advertising

"Bigfoot" and "Sasquatch" are pop culture terms that have been used in advertising across many different products and services, such as pizzas, beef jerky, skateboards, skis, an Internet search engine, a computer hard drive series, gas stations, Kokanee beer, Bigfoot Shadows award winning wine[1] and a monster truck.

Films

Games

Law

Skamania County, Washington passed a law regarding Bigfoot in 1969 declaring that "any willful, wanton slaying of such creatures shall be deemed a felony" subject to substantial fine and/or imprisonment. The fact that this legislation was passed on April 1 did not escape notice, but County Commissioner Conrad Lundy said that "this is not an April Fool's Day joke ... there is reason to believe such an animal exists."[38] Hunter and Dahinden mention their own "speculation that Skamania County authorities had their ears tuned much more to the music of a publicity bandwagon than to any song of distress" for Bigfoot.[39] Notwithstanding, the ordinance was amended in 1984 to preclude an insanity defense and to consider such a killing homicide if the creature was proven by the coroner to be humanoid.[40]

Complete copies of legislation (May 2015) at http://www.skamaniacounty.org/commissioners/homepage/ordinances-2.[41]

In response to Al Magnussen from the Mt. Baker Chamber of Commerce, Whatcom County, Washington, an Agenda Bill was drafted (92-247) on 6/9/91, which unanimously passed a resolution declaring Whatcom County a Sasquatch Protection and Refuge Area.[42]

Literature

Many have written on the subject, demonstrating a broad spectrum of approaches from a small body of serious scholarly work to lurid tabloids, such as the Weekly World News. The Gwaii, published by Arcana Studio, is an award winning[43] children's graphic novel that features a sasquatch named Tanu searching for his mother and tribe in the Canadian wilderness. John Prufrock, the hero of the comic book Proof, is a Bigfoot who works for a secret agency that hunts and captures other cryptids. The comic, an ongoing series, was written by Alex Grecian and illustrated by Riley Rossmo. It was published by Image Comics from October 2007 to May 2011.[44][45] "Donations to Clarity", a 2011 novel by Noah Baird, tells the story of a Bigfoot who falls in love with a Bigfoot hoaxer.[46] In the non-canon Star Wars Tales comic "Into the Great Unknown" - in which the Millennium Falcon, after a blind hyperspace jump, crash-lands on what appears to be Endor but is in fact the Pacific Northwest around the time of Lewis and Clark, resulting in Han Solo's death at the hands of the natives and the eventual discovery of his body by Indiana Jones (who is disturbed by something "eerily familiar" about the remains) - "Sasquatch" is actually Chewbacca. One of the main characters from the Canadian Marvel Comics superhero team Alpha Flight is Sasquatch. Famed alternate history author Harry Turtledove has written a humorous Sasquatch story entitled "Typecasting" (2016), published on-line here.

Sasquatch Books is the largest publishing house in the Pacific Northwest. Its logo features a Sasquatch paw print.[47]

Music & Song

Bigfoot has been addressed in American song and music, with both songs written about and by Bigfoot enthusiasts, as well as music incorporating what are claimed to be or supposed to be recordings of Bigfoot sounds made in nature.

The song "Bigfoot" by the Winnipeg indie-rock band The Weakerthans is about the frustration and humiliation of a man who is purported to have seen a Bigfoot.

Sports

Television

Theatre

Sasquatched! The Musical is a musical play written and composed by Minnesota native Phil Darg in 2012. It follows the story of a gentle, dignified talking Sasquatch named Arthur, his interactions with the human characters of the surrounding Pacific Northwest area, and the issues revolving around Sasquatch-human relations. The style of the play is humorous, fast-moving, and family-friendly. The play was submitted as an entry to the New York Musical Theatre Festival in September 2012. In February, it was chosen as one of NYMF's Next Link selections and later received an award from the Anna Sosenko Assist Trust. In July 2013, the show was performed as part of NYMF at the Pearl Theatre in New York City.[53]

Tourism

There are annual Bigfoot-related conventions, and the creature plays a role in Pacific Northwest tourism, such as the annual "Sasquatch Daze" held for several years in Harrison Hot Springs, British Columbia. Primatologist and Bigfoot researcher John Napier commented on this, stating that "Bigfoot in some quarters of North America has become big business ... It can no longer be considered simply as a natural phenomenon that can be studied with the techniques of a naturalist; the entrepreneurs have moved in and folklore has become fakelore."[54]

See also

References

  1. "Allegheny Cellars 2007
  2. http://www.messinwithsasquatch.com Source for the commercials titled "Messin with Sasquatch"
  3. "Jacobs Photos". Retrieved 2009-09-16.
  4. Young Sasquatch? Earthfiles Podcast 10-31-07
  5. Is It Bigfoot? Hunter's Photos Ignite Debate Fox News 10-28-07
  6. $1,000,000 dollar Sasquatch photo challenge Field & Stream 05-29-08
  7. Red Robin
  8. http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/business/story.html?id=5135b667-723a-4e7f-803c-deac9bcb347f
  9. http://www.cp24.com/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20041011/sasquatch_statue_041011?hub=Calgary
  10. Snowbeast on IMDb
  11. The Capture of Bigfoot on IMDb
  12. Revenge of Bigfoot on IMDb
  13. Bigfoot (1987) on IMDb
  14. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0126848/
  15. Drawing Flies (1996)
  16. Little Bigfoot on IMDb
  17. Little Bigfoot 2: The Journey Home on IMDb
  18. Sasquatch Hunters on IMDb
  19. Ape Canyon on IMDb
  20. The Untold on IMDb(also released in the U.S. as Sasquatch)
  21. They Call Him Sasquatch on IMDb
  22. Sasquatch Hunters (2005) on IMDb
  23. The Unknown on IMDb
  24. Stomp! Shout! Scream! on IMDb
  25. Troma Releasing Better Late Than Never Bigfoot
  26. Bigfoot on IMDb
  27. Not Your Typical Bigfoot Movie on IMDb
  28. Exclusive Early Stills from Boggy Creek
  29. Trailer Jack O'Lantern headed Bigfoot flick Momo
  30. Letters from the Big Man on IMDb
  31. http://bigfootblogger.com/the-erickson-project-canadians-solve-sasquatch-mystery/
  32. The Grassman – Movie Production Blog
  33. Would Jesus Shoot Sasquatch?!? There's Something Christian in the Woods
  34. Valley of the Sasquatch
  35. Pyle, 278
  36. Hunter and Dahinden, 135-136
  37. Pyle, 279
  38. Ordinance 1969-1 and 1984-2 Skamania County, Washington.
  39. "Resolution No.92-043, Whatcom County Council, Whatcom County, Washington, 98220."
  40. Proof at ComicVine.com
  41. Proof Endangered at ComicVine.com
  42. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-11-01. Retrieved 2014-02-09.
  43. http://www.sasquatchbooks.com/
  44. NBA Media Ventures, LLC (2006). Squatch, The Sonics Mascot.
  45. vancouver2010.com
  46. https://www.youtube.com/user/guitarfingerz2112
  47. http://www.yowiehunters.com.au/
  48. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/seth-rogen-evan-goldbergs-bigfoot-609727
  49. "About Sasquatched! The Musical". Sasquatched! The Musical. Retrieved 23 July 2014.
  50. Pyle, 160.
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