While "Malcolm" is available on Amazon Prime Video since July 15, return to the famous credits of the cult series, interspersed with many television images. What exactly do they correspond to?
Fox You've seen it about 1568 times already. But do you really know what's inside? Paced by the song of the group They Might Be Giants, the credits of Malcolm indeed alternates between sequences of the series and short extracts taken from various films, emissions or animated series (undoubtedly in reference to the fact that the characters are constantly glued in front of their TV). But where exactly do these images come from?
This giant purple turtle grappling with three female characters is taken from the film A Million Years BC, directed by Don Chaffey in 1966. It follows the adventures of Tumak, a prehistoric man confronted with a world of the most hostile and collected by the tribe of naiads.
It is in the Japanese anime Nazca, produced in 1998 by Tokita Hiroko, that we find this image. In this series of 12 episodes, apparently ordinary young high school students learned one day that they were in reality the reincarnations of powerful Inca warriors.
Hosted by Ray Harryhausen, special effects legend and founding father of stop motion, this monster is the Clash of the Titans Kraken, directed in 1981 by Desmond Davis. A great classic of the adventure film, this feature film traces the epic story of Perseus, son of Zeus, struggling with many mythological creatures.
This shot, in which a young woman appears to be about to be devoured by pterodactyls, is also from the film. A Million years BC of Don chaffey. The latter is also known for having directed Jason and the Argonauts, as well as Peter and Elliott the dragon for Disney.
This image is also taken from Japanese anime Nazca, broadcast in France on Game One in the early 2000s.
This monster comes from The Haunted Sea Creature, a relatively unknown horror comedy and directed by Roger Corman in 1961. It is about a crook in the Caribbean, seeking to make a fortune by eliminating the national treasury with the intention of attributing his crime to a sea monster . The problem being that to his surprise, the creature does exist.
It's hard to pinpoint where the image of this burning skier came from, but it looks like it belongs on the show Thrill seekers (( Thrill hunters). Broadcast in the United States between 1973 and 1974, it followed stuntmen in search of thrills.
This wrestling match is the one between Bret Hart and Chris Benoit in the WCW World Championship Wrestling in 1999.
This robotic face comes from Out of the Unknown, a science fiction anthology series that aired on the BBC between 1965 and 1971. The image can be found precisely in episode 2 of season 3, which was written by famous author Isaac Asimov.
We stay in the realm of SF with these two characters, confronted with a giant brain and straight out of the film The Brain from Planet Arous (1953). Would it be a nod to the super-intelligence of Malcolm, whose name of the interpreter appears on the screen at that moment?
Finally, this video (which according to the site Malcolm-France, was absent from the French credits in the first seasons of the series) is taken from a boxing match between Willie de Wit and Pedro Cardenas. The latter had inadvertently hit the referee and knocked him out, thus shaping an image of anthology.
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