I didn’t know until a day ago:
It’s a line from the movie “Clash of Titans” (1981), directed by Desmond Davis, written by Beverly Cross, and stop-motion animation by Ray Harryhausen. (The stop motion animation is what makes the movie a cult classic.)
The kraken was an octopus-like monster invented for the movie. (Kraken is a word for octopus in some languages, like German.) The kraken is not actually part of classical Greek mythology.
Zeus orders Poseidon to release the kraken to terrorize Joppa, the city whose princess is Andromeda, who in turn is chained to a cliff as a sacrifice to the kraken. Zeus, who loves to toy with humans, then helps Perseus defeat the kraken by giving him the strength to petrify the kraken with the head of Medusa that Perseus brought along in a sack.
In the original myth (not the movie) the city was Argos, and Andromeda was a princess of Ethiopia, chained to the cliff to be the victim of the whale-like monster Cetus, who Poseidon had sent to punish Argos because Queen Cassiopeia dared compare Andromeda to the Nereids. Perseus just happens to see her and rescues her.
But I gotta watch this movie now.
“But I gotta watch this movie now.”
I must have been to the drive-in half a dozen times to see this movie and never actually saw it.
But I gotta watch this movie now.
Sadly it doesn’t hold up well (imho). As a kid I loved that movie too. But Bubo the owl kinda ruins it for me. Worth a watch if you haven’t seen it though. Medusa’s pretty cool.