The Blu-ray release of On Stranger Tides has warranted some celebrating. When Industrial Light and Magic had a day-long press event, and CraveOnline was there talking to the people who made the magic come alive. Visual-effects supervisor Ben Snow was on hand to talk about mermaids, creatures Disney has had a long history with. But the ones in OST aren’t the lovesick, show tune-singing, using-forks-for-combs kind of girls:
“In the mythology of the sea, mermaids were historically beautiful, but deadly creatures,” Snow said. “They lured sailors to their deaths. That’s a very appealing and sexy tradition, narratively. We were excited to bring them back to that tradition.”
