# Octopus tries to break into the film business **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 21, 2010, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-tries-to-break-into-the-film-business/536809 "2010-04-21T00:58:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-tries-to-break-into-the-film-business/536809/1 "2010-04-21T00:58:42Z")
As it so happens, octopusses/octopi/octopodes aren’t very good at camera work. [Funny story, though.](http://www.veryshortlist.com/vsl/daily.cfm/review/1533/Web_video/consider-the-octopus/?tp) ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-tries-to-break-into-the-film-business/536809/2 "2010-04-21T01:08:27Z")
A little shaky, but not bad for a beginner. I wouldn’t be surprised, though, if it learned how to catch fish with the spear. ---
**Author:** ![Pyper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Pyper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pyper)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-tries-to-break-into-the-film-business/536809/3 "2010-04-21T03:09:54Z")
See, this is one of the many reasons I will never order octopus on a menu. Also, I once saw a video back in biology class of an octopus carefully arranging shells and other bits of ocean detritus including a mop(!) around its cave. I could never eat something that’s into interior decorating. ---
**Author:** ![GilaB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8e7dd6/32.png) [@GilaB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GilaB)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-tries-to-break-into-the-film-business/536809/4 "2010-04-21T05:02:27Z")
Very cool! I hope he didn’t have to shoot it with the spear gun in order to get the spear gun back. I misread the title as, “_Octomom_ tries to break into the film business,” and wondered why that was worthy of comment at all. ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-tries-to-break-into-the-film-business/536809/5 "2010-04-21T07:43:45Z")
Cool, I’ve never seen such a cheeky cephalopod. Every time I’ve seen octopi while snorkeling or diving they either hide under a rock or remain mimetized in place. Last time I went diving in Thailand I had two underwater cameras (one mine, one a friend’s for testing) plus I had to tow against the current my GF by the hand often; I joked with my GF that next time I should have a trained octopus as a photographic assistant. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-tries-to-break-into-the-film-business/536809/6 "2010-04-21T11:47:55Z")
Of course, he doesn’t want to be a cinematoographer. What he really wants to do is direct. ---
**Author:** ![dhkendall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9adbd/32.png) [@dhkendall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dhkendall)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-tries-to-break-into-the-film-business/536809/7 "2010-04-21T12:13:33Z")
> [@GilaB](#): > > I misread the title as, “_Octomom_ tries to break into the film business,” and wondered why that was worthy of comment at all. I know who I’d rather see (and who is much more deserving of attention) ---
**Author:** ![GaryM](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garym/32/241_2.png) [@GaryM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaryM)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-tries-to-break-into-the-film-business/536809/8 "2010-04-21T12:46:22Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Of course, he doesn’t want to be a cinematoographer. What he really wants to do is direct. But until that gig’s available, he’s working as a waiter.😃 ---
**Author:** ![moodswinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bcef8e/32.png) [@moodswinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moodswinger)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-tries-to-break-into-the-film-business/536809/9 "2010-04-21T12:55:00Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Of course, he doesn’t want to be a cinematoographer. What he really wants to do is direct. Well he certainly has the arms for it 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-tries-to-break-into-the-film-business/536809/10 "2010-04-21T13:02:12Z")
He was auditioning for a Ringo Starr video. ---
**Author:** ![Beerman1963](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/2acd7d/32.png) [@Beerman1963](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beerman1963)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2010, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-tries-to-break-into-the-film-business/536809/11 "2010-04-24T00:59:16Z")
I for one welcome our new octopi overlords 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2010, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-tries-to-break-into-the-film-business/536809/12 "2010-04-24T13:42:44Z")
All right, a jellyfish thread in GQ and an octopus thread in MPSIMS. Best week ever on the Dope. ---
**Author:** ![may\_be\_ignorant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c5a1d2/32.png) [@may\_be\_ignorant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/may_be_ignorant)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2010, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-tries-to-break-into-the-film-business/536809/13 "2010-04-24T14:05:07Z")
Awesome video, once in a life time incident. However, when it stole the camera I probably would’ve freaked out and speared it. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2010, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-tries-to-break-into-the-film-business/536809/14 "2010-04-24T17:28:30Z")
The video of the octopus playing with the coconut shell was better. I think someone posted it here a while back. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2010, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-tries-to-break-into-the-film-business/536809/15 "2010-04-24T17:45:05Z")
I’m impressed by this guys balls. He went after and fought an octopus. I would have just let him have it. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2010, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/octopus-tries-to-break-into-the-film-business/536809/16 "2010-04-24T23:09:01Z")
I suspect he was taking it back to his mate: “That’s right, babe, you said if I ever got a camera we could make a sex tape.”