" By the end of the week, she is renamed Vicki Lester - she learns of her new screen name when she receives her first paycheck.With emphasis from the musical score for a dramatic entrance, the creature""s hand and arm first appear from behind a wooden beam, and then the Monster steps fully into view from the shadows - with grotesque electrodes at the neck and a flat, square head (and a face scarred by the fire).Whether Lee Harvey Oswald was inspired by the film is open to question.Since then, the fictional film has attracted a cultish following for its tense, intriguing, relevant, and sophisticated story-line and symbolism (superbly filmed with innovative cinematography by Lionel Lindon).In Blackbeard""s group, the mermaid""s glass tank fell o the ground and smashed, and she rolled out - her tail turned into a pair of frail human legs.We""ve only just met.Female: No, we haven""t met.You""ve never seen me.She ran off down the length of the meadow - and it appeared that her male companion had disappeared from the park.