Ken Korczak
November 5th, 2005, 03:46 PM
I have some amazing new insights to share about an old classic SF movie:
I was re-viewing my all time favorite SF movie, the 1956 classic "Forbidden Planet" starring Leslie Nielson, Walter Pidgeon and Anne Frances.
This is the movie Gene Roddenberry admits was the inspiration for Star Trek, and, he also admits that he lifted directly the idea of the transporters from the movie.
Anyway, here is my amazing, earth-shattering insight:
The invisible monsters that are killing the crew of the starship are supposedly being generated by "monsters from the ID," the "ID" being Freud's realm of the subconscious mind where all of mankind's hates, lusts and violent tendencies are kept chained in the cellar, so to speak.
The ID monsters are those of Dr. Morbius, who views the space men from earth as intruders on his planet, and as idiots who want to bring back the vast knowledge of the aliens -- the Krell -- back to earth -- Morbius feels that earth is not ready to handle such knowledge wisely.
Thus, he unleashes his ID monsters to start killing everyone. The ID monsters are supplied with unlimited power from ancient Krell power generators, which were designed to tap into the power of mind to instantly materialize anything they wanted in life. They were developing a society "without instrumentality." The trouble is, the Krell forgot about the monsters of the ID, which also had access to the unlimited power.
But here's the thing: Morbius' pure, lovely and innocent daughter, Alta, must have also been unleashing her own ID monsters -- it's wasn't just Morbius who was to blame.
For one thing:
The first attack on the ship was to damage it, making it unable to take off, or contact earth.
This would have been counter to Morbius' wishes, since he wanted the earthmen to be gone as soon as possible.
But Alta very much wanted the ship and it's "young men" to stay, since she had never before had a chance to interact with young men. So it must have been her ID monster.
Also, the the scene where they fight off the big monster as it comes crashing through the forcefield perimeter, and in which several men are killed -- we then get a scene of Alta wailing and crying out to her father -- and her dreams relates exactly what was happening at the point of attack. Also, one of the men killed was Jerry Farman, the man who had been trying to sexually seduce her with deceit and lies. So this must have been Alta's ID monsters attacking, as well, and not her father's.
Some last things:
1. The scene where the dying Dr. Morbius tells Commander Adams to destroy the planet: The self destruct device is almost the very same as the kind you will see in the movie "Alien" some 20 years later.
2. Robbie the Robot almost certainly must be the direct inspiration for the depressed robot of "Hitchhiker's Guide."
3. The tiny holographic image of Alta scene must certainly have influenced the scene where Princess Leah in generated in holo by R2D2 in the first Star Wars.
I was re-viewing my all time favorite SF movie, the 1956 classic "Forbidden Planet" starring Leslie Nielson, Walter Pidgeon and Anne Frances.
This is the movie Gene Roddenberry admits was the inspiration for Star Trek, and, he also admits that he lifted directly the idea of the transporters from the movie.
Anyway, here is my amazing, earth-shattering insight:
The invisible monsters that are killing the crew of the starship are supposedly being generated by "monsters from the ID," the "ID" being Freud's realm of the subconscious mind where all of mankind's hates, lusts and violent tendencies are kept chained in the cellar, so to speak.
The ID monsters are those of Dr. Morbius, who views the space men from earth as intruders on his planet, and as idiots who want to bring back the vast knowledge of the aliens -- the Krell -- back to earth -- Morbius feels that earth is not ready to handle such knowledge wisely.
Thus, he unleashes his ID monsters to start killing everyone. The ID monsters are supplied with unlimited power from ancient Krell power generators, which were designed to tap into the power of mind to instantly materialize anything they wanted in life. They were developing a society "without instrumentality." The trouble is, the Krell forgot about the monsters of the ID, which also had access to the unlimited power.
But here's the thing: Morbius' pure, lovely and innocent daughter, Alta, must have also been unleashing her own ID monsters -- it's wasn't just Morbius who was to blame.
For one thing:
The first attack on the ship was to damage it, making it unable to take off, or contact earth.
This would have been counter to Morbius' wishes, since he wanted the earthmen to be gone as soon as possible.
But Alta very much wanted the ship and it's "young men" to stay, since she had never before had a chance to interact with young men. So it must have been her ID monster.
Also, the the scene where they fight off the big monster as it comes crashing through the forcefield perimeter, and in which several men are killed -- we then get a scene of Alta wailing and crying out to her father -- and her dreams relates exactly what was happening at the point of attack. Also, one of the men killed was Jerry Farman, the man who had been trying to sexually seduce her with deceit and lies. So this must have been Alta's ID monsters attacking, as well, and not her father's.
Some last things:
1. The scene where the dying Dr. Morbius tells Commander Adams to destroy the planet: The self destruct device is almost the very same as the kind you will see in the movie "Alien" some 20 years later.
2. Robbie the Robot almost certainly must be the direct inspiration for the depressed robot of "Hitchhiker's Guide."
3. The tiny holographic image of Alta scene must certainly have influenced the scene where Princess Leah in generated in holo by R2D2 in the first Star Wars.