I was browsing the free movies on my Comcast network and ran across "20 Million Miles To Earth". It was made in 1957, the same time one of my favorite sci-fi movies was made, "Forbidden Planet".
Well I have to tell ya, I like studying things so I opted to watch the movie. Of course I could expect terrible special effects, but I was more interested in deciphering the overall production and public thinking of that time.
So here's this creature from another planet that is brought back to our planet - not it's choice, we simply kidnapped it. Yeah, it looks something like a tyrannosaurus rex and is called "ugly" by the beautiful actress in the movie, Joan Taylor.
So I'm thinking about this scenario... they have what people consider as 'beautiful', Joan Taylor, calling this thing 'ugly'; and so it should be destroyed. Just because the thing has lizard-like skin and grabs a cow to eat, I mean... we eat cows don't we?
Why do we have to destroy life just because it looks different from us? What is wrong with the people on the planet earth that they hate everyone and everything that is different from them!?
No wonder the aliens in those UFO's don't make contact with us. They probably saw the movie too!
Originally posted by ArrakisYou should see the Twilight Zone episode "In the Eye of the Beholder".
I was browsing the free movies on my Comcast network and ran across "20 Million Miles To Earth". It was made in 1957, the same time one of my favorite sci-fi movies was made, "Forbidden Planet".
Well I have to tell ya, I like studying things so I opted to watch the movie. Of course I could expect terrible special effects, but I was more interested in dec ...[text shortened]... iens in those UFO's don't make contact with us. They probably saw the movie too!
Originally posted by ArrakisI like old science fiction books to see how they got it right and wrong in envisioning the future. Heinlein's Door Into Summer was right on target about a few things, which I found fascinating since the book was written in 1956. For cultural snapshots I like "Guess Who's Coming To Dinner" and "Inherit The Wind."
I was browsing the free movies on my Comcast network and ran across "20 Million Miles To Earth". It was made in 1957, the same time one of my favorite sci-fi movies was made, "Forbidden Planet".
Well I have to tell ya, I like studying things so I opted to watch the movie. Of course I could expect terrible special effects, but I was more interested in dec ...[text shortened]... iens in those UFO's don't make contact with us. They probably saw the movie too!