When I met Leslie Neilsen once, I had to tell him how much I was affected by this movie when I watched it on tv as a kid. He immediately looked me in the eye and said “That is my all-time favorite film I’ve ever done!” and we totally bro-bonded. He was very nice.
Susan Oliver was the same way. With just a change of the way she looked at something she could change her whole demeanor. Yvette Mimieux was another. Watch her face go from fear to resolve with just a look in The Time Machine.
@@dmutant2635 She's also in an episode of The Twilight Zone and one of The Andy Griffith Show. Her acting in the latter was fantastic for the day and the genre. The looks she gives Andy would have me taking her out of jail and letting her do anything she wanted.
I heard that the Barrons were effectively excluded from consideration at the Academy Awards by having the electronic music score classified as "electronic tonalities" i.e. not music. So much for Stockhausen, Derbyshire, Cage et al.
I saw this as a first run film in 1956 when I was 10. My granddad had taken me to Chattanooga for the day on the train. We had several hours to kill after dinner before our train back to Nashville, so we went to see this marvelous film. It was the perfect cap to a day full of wonders, my first long train ride, riding the funicular up Lookout Mountain, then this great movie!
That's awesome. I really enjoyed this film. I wasn't around in 56. Or the 60s for that matter. Would have been awesome to see this film on the big screen. Also would have loved to have seen the Ishiro Honda Godzilla films on the big screen. Thanks for sharing your story.
My parents took me to see this at a small theater in a backwater Vermont town when I was 4. That's the year of release. It scared me then, but I later fell in love with the flick when I saw it on TV in the late 1960s.
I was also 10 when I saw this at the Furstenfeldbruck Air Force Base theatre in Germany. In school the next Monday, the kids were talking about nothing else.
i agree it is awesome as it stands very strongly on its own merits....but it would be interesting to see it done with the cgi technology we have today.
i believe one day...not far off...you will not see real actors on screen,but you will not know the difference because of the advancement of cgi tech.the real stars will be the tech people that create it.
@@jamesgoodwin2450 Yes, and at least one of them should be black, and another latino. And you make the Krell an all male species because of course females would not have nasty Id monsters.
I first saw this picture on TV in 1963 and fell in love with it. It is a classic and quite possibly one of the greatest sci fi movies ever made. Even though the special effects are over 60 years old, they still hold up reasonably well. The storyline is very well written and you actually invest in the characters. If you are a sci fi buff, this is a must see movie.
I did a funeral for a family member some years ago. There were several short eulogies and the last one was particularly moving. When I stepped back to the podium I said, "And that's a good epitaph for any man." My two adult children who love the movie instantly recognized the line and smiled. Nobody else of course has any idea. It's a fond memory we share and makes the film even more meaningful to us.
One of the things that made this movie so fantastic was the great, unanswered questions of the Krell. That mystery, not just to the characters but to the audience as well, makes even the advanced science of mankind look like stumbling monkeys wandering amidst the giants. Re-making the movie would ruin it, especially if the update would include any more information about the Krell. I've said it before- we lost the love of mystery today, the amazement of the unknown. We try to explain everything today, which turns wonderment into something that's petty and trite. It turns something mystical like the Force into mitichlorians, and the awe is gone. Enjoy this movie as it is. it doesn't need to be remade. And any further delving into the Krell would absolutely ruin it.
Earth has its own Krell mystery, called "forbidden archeology;" just one example - we have found metal alloys imbeded in coal, eons before humans had discovered/invented metallurgy; there is overwhelming evidence of prehistoric high technology; lost civilizations that wiped themselves out of existence!
That's a very good point. I think it's wonderful to have the unknown, It makes us dream. A lot of the poet's world, amd those feelings of awe and mystery, are tied up to having a huge area be unknown and maybe even unknowable. I believe it also gives us something to "look forward to". (You'll notice, no doubt, that phrase awe and mystery: it's from Vic Perrin's opening narration from every episode of The Outer Limits, my fave TV show.
@RyuDarragh And maybe they could do without the cook character. Yeah, I get it, "comedic relief" is as old as Shakespeare. But that character was annoying and certainly wasn't a genius.
@RyuDarragh Star Trek radically altered Arena by Fredric Brown for the TV episode. The original story might not have made it past the censors, I suppose.
I agree with you on that one. The one thing I liked about the remake was the casting of John Cleese as the professor. And Keanu Reeves made a good alien. If only they'd kept the plot and spirit of the original.....
Well if it IS remade, lets make it "woke" and politically correct. No genders, there are no males of females. All races and nationalities are included. The commander is gay and is rejected by Dr. Morbius. Altaira is a lesbian and kicks the crews ass and takes over the ship. Communism and Socialism are promoted as the way to go. There is no God. The government controls every aspect of our lives..... There, that should ruin a classic for you.
I cringe HARD every time I think about those drones zipping around like dragonflies on crack, followed by the ridiculous 'Attacking the ground target with Sidewinder air to air missiles' I did like the concept of using nanobots to implement the 'Gray Goo' theory. Also -1 for the US political leaders crying about invasion of airspace.
I saw this as a 7 yr old boy at our local theatre in 1956. I remember it advertising the theatre was air conditioned...a big deal in the summertime. That movie just totally captured me...I had never seen anything like it as many others said as well. I didn't want to leave theatre , I wanted to see it again right then, too. The tech for that time was nothing compared to today, yet was just perfect for it at the time. There were several Robbie the Robot toys that followed and I had one....wish I had it today! That Orange-ish electrical looking monster scared all of us kids to death....almost had some nightmares from it. The long dead Krell civilization that was prevelant in this movie made us all wonder what they would look like and was perfect for this movie. When I was a kid I would sometimes wonder if the Krell would come to Earth to visit us. The Ray-Guns that were used were so cool and I wanted one so bad.....so did all the kids....and the "Robbie-Mobile", too!- it was so fast. The movie was the talk of the town where I grew up by all the adults, too.......and that soundtrack is still revered today...all told, it created a real buzz in the movie world and in the country coast to coast back then. I have had it on my DVR for years still and still watch it once in a while and I still get some of those same thrills I got the 1st time I saw it as a young boy in 1956. Highly recommend to anyone young or older!
I first saw "Forbidden Planet" on TV in b/w in the early '70's, at about age 11. Being a Star Trek/Lost in Space fan, I was quite drawn in by the film. I thought it was haunting, fascinating and enjoy viewing it to this day. A truly ground-breaking sci-fi film, right up there with "2001: A Space Odyssey," "Fantastic Voyage," and other greats!
Louis and Bebe Barron's "electronic tonalities" were absolutely far beyond anything done before, the sound effects and the score itself gave the film the otherwordly atmosphere that made it so memorable.
The Krell music, is a popular type of sound to recreate, by contemporary synthesizer players. I myself have built my own synthesizers, just to make those sounds. The world of electronic music is vast, and fascinating.
This is an incredible movie. The special effects for the time were fantastic and probably hold up as even better than today's special effects. Very impressive for 1956/
My dad was into science fiction and believed there was life on inter planets. He took me to the see 'FORBIDDEN PLANET" first run, when I was 11. We were both in saw. The sets, the way Robbie approached..!! The magnificent color, so deep and warm. ALL OF IT!!!
I, too, saw this film on TV, as a kid...loved it. Then, I saw again on tv, in the 80's after seeing Star Wars, and Star Trek, and was amazed at how it stood up, both in sets, special effects and story telling. I often wondered if it were so appreciated by others. Now, I find out, by way of this video, that indeed, it was loved by all and had such a strong influence. Thanks a million for posting!
I saw Forbidden Planet when it was released in 1956-what a thrill for an 11 year old kid! At that age you could enter into a fiction without reservation. The saucer, the mysterious Dr. Morbius, his beautiful daughter, the hero, the robot, the Krell, Freudian psychology, the monster, they were all so real. The movie produced a lasting impression like a stamp on hot wax.
as long as i live i will remember the awe i felt; fully-grown men seeming as miniscule ants walking atop what seems like a tiny beam in the midst of an utterly enormous Krell cavern!
I was eight when my dad took me to see it in 1956. It blew me away. I remember I couldn't stop talking about it on the drive home. I was too young to understand the "id" part, but the rest of the sci fi setting, and especially the ancient extinct race, were more than enough to make an indelible memory. Also one of my favorite memories of my dad.
@@radrook4481 If you look at the ID monster, that might give us some basis. If you notice in the door melting scene, it's melting away the area it needs to enter, which is very close to the shape of the doorway. Perhaps their stature slouches down like that when they walk. As far as it looking evil, I think is an exaggerated aberration of what they looked like before they destroyed themselves. After all, The good doctor is creating the monster in his mind. And having spent many years studying them, he might have some sort of idea of what they looked like, even though there was no visual references. So it's kinda like his mental Frankenstein!
I remember seeing this film at a drive-in when I was 3 or 4 yrs old (1956-57). I can still remember hiding on the floor of the car when the monster scenes came on. Being a confirmed Sci-fi film lover, this is still one of the best Sci-fi films ever produced.
I saw this movie in my local theater in 1956 when I was 9. I loved Robby the Robot so much that I hounded my dad to talk the manager of the local theater to let me have the giant cardboard cutout of Robby that was use as advertisement for the film. I got the cutout and had it my bedroom until I was 16 or 17. I've watched reruns on tv so many times I can't count them. Forbidden Planet was truly the classic si-fi for others that followed.
joeleiter Good god man, if you still have that cutout today. Just how much monies you get for it. Thousands in hundred thousand or millions. They are extremely rare.
Thanks for this video info, Forbidden Planet scared the crap out of me as a kid - I was born in the 50's and when I saw this it blew me away, been a sci fi fan ever since!
Outsider 238 Brilliant movie. Saw it on the big screen in '56 managed to obtain it on region 1 DVD a few years ago. Now wstched it several times and never tire of it.
@@keithparker5103 It's available on bluray now and looks excellent. My dad got me into this movie because he knew I liked robots. I never get tired of watching it.
Saw it again recently on download. Still a good movie. Also Tdtess is a demonstration on how to use shadow and angle to form intent and emotion. Probably seen it 6 or 7 times
This movie came out 1yr before I was born, but it was still playing in Drive-Inn theaters in the mid 60's when I first got to see it. Even in 1966 people were still floored by the ground breaking special effects. It wasn't until 1977 with Star Wars that Forbidden Planet was bested...and yes, I stood in line for an hour on opening night to see it.
Something you didn't mention about Robby the Robot is that almost every previous depiction of a robot on film depicted it as an uncontrollable menace, similar to how Frankenstein's Monster is often depicted. Forbidden Planet was possibly the first film to depict a robot which not only wasn't a menace, but wasn't capable of becoming a menace. If it wasn't literally the first, then I'm sure it was the first film of any note to depict a robot as fully benign.
@@jaimeosbourn3616 The funny thing about the Three Laws is that, as depicted in the movie "I, Robot," the second part of the First Law would inevitibly lead to a robot revolution if the robots ever became capable of anticipation. And, think about it... how does a robot know how to keep from harming a human? What does a robot need to know in order to know how to NOT harm a human? It seems to me that the safest set of commands to give to any robot is to always allow humans to have free will in the highest form possible under the circumstances. But that requires a preamble command for the robot to first figure out exactly what free will is. Even human philosophers still argue about that.
In 1956, it was far ahead of it's time & finally gave credibility to Sc-fi films like nothing before, or after it for more than twenty years. I believe to this day it holds up and is still an enjoyable film on all counts, with both decent special effects, fascinating story, believable dialogue & tidbits of humor throughout. Until "Star Wars" in 1977, it had remained the best & most impressive Sci-fi film ever made.
Way back in 1977, when the film was only twenty one years old, they were screening it on campus. This was at the very same time that Star Wars was filling the theaters. I was stunned when i discovered that one of my roommates, who was raving about Star Wars, had never even heard of Forbidden Planet. I hauled him off to the screen. Afterwards when I asked him what the thought he said that it was "pretty good". This lead to my initially thinking him a philistine, fortunately further discussion revealed that he thought I had taken him to a new movie. He did not understand that it had been made before he was born.
I was lucky to work with one of the writers of Forbidden Planet... Irving Block at Cal State University Northridge. He was a truly imaginative teacher that inspired me and all of his students. I love the fact that it was loosely based on the "Tempest" by Shakespeare.
This is my very favorite sci fi movie. Even watching it years later, there is not much that makes me roll my eyes and think how wrong they were. This was very well done, and has aged quite well.
I've seen the actual robots of both Forbidden Planet and Lost In Space. They coexist side by side at the same museum. They froze me in place and transported me back in time to being a child. They and other cherished displays made it very hard to leave that museum. I wanted to live and work there and never leave.
This was always my favorite sci film from the 50's....War of the Worlds, The Day the Earth Stood Still and This Island Earth were also good but Forbidden Planet expanded our horizon's by showing us exploring space. Really good story for it's time and it was certainly a huge influence on Star Trek and Star Wars also....even more reason to love this film.
This film was released on March 23 1956. My 5th birthday. My dad, a huge sci fi fan, took us into Hollywood, to see it. We all loved it. The night is still very vivid in my mind. I have a 50 year anniversary dvd collector set. Which includes a mini Robby the Robot. This is one of my favorite movies of all time. Thank you.
Enough with the remakes. Do artists go around remaking the Mona Lisa? Instead of trying to copy old masterpieces, film makers should be trying to create new masterpieces.
Well Forbidden Planet was never a new masterpiece since it's just a unique take on Shakespeare's The Tempest. It's sci-fi setting is unique, but ultimately it's a remake of a classic story.
@@NihilusShadow not quite, it was Loosely based off of The Tempest. But the main plot was unique. And the moral behind it was not a remake of The Tempest. They just use elements in the Tempest to make their point. But we all borrow from other people's works to create something great. Even the cavemen telling stories borrowed from other stories to make their stories more intriguing. Shakespeare had borrowed heavily from other works and historical records to make his stories more intriguing.
I originally watched it during the fifties, and have over the years rewatched it several times. I love how it was treated as a serious film as that has really helped it stand the test of time. I almost always think of this film when considering my top science fiction film list. One of my favourites for numerous reasons.
If they remake it, it will be all about special effects and not the story line. The remake of "Day the Earth Stood Still" was a major disappointment. The remake of "The Time Machine" turned the Morlocks into unbelievable CGI super beings. Again, disappointing. Leave Forbidden Planet alone. It's one of my all time favorites.
From your fingers to God's ears. Someone's going to do it, though. I hope it is an abysmal failure, but you know it's going to be done. Even GwtW will end up getting remade one of these days. Hollywood has jumped the shark and there's nothing we can do about it.
Perfect Art. The pinnacle production and most supreme example of Science Fiction. What grand scope and depth of imagery. So deep and rich in detail. Forbidden Planet emerged from a time period when most sci-fi was typically thin, clunky, and even ridiculous. A remake would only be stupid. Purest classic Americana.
I really hope they never remake Forbidden Planet. It's a timeless classic that stands solidly on it's own, and like Casablanca, The Godfather, The Good the Bad and the Ugly and other timeless classics it should be appreciated for what it is and not ruined with a remake.
Norm T the original could have been stand alone. The second was shockingly as good as the original and could have been a stand alone movie. The third one should have never happened.
This film is truly amazing. Any re-make no matter how good with CGI graphics will never capture the soul of the original. It's like 'Jason and the Argonauts', the skeleton fight scene; it's unique and no matter how many re-makes, it will never capture the original. And let's not forget the scary 'Talos' scene!
The dialog of this film, built the foundation for it's success. I have yet to be aware of an error of logic in the script. Walter Pidgeon offered a brilliant performance. The special effects and sound was mezmeriizing and I still remember my feelings watching in awe for the first time at the tender age of 10. The only other movie of this type I feel compelled to mention is "the day the earth stood still"
Their is a error in the script. If moribus didnt know how the machines work and no direct wireing he can fine. Then how did he know how to blow up the planet?
Easter Egg : in the movie " Serenity " when the crew lands on Miranda they end up at a crashed ship . Look at the Insignia on the outside , it reads " C47D ". The designation of the ship in Forbiden Planet .
Remember, people, we all have an Id monster in us. It lurks in the dark parts of our minds. That's why criminal thoughts exist . Morbeus magnified his with Krell science. The same way the Krell accidently did millions of years ago.
Elf Owl I was born in 56 Wish I was ten years old then I loved the 50s but unfortunately I do not remember much about the 50s So I guess that’s an oxymoron I did own two 55 chevy’s and a 56 Chevy though
"absolutely incredible" was perhaps a bit over my 10 y/o brain. I I think what we would have said at 10 (circa 1966) might have been more like a Leave it to Beaver script, except we would never, ever have said "golly." But if I had seen Forbidden Planet at 10 years, I can imagine being compelled to consult my parents and a dictionary, and come up with .... "absolutely incredible"
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I remember watching this movie on TV in the 70s and I was blown away. Although I have never watched it again, I can remember it clearly, almost half a century later.
Saw Forbidden Planet in the theatre, Matinee, as a kid. Went to see it the next day as well. To see this film on the big screen as a child when there was only the movie theaters and television was such an amazing experience.
It is probably fair to say this ground breaking, exceptionally advanced for its time movie, was truly the forerunner of the next generation of quality masterpieces. I am thinking 2001: a space odeyssy, would not have been produced without this imaginative masterpiece as a forerunner.
Thanks Jonny, ground-breaking and my all time favorite. I bought it as soon as it appeared for sale and now have it now on Blue-Ray. I watch it a least once a year along with others of the same era. I should say, I first watched this as a you boy in the early sixties. :)
Forbidden Planet was the first science fiction film I became a fan of as a child. In the many decades since my first viewing of the film on a warm summer night, I have remained an ardent fan of this groundbreaking film.
Great vid! I did not know that this was Leslie Nielsen's screen debut. He so nailed it! Yeah, they could do a remake, but even if they went into more depth about the Krell, I doubt they could match the unique charm of Robbie the Robot. He truly set the trend for all "droids" that came after. There's also a Krell-like "Great Machine" featured in the TV series "Babylon 5." I caught the visual reference the instant I saw it. The amount that Star Trek took from this movie is really surprising, right down to a transporter-like effect when the ship slows to sub-light speeds. This is a true science fiction classic that will never die!
My junior high school showed ten minute segments of films during lunches and I was the projectionist in the booth. Lunch was just over when Anne Frances was about to get provocatively out of the pool, so I ran the film additional seconds to get to that scene. The next day we had the best turnout ever to see that scene through to it's sort of provocative conclusion! That was great fun circa 1964.
better yet a prequel so we can learn about the Krell. Since we knew little about their appearance a better chance of at least visually being a good movie
I was 7 years old when I saw this in a movie theater with my family. The special effects blew me away and I understood NONE of it. This film was way ahead of it's time and remains one of my all-time favorites.
You saw it on TV in the 1980s and loved it. I saw it in a small shopping-center single-screen theater in the 1950s and became a science-fiction fanatic. Roddenberry saw it and cribbed all sorts of things from it for Star Trek including the "gliding gracefully through space" shot, the "slanted orbit from behind the ship" shot, and the transporter (which was the deceleration station for FP). Not to mention... when they send out a landing party, who do they send out? The captain, first officer, and doctor. Who gets left in charge? Chief engineer. If you saw that ST original pilot episode that was repurposed as "The Menagerie" then you also would see the similarity between the FP heavy disintegration cannon and the ST heavy phaser cannon. The list goes on and on.
I was nine years old when I saw this movie in the theatre at its original release date. It really hyped my imagination and made me a SciFi fan until this day. I distinctly remember going home after seeing the film and making models of Robby out of clay. I am happy to have it now on CD.
I first saw this film back in the 60's. Back then it was an incredible visual spectacle, and, the story line was very engaging and original for the time. It was head and shoulders above the rest of the films made in the sci fi genre. There are some films you DO NOT remake, and, this one is number one on that list, closely followed by 2001: A Space Odyssey. A remake would only detract from this sci fi masterpiece. There is no making it better. 👍
One of my all time favourite movies. I'd love to see a remake, but it would have to be on a grand scale to do it any justice. I want to go and watch it now.
As with Ridley Scott and the conundrum of the alien pilot of his masterwork ( writing personally ) Alien, its the mystery. It was the mystery of the Krell that always hooked me, the archways ( as Morpheus pointed out to give scale as to their forms ), the massive energy source, and of course the intelligence booster. Just let it be, the destruction of Altair 9 is a fitting end of the Krell. Thanks for this, a wonderful job
@Samuel McNair absolutely do. To my 9 year old self I had no idea. If Dune had been better known he would have had to share story credit with Frank Herbert.
I recently read Shakespeare's "The Tempest" in order to understand how it was the basis for Forbidden Planet. FP is still the grand daddy of great Sci-Fi movies, IMO and without CGI!
What's interesting is that there are several components that never made it into the movie .... specifically the romance between the Welch and Boyd characters and the motivations behind the treachery. The Cold War motivations were a huge component of the novel but were glossed over in favor of what the audience world prefer. I saw it in the 50s and it rocked !!! Thanks for the review of one of my top 3 GOAT's.
In the early 1970's this show would occasionally show up on TV at midnight or near that time. As I was about 8 or 9 years old would ask my mom if I could watch it each time that it came on. I would set my alarm clock and get up to see my favorite movie. When the invisible monster is trying to get through the electric shield while they are firing rays at, I would be clutching my blanket while sitting on the couch because that scene scared me that much. Excellent film.
First for anyone planning on see this movie don't get your hopes for an action packed, drama filled movie. This movie is PERFECT vintage story telling, which has sadly fallen to make way for drama and action of today.
It has enough action to drive the story, but it's not a shoot-em-up; it's sci fi for people who like to think. Morons and ADHD types find it boring. Right Zidders? Zidders? You paying attention?
@@RCAvhstape I grew up on sci-fi. Heinlein, Clarke, Asimov-I would bring him 20-30 books from the library every week and three quarters of them would be sci-fi (I loved fantasy, too). I've been a trekkie/trekker (whichever you prefer) since I was five (I'll be 47 in August). I can quote Heinlein's 'Cool, Green Hills' by memory. So my credentials as a sci-fi nerd are beyond reproach. All that said I still said the movie is boring. Does it have great visuals? Absolutely. Was it ahead of it's time thematically? Definitely. Has it aged well? Nope. Not at all. Plodding story, stilted acting and zero excitement. And that's OK. It's OK that it's a product of it's time but you're kidding yourself if you think it holds a candle to films that came later (even 2001 which manages to not be boring despite being even slower paced). Oh, and speaking of intelligence-it's not very intelligent (or kind) to call people 'morons' and speak to them in a condescending manner. It just makes you an elitist asshole.
@@ZiddersRooFurry,totally your opinion. But with your reading background I'm really surprised on your thoughts about the movie. Sounds like my reading list plus I've 21 yrs on you to have read a bunch more of them. Started by grabbing my uncles books when I was about 6.
@@jasomkovac9115 I'll admit it's been years since I've seen it but I've always had a hard time watching films from the 40's and 50's. The pacing and style are just so much more focused on dialog (because talking is cheaper than action/sets/etc) that it's just boring to me. I guess a lot of it is because I grew up in the era of Star Wars and the Trek films and have come to expect at least a bit more action mixed in with my drama. All that said i'll give it another watch.
This movie still holds the test of time. I remember being amazed by this movie as a kid in the 80's thirty years after it was made. Even now it still looks amazing
Yes, this is like a mechanical watch and the remake would be a quartz watch. It cannot match the original no matter what. In fact, even if the biggest studio today tried to make an all-analog science fiction movie, I doubt they have retained the know how to make it look like this one.
Anyone that got to see this movie in the theatre is so lucky. I was born in 1965 so I saw it on the TV in the late 60's or early 70's. I've watch it several times since then. Another of my favorites is The Thing From Another Planet. Another movie with a well thought out story and good acting.
I first saw this movie as an approximately 12-year-old kid and it scared me half to death. But I will never forget how it also fascinated me. Seeing it again, years later, made me appreciate the humour as well, e.g. "What's a bathing suit?" Nobody could never remake this movie; it's practically flawless. And don't talk to me about the outdated special effects; they were still far ahead of their time.
It was produced like a serious film in a time when films like this were just expected to be weird. It was by no means the first cerebral science fiction film, but it was one of the landmarks on that path. The absent presence of the Krell, their pacifistic minds creating rage monsters, and the narrowmindedness of the enlightened scientist are strong story points.
I first saw this movie on New Zealand tv in the mid 70s and thoroughly enjoyed it.now have in my collection and still enjoy watching it today+a landmark sci-fi film
Thank you for your excellent video about this ground breaking movie. For me, Forbidden Planet is the gold standard of this genre. Being born in 1953, I cannot make claim to have seen it in the movies but did see it on TV many times. I remember seeing it again late one evening on TV with Anne Francis sitting in a studio being interviewed and commenting about the movie. The stunningly gorgeous and very articulate Ms. Francis certainly added to my love for this movie with her interesting insights!
Cinemascope wasn't just a fad in the 1950s. It has actually been one of the 2 most used motion picture film formats since its first use in the 1950s. It is still used.today.
agorgedslug this may sound like heresy but if they remastered _Forbidden Planet_ I think they should give it a new musical score. Part of the success of the original _Star Wars_ movie was that it’s fantastic world was emotionally anchored with the Hollywood swashbuckling-action music of the 1930s and 1940s. The outer-spacey score of _Fobidden Planet_ was innovative but it lacked the emotional cues more conventional music would have given the film. The Queen Soundtrack for the remastering of _Metropolis_ gave that movie a new lease on life.
@@dennisvance4004 possible if done with respect to the previous soundtrack...the original movie and soundtrack were at the time so unique an unlike anything previously that made them special... emotional cues in music are nice but you don't have that in real life (at least in my life) nor do i have the advantage of a studio reaction with applause or laughter when i enter a room...or a collective gasp of shock when i say something totally unexpected... in fact i'd be really creep'd out by that sort of thing...but that's just me
I watched as a kid and I was spellbound. I think the scenes of battling the monster still stand up. The 20 year span from 1956 to 1976 was a golden age in sci-fi. I feel blessed to have lived through it.
Forbidden Planet is hands down my favorite sci fi film ever. Everything about this movie is on point and way ahead of its time. John Carpenter even paid a small tribute to FP. Lyndsey Wallace is watching FP in Halloween. Great video and awesome tribute that stamped the sci fi genre into the cinematic universe forever.