Word: planet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this rapidly shrinking planet, which we share with the Russians, Chinese, and others, the traditional quick, total solutions which we Americans have always demanded in foreign affairs are simply not available. Not only is any such narrow objective for American foreign policy impossible of attainment, it is, indeed, self-contradictory. We cannot be in the world and not of it, no matter how great our wealth and power. Inevitably this must become clear to more and more of our people...
Usually, on these twenty-first century trips to distant planets, there is one guy who can account for everything up to a certain point. Then when even he becomes amazed the picture ends. "I don't believe it," he mutters, "it must be some strange force, probably..."On the Forbidden Planet, this character is Walter Pidgeon (Dr. Morbius), but the reason he, too, succumbs to fantasy is an understandable one: he simply cannot believe any Freudian theory...
From the moment the Earth's inverted flying lamp-shade lands on this planet, Altair 4, and its crew have settled themselves ("Wotta place! Just another one of those new planets--no beer, no women, no pool parlor"), Dr. Morbius, a twenty-year resident, begins his fatal battle of the Super Ego versus Id. Although he professes to be a gallant humanitarian at the outset, by the end of the picture we are convinced that he is a person just like ourselves: an intelligent egomaniac who wants only one thing in life--to have his own little planet...
...beautiful craggy countryside. In the big love affair between the space ship's captain and the scientis's daughter, Anne Francis is successfully taught the secret of the Earth people's popularity: they kiss well. Thus the picture again proves the tale of outer space: the forbidden planet is Hollywood...
...commander's suspicions are aroused when Morbius discloses that all the other colonists were murdered by a telluric demon that seems to inhabit the planet. The commander is wondering whether he should arrest the scientist, when a beautiful girl (Anne Francis) walks in. She is Morbius' daughter, Altaira, and she has never seen an available male before. The captain, who has not seen a woman for more than a year, decides to give Morbius a chance and Altaira...