Daily Dialogue — September 15, 2018

“No offense, but you are a robot, aren’t you?”

— The Forbidden Planet (1958), screen play by Cyril Hume, based on a story by Irving Block and Allen Adler

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Outer Space.

Trivia: This film marked one of the first times a science-fiction project had received a large budget. The genre had rarely been taken seriously by studio executives, and sci-fi films generally received the most meager of budgets. The critical success of this film convinced many in the film industry that well-funded science-fiction projects could be successful. Film historian Ben Mankiewicz has claimed that this film’s success made future big-budget science-fiction films possible.

Dialogue On Dialogue: One of the very best things about 50s and 60s outer space science fiction movies is the clunky dialogue. Evidently, some producer or studio exec believed the audience needed to be informed that “Robbie” is, indeed, a robot.