FORBIDDEN PLANET Outtakes + Deleted Scenes - pt 2 of 2!

[@grochomarx2002]

Simply one of the greatest Science Fiction films of all time. Dear God, I hope they never try to remake this classic.

[@Jane1969Uk]

Differely not!

[@RedEyed2012]

And NOT with Johnny Depp.

[@xaviercrepin2930]

Cameron could make it well i guess

[@domaguayo7819]

Remember what they did to The Day the Earth Stood Still.

[@carljhirst]

What? Man and Movies must evolve! A Man trapped on a Planet........... Then, from Space cum, the.................. Uro-Indo-United States of Amazon Women! Man Shows women The Great Glans Orgasmatron of Old................ One woman asks how big is it? "There 20miles of girth either side............900,000,000,000 inches Long! It has been vibrating for 5 Trillion Years!!! Never needs Batteries and runs on green energy!!! THEN.... Along comes the Man's dirty imagination! Trying to attack the women, as the Orgasmatron turns his thoughts into physical reality!!! Every night the women are subjected to his attack for around 11mins every other night. Then the phantom pregnancies manifest!!!!!!! Oh God!!! THEN!...................

[@williamwalker5326]

Forbidden Planet is one of my favorite Sci Fi films. I have never seen some of these outtakes. Amazing! Disney studios added the special effects which make the movie so superior to other sci fi films of the time. A huge budget helped as well.

[@barbaraanneneal257]

This has been one of my very favorite movies since I can't remember when. I especially liked the extended bridge scene in part one, where abrupt cut after the line, "Jerry, you. .." is finally explained. Should be included in a DVD. Great insight into a great film.

[@nickd1961]

A film ahead of its time, much better than all the cheesy scifi of the piriod.

[@MrZymox]

A lot of actors in this movie went on to full-time careers in TV: Jack Kelly- Maverick; James Drury- The Virginian; Anne Francis- Honey West; Richard Anderson- The Six Million Dollar Man; Earl Holliman & Warren Stevens- Police Woman

[@LaserGuy1]

This was my favorite movie as a child, and the very first movie I ever bought.when it came out in VHS. I also bought it on DVD and a downloaded copy on my computer. This and Barbarella..ha

[@williamjordan5554]

Kept waiting for him to say, don't call me Shirley.

[@gorillaau]

You can't be serious.

[@MarkTuohy1973]

@@gorillaau and at least his still flying something, well the crew are lol

[@RedEyed2012]

Let 'r rip!

[@billmilosz]

Along with Kubrick's 2001, and Tarkovsky's Solaris, the trinity of best science fiction films ever made. The two Blade Runner films, the original Day The Earth Stood Still, and a handful of other serious films are also high quality approaches to the genre.

[@velcroman11]

The Krell where not wiped out by their technology but by the oldest weapon of them all, "hubris"

[@crankychris2]

It destroyed DJT and his family's future.

[@RatBatSpiderCrab]

2:46 Captain!The blasted thing is a cartoon!

[@einsteindrieu]

This movie is kick ass !

[@bretthompson825]

this movie was too slow to watch as a kid but it is held in such reverence - a lot of meat, examination of the deepest of human emotions - and Robbie - huge innovation

[@philipnorris6542]

It would be interesting to know what happened to John and Altaira in the period following the events chronicled in the movie.

[@radrook4481]

Well, they definitely must have had congress somewhere on the ship.

[@keithneale3055]

I remember seeing a still photo in a magazine where they were being married.

[@RedEyed2012]

@@radrook4481 Ironic since the US Congress had had congress on the American people since Prohibition and the Income Tax.

[@2011littleguy]

Forbidden Planet is one of the two greatest science fiction movies ever made, in my opinion (2001: A Space Odyssey and Forbidden Planet). But there's a HORRIBLE GAP in the movie. The original script has TWO brilliant ideas. Only ONE is in the film! The filmmakers left out the SECOND GREAT IDEA. It's the backstory of REAL REASON the Krell went extinct. I believe that the second idea (to be discussed later in this comment) was left out is that it would have added at least fifteen minutes to the movie and was unnecessary to the "story arc". It's only of interest to people like me who are fanatics about science and the future. Most films struggle to have even ONE great idea. Forbidden Planet had TWO great ideas. IDEA #1 - Beware the Id! This is the idea that IS in the movie and it's based on Sigmund Freud's psychological, "theory of the subconscious mind". The "Id" is "that part of the personality which harbors the unconscious, instinctive desire for immediate gratification of primitive needs such as hunger, air, sex, survival, pleasure and gratification." The Krell probably evolved like us, beginning as one celled organisms and evolving into thinking creatures. They eventually forgot about the primitive instincts that still lurked inside their brains (or wherever in their anatomy was the 'thinking part'. Judging by the Krell doors, they were VERY WIDE in the middle and didn't resemble humans. I bet we would be repulsed by their appearance). One fateful day, they powered up their new MIND-INTO-MATTER machine and their subconscious minds were suddenly freed up! The slime pit of their subconscious mind was unleashed after millions of years of being safely confined. Each Krell Id manifested a monster into the real world. It was bent on murder and destruction. These monsters murdered each other and their "hosts". It was literally a nightmare come to life! As Dr. Morbious says (what great dialog!), they destroyed themselves "almost overnight". What a scene - a whole planet of smart creatures killing each other in one, final, unstoppable, insane orgy of release of the subconscious desire to kill and dominate! Whew! I gotta calm down! WHY did the Krell invent a 'mind into matter' tech? Was the purpose just for shits and giggles? (as the British say). Nope. The book and the original screenplay show that there was MUCH MORE behind the Krell's technology. That's the SECOND GREAT IDEA... and it didn't make it into the movie. IDEA #2 - Creating Life like 'god' did Here's that second great idea - the one that isn't in the movie. The Krell invented the mind-into-matter technology TO CREATE LIFE FROM SCRATCH, just like God supposedly did. Their new life was NOT based on biology or evolution. It was based on whatever they wanted! THAT is the idea that was left out of the movie. Do you see why they left it out? It's not part of the story line. But it's INTERESTING AS HELL to nerds like me lol. Western culture has the idea that God took dust (inorganic matter) and used His mind to create people (organic matter). The Krell did the same thing - changed inorganic matter into organic matter - a rock into a rabbit. Remember that Commander Adams says at the end of the movie that we humans "are not god". That line now makes sense! And remember when the doctor says that the creature that attacked the ship could not possibly exist in the real world and could never be produced by evolution. Now that line makes sense! In summary, to me, what makes Forbidden Planet great is NOT the pioneering special effects, the robot, or the outer space theme. It's because of the IDEA... the idea that our subconscious is a slime-filled pit of horror, degradation, and murderous instincts that Freud named the Id. The movie is based on a psychological theme, not an outer space theme. THAT'S what makes the movie great. The Krell had an amazing hi tech civilization. (I would LOVE to live in such a high tech place. For me, we are not moving fast enough - e.g. where's our lunar colony?) But when the Krell made a machine that transformed their THOUGHTS into reality they forgot that in their minds lurked evil instincts to kill and to gain power. Their new MIND INTO MATTER machine caused a bloodbath and the end of their entire civilization. I can't wait for THIS STORY to be told on film. James Cameron or Ridley Scott or Denis Villeneuve where are you? For those who are as fanatic as me about this movie, here's an ""Easter egg" - a present for you. It's the script of the movie: www.dailyscript.com/scripts/Forbidden-Planet.pdf Note: If you go to the script, I apologize that the typewriter is so light. The script is from pre-computer days.

[@Raycheetah]

For all those reasons, Forbidden Planet stood head, shoulders, hips, and knees about the rest of cinematic sci-fi from that period. A shame more such quality releases didn't follow in its footsteps. ='[.]'=

[@videoholic50s60s70s]

These are very good thoughts....really appreciate your writing this!!!

[@2011littleguy]

@@videoholic50s60s70s Thanks!

[@johnbuchman4854]

Another tie-in with this theme is the scene where Dr Morbius is showing off the station in the Krell lab and uses his mind to create, in the small domed area, a small 3-d image of Alta. This would have been where the Krell tested the machine, using a single person/Krell to control it, for a controlled duration. Everything would have been fine under such limited, benign conditions. However when it was turned on for everyone, all at the same time, under uncontrolled settings, everything fell apart so fast they couldn't deactivate it quickly enough.

[@fredwright6286]

What would Billy Shakespeare think of what was done to "The Tempest"? FredWright

[@donchapman6727]

Wow... Morphic Resonance described in the 1950s. :0)

[@Obeijin]

Thumbs down on this ? Why ?

[@stevejordan7275]

@ Obeijin Dain bramage. Nothing more than dain bramage.

[@Obeijin]

@@stevejordan7275 Yep...

[@radrook4481]

For the joy that they derive from seeing others annoyed by it.

[@billkasperdotcom]

Monsters from the Id downvoting.

[@crankychris2]

Fear of a shitty remake into endless repeat movies and sitcoms like Star Trek?

[@janetlieb2507]

Commander was arrogant!

[@shroompoot]

Those were great! One thing that was never addressed is, I guess tigers were standard cargo when colonizing other planets. I think they should bring that back. I'm going to call nasa.

[@jimsteele9261]

@@DFDalton1962 But if you look at Morbius's reaction to that speculation, it's clear that he's letting that slide to cover the real explanation. The tiger and the deer were actually created by Morbius's id as companions for Altaira. In the original novel, Doc disects one and from it's internals, finds it couldn't even live.

[@grochomarx2002]

Jim Steele is right. The novelization of the book goes into greater detail, and that is exactly what they say. The deer and the tigers were created my the machine from the mind of Mobius.

[@stevejordan7275]

@@jimsteele9261 Thank you! I Have never read the tie-in novel, but I saw Thirteen Wheeler's comment and was thinking about it after I'd moved on. The idea hit me that Morbius could have created them, and I was going to say so, but then I opened the "replies" section and saw this. As for Morbius' explanation, even if the krell had brought back specimens, did they bring enough to sustain a viable population for 200,000 years? Why did the tigers survive and nothing else? (Presumably they visited other inhabited worlds.) Anyway, thanks for pointing out the material from the book!

[@RedEyed2012]

@@jimsteele9261 That is a satisfying explanation. Otherwise, whatever samples the Krell took from pre-historic Earth would have evolved. Also, silly to think the Krell would bring back samples from all the planets they examined and only kept the ones from Earth. Where's the Giant Slug Kings from Planet Q?

[@SogoTX]

@@RedEyed2012 The tigers ate them? ;)

[@hebneh]

"There are some things man is not MEANT to know."

[@radrook4481]

Judging by the size of the universe and our inability to access it-those things are practically innumerable.

[@RedEyed2012]

That is why Mankind will always be Heroically BETTER than God. God never has to live bowing to a God.

[@hebneh]

"Science fiction - double feature / Dr. X... / will build a creature / See androids fighting / Brad & Janet / Anne Francis stars in - 'Forbidden Planet'..."

[@bonzo874]

and then the grandfather clock chimes

[@AUNTELOISE]

great flick...Ann has a great pair of legs..

[@radrook4481]

She's sexy in a slim kind of way.

[@RedEyed2012]

I'm getting a shovel...

[@3dartistguy]

there was a wedding scene at hte end of the movie. i wished that had showed up.

[@Setebos]

I agree. I had seen a few stills, and I hoped it would've shown up in the anniversary edition.

[@tessierashpoolmg7776]

That would make it better?

[@briancenti5423]

ann fransis was very hot

[@ronvk100]

I want to see a remake that follows the same plot and story line.

[@radrook4481]

They could really do wonders with it today. However, in the hands of the wrong director, it could also be ruined.

[@mydogbrian4814]

> ronvk 100 - Dont they dare! - They already did a great job making Crappy remakes of King Kong, The Thing From Anothed World, The Time Machine & War Of The World. 😝 - The serious Sci-fy fans would be unmerciful in their Critique of a remake! - Now; 🤔 " 🛸 Searchparty ~The Return to Forbidden Planet 🪐" (yet another 20 years later) You : ("but I thought it blew up 💥 at the end?") I might go see it in IMAX-3D 🥤🤩🍿 (front row seat) slurp! - I'll shut up......... { Never underestimate the Krell } - from my original story... ( to script? ) 😏

[@TerryB751]

Great outtakes. However, the Id monster is a Disney cartoon. Ridley Scott's Alien would eat it for lunch.

[@stevejordan7275]

@ Terry B 1) It's not Ridley Scott's alien, it's H R Giger's. 2) Even in its adult form, the alien would be doll-sized to the Id monster. That thing could have easily fit three or four aliens into its mouth at a time, and even acid blood wouldn't give it indigestion since it was being constantly regenerated. FWIW, though the idea of drawing it was brilliant, I found the Id monster to be too cartoony in its movements; they should have had a biologist design its body and then animate it as strictly as if it were a machine (heck, we do that all the time now. Look at the current crop of CGA creatures.) I also found the electronic SFX weren't as threatening as the lion's. It sounded too much like the music because it came from the same folks. It also wasn't as well synchronised as it could have been. Still...it's a hella groundbreaker film, and I love it for it's good bits.

[@theID2]

why would anyone give a thumbs up for this?

[@robertschneider8912]

Because unlike you they recognize a movie way ahead of it's time

[@theID2]

@@robertschneider8912 wow .... what a dumbass remark. i wasn't taking about the movie. i was talking about the outtakes. THAT is what this vid was about!

[@tradewins]

@@theID2 Because it gives some insight into the creative process involved in making the film and what worked and what didn't. You are the one making the "dumbass remark" here.

[@stevejordan7275]

@ theID2 I'd give it a thumbs up because I don't own the Criterion LD, and now I don't have to go get a set to see this bit of cinematic archaeology. (And I can attest that the Criterion disks are brilliant based on the ones I *do* have...and they are/were priced accordingly.)