https://vo.rs/tags/robby-the-robot/Latest from the Robby the Robot desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Mon, 11 Dec 2023 09:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/screen/forbidden-planet-shakespeare-in-deep-space/<p>Most 1950s science fiction was shot fast and cheap in black and white, a monster and a scream and a matinee crowd. Then in 1956 MGM, the most opulent studio in Hollywood, poured roughly two million dollars into a CinemaScope space epic in lush Eastmancolor, hired a Disney animator to draw the monster and a pair of avant-garde composers to invent the soundtrack, and built it all on the skeleton of a Shakespeare play. <em>Forbidden Planet</em> is the film that dragged the genre uptown, and its ambitions were so far ahead of its moment that the movies spent the next decade catching up.</p>Mon, 11 Dec 2023 09:00:00 +0000