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Fred M. Wilcox’s 1956 FORBIDDEN PLANET is a landmark in sci fi film. This was the first Hollywood attempt to make a big budget outer space story. The plot is based on Shakespeare’s THE TEMPEST. It is a catalog of midcentury modern futuristic design complete with a flying saucer, robot, ray guns, and the terrifying “id monster”. The finale where technology runs amuck in a destructive way almost seems to refer to AI and data centers. This was also the first major film which used an entirely e...
