Canadian screen legend Leslie Nielsen passed away this weekend aged 84. Star of more than 100 movies, it is perhaps his comic genius in Naked Gun and Airplane he'll be most fondly remembered for. But it's his portrayal of the fresh-faced Commander Adams in the groundbreaking sci-fi movie Forbidden Planet that I'll remember him for, a film which basically kicked-off Sci Fi colour cinema and the familiar iconography we have come to love: flying saucers, robots, mad scientists, rescue missions and scary alien creatures, in this case, the fabulous one-toed Monster from the Id. I'll never forget seeing it for the first time in the early 1970's and I shall watch it again in memory of the wonderful Leslie Nielsen. RIP.
Sad news.
ReplyDelete"Forbidden Planet" is of course a true classic, right up there with the very best.
Respect to Mr Nielson.
"We're all part monsters in our subconscious, so we have laws and religion!"
Yes, wonderful, wonderful film. It got me reading Shakespeare ... but i'll forgive it.
ReplyDeleteTo Krel or not to Krel, that is the question!
ReplyDeleteBrilliant...they don't make'em like this anymore!
ReplyDelete"It's not red and there's no rocks in it".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmhwTxosYU4
And just to make it sadder Irvin Kershner has also passed away....but when you leave a body of work like they have they'll always be with us.
ReplyDelete"Luminous beings are we...Not this crude matter"
"We have to get these people to a hospital" "What is it?" "It's a big building with a lot of patients"
We should have a drink to mark these passings ...
ReplyDelete"Will sixty gallons be sufficient?"
LOL Toad...that is one of my favourite scenes in that film. Earl Holliman was great as the cook!
ReplyDeleteI always crack up when Robbie brings him his hooch and he takes a swig and nearly chokes and says:
"Genuine Kansas City bourbon! It's smooth, too!"
Brilliant line!
LOL, mine too, eviled! I like the cook - a guy who knows how to live.
ReplyDeleteIt's not just WHAT he says, but HOW he speaks that word, "smooth" ^_^