mrgofor@mmm.UUCP (MKR) (03/17/86)
[Klaatu Barada Nicotine] I just watched "The Day the Earth Stood Still" last night for the first time in a long while. There was one scene in it that was unbelievably funny, although I don't think they meant it. It went something like this: Klaatu, the man from outer space, was shot and wounded and was brought to Walter Reed Hospital. He's in a hospital room, and in the outer room, two doctors are discussing this strange being: Doctor 1: "His body is human, just like ours." Doctor 2: "Except that he's 78 years old, and he doesn't look more than about thirty." Doctor 1: "They have a much longer lifespan than we do. Why?" Doctor 2: (taking out a pack of cigarettes and offering one to the other doc) "Their medicine must be much more advanced than ours." Doctor 1: (taking one of the cigarettes) "Yeah." Okay, that's not verbatim, but rent the videotape and watch it - it's a pretty good movie anyway. -- --MKR The first half of a project takes 90% of the time. The other half takes the other 90%.
jcw@sally.UUCP (What's all this, then?) (03/22/86)
>[Klaatu Barada Nicotine]
Well, I think they DID mean for that juxtaposition. Movies from the late
Fifties and early Sixties were always trying to convey messages, either
obvious or not. Longer life span/cigarette smoking were contradictory.
Although no documented evidence was out on smoking and cancer, many
doctors suspected as much....
Anyway, yes! it's a classic!!!
-See you at the movies,
Cary DiWhay