[net.movies] Klaatu Barada Nicotine

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