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AGW, Hollywood and Frankenstein : Comments

By Anthony Cox, published 28/6/2012

Prometheus is a movie that follows in the romantic tradition of Frankenstein's monster, warning mankind not to tamper with nature.

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"On the southern front, if Oz was invaded by aliens (of the UFO kind—or any other kind for matter) I’d much prefer to Abbot to Gillard.
And Christine Milne…god help us… would probably want us to billet them out in the community & pay them welfare."

And Sarah Hansen-Young would demand that we apologise to them for mucking up the planet before they got here.
Posted by Jon J, Thursday, 28 June 2012 12:06:00 PM
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Poirot and BonMot: cop outs; 24; sensible contributions -5.
Posted by cohenite, Thursday, 28 June 2012 12:27:23 PM
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This thread is amusing, bizarre and pointless all in one lovely little package. Just like most of the internet really.

Oh, for the good old days of Hollywood when sci-fi was all about communism.
Posted by Bugsy, Thursday, 28 June 2012 12:56:34 PM
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"Oh, for the good old days of Hollywood when sci-fi was all about communism."

More likely paranoia as in Invasion of the Body Snatchers, which admittedly did symbolise the mindless 'red menace'.

However another film which also was released in 1956 exemplifies the theme of not messing with nature and is a classic; and not just because it features a very young Leslie Nielson.

That movie was Forbidden Planet. In this the ancient Krell provided a deadly lesson for humans; the Krell had undergone their elevation to God-like status by inventing a planet sized machine which converted their thoughts into physicality. Since they were moral, civilised beings they thought no problems would occur.

Little did they realise that their primitive origins, their Id, would surface and destroy them all!

A great movie and a salutory lesson for the Greens who are very Krell like in their moral pretensions.
Posted by cohenite, Thursday, 28 June 2012 2:05:25 PM
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Bugsy,

"This thread is amusing. bizarre and pointless all in one lovely package. Just like most of the internet really."

Yep, just like Bradbury wrote:...except in this case we'll call the effect "cohenite 451".
Posted by Poirot, Thursday, 28 June 2012 2:28:45 PM
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>> I'm sure bonmot has better things to do. <<

Ain't that the truth!

Certainly better things to do than spiral down to the level of Anthony Cox's new-found vocation.

Bugsy's nailed it:

Anthony Cox's article/cohenite's comments - amusing, bizarre and pointless all in one lovely little package.
Posted by bonmot, Friday, 29 June 2012 2:16:00 PM
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