Art or Pornography?

"Futuristic retelling of Shakespeare's Tempest, with Freudian overtones. Robby the Robot is a tin-can Ariel, and the Monster from the Id, a bit like the Tasmanian Devil, is Caliban. Esteemed, sometimes over-the-top actor Walter Pidgeon plays Morbius, survivor of the Bellerophon expedition to Altair 4...its members, excepting Morbius and his significant other, were torn limb from limb. Kinda makes you wonder, right? Morbius lives with his daughter Alta (Anne Francis -- remember the reference in "Rocky Horror"?), who reeks of pent-up (Penthouse?) eroticism. She's never seen a man other than her father, hmmmmm. Leslie Nielsen, beginning his career as a serious actor, never dreaming that he'd be doing self-parody one day, shows up with his crew to do follow-up on the Bellerophon mission's colonization effort. Next thing y'know, he's got a nightmare in his backyard. The source? Morbius, eaten up with the Oedipal thing. On the surface, the Morb reasonably assumes that Alta will want to go to earth someday, meet a guy, do the usual (wild) thing...but beneath the surface, he hates the idea, he's seething. Turns out he's hacked the technology that destroyed the Krell race, Altair 4's original inhabitants. They had learned to manifest thought as matter, and damn if they didn't have a few wicked primitive thoughts buried in their triangular heads, sufficient to wipe out the entire race. So you can just imagine what Morbius is into with the Krell brain-booster...."


8/2/2002:
	"Futuristic retelling of Shakespeare's Tempest, with Freudian overtones. Robby the Robot is a tin-can Ariel, and the Monster from the Id, a bit like the Tasmanian Devil, is Caliban. Esteemed, sometimes over-the-top actor Walter Pidgeon plays Morbius, survivor of the Bellerophon expedition to Altair 4...its members, excepting Morbius and his significant other, were torn limb from limb. Kinda makes you wonder, right? Morbius lives with his daughter Alta (Anne Francis -- remember the reference in "Rocky Horror"?), who reeks of pent-up (Penthouse?) eroticism. She's never seen a man other than her father, hmmmmm. Leslie Nielsen, beginning his career as a serious actor, never dreaming that he'd be doing self-parody one day, shows up with his crew to do follow-up on the Bellerophon mission's colonization effort. Next thing y'know, he's got a nightmare in his backyard. The source? Morbius, eaten up with the Oedipal thing. On the surface, the Morb reasonably assumes that Alta will want to go to earth someday, meet a guy, do the usual (wild) thing...but beneath the surface, he hates the idea, he's seething. Turns out he's hacked the technology that destroyed the Krell race, Altair 4's original inhabitants. They had learned to manifest thought as matter, and damn if they didn't have a few wicked primitive thoughts buried in their triangular heads, sufficient to wipe out the entire race. So you can just imagine what Morbius is into with the Krell brain-booster...."