BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.2.1//EN TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VEVENT UID:9768@uucpa.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211020T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211020T203000 DTSTAMP:20211021T020542Z URL:https://www.uucpa.org/events/sci-fi-fantasy-discussion-group-forbidden -planet/ SUMMARY:Sci-Fi / Fantasy Discussion Group: Forbidden Planet DESCRIPTION:Sci-Fi / Fantasy Discussion Group: Forbidden Planet \n\n\nDoes this dashing young actor look familiar? Would you believe Leslie Nielson\ , of later Naked Gun fame?\n\n\nIn our October movie\, he has a more serio us role as the captain of a 22nd century spaceship crew that goes to inves tigate a scientific colony that has mysteriously fallen silent. Forbidden Planet (1956\; directed by Fred Wilcox\; screenplay by Cyril Hume) remains an enduring classic of sci fi moviemaking.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nForbidden Planet pioneered an electronic score and introduced an articulated robot who was a fully-developed character\, a leap forward from most\, extremely low-bud get "rolling tin cans" of the period. (Robby the Robot cost the equivalent of over $1 million in today's dollars.) Its achievements are not only tec hnical\, however. It grapples with numerous psychological and moral issues \, such as artificially augmented intelligence\, our attempts to understan d ancient civilizations\, and the power of our unexplored psyches. Don't b e fooled by the lurid advertising!\n\n \;\n\n[caption id="attachment_2 7566" align="alignright" width="306"] Warning: Any resemblance between eve nts portrayed on poster and in film is highly unlikely.[/caption]\n\nIf yo u want to get really serious\, pair your watching with a reading of Shakes peare's The Tempest\, whose themes and characters are similar enough to th ose of Forbidden Planet that many viewers have concluded the writers were deliberately adapting the play.\n\n\n\n\nStarring Walter Pidgeon\, Anne Fr ancis\, and Nielsen.\n\nWe meet via Zoom\, using this link.\n\nMeeting ID: 859 986 146 76\n\nPasscode: magic\n\n\n\n\n\n \;\n\nThe Sci-Fi and Fa ntasy Discussion Group was meeting via Zoom before it was cool! Lovers of science fiction and fantasy\, at UUCPA and beyond\, have been getting toge ther online to talk about books\, movies\, and television episodes chosen by the group\, every other month since early 2019. Past books include The Broken Earth Trilogy (N. K. Jemisin)\, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (Rober t Heinlein)\, Parable of the Sower (Octavia Butler)\, The Left Hand of Dar kness (Ursula K. Le Guin)\, Red Moon (Kim Stanley Robinson)\; past televis ion and movies include Arrival\, Blink (Doctor Who)\, Serenity and The Tr ain Job (Firefly)\, and The Day the Earth Stood Still.\n\n \;\n\n\nTo receive reminders of future gatherings\, subscribe to the group's very low -volume e-mail list.\n\n\n\n CATEGORIES:Adult,Classes,Learning,Small Groups END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20210314T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR