The Aliens Look Like...
...Vorlons Babylon 5, or at least, the Vorlon encounter suits. Anybody else feel the same way? It would be pretty cool if JMS was influenced by this movie.
shareTo tell the truth, they reminded me of an octopus.
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I don't know why but they reminded me of the bubble creatures in Lost In Space, in the very first season when they encountered the derelict ship.
shareDid I miss something? I saw an eye in a bubble.
shareNo, that's what I thought too. It was a basic look devoid of some crucial human features, just enough where, they would look unsettling to our eyes. It's possible though that they may have had tentacles. I think they were trying (the extraterrestrials) to show their true form without causing one of the men to panic.
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And it was never explained why the aliens came to earth and why they needed some time. Did they just crash? Were they collecting some earthly stuff? I don’t think I missed that.
shareThey were desperately trying to find their way home. Their circumstances were pretty dire. They were trying to buy their time here on Earth, which was the closest stop to anyting to them resembling civilization within the vicinity of space, hoping to get resources.
Unlike many of these outer space films, especially those from the 1950s, whom most had underlying themes of exploitation, in this film, it was the extraterrestrials themselves who were the victims. They needed our help but their appearance made things rather difficult given the cross-cultural and technological barriers.
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Yea, that was my take. Thanks for the confirmation.
shareYou're welcome. kind of makes you wonder if this film was being critical towards the Cold War, or the paranoia from it, during the time it was made.
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Patricia Bosworth, writing in 1992, counted It Came from Outer Space as one of a number of '50s Hollywood anti-Communist propaganda films in which "aliens from outer space serve as metaphors for the Soviet menace".[11] Bosworth's inclusion of the Korean War-era film as anti-Communist propaganda is at odds with both The American Film Institute and story author Ray Bradbury, who stated, "I wanted to treat the invaders as beings who were not dangerous, and that was very unusual". No Earthlings are killed or injured in the film by the aliens. If they were intended to be stand-ins for the Soviet Union/Communists, as Bosworth professes, their presence in an Arizona town is antithetical to how Communist surrogates were portrayed in Hollywood science fiction films during the Cold War
From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Came_from_Outer_Space