― Marcel Post (Marcel Post), Saturday, 6 September 2003 15:32 (twenty years ago) link
Morbius's "pad" in FORBIDDEN PLANET (1954?) has dimmer switches!! They were built by the Krel (who as you will recall destroyed themselves and their civilisation via Monsters from the Id).
Morbius isn't strictly speaking a bachelor (he has a daughter, Altaira, who is the cause of the various human Monsters from the Id which begin bounding about).
Anyway style of the Krel abode was much copied (for example by those gadabout hipsters the Tracys of Tracy Island!!)
― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 6 September 2003 15:39 (twenty years ago) link
Can see that, but then you would have to add in the fact that the pod is floating in space, miles from nowhere. Mostly, the common idea of the bachelor pad is for it to be accessible to the young lovelies.
― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Saturday, 6 September 2003 15:40 (twenty years ago) link
― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 6 September 2003 15:41 (twenty years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 6 September 2003 15:49 (twenty years ago) link
― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Saturday, 6 September 2003 15:52 (twenty years ago) link
I don't really know where I'm going with all this--it's in the connected-seeming ideas bumping together phase. The pod/pad thing may be too much of a tangent away from dimmer switches...though something might be made of the inaccessibilty to the young lovelies (aliens aside): the space capsule is the bachelor pad with the entrance sealed--sexuality is located in a determinate elsewhere ("Tell my wife I love her very much" "She knows").
― Marcel Post (Marcel Post), Saturday, 6 September 2003 16:02 (twenty years ago) link
― Marcel Post (Marcel Post), Saturday, 6 September 2003 16:06 (twenty years ago) link
i have to hurry off to ptee's b'day FAP this second, but the early harbinger of this idea outside movies = LP covers of a certain kind of seduction-music EZ listening, no? Lookable up in "Re/SEARCH Incredibly Strange Music Vols 1&2"?
i will also rewatch forbidden planet and report on its decor (sight and sound once did a feature on space-movie fashion design, which dwelt on FP extensively...)
― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 6 September 2003 16:14 (twenty years ago) link
http://64.191.14.225/sapop.html
― Marcel Post (Marcel Post), Saturday, 6 September 2003 16:32 (twenty years ago) link
― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Saturday, 6 September 2003 17:00 (twenty years ago) link