"SEE HOW IT WILL HAPPEN IN YOUR LIFETIME!!"
A classic scene from George Pal's technically accomplished "Conquest of Space" A personal favourite.
Showing posts with label sci-fi classics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sci-fi classics. Show all posts
Sunday, 30 October 2011
Wednesday, 26 October 2011
Electric Snapshot: The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
BEYOND LIES THE INFINITE MICROVERSE - SCOTT CAREY AWAITS HIS ULTIMATE FATE
"So close -- the infinitesimal and the infinite. But suddenly, I knew they were really the two ends of the same concept. The unbelievably small and the unbelievably vast eventually meet, like the closing of a gigantic circle.
"I looked up, as if somehow I would grasp the heavens ... the universe ... worlds beyond number ... God's silver tapestry spread across the night. And in that moment, I knew the answer to the riddle of the infinite. I had thought in terms of Man's own limited dimension. I had presumed upon Nature. That existence begins and ends is Man's conception, not Nature's.
"And I felt my body dwindling, melting, becoming nothing. My fears melted away, and in their place came -- acceptance. All this vast majesty of creation -- it had to mean something. And then I meant something too. Yes, smaller than the smallest, I meant something too. To God, there is no zero. I STILL EXIST!"
"I looked up, as if somehow I would grasp the heavens ... the universe ... worlds beyond number ... God's silver tapestry spread across the night. And in that moment, I knew the answer to the riddle of the infinite. I had thought in terms of Man's own limited dimension. I had presumed upon Nature. That existence begins and ends is Man's conception, not Nature's.
"And I felt my body dwindling, melting, becoming nothing. My fears melted away, and in their place came -- acceptance. All this vast majesty of creation -- it had to mean something. And then I meant something too. Yes, smaller than the smallest, I meant something too. To God, there is no zero. I STILL EXIST!"
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A classic moment in a classic movie.
Sunday, 11 September 2011
Electric Snapshot: Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
WE FOUGHT THE INTERPLANETARY LAW AND THE INTERPLANETARY LAW WON
The arrival of Gort. Intergalactic law enforcer and all round bad ass. A seminal moment in a great classic played out to the electronic sound of Bernard Hermann's haunting score.
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