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Very, very loosely

We are told that the screenwriters were inspired by The Tempest, but by the time they got through with it, only the vaguest similarities remain, and they are generic enough that they could have come from dozens of other sources. In theory the Walter Pidgeon character is Prospero, his daughter Miranda, the robot Ariel and the "mojnsters from the id" Caliban. But it really doesn't hold up.

Posted by Hamlet on March 19, 1997 at 09:53:30
 In Reply to "Forbidden Planet?" posted by mug on March 18, 1997 at 18:29:19


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