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Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind production of My

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Speaker 1: Heart Radio. Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema. This is

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Speaker 1: Rob Lamb and I'm Joe McCormick and Rob. I am

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Speaker 1: so thrilled to be talking about the movie that we've

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Speaker 1: selected for today. La Nave de los Monstros or The

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Speaker 1: Ship of Monsters, an astoundingly, shockingly, devastatingly awesome Mexican film

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Speaker 1: from nineteen sixty in the exquisite genre of science fiction, horror,

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Speaker 1: romantic comedy, musical. Uh. This is a movie about women

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Speaker 1: from the planet Venus who are roaming deep space on

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Speaker 1: a quest for the hunkiest aliens in the galaxy, and

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Speaker 1: skipped from planet to planet collecting reptile cyclops hunks, kissy

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Speaker 1: faced brain mutant hunks, fang head skeleton hunks, until they

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Speaker 1: finally meet the hunkiest hunk of all, a Rascal writer

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Speaker 1: of the Chihuahua Planes, played by the incomparable Lalo Gonzales

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Speaker 1: a k A. L. P. Porro. More on him later.

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Speaker 1: This movie is so much fun. Yeah, this was a

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Speaker 1: real pleasant surprise when you when you brought this this

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Speaker 1: title to to our attention. I I did like some

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Speaker 1: preliminary research I looked it up in the Psycotronic Video

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Speaker 1: Guide and I was like, all right, it's listed there.

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Speaker 1: It sounds that sounds like like, uh like it might

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Speaker 1: be good. So I went into it expecting there to

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Speaker 1: be something awesome about it, you know, i'd find a

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Speaker 1: monster I liked or a performance I liked. I was

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Speaker 1: also expecting a certain amount of dead space in there

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Speaker 1: is sometimes the case with films from this time period

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Speaker 1: wall excellence. Yes, totally. They're not a dull moment. I mean,

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Speaker 1: we've we've watched some sci fi horror movies from the

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Speaker 1: fifties that, uh, you know, they might have a really fun,

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Speaker 1: goofy looking monster, or they might have elements that work

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Speaker 1: really well, not of this Earth comes to mind. But

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Speaker 1: then there will be other moments that are kind of

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Speaker 1: some dead space. Yeah, we're kind of dull, square log dude,

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Speaker 1: it's just standing around delivering dry dialogue. This movie has

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Speaker 1: essentially none of that. It's all killer, no filler exactly.

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Speaker 1: Um oh man, yeah, this this one's this one is great.

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Speaker 1: Would this count as our first science fiction horror, romantic

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Speaker 1: comedy musical, Yes, it definitely would. Um. And it I

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Speaker 1: guess you could. You could rank it as one of

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Speaker 1: our first true musical sorts, as close to a true

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Speaker 1: musical as we've covered. Certainly, some of the movies we've

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Speaker 1: has multiple musical numbers. I mean they're not I mean

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Speaker 1: there's maybe only a limited amount of dance choreography going on,

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Speaker 1: feels like a musical. Oh no, I would defend the

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Speaker 1: dance sequences. There's one dance scene in this movie that

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Speaker 1: is just divine. It's the one later on where Lalo

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Speaker 1: Gonzalez is dancing and singing to the to the Vampire Queen.

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Speaker 1: Spoiler well, we'll get to some twists about this later on.

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Speaker 1: But he's also trying to steal her, like her technology,

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Speaker 1: her space weapon, and so they're dancing around and she's

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Speaker 1: making eyes at him, and he's singing a song about

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Speaker 1: the seasons. Yeah true, okay, but that that felt also

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Speaker 1: very organic. It felt like organic dancing. They just came

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Speaker 1: out of the music in the moment. Yeah, So of course,

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Speaker 1: folks out there. You know, we love our unlikely genre

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Speaker 1: mash ups. We've talked about, uh, supernatural wrestling movie, supernatural

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Speaker 1: biker movies, but this has got to be one of

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Speaker 1: genre in the same thing. I think it is most

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Speaker 1: often referred to as a science fiction comedy, but it's

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Speaker 1: also definitely got horror elements. Like some of the things

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Speaker 1: and the musical numbers are just just wonderful. Yeah, Like

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Speaker 1: h alien hunks. Uh? Oh is that Earth girls are easy? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you might be thinking of Earth girls are easy, But no,

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Speaker 1: But also the musical numbers are are charming, The comedy

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Speaker 1: a good movie poster, and if you look around for

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Speaker 1: boring images. But there's also a terrific image of the

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Speaker 1: and he's holding a woman in one hand like palm

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Speaker 1: that lovely. Godspeed on your quest. I hope you do

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Speaker 1: find it. And now you've been having trouble, right, it

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Speaker 1: seems like merch for this movie is rather scarce on

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Speaker 1: Now I think this poster is the Italian poster for

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Speaker 1: It's La Nave del monstery. Yes, that would be a

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Speaker 1: I highly recommend looking this up. It's just gorgeous. Maybe

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Speaker 1: the film sabrists Pigs? Is that looks our? Well? I

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Speaker 1: So the director of this movie was named Rogalio A Gonzalez,

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Speaker 1: and I was looking around for for good biographical info

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Speaker 1: I've also heard the Conquistador de la Luna is also

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Speaker 1: Regalio Gonzalez's biography. They're actually two major Gonzalez is in

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Speaker 1: he writes at all hours, sometimes living exclusively at night. Now,

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Speaker 1: then adaptation writing credit goes to Alfredo Varella, who lived

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Speaker 1: Now coming to the cast. Uh, this movie again just

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Speaker 1: Against Santo and The Treasure of Dracula. So yes, lots

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00:24:56,520 --> 00:25:00,280
Speaker 1: of Santo connections here. Now, if Guerrero here did the music,

423
00:25:00,320 --> 00:25:02,680
Speaker 1: I don't know if that necessarily would include other types

424
00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:04,960
Speaker 1: of sound design, but I did want to highlight that

425
00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:08,080
Speaker 1: this movie has some really good sound design, like there

426
00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:12,159
Speaker 1: are moments where the monsters are speaking, and it's not

427
00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:14,840
Speaker 1: necessarily music, though I do love the music in this movie.

428
00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:18,680
Speaker 1: But it's like the way that the vocal effects they've

429
00:25:18,680 --> 00:25:21,360
Speaker 1: done on the voiceovers for when the puppets are talking,

430
00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:26,240
Speaker 1: giving them these raspy voices as if they're emanating from

431
00:25:26,280 --> 00:25:30,760
Speaker 1: the caves of Hades, you know, just just great monster voices. Yeah,

432
00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:35,280
Speaker 1: some wonderful Spanish monster voices in this It's it's pretty great. Well,

433
00:25:35,320 --> 00:25:37,000
Speaker 1: should we get into the plot a little bit here?

434
00:25:37,040 --> 00:25:39,159
Speaker 1: We've been talking it up. Let's let's tell folks what

435
00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:41,280
Speaker 1: this movie is about. Okay, Now, we're not going to

436
00:25:41,359 --> 00:25:43,200
Speaker 1: do a full scene by scene on this one. We

437
00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:45,560
Speaker 1: might go a little more detail early on and then

438
00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:47,800
Speaker 1: later for the for the later parts of the movie,

439
00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:50,639
Speaker 1: just talk about some highlights and ideas. But I do

440
00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:53,600
Speaker 1: want to get very granular with the introduction because I

441
00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:56,879
Speaker 1: think the very intro of the movie really sets the

442
00:25:56,960 --> 00:25:59,440
Speaker 1: move fast and break things tone. I would say, in

443
00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:02,520
Speaker 1: the in the much better sense of that that phrase. Um,

444
00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:05,560
Speaker 1: that's the the attitude this film has towards plotting. So

445
00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:08,600
Speaker 1: the very first thing we see is an atom you

446
00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:11,480
Speaker 1: see a little like the old school representation of the

447
00:26:11,520 --> 00:26:15,359
Speaker 1: atomic nucleus with all of its orbitals, and the narrator says,

448
00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:18,480
Speaker 1: this is an atom. Then it shows us a planet.

449
00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:20,280
Speaker 1: At first I thought it was the Moon, but I

450
00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:23,000
Speaker 1: think it's supposed to be planet Earth. And then it says,

451
00:26:23,280 --> 00:26:26,480
Speaker 1: this is the universe. And then it goes on and

452
00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:31,360
Speaker 1: atom is infinitely small, the universe is infinitely large. However,

453
00:26:31,560 --> 00:26:35,480
Speaker 1: everything is ruled by the same laws. Man has learned

454
00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:38,160
Speaker 1: to release the power of the atom, and with it

455
00:26:38,240 --> 00:26:42,879
Speaker 1: wants to conquer the universe. Some really elegant symmetry in

456
00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:46,200
Speaker 1: this opening narration. This is almost a strange poem of sorts.

457
00:26:47,119 --> 00:26:49,119
Speaker 1: And then the narration goes on. It says, but he

458
00:26:49,280 --> 00:26:52,919
Speaker 1: dreams of leaving the Earth and leaving his seed on

459
00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:57,200
Speaker 1: a distant planet, perhaps with the subconscious desire of starting

460
00:26:57,200 --> 00:27:00,440
Speaker 1: a new race, one that will remain ignorant of atomic

461
00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:04,120
Speaker 1: power and warfare. Right, So the idea is that, okay,

462
00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:09,160
Speaker 1: all all species maybe that discover atomic energy and atomic weapons,

463
00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:12,840
Speaker 1: eventually we'll want to go sort of create a new

464
00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:16,080
Speaker 1: version of themselves on a planet that is blissfully free

465
00:27:16,119 --> 00:27:19,160
Speaker 1: of this terrible knowledge. And of course, throughout that while

466
00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:21,160
Speaker 1: this we're getting a lot of we're getting stock footage

467
00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:25,480
Speaker 1: of mushroom clouds from atomic tests. Um. But then but

468
00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:27,800
Speaker 1: then it goes on to say, and that is a

469
00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:31,800
Speaker 1: planet known to us. So here we cut to Venus.

470
00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:36,440
Speaker 1: It says, let's go on a characteristically dark night to Venus,

471
00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:39,760
Speaker 1: and we see these creepy images of lights with a

472
00:27:39,760 --> 00:27:42,840
Speaker 1: hazy four grounds. So they're just kind of uh uh,

473
00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:47,119
Speaker 1: the these very fuzzily defined lights in the background and

474
00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:51,640
Speaker 1: mist and darkness with these figures and cloaks wandering into

475
00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:54,879
Speaker 1: the frame, and it's actually quite creepy. It is I was.

476
00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:58,840
Speaker 1: I found this quite evocative early on. Now I understand

477
00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:01,159
Speaker 1: some of these space scenes we see early in the

478
00:28:01,200 --> 00:28:04,800
Speaker 1: film or are taken from nine seven's Road to the Stars,

479
00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:08,000
Speaker 1: a Soviet film about the possible future of space flight.

480
00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:10,480
Speaker 1: But I'm not sure about these, uh these kind of

481
00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:13,520
Speaker 1: dark hooded figures here with the cosmic backdrop. Yeah, I

482
00:28:13,560 --> 00:28:15,280
Speaker 1: don't know about those. I do think, yeah, I think

483
00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:17,080
Speaker 1: you're right. I was also reading that some of these

484
00:28:17,080 --> 00:28:20,600
Speaker 1: early scenes are just lifted from other films. One thing

485
00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:22,399
Speaker 1: I want to add is that you could easily you

486
00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:24,239
Speaker 1: could be watching this and think, all right, here's our

487
00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:27,040
Speaker 1: sort of out there's introduction, but then we're going to

488
00:28:27,119 --> 00:28:29,160
Speaker 1: go into another movie and this will have little more

489
00:28:29,280 --> 00:28:31,440
Speaker 1: nothing to do with where we're going. But it does

490
00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:33,400
Speaker 1: come back up again. It seems to be in here,

491
00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:36,280
Speaker 1: you know, it seems to be stitched into the plot itself,

492
00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:38,680
Speaker 1: and it's not just something that's just tacked on the

493
00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:40,760
Speaker 1: front to uh, yeah, you know, keep us in our

494
00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:43,160
Speaker 1: seats for a few minutes. That's right. I would say

495
00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:45,720
Speaker 1: that actually this is this is pretty coherent. As as

496
00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:48,360
Speaker 1: bonkers as the plot of this movie is, it all

497
00:28:48,440 --> 00:28:51,160
Speaker 1: kind of ties together, like it it makes sense, even

498
00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:54,479
Speaker 1: though it's nuts. So okay, we learned that the planet

499
00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:58,400
Speaker 1: Venus is preparing for the most important interplanetary space flight

500
00:28:58,520 --> 00:29:01,360
Speaker 1: in their history, and we get shots of the surface

501
00:29:01,440 --> 00:29:04,479
Speaker 1: of Venus where we see a bunch of women lining

502
00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:08,239
Speaker 1: up in military formations outside of a rocket ship and

503
00:29:08,280 --> 00:29:11,040
Speaker 1: there is nary a man in sight. So what's going

504
00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:14,560
Speaker 1: on here? Well, we get some exposition. The regent of

505
00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:16,600
Speaker 1: Venus comes out. I think she's the queen of the

506
00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:19,800
Speaker 1: planet and she's addressing to women. So you have Anna,

507
00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:23,120
Speaker 1: Bertha Leppe, and Lorraine of Alasquez as the characters Gamma

508
00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:26,520
Speaker 1: and Beta, respectively. And they are being given a mission.

509
00:29:27,080 --> 00:29:31,440
Speaker 1: Gamma is the commander in chief of the interplanetary spacecraft.

510
00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:35,000
Speaker 1: So the region of Venus explains the situation, and the

511
00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:38,120
Speaker 1: situation is dire. She says, Okay, the last male on

512
00:29:38,160 --> 00:29:41,400
Speaker 1: our planet is dead. They're all gone. They're dead due

513
00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:44,120
Speaker 1: to an atomic scourge. And so she is giving a

514
00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:47,880
Speaker 1: mission to to to these two brave space pilots. They're

515
00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:50,280
Speaker 1: going to fly around and go to all the planets

516
00:29:50,520 --> 00:29:55,000
Speaker 1: and collect the most perfect male specimens to bring back

517
00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:58,200
Speaker 1: to Venus. And then Gamma says, I will bring you

518
00:29:58,280 --> 00:30:01,520
Speaker 1: the most beautiful male specim and the most perfect of

519
00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:05,080
Speaker 1: them will sire the new generations of Venus. And then

520
00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:07,520
Speaker 1: we get the part I alluded to earlier where the

521
00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:11,720
Speaker 1: regent says to says that Beta, played by Lorrain of Alaskaz.

522
00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:15,200
Speaker 1: She's a foreigner to Venus. She's the daughter of Or,

523
00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:18,440
Speaker 1: the planet of Shadows, and she has been assigned to

524
00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:21,840
Speaker 1: travel alongside Gamma on her mission because she's the greatest

525
00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:25,320
Speaker 1: space navigator on the planet. And then the last thing

526
00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:28,880
Speaker 1: she says to them is in you we trust. Question

527
00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:31,840
Speaker 1: about Gamma's outfit, Did you ever figure out what the

528
00:30:31,920 --> 00:30:34,560
Speaker 1: thing on her shoulder is. Oh yeah, it kind of

529
00:30:34,560 --> 00:30:38,200
Speaker 1: has this kind of tassely feathery thing um, but also

530
00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:41,080
Speaker 1: might be an antenna. I'm not sure. Maybe she has

531
00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:44,520
Speaker 1: like wireless in in the suit. I'm not sure. I

532
00:30:44,560 --> 00:30:46,480
Speaker 1: couldn't tell if it was supposed to be decorative or

533
00:30:46,520 --> 00:30:50,480
Speaker 1: supposed to be technology. But yeah, she has this array

534
00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:54,000
Speaker 1: of spriggs of something coming off of her left shoulder

535
00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:55,840
Speaker 1: and I don't know what they are, and they're there

536
00:30:55,880 --> 00:30:59,040
Speaker 1: like the whole movie. She changes outfits, but that's always there.

537
00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:01,600
Speaker 1: It looks kind of like she had some of those

538
00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:04,600
Speaker 1: like wire fairy wings, but some somebody crumpled them up

539
00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:07,200
Speaker 1: and moved them all to one shoulder. I don't know. Yeah,

540
00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:09,200
Speaker 1: I mean it's stylish. I mean that seems to have

541
00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:11,880
Speaker 1: been the main intent here is that these women should

542
00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:15,360
Speaker 1: look extremely stylish as they travel through space. They look

543
00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:19,040
Speaker 1: super cool and it is It has announced via footage

544
00:31:19,120 --> 00:31:22,400
Speaker 1: from another movie that the orbits have aligned and so

545
00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:24,320
Speaker 1: it is time for them to depart, so we see

546
00:31:24,320 --> 00:31:27,080
Speaker 1: Gamma and Beta. They enter the interior of their spaceship,

547
00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:29,560
Speaker 1: which maybe we should describe because a lot of the

548
00:31:29,560 --> 00:31:31,840
Speaker 1: action of the film will take place here. So they're

549
00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:35,560
Speaker 1: like two pilot seats where they're operating these big control panels.

550
00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:39,240
Speaker 1: I guess Beta is the navigator and Gammas the commander,

551
00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:42,760
Speaker 1: and then behind them there is all this heavy machinery

552
00:31:42,840 --> 00:31:45,800
Speaker 1: which looked like real heavy machinery, not just like something

553
00:31:45,840 --> 00:31:47,719
Speaker 1: on the set. I don't know what they were filming.

554
00:31:47,760 --> 00:31:51,200
Speaker 1: Maybe they were uh, generators of some kind, like these

555
00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:55,120
Speaker 1: big gears working back and forth. Yeah, the set is great.

556
00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:58,040
Speaker 1: It it definitely. They do a great job establishing it

557
00:31:58,080 --> 00:32:00,680
Speaker 1: as the command center of this space. I've got kind

558
00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:05,000
Speaker 1: of tones of observatory from parts of it, but I'm

559
00:32:05,040 --> 00:32:08,480
Speaker 1: not really sure because clearly huge parts of it are

560
00:32:08,520 --> 00:32:10,920
Speaker 1: an actual set, so it's not just that they went

561
00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:13,719
Speaker 1: into an observatory or into a factory and started filming there.

562
00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:16,840
Speaker 1: There's also some some really elaborate stuff they constructed, so

563
00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:19,800
Speaker 1: I don't know. Yeah, there are these big clusters of

564
00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:24,040
Speaker 1: balls up on the ceiling, like like gigantic grapes. I

565
00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:26,040
Speaker 1: don't know what those are supposed to be. And then

566
00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:28,920
Speaker 1: there is a big platform looking out over the rest

567
00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:32,440
Speaker 1: of the set like a preacher's pulpit, and there's I

568
00:32:32,440 --> 00:32:36,480
Speaker 1: don't know, various weird glass bulbs and files in the background.

569
00:32:36,560 --> 00:32:40,320
Speaker 1: And just rivets and metal everywhere. It's cool. And then

570
00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:43,240
Speaker 1: while the credits play, we see them setting down on

571
00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:46,600
Speaker 1: strange worlds, including this one world that's full of crooked

572
00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:49,480
Speaker 1: spires of rock that are sort of the same size

573
00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:52,479
Speaker 1: and shape as the rocket that lands, except they're you know,

574
00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:56,040
Speaker 1: they're stony and jagged. Uh And I guess this must

575
00:32:56,080 --> 00:32:58,960
Speaker 1: be happening off screen. But during this credit sequence, were

576
00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:01,480
Speaker 1: to understand that they're out there collecting all of the

577
00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:04,800
Speaker 1: males along their journey, which they tend to keep frozen

578
00:33:04,840 --> 00:33:08,120
Speaker 1: in giant cubes of ice. And they accomplished this by

579
00:33:08,160 --> 00:33:11,680
Speaker 1: operating a camera flash at them. Uh and and it

580
00:33:11,720 --> 00:33:14,360
Speaker 1: made me wonder which of the male monsters comes from

581
00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:16,880
Speaker 1: the spike rock planet. I don't know, it could be

582
00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:19,200
Speaker 1: home to. Well, we we know this is not the

583
00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:21,400
Speaker 1: surface of Mars, because we know what Mars looks like,

584
00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:24,160
Speaker 1: so right, that's where brain Boy comes from. Yeah, yeah,

585
00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:25,840
Speaker 1: it's not the Prince of Mars, so it must be

586
00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:27,360
Speaker 1: must be one of the others. This would be a

587
00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:31,800
Speaker 1: suitable planet, and perhaps for the the skeletal, fleshless being

588
00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:35,120
Speaker 1: h yeah, yeah, Billy Bones. Yeah, but we'll we'll get

589
00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:37,800
Speaker 1: to him in a minute. Another major development on the

590
00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:40,760
Speaker 1: initial premises that somewhere along the way, Gamma and Beta

591
00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:44,800
Speaker 1: acquire an alien robot called Tour, and Tour is a

592
00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:47,160
Speaker 1: major helper of their mission as they go along. That

593
00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:50,040
Speaker 1: he wasn't there as originally, but they say that they again,

594
00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:53,760
Speaker 1: in a strange bit of just just ever so briefly

595
00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:57,400
Speaker 1: alluded to world building, they say that they collected him

596
00:33:57,480 --> 00:34:00,600
Speaker 1: from a dead planet where all of the human's had

597
00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:04,280
Speaker 1: annihilated themselves with atomic war. Yeah. He's key to the

598
00:34:04,280 --> 00:34:07,080
Speaker 1: whole operation though, because he has the ability to freeze

599
00:34:07,120 --> 00:34:12,040
Speaker 1: the monsters in blocks of some sort of ice um. Otherwise,

600
00:34:12,520 --> 00:34:14,600
Speaker 1: I mean, they could still handle the monsters. They prove

601
00:34:14,680 --> 00:34:17,560
Speaker 1: that later on they have space flamethrowers, but this is

602
00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:20,120
Speaker 1: a huge help. Well now I think they can also

603
00:34:20,160 --> 00:34:24,280
Speaker 1: freeze the monsters with their little like camera flashbox, I think.

604
00:34:25,160 --> 00:34:28,200
Speaker 1: But but he's very helpful for he's very helpful because

605
00:34:28,239 --> 00:34:32,719
Speaker 1: he contains these encyclopedias of knowledge about all the planets. Right, yeah,

606
00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:36,120
Speaker 1: that's right, And these are often really funny sometimes with

607
00:34:36,200 --> 00:34:39,920
Speaker 1: some you know, kind of I guess political satire thrown

608
00:34:39,920 --> 00:34:44,399
Speaker 1: in there. They feel like asking about Mexico and stuff, right, Yes,

609
00:34:44,520 --> 00:34:48,000
Speaker 1: so so eventually the robot tells them their spacecraft is

610
00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:51,080
Speaker 1: suffering mechanical trouble and they got to set down on

611
00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:54,200
Speaker 1: the nearest planet for repairs. Well, what's the nearest planet,

612
00:34:54,600 --> 00:34:58,439
Speaker 1: the robots says, it is in Tarsus one sub two,

613
00:34:58,680 --> 00:35:02,399
Speaker 1: planetoid of the four the order. And so how does

614
00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:05,600
Speaker 1: the robot know what this planet is? Well, he says,

615
00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:08,080
Speaker 1: you know, before the men of his planet all destroyed

616
00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:12,400
Speaker 1: themselves with nuclear war, they left these encyclopedias of knowledge

617
00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:16,080
Speaker 1: inside his computer brain. And the men of his planet

618
00:35:16,160 --> 00:35:21,440
Speaker 1: had originally wanted to explore this planetoid and Tarsi sub two,

619
00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:23,840
Speaker 1: they wanted to explore it, but then they learned a

620
00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:26,480
Speaker 1: bit a bit more about it and ultimately decided it

621
00:35:26,560 --> 00:35:29,680
Speaker 1: was not worth it because, quote, it is inhabited by

622
00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:32,640
Speaker 1: beings that seem to be intelligent, but they do not

623
00:35:32,760 --> 00:35:36,560
Speaker 1: know what they want and enjoy destroying each other. And

624
00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:39,759
Speaker 1: of course what planets he talking about, it's us and

625
00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:43,000
Speaker 1: that's that's pretty spot on. Yeah, So Gamma invade it,

626
00:35:43,080 --> 00:35:46,400
Speaker 1: perform a perilous emergency landing, and they set down in

627
00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:49,760
Speaker 1: the Mexican state of Chihuahua, which is in the central north.

628
00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:53,440
Speaker 1: It's along the border with Texas and New Mexico. Uh

629
00:35:53,480 --> 00:35:56,279
Speaker 1: and and so they're setting down their spaceship. And as

630
00:35:56,320 --> 00:35:59,839
Speaker 1: that's happening, we get our first meeting with Lalo Gonzalez

631
00:36:00,160 --> 00:36:03,680
Speaker 1: as a character named Loriano. What's he doing, Well, of

632
00:36:03,719 --> 00:36:06,200
Speaker 1: course he is out riding his horse and singing a

633
00:36:06,239 --> 00:36:10,279
Speaker 1: love song to nobody in particular. And the first scene

634
00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:13,000
Speaker 1: where we meet him, you just kind of instantly fall

635
00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:15,080
Speaker 1: in love with this, Like he sees the rocket ship,

636
00:36:15,200 --> 00:36:17,080
Speaker 1: he thinks it's a shooting star, and he makes a

637
00:36:17,120 --> 00:36:21,000
Speaker 1: wish and his wish is for uh is for quote,

638
00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:23,640
Speaker 1: I hope for a pretty girl, but one who loves me.

639
00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:26,520
Speaker 1: And then he sings a song about wishing on this

640
00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:28,799
Speaker 1: star to find a woman to fall in love with.

641
00:36:29,960 --> 00:36:32,359
Speaker 1: In my translation, he kept saying he was searching for

642
00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:35,120
Speaker 1: a divine love. But then the other half of the

643
00:36:35,160 --> 00:36:38,360
Speaker 1: song is about how everybody incorrectly believes that he is

644
00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:41,480
Speaker 1: no good. So the lyrics include things like they say,

645
00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:43,799
Speaker 1: I'm a crook and a liar and I chicken out

646
00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:46,759
Speaker 1: in the end, but it's not true. And then he

647
00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:49,799
Speaker 1: gets you, remember when when he gives the horse guarantee,

648
00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:52,520
Speaker 1: He's like, if you don't believe me, ask my horse,

649
00:36:52,600 --> 00:36:54,560
Speaker 1: my horse will tell you I never tell a lie,

650
00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:58,560
Speaker 1: and then the horse starts like bucking and neighing. Oh yeah, yeah,

651
00:36:58,560 --> 00:37:01,600
Speaker 1: there's some fun stuff. When you first see this character,

652
00:37:01,640 --> 00:37:04,120
Speaker 1: there might be a temptation to think, Okay, this is

653
00:37:04,120 --> 00:37:06,759
Speaker 1: gonna be just a shining white night. You know that

654
00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:08,920
Speaker 1: he's going to be a pure hero. But then you

655
00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:13,400
Speaker 1: quickly realize no, he's a barred if not an actual rogue,

656
00:37:14,239 --> 00:37:17,359
Speaker 1: but a very funny one. Like he's The comedy begins

657
00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:19,600
Speaker 1: to shine through, and there's some stuff with him, like

658
00:37:19,640 --> 00:37:23,760
Speaker 1: the way he's riding his horse, either intentionally or accidentally,

659
00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:25,400
Speaker 1: but I believe it must be part of the character.

660
00:37:25,600 --> 00:37:27,680
Speaker 1: You get the idea that he's not that good at

661
00:37:27,760 --> 00:37:31,319
Speaker 1: riding the horse. There's some awkward dismounts, which adds to

662
00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:34,480
Speaker 1: the comedic nature of this character. You know, I was

663
00:37:34,520 --> 00:37:36,160
Speaker 1: trying They may have said it in the movie and

664
00:37:36,160 --> 00:37:37,960
Speaker 1: it went past me. I was trying to figure out

665
00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:41,600
Speaker 1: what does Loriano do? I was thinking, maybe he's supposed

666
00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:43,400
Speaker 1: to be a rancher, but you don't really see much

667
00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:46,520
Speaker 1: about that. Is he just a professional liar? He has

668
00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:49,680
Speaker 1: a cow. He spend a lot of time with that cow,

669
00:37:50,840 --> 00:37:53,799
Speaker 1: so I think he's technically a rancher. Maybe that's part

670
00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:56,759
Speaker 1: of the joke, is that he's because the character I'm

671
00:37:56,800 --> 00:38:00,239
Speaker 1: to understand his performance character is supposed to be a

672
00:38:00,239 --> 00:38:03,960
Speaker 1: North Mexican rancher. But maybe the joke is, Okay, he

673
00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:07,200
Speaker 1: only has this one cow, and it may or might

674
00:38:07,280 --> 00:38:09,480
Speaker 1: not even be that good of a milk producer, depending

675
00:38:09,520 --> 00:38:12,239
Speaker 1: on the joke. But but basically all he does is

676
00:38:12,239 --> 00:38:15,040
Speaker 1: like right around singing and then go go into town

677
00:38:15,040 --> 00:38:18,600
Speaker 1: and tell awesome lies. So we see him go into

678
00:38:18,600 --> 00:38:21,919
Speaker 1: a bar and everybody's drinking and he's telling these tall

679
00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:25,160
Speaker 1: tales about like how he foiled a robbery with a

680
00:38:25,200 --> 00:38:28,160
Speaker 1: bunch of bandits and he killed two bandits with one

681
00:38:28,280 --> 00:38:31,080
Speaker 1: bullet left in his gun by holding a knife in

682
00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:33,439
Speaker 1: front of the barrel and splitting the bullet in half

683
00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:36,440
Speaker 1: so it hit them both. And then he starts shifting

684
00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:40,799
Speaker 1: from here to these increasingly bizarre stories about unusual bears

685
00:38:40,880 --> 00:38:45,520
Speaker 1: and then dinosaurs. Did your translation include dinosaurs? It did? Yes.

686
00:38:46,320 --> 00:38:48,239
Speaker 1: Wasn't entirely sure what to make of that. At first,

687
00:38:48,280 --> 00:38:50,239
Speaker 1: I thought maybe it's a joke about chickens, And I

688
00:38:50,320 --> 00:38:54,120
Speaker 1: was thinking, oh, this is actually scientifically accurate in some respects.

689
00:38:54,120 --> 00:38:56,960
Speaker 1: But but then there's the thing about dinosaurs without bones,

690
00:38:57,000 --> 00:38:59,920
Speaker 1: and I'm not sure, so maybe something's something is ultimately

691
00:39:00,040 --> 00:39:02,080
Speaker 1: lost in translation, but it still came off is very

692
00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:05,279
Speaker 1: fun and funny. It seems like normally he just he

693
00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:08,560
Speaker 1: is want to tell stories about dinosaurs out by the sawmill,

694
00:39:08,760 --> 00:39:13,000
Speaker 1: dinosaurs without bones, boneless boneless buffalo dinosaurs. But in this

695
00:39:13,040 --> 00:39:17,080
Speaker 1: whole situation he almost sort of gets into a duel

696
00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:22,960
Speaker 1: like a shoot shoot out a scenarios name Rubyano or something.

697
00:39:23,280 --> 00:39:25,880
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, but then kind of talks his way, jokes

698
00:39:25,880 --> 00:39:27,200
Speaker 1: his way out of it. So it may do a

699
00:39:27,239 --> 00:39:29,840
Speaker 1: great job of establishing his character. Like no, you know,

700
00:39:29,920 --> 00:39:34,000
Speaker 1: everybody loves him, but also everybody's a little sick of him. Um,

701
00:39:34,040 --> 00:39:36,280
Speaker 1: you know, he's he's a likable guy, but maybe he's

702
00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:40,120
Speaker 1: not really doing the most important job in town, whatever

703
00:39:40,280 --> 00:39:42,560
Speaker 1: it may be. You almost get the impression that if

704
00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:45,760
Speaker 1: he were to encounter real monsters later, nobody would believe

705
00:39:45,840 --> 00:39:50,160
Speaker 1: him because he has cried dinosaur too many times. Meanwhile,

706
00:39:51,040 --> 00:39:53,279
Speaker 1: after Gamma and made a land on Earth, they come

707
00:39:53,280 --> 00:39:56,919
Speaker 1: out to explore their surroundings and there is this hilarious

708
00:39:56,920 --> 00:39:59,880
Speaker 1: scene where they just appear to get extreme pleasure of

709
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:05,000
Speaker 1: the discovery of breathable atmosphere. Yes, yeah, this is a

710
00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:06,759
Speaker 1: great part of my My wife actually walked in the

711
00:40:06,840 --> 00:40:09,200
Speaker 1: room and solve this parton. She was laughing as well.

712
00:40:09,320 --> 00:40:12,760
Speaker 1: They're just totally turned on by this planet's atmosphere um,

713
00:40:12,840 --> 00:40:15,239
Speaker 1: and they do a great job of playing this up. Yeah.

714
00:40:15,360 --> 00:40:18,319
Speaker 1: And so the two aliens come across Loriano on the

715
00:40:18,360 --> 00:40:22,200
Speaker 1: road while he's out wandering, and they are just immediately smitten, right,

716
00:40:22,280 --> 00:40:25,359
Speaker 1: as I guess nearly anyone would be. But so there

717
00:40:25,400 --> 00:40:27,759
Speaker 1: are some some jokes about them trying to find a

718
00:40:27,840 --> 00:40:30,040
Speaker 1: language where they can both communicate, but it turns out

719
00:40:30,040 --> 00:40:32,600
Speaker 1: the aliens do speak Spanish. I think they've got sort

720
00:40:32,640 --> 00:40:36,280
Speaker 1: of encyclopedic knowledge of all languages in the Solar System.

721
00:40:36,520 --> 00:40:39,799
Speaker 1: And then through a radio uplink to their robot tour

722
00:40:40,360 --> 00:40:43,000
Speaker 1: they like, they look things up. They like in the

723
00:40:43,080 --> 00:40:47,319
Speaker 1: middle of the conversation freeze Loriano and then look up

724
00:40:47,640 --> 00:40:51,160
Speaker 1: like Mexico to learn things about it. And then also

725
00:40:51,239 --> 00:40:53,680
Speaker 1: when he asks our our YouTube from the circus, I

726
00:40:53,719 --> 00:40:56,640
Speaker 1: assume because of the strange way they're dressed, Uh, they

727
00:40:56,640 --> 00:40:59,319
Speaker 1: have to look up what a circus is. And this

728
00:40:59,400 --> 00:41:02,080
Speaker 1: was really fun. Tour gets back to them and says, well,

729
00:41:02,200 --> 00:41:05,880
Speaker 1: circuses where animals do human jobs and humans do animals joms.

730
00:41:06,920 --> 00:41:10,520
Speaker 1: I love that part. Yeah yeah, um but so oh

731
00:41:10,560 --> 00:41:14,000
Speaker 1: and then they're also like, so hey, Loriana or all

732
00:41:14,080 --> 00:41:16,600
Speaker 1: earthmen as gorgeous as you, and he's like, no, I

733
00:41:16,680 --> 00:41:20,480
Speaker 1: admit it, No they're not, because it should be stressed.

734
00:41:20,880 --> 00:41:24,399
Speaker 1: All the males that they have kidnapped thus far are

735
00:41:24,680 --> 00:41:29,280
Speaker 1: literal monsters. Yeah, they're not even remotely human. They're big,

736
00:41:29,360 --> 00:41:34,560
Speaker 1: like scaly or shaggy or pulsating monsters, and so yeah,

737
00:41:34,680 --> 00:41:36,920
Speaker 1: like it makes sense that they see this guy and

738
00:41:36,920 --> 00:41:39,600
Speaker 1: they're like, well, well heck, we can stop the project

739
00:41:39,680 --> 00:41:42,279
Speaker 1: right here, right, So they split. They tell him they'll

740
00:41:42,280 --> 00:41:44,360
Speaker 1: meet him later, and then they go to their ship

741
00:41:44,400 --> 00:41:47,759
Speaker 1: to phone home. They're like, Commander, we have hunks uh,

742
00:41:47,800 --> 00:41:50,239
Speaker 1: and they're going to bring him back to Venus and

743
00:41:50,320 --> 00:41:53,040
Speaker 1: so I don't know, I think some other stuff happens here.

744
00:41:53,040 --> 00:41:56,520
Speaker 1: But then eventually we get back to the home of Loriana,

745
00:41:56,600 --> 00:41:59,080
Speaker 1: where he also he He lives with his little brother

746
00:41:59,160 --> 00:42:01,520
Speaker 1: who he takes care of, named Chewy, and Chewi plays

747
00:42:01,560 --> 00:42:04,319
Speaker 1: a decisive role in the climax of the film. Uh

748
00:42:04,360 --> 00:42:07,840
Speaker 1: in a big violent showdown with some monsters. But eventually

749
00:42:07,960 --> 00:42:11,600
Speaker 1: Gamma and Beta come by Loriano and Chewie's house where

750
00:42:11,600 --> 00:42:13,600
Speaker 1: they want to learn about love. Like they show up

751
00:42:13,640 --> 00:42:15,080
Speaker 1: at the door and they're like, hey, we don't have

752
00:42:15,160 --> 00:42:17,319
Speaker 1: love on our planet. Can you explain to us what

753
00:42:17,400 --> 00:42:20,360
Speaker 1: love is? And he explains love by singing a song

754
00:42:20,480 --> 00:42:24,560
Speaker 1: accompanied by a juke box that's in his house. Yeah.

755
00:42:24,680 --> 00:42:27,000
Speaker 1: I I didn't know what to make of this. I

756
00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:31,279
Speaker 1: mean it, it certainly pays off in the plot, uh,

757
00:42:31,320 --> 00:42:34,320
Speaker 1: But I was asking myself why why would there be

758
00:42:34,360 --> 00:42:37,040
Speaker 1: a jukebox in the house, not only a jukebox, but

759
00:42:37,080 --> 00:42:40,080
Speaker 1: a jukebox they have to use a quarter on, so

760
00:42:40,120 --> 00:42:43,160
Speaker 1: they're they're having to pay to use it. And I

761
00:42:43,239 --> 00:42:45,840
Speaker 1: don't I'd never heard of this being a thing, And

762
00:42:45,880 --> 00:42:48,200
Speaker 1: maybe it wasn't. Maybe it just makes sense in this film.

763
00:42:48,280 --> 00:42:51,360
Speaker 1: Who would come and collect the quarters for the jukebox

764
00:42:51,400 --> 00:42:54,360
Speaker 1: inside your house? I don't know. But this man loves music,

765
00:42:54,480 --> 00:43:05,200
Speaker 1: so maybe it's a good investment. But I think here

766
00:43:05,239 --> 00:43:07,040
Speaker 1: actually is where we start to get a taste of

767
00:43:07,120 --> 00:43:11,440
Speaker 1: conflict between the visiting aliens, because because it starts to

768
00:43:11,480 --> 00:43:15,320
Speaker 1: become clear that maybe both Gamma and Beta want Loriano

769
00:43:15,480 --> 00:43:19,239
Speaker 1: for themselves, but Loriano seems to only love Gamma. He's

770
00:43:19,280 --> 00:43:22,319
Speaker 1: just like not in the Beta, right, He's just not

771
00:43:22,440 --> 00:43:24,480
Speaker 1: into her. And you know, he's very upfront, you know,

772
00:43:24,560 --> 00:43:28,719
Speaker 1: he's he's very clear that he's not French. Uh, he's

773
00:43:28,719 --> 00:43:31,840
Speaker 1: not unterested in two women. He wants one woman and

774
00:43:31,840 --> 00:43:34,239
Speaker 1: and and there there has to be this mutual attraction there.

775
00:43:34,239 --> 00:43:36,520
Speaker 1: So yeah, he's just not feeling it with Beta. It's

776
00:43:36,560 --> 00:43:39,399
Speaker 1: literally in the song, he's like singing lyrics about how

777
00:43:39,440 --> 00:43:41,799
Speaker 1: he says love is when two people love each other.

778
00:43:41,880 --> 00:43:45,080
Speaker 1: If there were three, that would be French. They're at

779
00:43:45,160 --> 00:43:48,319
Speaker 1: least a couple of of digs at France in the

780
00:43:48,400 --> 00:43:51,040
Speaker 1: picture and also a really awesome dig at Texas at

781
00:43:51,040 --> 00:43:55,000
Speaker 1: one point. So the comedy is pretty I forgot that part.

782
00:43:55,239 --> 00:43:57,840
Speaker 1: It's something about, oh, they like big things in Texas,

783
00:43:57,920 --> 00:43:59,520
Speaker 1: what would they think of this? But I don't I

784
00:43:59,520 --> 00:44:02,800
Speaker 1: can't remember what they were referencing. Okay, was it a monster?

785
00:44:03,120 --> 00:44:06,239
Speaker 1: Probably a monster, yeah, or spaceship or something. But Loriano

786
00:44:06,360 --> 00:44:09,480
Speaker 1: is also so lovable in the gentlemanly way. He sort

787
00:44:09,480 --> 00:44:12,720
Speaker 1: of explains things to Beata, so she she also wants

788
00:44:12,760 --> 00:44:16,120
Speaker 1: him for herself, but he's like, hey, you know you

789
00:44:16,160 --> 00:44:19,640
Speaker 1: can't make somebody love you look I like this other lady. Yeah,

790
00:44:19,680 --> 00:44:22,600
Speaker 1: And luckily he has some songs prepared about the nature

791
00:44:22,640 --> 00:44:25,040
Speaker 1: of love and he sings them for us, and so

792
00:44:25,120 --> 00:44:28,520
Speaker 1: that's very Yeah. Now we haven't really gotten into the

793
00:44:28,520 --> 00:44:31,480
Speaker 1: monsters yet, so maybe we should explain the monster subplot

794
00:44:31,520 --> 00:44:34,200
Speaker 1: and then how that links up with with what's going

795
00:44:34,200 --> 00:44:37,879
Speaker 1: on with Loriano and Gamma and Beta. Okay, yeah, let's

796
00:44:37,960 --> 00:44:41,359
Speaker 1: let's dive into these monsters and certainly jump in if

797
00:44:41,400 --> 00:44:43,360
Speaker 1: I if you have a different name than I have,

798
00:44:43,440 --> 00:44:46,799
Speaker 1: because I think the name did differed slightly. So first

799
00:44:46,840 --> 00:44:50,080
Speaker 1: of all, let's talk about this big reptilian cyclops character.

800
00:44:50,160 --> 00:44:52,520
Speaker 1: He's the one on that that Italian movie poster that

801
00:44:52,560 --> 00:44:57,120
Speaker 1: I that I described earlier. This creature's name is uck

802
00:44:57,800 --> 00:45:01,000
Speaker 1: uh spelled uk and he is the King of the

803
00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:04,400
Speaker 1: Fire Planet. Yeah, and so he was also called Uk

804
00:45:04,560 --> 00:45:06,920
Speaker 1: in mind, and he speaks in a kind of brutish way.

805
00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:10,640
Speaker 1: He says like me King fire Planet. Yeah, and he's

806
00:45:10,640 --> 00:45:12,600
Speaker 1: all actually, he's like, we're gonna fight, you know. That's

807
00:45:12,640 --> 00:45:16,280
Speaker 1: that's he's he's a very brutal kind of an alien.

808
00:45:16,640 --> 00:45:19,680
Speaker 1: But then we also have a cerebral alien. And when

809
00:45:19,680 --> 00:45:21,960
Speaker 1: I mean cerebral. I mean, he's got a big old brain,

810
00:45:22,040 --> 00:45:26,440
Speaker 1: a big pulsating brain. This is the Prince of Mars. Uh,

811
00:45:26,520 --> 00:45:30,279
Speaker 1: this is in my version, uh tagoul in mind he

812
00:45:30,400 --> 00:45:34,440
Speaker 1: I think he was Tawalla but he Yeah, so he's

813
00:45:34,480 --> 00:45:36,759
Speaker 1: the Prince of Mars. I think you only maybe find

814
00:45:36,760 --> 00:45:39,239
Speaker 1: that out later. I'm not sure, but at first he

815
00:45:39,360 --> 00:45:42,200
Speaker 1: just looks kind of like a I mean, I will

816
00:45:42,200 --> 00:45:44,680
Speaker 1: say again, the monster design is great. He's got these

817
00:45:44,719 --> 00:45:48,239
Speaker 1: kind of trends lucent layers over his eyeballs and you

818
00:45:48,280 --> 00:45:53,040
Speaker 1: can see these obscure pupils moving around back behind the

819
00:45:53,120 --> 00:45:55,680
Speaker 1: translucent layer. It's a very creepy effect. I want to

820
00:45:55,719 --> 00:46:00,279
Speaker 1: just emphasize yet again sometimes how it is strangely airy

821
00:46:00,480 --> 00:46:04,799
Speaker 1: the monsters are for this light musical, romantic comedy. Yeah,

822
00:46:04,840 --> 00:46:06,919
Speaker 1: a lot of love went into the craft of making

823
00:46:06,960 --> 00:46:09,759
Speaker 1: these monsters. And yeah, you're not gonna watch this and think,

824
00:46:09,760 --> 00:46:12,000
Speaker 1: oh my goodness, real monsters. You know, they look like

825
00:46:12,080 --> 00:46:14,919
Speaker 1: movie monsters of this time period. But they're they're really good.

826
00:46:15,040 --> 00:46:17,919
Speaker 1: I I loved watching them do their thing. But he's

827
00:46:18,000 --> 00:46:20,879
Speaker 1: kind of like the brain mutant from This Island Earth,

828
00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:25,200
Speaker 1: except maybe actually even more more lovely. Uh. He's got

829
00:46:25,239 --> 00:46:27,879
Speaker 1: the big brain head, the creepy eyes, and he's got

830
00:46:27,920 --> 00:46:31,360
Speaker 1: this like this fish like kissy mouth, the kind of

831
00:46:31,400 --> 00:46:35,960
Speaker 1: trumpet lips that work back and forth in a disgusting manner. Yeah,

832
00:46:36,120 --> 00:46:37,719
Speaker 1: all of these, you know, all of these you can

833
00:46:37,719 --> 00:46:41,040
Speaker 1: certainly connect to other monster traditions and other films at

834
00:46:41,040 --> 00:46:43,160
Speaker 1: the time period. But I love how the stinct they

835
00:46:43,160 --> 00:46:47,080
Speaker 1: are um in the stuff to blow your mind. Discord.

836
00:46:47,160 --> 00:46:49,839
Speaker 1: Somebody had shared a video about the sameness of monsters

837
00:46:49,840 --> 00:46:54,040
Speaker 1: in modern pictures um, which is an interesting argument that

838
00:46:54,600 --> 00:46:57,680
Speaker 1: maybe I have I have some critiques on, but you can't.

839
00:46:57,719 --> 00:47:00,200
Speaker 1: You cannot say that these monsters are all the aim

840
00:47:00,200 --> 00:47:02,239
Speaker 1: in this picture. They all feel the stink, they feel

841
00:47:02,280 --> 00:47:07,320
Speaker 1: like they definitely arise from different planets, from different different

842
00:47:07,520 --> 00:47:11,120
Speaker 1: evolutionary paths, and and you get a taste of their

843
00:47:11,160 --> 00:47:13,520
Speaker 1: culture as well. That's right. Yeah, So we had the

844
00:47:13,560 --> 00:47:16,319
Speaker 1: brain mutant, he's the Prince of Mars. But then there

845
00:47:16,440 --> 00:47:20,880
Speaker 1: is also this uh furree spider beetle. He's like a

846
00:47:20,920 --> 00:47:25,440
Speaker 1: cross between a giant killer insect and a squatch. Yeah,

847
00:47:25,520 --> 00:47:28,200
Speaker 1: this is ou tear of the Red Planet, and he's

848
00:47:28,719 --> 00:47:33,200
Speaker 1: ravenous and warlike and but plotting, not not just brutal violence,

849
00:47:33,280 --> 00:47:35,600
Speaker 1: like uh, like the King of the Fire Planet. No,

850
00:47:35,719 --> 00:47:38,920
Speaker 1: he's more like you know, he's sneaky, has some wonderful

851
00:47:38,960 --> 00:47:42,279
Speaker 1: lines to Uh. He's this bit where he's speaking in

852
00:47:42,320 --> 00:47:45,120
Speaker 1: this creepy voice, and the translation I had was, I

853
00:47:45,239 --> 00:47:48,200
Speaker 1: am Outar of the Red Planet and I will devour

854
00:47:48,320 --> 00:47:51,320
Speaker 1: your entrails by the light of Utar and it's seven

855
00:47:51,360 --> 00:47:56,520
Speaker 1: moons so good. Yeah, like I was saying, strangely uh,

856
00:47:56,800 --> 00:48:01,520
Speaker 1: dark and good like creepy imagery. Uh. In my version,

857
00:48:01,560 --> 00:48:04,160
Speaker 1: I think he was actually called Crassus, which is the

858
00:48:04,200 --> 00:48:08,279
Speaker 1: most different of names we've reviewed so far. I'm not

859
00:48:08,320 --> 00:48:11,960
Speaker 1: sure what the what explains that difference. Now, the the

860
00:48:12,080 --> 00:48:17,200
Speaker 1: other male alien in this picture is this fleshless creature

861
00:48:17,239 --> 00:48:20,239
Speaker 1: that kind of looks like a bear skeleton that's kind

862
00:48:20,239 --> 00:48:23,239
Speaker 1: of floating there. He has no name as far as

863
00:48:23,320 --> 00:48:25,360
Speaker 1: I can tell, and all we know is that is

864
00:48:25,560 --> 00:48:27,960
Speaker 1: his his it's his homeworld. Is a place where the

865
00:48:27,960 --> 00:48:31,640
Speaker 1: people gave up their material form ages ago, and now

866
00:48:31,719 --> 00:48:35,719
Speaker 1: they're just animate beast bones floating around and talking and

867
00:48:35,840 --> 00:48:40,399
Speaker 1: laughing creepily. Yeah, they're rasping phantoms from beyond who are

868
00:48:40,440 --> 00:48:43,840
Speaker 1: just uh, who are just pure embodied hate and and

869
00:48:44,080 --> 00:48:48,600
Speaker 1: our fang bone buddy here. Uh yeah, he's he's a

870
00:48:48,600 --> 00:48:51,799
Speaker 1: mockery of life itself. That the one thing they all

871
00:48:51,840 --> 00:48:54,879
Speaker 1: have in common, aside from being males, is that they

872
00:48:54,960 --> 00:48:57,400
Speaker 1: all detest the fact that they have been kidnapped. They

873
00:48:57,400 --> 00:49:01,040
Speaker 1: do not like it at all. But powerless against the

874
00:49:01,040 --> 00:49:04,239
Speaker 1: superior technology of Venus, right, Gamma and Beta have it

875
00:49:04,280 --> 00:49:06,879
Speaker 1: locked down because as powerful as these monsters are, they

876
00:49:06,880 --> 00:49:10,080
Speaker 1: cannot overpower science, which Gamma and Beta have on their side.

877
00:49:10,120 --> 00:49:14,120
Speaker 1: They've got some some powerful technology that even a real,

878
00:49:14,880 --> 00:49:19,560
Speaker 1: real strong, beefy reptile cyclops can't overcome. But of course,

879
00:49:19,960 --> 00:49:23,160
Speaker 1: as as the plot develops, like we said, love tears

880
00:49:23,200 --> 00:49:28,480
Speaker 1: this duo apart um. You know, Gamma first for blood

881
00:49:28,840 --> 00:49:32,160
Speaker 1: love and thirst for blood. Beta gets fed up and

882
00:49:32,280 --> 00:49:35,160
Speaker 1: she resorts to her old ways. We get this big reveal,

883
00:49:35,280 --> 00:49:38,800
Speaker 1: which I think is an ideal reveal for any movie.

884
00:49:38,840 --> 00:49:41,480
Speaker 1: This is a great plot twist for any film. Suddenly

885
00:49:41,520 --> 00:49:45,960
Speaker 1: reveal that one of your main characters as a space vampire. Uh,

886
00:49:46,080 --> 00:49:50,240
Speaker 1: she gives into her dark thirst. Is Um is essentially

887
00:49:50,520 --> 00:49:55,400
Speaker 1: you know, cursed by by Gamma for her for giving

888
00:49:55,400 --> 00:49:58,920
Speaker 1: into this thirst. And then Beta's basically decides well, heck,

889
00:49:58,960 --> 00:50:01,080
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna let the may is loose. I'm going

890
00:50:01,160 --> 00:50:03,960
Speaker 1: to strike a bargain with the males and we're just

891
00:50:04,000 --> 00:50:07,200
Speaker 1: gonna rampage over this planet and we're gonna do what

892
00:50:07,280 --> 00:50:10,000
Speaker 1: we like with Earth. Yes, that's right. So so Beta

893
00:50:10,719 --> 00:50:13,919
Speaker 1: vamps a guy she like, you know, there's some rancher guy,

894
00:50:14,000 --> 00:50:16,879
Speaker 1: and she drinks his blood and then when Gamma finds out,

895
00:50:16,880 --> 00:50:19,480
Speaker 1: it's like, oh no, that's a death sentence. Back on

896
00:50:19,600 --> 00:50:24,200
Speaker 1: Venus again. Politics, like a vamporism is a political issue

897
00:50:24,520 --> 00:50:28,600
Speaker 1: in the interplanetary politics of this movie, where it's like

898
00:50:28,640 --> 00:50:32,160
Speaker 1: a known crime that has been observed and dealt with

899
00:50:32,200 --> 00:50:34,759
Speaker 1: in the past, and if you drink the blood of

900
00:50:34,760 --> 00:50:38,279
Speaker 1: a human you will face the death penalty on Venus. Yeah,

901
00:50:38,280 --> 00:50:40,200
Speaker 1: it raises a lot of questions, Like I was wondering,

902
00:50:40,400 --> 00:50:42,640
Speaker 1: what is it like on the shadow planet? Is everyone

903
00:50:42,640 --> 00:50:46,319
Speaker 1: a vampire there? Or are these like former Venusians who

904
00:50:46,360 --> 00:50:50,000
Speaker 1: had to acquire some sort of vampiric uh infection in

905
00:50:50,080 --> 00:50:53,600
Speaker 1: order to survive on a shadow world? Like what's going

906
00:50:53,640 --> 00:50:55,879
Speaker 1: on here? There's something, There's something there, There's something under

907
00:50:55,920 --> 00:50:58,960
Speaker 1: the surface, and it's so tantalizing because it it feels

908
00:50:59,000 --> 00:51:01,359
Speaker 1: thought out. It feels hole. It doesn't feel like just

909
00:51:01,440 --> 00:51:03,879
Speaker 1: a uh you know, just a scrap of sci fi

910
00:51:03,960 --> 00:51:07,080
Speaker 1: thrown into this romance. Yeah again the movie. It's catching

911
00:51:07,160 --> 00:51:10,040
Speaker 1: you off guard. Every single twist and turn. We we

912
00:51:10,040 --> 00:51:14,080
Speaker 1: were screaming at this, just an amazing twist. And when

913
00:51:14,080 --> 00:51:16,360
Speaker 1: we say space vampire, she can turn into a bat

914
00:51:16,719 --> 00:51:19,160
Speaker 1: and it looks pretty good. It looks pretty good, a

915
00:51:19,200 --> 00:51:22,040
Speaker 1: big bat at one point. At one point, Lolo Gonzale

916
00:51:22,120 --> 00:51:24,440
Speaker 1: is like points at it because it's swooping down to

917
00:51:24,480 --> 00:51:28,759
Speaker 1: attack Gamma and he's like, look a vulture. But so yeah,

918
00:51:28,800 --> 00:51:32,560
Speaker 1: from here we get moving into the third act. Oh wait, wait,

919
00:51:32,600 --> 00:51:34,920
Speaker 1: there's one more important bit here, and that is that

920
00:51:35,040 --> 00:51:39,960
Speaker 1: Beta has also aligned with the Prince of Mars, So

921
00:51:40,040 --> 00:51:41,600
Speaker 1: I don't know if they're going to be married and

922
00:51:41,680 --> 00:51:45,239
Speaker 1: rule over Mars. There's some talk of this, though it's

923
00:51:45,280 --> 00:51:47,600
Speaker 1: also pointed out by the Prince of Mars that he

924
00:51:47,640 --> 00:51:50,640
Speaker 1: doesn't particularly find her attractive, but it seems like they're

925
00:51:50,640 --> 00:51:53,160
Speaker 1: willing to work through this. Oh yeah, there's a great

926
00:51:53,200 --> 00:51:55,839
Speaker 1: part where he's like, you are very ugly, but I

927
00:51:56,280 --> 00:51:58,480
Speaker 1: what does he say? He's like, you are extremely ugly

928
00:51:58,520 --> 00:52:02,360
Speaker 1: to me, but I admire your your dedication to hatred

929
00:52:02,520 --> 00:52:06,080
Speaker 1: or something, and she she's like, oh, like she's really

930
00:52:06,120 --> 00:52:10,000
Speaker 1: excited by this observation. Yeah. Her plan now is so

931
00:52:10,640 --> 00:52:13,880
Speaker 1: with the loose males, they're going to destroy the initial

932
00:52:13,920 --> 00:52:16,600
Speaker 1: settlement of Earth Links and then they're going to spread

933
00:52:16,600 --> 00:52:18,240
Speaker 1: out and just take out the rest of the planet.

934
00:52:18,480 --> 00:52:21,320
Speaker 1: But she realizes if she's gonna leave this, she needs

935
00:52:21,320 --> 00:52:24,520
Speaker 1: to she needs to assign tasks to the different monsters.

936
00:52:24,600 --> 00:52:29,000
Speaker 1: So uh, she divides humanity up among the loose males.

937
00:52:29,080 --> 00:52:33,040
Speaker 1: So Tire gets the children. Um, that's the that's the

938
00:52:33,080 --> 00:52:37,160
Speaker 1: spider monster, um uk or uck. He gets the animals,

939
00:52:37,520 --> 00:52:39,480
Speaker 1: and he seems fine with this. He's like, yes, let

940
00:52:39,480 --> 00:52:42,200
Speaker 1: me at those cows. I will eat cows. Yeah. And

941
00:52:42,320 --> 00:52:44,920
Speaker 1: Beta and the Prince of Mars they're going to I

942
00:52:44,920 --> 00:52:47,440
Speaker 1: think they're just gonna get the blood of humanity. They

943
00:52:47,560 --> 00:52:50,120
Speaker 1: bond over their thirst for blood, and they're like, let's

944
00:52:50,160 --> 00:52:53,520
Speaker 1: do it. They seem to leave the Bone guy out

945
00:52:53,520 --> 00:52:57,400
Speaker 1: of this entirely. He shows up, does he? He disappears

946
00:52:57,440 --> 00:52:59,759
Speaker 1: from the movie at one point. Um he is in

947
00:52:59,800 --> 00:53:03,160
Speaker 1: this scene where all the aliens, all the loose males,

948
00:53:03,200 --> 00:53:07,520
Speaker 1: attack our hero, but he's not very obvious in that scene.

949
00:53:07,560 --> 00:53:09,520
Speaker 1: You kind of see clattering bones in the background, like

950
00:53:09,560 --> 00:53:12,200
Speaker 1: maybe they couldn't figure out how to properly bring that

951
00:53:12,280 --> 00:53:14,919
Speaker 1: to life on screen. I don't know. I really thought

952
00:53:14,920 --> 00:53:17,879
Speaker 1: the bone guy disappeared from the movie, but but yeah,

953
00:53:17,920 --> 00:53:20,040
Speaker 1: I could be wrong. So he I don't recall him

954
00:53:20,040 --> 00:53:24,200
Speaker 1: in the conclusion. Does anybody defeat him in the final battle? No, no,

955
00:53:24,360 --> 00:53:26,160
Speaker 1: he does. He does kind of vanish at that point

956
00:53:26,160 --> 00:53:28,040
Speaker 1: because all the other monsters get some sort of a

957
00:53:28,040 --> 00:53:32,759
Speaker 1: cool death. Um So, Cook's face is burned off by

958
00:53:32,800 --> 00:53:35,200
Speaker 1: I think by the robot. They're kind of wrestling. There's

959
00:53:35,239 --> 00:53:39,640
Speaker 1: a robot burns him. I think, yeah, the brainy at guy,

960
00:53:39,840 --> 00:53:42,080
Speaker 1: the big brain Guy is shot in the eye by

961
00:53:42,239 --> 00:53:44,960
Speaker 1: the boy with like a slingshot I think, right, yeah, yeah,

962
00:53:44,960 --> 00:53:48,239
Speaker 1: with a slingshot, and then his brain deflates like a

963
00:53:48,280 --> 00:53:53,120
Speaker 1: punctured volleyball. Yeah, it's a nice grizzly scene. Um Utier

964
00:53:53,239 --> 00:53:56,919
Speaker 1: the Spider Beast is forced to bite himself and kill

965
00:53:57,000 --> 00:54:00,360
Speaker 1: himself with his own venom brutal. Oh, and then Beta

966
00:54:00,440 --> 00:54:03,279
Speaker 1: has a pretty awesome death scene as well. Yeah. She

967
00:54:03,480 --> 00:54:06,760
Speaker 1: goes to attack Gamma, and Gamma sort of like dodges

968
00:54:06,800 --> 00:54:08,919
Speaker 1: out of the way at the right time and then

969
00:54:09,000 --> 00:54:12,600
Speaker 1: Beta gets gets staked, like vampire staked with the branch

970
00:54:12,680 --> 00:54:15,520
Speaker 1: that's sticking up. Yeah, and then all that the fleshless

971
00:54:15,560 --> 00:54:17,799
Speaker 1: One is never defeated. So I don't know, maybe he

972
00:54:18,880 --> 00:54:21,840
Speaker 1: h we don't know what part of humanity was given

973
00:54:21,880 --> 00:54:24,200
Speaker 1: over to him. Perhaps he just went out and claimed

974
00:54:24,200 --> 00:54:27,040
Speaker 1: it and and he's the one who wins the day. Oh.

975
00:54:27,120 --> 00:54:29,080
Speaker 1: But there's one last thing. I almost don't want to

976
00:54:29,080 --> 00:54:31,080
Speaker 1: say because I don't want to spoil it because it's

977
00:54:31,080 --> 00:54:33,160
Speaker 1: so good. But there's a stinger right at the end

978
00:54:33,200 --> 00:54:34,960
Speaker 1: of the movie. If you don't want to hear it,

979
00:54:35,000 --> 00:54:36,320
Speaker 1: if you don't want to be spoiled, you want to

980
00:54:36,360 --> 00:54:38,680
Speaker 1: see the movie for yourself, maybe you should stop right here.

981
00:54:38,760 --> 00:54:41,640
Speaker 1: But if you're okay with it, the the surprise at

982
00:54:41,640 --> 00:54:45,480
Speaker 1: the end, we're tore in the juke box fall in love. Yes,

983
00:54:45,760 --> 00:54:49,319
Speaker 1: amazing reveal. Yeah, because Tour makes eyes at the juke

984
00:54:49,400 --> 00:54:52,600
Speaker 1: box pretty early. He's like hey uh. And then at

985
00:54:52,640 --> 00:54:55,480
Speaker 1: the end they're happy together. They're they're leaving the planet,

986
00:54:55,480 --> 00:54:57,480
Speaker 1: they have found each other and they're flying away in

987
00:54:57,520 --> 00:55:00,480
Speaker 1: a spaceship. Yeah. He like compliments the juke box. He's

988
00:55:00,480 --> 00:55:02,600
Speaker 1: like going up to the glass thing like what beautiful

989
00:55:02,640 --> 00:55:08,080
Speaker 1: bulbs you have. So at the end, everybody's happy. Uh,

990
00:55:08,200 --> 00:55:11,040
Speaker 1: everyone's in love. Monsters and the forces of evil have

991
00:55:11,120 --> 00:55:15,279
Speaker 1: been defeated, and it seems like political stability has been

992
00:55:15,320 --> 00:55:19,880
Speaker 1: maintained for the interplanetary community. Gamma in the end learns

993
00:55:19,960 --> 00:55:22,279
Speaker 1: that that it was wrong to kidnap males from all

994
00:55:22,320 --> 00:55:25,600
Speaker 1: the planets to take them back to Venus. Instead, she's like, hey, look,

995
00:55:25,640 --> 00:55:28,040
Speaker 1: I'm not going back to Venus. I found a man

996
00:55:28,120 --> 00:55:29,640
Speaker 1: on Earth I'm in love with, So we're just gonna

997
00:55:29,680 --> 00:55:32,680
Speaker 1: hang out here in Mexico. Yeah. So he no longer

998
00:55:32,719 --> 00:55:34,520
Speaker 1: has a cow, so I'm not sure what he's gonna do.

999
00:55:36,000 --> 00:55:40,080
Speaker 1: You know, was killed and stripped to bones by two

1000
00:55:40,120 --> 00:55:44,239
Speaker 1: bones with a stand, so yo. Yeah, the cyclops reptile

1001
00:55:44,320 --> 00:55:47,319
Speaker 1: comes in and like bites the cow and then the

1002
00:55:47,360 --> 00:55:50,120
Speaker 1: cow is just clean, like a bone model of a

1003
00:55:50,160 --> 00:55:53,920
Speaker 1: cow on a stand with like bars. He did a

1004
00:55:53,920 --> 00:55:57,359
Speaker 1: great job. But anyway, I was gonna say, Loriano, he's

1005
00:55:57,360 --> 00:55:59,839
Speaker 1: always going to find a way to get by. It's true. Yeah,

1006
00:56:00,080 --> 00:56:04,360
Speaker 1: he's a survivor. So Ship of Monsters what a delight. Yeah,

1007
00:56:04,360 --> 00:56:07,440
Speaker 1: this one really is a delight. I highly recommend viewing

1008
00:56:07,480 --> 00:56:10,839
Speaker 1: this now. I think I should also add that all

1009
00:56:11,040 --> 00:56:13,680
Speaker 1: versions of this are apparently in black and white. I

1010
00:56:13,719 --> 00:56:16,400
Speaker 1: don't think there's any evidence of an actual color cut

1011
00:56:16,440 --> 00:56:19,120
Speaker 1: of the film. Uh. If you think back to our

1012
00:56:19,239 --> 00:56:23,239
Speaker 1: Santo and the Tomb of Dracula episode we discussed how

1013
00:56:23,400 --> 00:56:25,279
Speaker 1: at least later, at least you know, close to a

1014
00:56:25,280 --> 00:56:28,160
Speaker 1: decade later, you have this tradition of shooting in black

1015
00:56:28,200 --> 00:56:31,960
Speaker 1: and white and in color for different markets. I don't

1016
00:56:32,000 --> 00:56:34,080
Speaker 1: think that was the case here. I ran across some

1017
00:56:34,400 --> 00:56:36,719
Speaker 1: color images of the film, but I think these were

1018
00:56:36,760 --> 00:56:41,080
Speaker 1: just colorized stills that were used to promote it. Oh

1019
00:56:41,160 --> 00:56:43,640
Speaker 1: that would make sense. Yeah. But still, even in black

1020
00:56:43,640 --> 00:56:46,919
Speaker 1: and white, this film is just it's so alive. You'll

1021
00:56:46,960 --> 00:56:51,040
Speaker 1: just be drawn right here. People are over forever, all right. Well,

1022
00:56:51,280 --> 00:56:54,520
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1030
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