Serenity reference to 'Forbidden Planet'

POSTED BY: iamLostinspace
UPDATED: Sunday, February 12, 2006 05:05
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IAMLOSTINSPACE

Sunday, February 12, 2006 2:57 AM

I don't know if anyone else has noticed this (in which case I may be very late in telling you) but the ship crashed on the planet Miranda (was that it's name?) behind Mal in one of the scences had the designation: C-57D. This is the same name of the Ship that landed on Altair IV in the Movie "Forbidden Planet".
Does anyone think this was just a reference to the fact that Miranda was a Forbidden Planet or was Joss trying to relate some more deep meaning to it. (You would need to have seen Forbidden Planet to comment, I guess. It's the one with Robby the Robot).
Cheers,
Bill

CHRISTHECYNIC

Sunday, February 12, 2006 3:00 AM

Not seen that movie in ages so I can't say much on meaning. Good find though.

ZOID

Sunday, February 12, 2006 3:35 AM

iamLostinspace:

I think Joss just had the hots for Anne Francis, like me and every other boy of our generation...

Although, I could probably construct a 'house of cards' correlation from FP's "monsters of the id" to Serenity's Reavers, if ya' want me to. And of course, Forbidden Planet was actually a retelling of Shakespeare's "The Tempest", and we all know JW's fondness for/identification with The Bard of Avon...

Personally, I'd rather just daydream about Anne wearing that mini-tutu thing she had on in FP. Anne Francis is the woman responsible for letting me know I was a heterosexual. I used to watch her as 'Honey West', when I was like 7 or 8 years old. She made me feel all funny inside.

Thanks for reminding me of her.

Very Oldly,

zoid
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"I aim to misbehave." -Capt. Mal Reynolds, Serenity, a.k.a. 'the BDBOF'

ASARIAN

Sunday, February 12, 2006 3:37 AM

Clever find!

From the IMDb pages:

"An expedition is sent from Earth to Altair in the constellation of Aquilae (some 17 light years from Earth) to discover what happened to a colony of settlers on its fourth planet, Altair-4. What they discover is how and why an alien race of geniuses destroyed itself overnight while leaving their technology intact."

Hmm, different plot, of course, but too cute to be a coincidence, I think. :)

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"Mei-mei, everything I have is right here." -- Simon Tam

DONCOAT

Sunday, February 12, 2006 3:48 AM

Ugh, bad day for double posts. Read on...

DONCOAT

Sunday, February 12, 2006 3:51 AM

I seem to remember that Joss stated in an interview that the ForbiddenPlanet references were not his doing, but that someone in the production design department snuck them in.

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MISBEHAVIN

Sunday, February 12, 2006 5:05 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by iamLostinspace:
...the ship crashed on the planet Miranda (was that it's name?) behind Mal in one of the scences had the designation: C-57D....

Both of the ships they find have that same number. The wikipedia's entry for Serenity includes mention of the Forbidden Planet/The Tempest connection:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serenity_(film)
NOTE: for the above link to work you may have to add the close parenthesis ) after the word film in your browser's address bar because it seems to get dropped from the link.