Fifty Years of Shit Robots

Between Metropolis and Star Wars lies a 50 year wasteland of terrible movie robots. Today, we reach our quarter-century of shows with a deep-dive into the 1954 movie TOBOR THE GREAT. The robot's annoying but not as much as the stupid kid.

WARNING! The S**t-bomb is sometimes uttered but nothing more.

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NOTES

Tobor the Great movie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qjIvz_NbkU&t=3369s

Hollywood’s portrayal of science

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/hollywoods-portrayals-of-science-and-scientists-are-ridiculous/

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Between Metropolis and Star Wars lies a 50 year wasteland of terrible movie robots. FIFTY YEARS OF S**T ROBOTS is a podcast that celebrates them all. Hosted by writer and broadcaster, Matt Brown and Stephen Murray, senior lecturer in TV, Film & Journalism at Teeside University. WARNING! The S**t-bomb is sometimes uttered but nothing more.

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Notes:

What’s the difference between robots, cyborgs, and androids

https://www.10differences.org/difference-between-android-robot-and-cyborg/

Notes and Queries: What are Asimov’s three laws of robotics?

https://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-21259,00.html

Metropolis Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdtZv3XROnc&t=53s

False Maria beguiles humans with her crazy dancing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0D4fHieW8o

Art movements that inspired Fritz Lang

https://magazine.artland.com/fritz-langs-metropolis-how-the-iconic-silent-film-took-inspiration-from-art-movements/

The Art of Ralph McQuarrie

https://www.iamag.co/star-wars-the-art-of-ralph-angus-mcquarrie-100-concept-art/

Boston Dynamics dog

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aR5Z6AoMh6U

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Between Metropolis and Star Wars lies a 50 year wasteland of terrible movie robots. Today, we put on our 2023 specs and chat about two films where men/boys try and create their idealised woman.

WARNING! The S**t-bomb is sometimes uttered but nothing more.

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NOTES

The Perfect Woman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRwoeQjCb1U&t=933s

Weird Science Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qd04u2Yj44

The Male Gaze and Female Objectification in Modern Cinema

https://thematthewrome.com/2022/03/15/male-gaze-and-female-objectification-in-contemporary-cinema/

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Between Metropolis and Star Wars lies a 50 year wasteland of terrible movie robots. Today, we deep-dive into the 1952 movie, Old Mother Riley Meets the Vampire. It's campy and vampy and probably not Bela Lugosi's finest hour (and thirteen minutes).

WARNING! The S**t-bomb is sometimes uttered but nothing more.

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NOTES

Old Mother Riley Meets the Vampire (Full movie)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvvCzDcrfIo&t=1880s

A brief history of drag

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zbkmkmn

Bela Lugosi site

https://belalugosi.com/

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Between Metropolis and Star Wars lies a 50 year wasteland of terrible movie robots. Today, we step outside our 50 year parameter to chat to a real-life robot screenwriter. MARK STAY wrote the fabulous 2014 movie, ROBOT OVERLORDS. He joined Matt and Stephen for a wonderful and wonderfully honest chat about what it's like to be on a set of your own movie, working with Sir Ben Kingsley, and why robots that look like kids are the creepiest of all.

WARNING! The S**t-bomb is sometimes uttered but nothing more.

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NOTES

ROBOT OVERLORDS TRAILER

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03Y7sd_LLEU

MARK STAY’S SHOOT DIARY

https://markstaywrites.com/2023/06/04/ten-years-ago-today-robot-overlords-the-first-night-shoot/

ROBOT OVERLORDS CAST

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2145829/

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