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Like you didn't know.

TheBoost said:

And for our first ever use of the word "robot," Karl Kapek's play RUR coined the term in 1921!

Fantastic play it is too! I've long wanted to adapt it to a screen play, but when it comes to padding it out and adding content I feel weird doing that with someone elses story.

The show below brought the phrase "Does Not Compute" to the general public.

Who knew that Julie Newmar was a bot!

IE says: second image is an X box, which doesn't compute with my current internet ironic software (oooch, dont mean to sound too political, as i dont do bolloticks). But linky broken none of the less none.

Does no one apriciate Seth.. whats his friggin face (no, not Zonzi), myth taker, of our beloved franchise then?

Darth Solo said:

IE says: second image is an X box, which doesn't compute with current microsoft software (oooch, dont mean to sound too political, as i dont do bolloticks). But linky broken none.

Works fine on firefox.

Emphasis on FINE ;-)

CP3S said:

TheBoost said:

And for our first ever use of the word "robot," Karl Kapek's play RUR coined the term in 1921!

Fantastic play it is too! I've long wanted to adapt it to a screen play, but when it comes to padding it out and adding content I feel weird doing that with someone elses story.

Given it's significance, I've always wondered that RUR has never been adapted (except I think a BBC TV show in the 50s, could be wrong).

Of course, it has lots of wierd, dated, and very Czech things in it, like all the men proposing to the same chick and stuff, but it's still a very chilling tale.

Although anything that ends with...

90 YEAR OLD SPOILER ALERT

"and they're Adam and Eve...!" needs a little updating. :)

And just to be on-topic enough for Dictator Frink (another 90 year old spoiler!) here's pro-wrestlers SHOCKWAVE THE ROBOT and MECHA-MUMMY!

^You were discussing robots.  That's on-topic without a picture.  I refer you to the rules in the OP.

lol at another 90 year spoiler.

What's your favorite movie robot?

TV's Frink said:

^You were discussing robots.  That's on-topic without a picture.  I refer you to the rules in the OP.

lol at another 90 year spoiler.

Rules. Yeah, your type love referring people to rules.

TheBoost said:

Given it's significance, I've always wondered that RUR has never been adapted (except I think a BBC TV show in the 50s, could be wrong).

Of course, it has lots of wierd, dated, and very Czech things in it, like all the men proposing to the same chick and stuff, but it's still a very chilling tale.

Although anything that ends with...

90 YEAR OLD SPOILER ALERT

 

 

 

I think it does have old adaption, yes. But given the popularity of its theme over the last several years, this is really the perfect time to go back to the root of the whole technology takes over thing. The play did it perfectly and in a very chilling way.

An adaption that follows the basic storyline, omitting the cultural idiosyncrasies, and padding out the story to show more of the Robot war, would make a movie at least as good as the crap bollocks busters that are pumped out each year.

If I were doing it, I'd stick with the island robot factory and follow the story of the characters there, make the love story a little more real instead of forced, etc. But I'd also parallel their story with at least one other set of characters living on the mainland who get to experience the robots from beginning to end.

For example, maybe follow the story of a character who starts off as a small child at the beginning of the film. He marvels as his dad brings home a shiny new robot to do the housework; by the end of the story he'd have joined the army to fight the uprising. This character's story would be inter-cut between the story of the characters n the island. This would pad things out and provide or proxy to see the uprising unfold first hand. In the original play the only way the characters living at the island robot factory (and in turn the audience) get to hear about the uprising are through newspapers.

Oh man! Rossum's Universal Robots just sounds like a big ticket seller by the title alone. Can't wait for this movie! Maybe I'll get to watch it around the same time I get to play my version of Bioshock 3.

Ziwzih Ziwzih OO-OO-OO-OO

CP3S said:

TheBoost said:

Given it's significance, I've always wondered that RUR has never been adapted (except I think a BBC TV show in the 50s, could be wrong).

Of course, it has lots of wierd, dated, and very Czech things in it, like all the men proposing to the same chick and stuff, but it's still a very chilling tale.

Although anything that ends with...

90 YEAR OLD SPOILER ALERT

 

 

 

I think it does have old adaption, yes. But given the popularity of its theme over the last several years, this is really the perfect time to go back to the root of the whole technology takes over thing. The play did it perfectly and in a very chilling way.

An adaption that follows the basic storyline, omitting the cultural idiosyncrasies, and padding out the story to show more of the Robot war, would make a movie at least as good as the crap bollocks busters that are pumped out each year.

 

If I were doing it, I'd stick with the island robot factory and follow the story of the characters there, make the love story a little more real instead of forced, etc. But I'd also parallel their story with at least one other set of characters living on the mainland who get to experience the robots from beginning to end.

For example, maybe follow the story of a character who starts off as a small child at the beginning of the film. He marvels as his dad brings home a shiny new robot to do the housework; by the end of the story he'd have joined the army to fight the uprising. This character's story would be inter-cut between the story of the characters n the island. This would pad things out and provide or proxy to see the uprising unfold first hand. In the original play the only way the characters living at the island robot factory (and in turn the audience) get to hear about the uprising are through newspapers.

Oh man! Rossum's Universal Robots just sounds like a big ticket seller by the title alone. Can't wait for this movie! Maybe I'll get to watch it around the same time I get to play my version of Bioshock 3.

If I had a robot the first thing I'd do is tell it to read this long post so I wouldn't have to.

Another callback:

^Someone order up some fire, please.

greenpenguino said:

Can I please stop being banned please? Being Banned is boring

You aren't banned.  You just can't suggest new subjects when the thread is open.

Tyrphanax said:

Coolest robots/musicians ever.

Ahem:

Much to learn, you still have.