Commander John J. Adams Quotes in Forbidden Planet (1956)

Commander John J. Adams: Nice climate you have here. High oxygen content.

Robby the Robot: I seldom use it myself, sir. It promotes rust.

Robby: Morbius. Morbius!

Dr. Edward Morbius: What?

Robby: Something is approaching from the southwest. It is now quite close.

[they run to the windows and look out, but see nothing]

Commander John J. Adams: Could Robby be wrong?

Dr. Edward Morbius: No. Never.

[an invisible force rips down the trees; Morbius closes the steel shutters over the windows]

Dr. Edward Morbius: I feel sorry for you, young man.

Commander John J. Adams: Feel sorry for your daughter, Morbius.

Altaira: It's listening.

[the monster pounds on the steel shielding, denting it]

Dr. Edward Morbius: Alta, go into my study.

Commander John J. Adams: You still refuse to face the truth.

Dr. Edward Morbius: What truth?

Commander John J. Adams: Morbius, that thing out there - it's *you*.

Dr. Edward Morbius: You're insane. How else would you have led it here, where Alta must see you torn to pieces?

Commander John J. Adams: You still think she's immune? She's joined herself to me, body and soul!

Altaira: Yes, and whatever comes, forever.

Dr. Edward Morbius: Say it's a lie. Shout, let it hear you out there! Tell it you don't love this man!

Altaira: Not even if I could.

[the steel shielding begins to break]

Dr. Edward Morbius: Stop it, Robby! Don't let it in! Kill it, Robby!

[Robby shorts out]

Commander John J. Adams: It's no use. He knows it's your other self.

[steel shielding breaks; they run]

Altaira: [swimming in a pool] Come on in.

Commander John J. Adams: I didn't bring my bathing suit.

Altaira: What's a bathing suit?

Commander John J. Adams: [quickly turning his back] Oh, murder!

[to Altaira]

Commander John J. Adams: I'm in command of 18 competitively selected super-perfect physical specimens with an average age of 24.6 who have been locked up in hyperspace for 378 days. It would have served you right if I hadn't... and he... oh go on, get out of here before I have you run out of the area under guard - and then I'll put more guards on the guards!

[to Altaira]

Commander John J. Adams: Alta, about a million years from now the human race will have crawled up to where the Krell stood in their great moment of triumph and tragedy. And your father's name will shine again like a beacon in the galaxy. It's true, it will remind us that we are, after all, not God.

Robbie the Robot: [approaches from vehicle, stops and bows] Welcome to Altair IV, Gentlemen.

Robbie the Robot: I am to transport you to the Residence.

Robbie the Robot: If you do not speak English I am at your disposal with 187 other languages along with their various dialects and sub-tongues.

Commander John J. Adams: Colloquial English will do fine, thank you.

Commander John J. Adams: Whatever you know in here, your other self knows out there.

Dr. Edward Morbius: [angrily] I'm not a monster, you...

Commander John J. Adams: [grappling with Morbius] We're all part monsters in our subconscious, so we have laws and religion!

Commander John J. Adams: What is the Id?

Dr. Edward Morbius: [frustrated] Id, Id, Id, Id, Id!

[calming down]

Dr. Edward Morbius: It's a... It's an obsolete term. I'm afraid once used to describe the elementary basis of the subconscious mind.

Commander John J. Adams: [to himself] Monsters from the Id...

Dr. Edward Morbius: Huh?

Commander John J. Adams: Monsters from the subconscious. Of course. That's what Doc meant. Morbius. The big machine, 8,000 miles of klystron relays, enough power for a whole population of creative geniuses, operated by remote control. Morbius, operated by the electromagnetic impulses of individual Krell brains.

Dr. Edward Morbius: To what purpose?

Commander John J. Adams: In return, that ultimate machine would instantaneously project solid matter to any point on the planet, In any shape or color they might imagine. For *any* purpose, Morbius! Creation by mere thought.

Dr. Edward Morbius: Why haven't I seen this all along?

Commander John J. Adams: But like you, the Krell forgot one deadly danger - their own subconscious hate and lust for destruction.

Dr. Edward Morbius: The beast. The mindless primitive! Even the Krell must have evolved from that beginning.

Commander John J. Adams: And so those mindless beasts of the subconscious had access to a machine that could never be shut down. The secret devil of every soul on the planet all set free at once to loot and maim. And take revenge, Morbius, and kill!

Dr. Edward Morbius: My poor Krell. After a million years of shining sanity, they could hardly have understood what power was destroying them.

[pause]

Dr. Edward Morbius: Yes, young man, all very convincing, but for one obvious fallacy. The last Krell died 2,000 centuries ago. But today, as we all know, there is still at large on this planet a living monster.

Commander John J. Adams: Your mind refuses to face the conclusion.

Dr. Edward Morbius: What do you mean?

Doc Ostrow: Morbius was too close to the problem. The Krell had completed their project. Big machine. No instrumentalities. True creation.

Commander John J. Adams: Come on, Doc, let's have it.

Doc Ostrow: But the Krell forgot one thing.

Commander John J. Adams: Yes, what?

Doc Ostrow: Monsters, John. Monsters from the Id.

Commander John J. Adams: The Id? What's that? Talk, Doc!

[Doc slumps and dies]

Commander John J. Adams: Doc?

Commander John J. Adams: [sadly] Oh, Doc. Doc.

Commander John J. Adams: Dr. Morbius, just what were the symptoms of all those other deaths, the unnatural ones I mean.

Dr. Edward Morbius: The symptoms were striking Commander. One by one in spite of every safeguard my co-workers were torn literally limb from limb.

Commander John J. Adams: By what?

Dr. Edward Morbius: By some devilish thing that never once showed itself.

Commander John J. Adams: And the Bellerophon?

Dr. Edward Morbius: Vaporized as the three remaining survivors tried to take her off.

Commander John J. Adams: And yet in all these 19 years you personally have never again been bothered by this planetary force?

Dr. Edward Morbius: Only in nightmares of those times. And yet always in my mind I seem to feel the creature is lurking somewhere close at hand, sly and irresistible and only waiting to be reinvoked for murder.