Forbidden Planet (1956)
Walter Pidgeon: Dr. Morbius
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Quotes
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Dr. Morbius : Guilty! Guilty! My evil self is at that door, and I have no power to stop it!
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Robby the Robot : Morbius. Morbius!
Dr. Morbius : What?
Robby the Robot : Something is approaching from the southwest. It is now quite close.
[they run to the windows and look out, but see nothing]
Commander Adams : Could Robby be wrong?
Dr. Morbius : No. Never.
[an invisible force rips down the trees; Morbius closes the steel shutters over the windows]
Dr. Morbius : I feel sorry for you, young man.
Commander Adams : Feel sorry for your daughter, Morbius.
Altaira Morbius : It's listening.
[the monster pounds on the steel shielding, denting it]
Dr. Morbius : Alta, go into my study.
Commander Adams : You still refuse to face the truth.
Dr. Morbius : What truth?
Commander Adams : Morbius, that thing out there - it's *you*.
Dr. Morbius : You're insane. How else would you have led it here, where Alta must see you torn to pieces?
Commander Adams : You still think she's immune? She's joined herself to me, body and soul!
Altaira Morbius : Yes, and whatever comes, forever.
Dr. Morbius : Say it's a lie. Shout, let it hear you out there! Tell it you don't love this man!
Altaira Morbius : Not even if I could.
[the steel shielding begins to break]
Dr. Morbius : Stop it, Robby! Don't let it in! Kill it, Robby!
[Robby shorts out]
Commander Adams : It's no use. He knows it's your other self.
[steel shielding breaks; they run]
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Dr. Morbius : One cannot behold the face of the gorgon and live!
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Dr. Morbius : Altaira, I specifically asked you not to join us for lunch.
Altaira Morbius : Lunch is over. You didn't say anything about not coming in for coffee. Well, you didn't, did you?
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Commander Adams : What is the Id?
Dr. Morbius : [frustrated] Id, id, id, id, id!
[calming down]
Dr. Morbius : It's a... It's an obsolete term. I'm afraid once used to describe the elementary basis of the subconscious mind.
Commander Adams : [to himself] Monsters from the id...
Dr. Morbius : Huh?
Commander 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. Morbius : To what purpose?
Commander 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. Morbius : Why haven't I seen this all along?
Commander Adams : But like you, the Krell forgot one deadly danger - their own subconscious hate and lust for destruction.
Dr. Morbius : The beast. The mindless primitive! Even the Krell must have evolved from that beginning.
Commander 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. Morbius : My poor Krell. After a million years of shining sanity, they could hardly have understood what power was destroying them.
[pause]
Dr. 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 Adams : Your mind refuses to face the conclusion.
Dr. Morbius : What do you mean?
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Dr. Morbius : In times long past, this planet was the home of a mighty, noble race of beings who called themselves the Krell. Ethically, as well as technologically they were a million years ahead of humankind, for in unlocking the mysteries of nature they had conquered even their baser selves, and when in the course of eons they had abolished sickness and insanity, crime and all injustice, they turned, still with high benevolence, outwards towards space. Millions of years before mankind, they had visited our Earth, and brought back many biological specimens.
Commander Adams : Yes, that explains the tiger and the deer.
Dr. Morbius : The heights they had reached. Then, seemingly on the eve of some great technological achievement, this all but divine race perished in a single night.
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Commander Adams : Whatever you know in here, your other self knows out there.
Dr. Morbius : [angrily] I'm not a monster, you...
Commander Adams : [grappling with Morbius] We're all part monsters in our subconscious, so we have laws and religion!
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Dr. Morbius : The fool, the meddling idiot! As though his ape's brain could contain the secrets of the Krell!
Altaira Morbius : [shocked] Father, he's *dead*!
Dr. Morbius : He was warned, and now he's paid! Let him be buried with the other victims of human greed and folly!
Altaira Morbius : [coldly] Morbius. You wanted me to make a choice. Now you've chosen for me.
Dr. Morbius : Alta?
Altaira Morbius : [to Commander Adams] I'm ready to go with you, darling.
[she runs up the stairs]
Dr. Morbius : Altaira! No!
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Dr. Morbius : How ironic that a simple scholar, with no ambition, beyond a modest measure of seclusion, should out of the clear sky, find himself besieged by an army of fellow creatures, all grimly determined to be of service.
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Commander Adams : Dr. Morbius, just what were the symptoms of all those other deaths, the unnatural ones I mean.
Dr. Morbius : The symptoms were striking Commander. One by one in spite of every safeguard my co-workers were torn literally limb from limb.
Commander Adams : By what?
Dr. Morbius : By some devilish thing that never once showed itself.
Commander Adams : And the Bellerophon?
Dr. Morbius : Vaporized as the three remaining survivors tried to take her off.
Commander Adams : And yet in all these 19 years you personally have never again been bothered by this planetary force?
Dr. 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.
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Lt. 'Doc' Ostrow : [about Robby] But in the wrong hands, mightn't he be made into a weapon?
Dr. Morbius : No doctor, not even though I were the mad scientist of the tape thriller.
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Dr. Morbius : [to the Monster from the Id] Stop! No further! I deny you, I give you up!
[he struggles with the monster as Cmdr Adams and Altaira look on in horror; the energy gauges go dark]
Altaira Morbius : [running to the collapsed Morbius and cradling his head in her lap] Father! Oh, Father!
Dr. Morbius : [to Adams] Son. Turn that disk.
[Adams does so; a mechanism rises from the floor]
Dr. Morbius : The switch, throw it.
[He does so]
Dr. Morbius : In twenty-four hours... you must be a hundred million miles out in space. The Krell furnaces... chain reaction... it cannot be reversed... Alta...
[he dies]
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Lt. 'Doc' Ostrow : The total potential here must be nothing less than astronomical.
Dr. Morbius : Nothing less. The number 10 raised almost literally to the power of infinity.
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Dr. Morbius : Do you understand the mechanism, Robby?
Robby the Robot : Yes, Morbius. A simple blaster.
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Dr. Morbius : [At the Krell educator machine] Now the commander.
Dr. Morbius : [the commanders intelligence level is disappointing] It's all right sir. Commanding officer doesn't need brains, just a good loud voice.
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Dr. Morbius : Yes, a single machine, a cube 20 miles on each side.
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Commander Adams : [as Morbius demonstrates the Krell educator] What's that? What's happening there?
[an object takes shape on a platform]
Commander Adams : A statue... That's Altaira!
Dr. Morbius : Merely a three-dimensional image, gentlemen.
Commander Adams : [seeing it move] But it's alive!
Dr. Morbius : Because my daughter is alive in my brain from microsecond to microsecond.
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Dr. Morbius : [as his invisible id approaches] Stop! No further! I deny you, I give you up!
[Morbius crumbles under the force of the Id]
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Dr. Morbius : [Quietly, after hearing of the chief's murder] It's starting again.
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Dr. Morbius : Prepare your minds for a new scale of scientific values, gentlemen.
