Talk:Conquest of Space

Corrections
In the section Production, second paragraph, Bonestell is spelled Bonestall. Also Bonestell was mainly an illustrator on Destination Moon, maybe little technical advice, but Robert Heinlein was the official technical adviser on Destination Moon. aajacksoniv (talk) 13:31, 30 May 2023 (UTC)

Does anybody
Does anybody else think this is less of an article and more of a detailed critique of the film? It's not a bad critique, but certainly lacking in a NPOV.Konczewski 02:25, 31 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Since Conquest of Space was one of the few failures from the producer who gave us the iconic Destination Moon, When Worlds Collide, War of the Worlds, and The Time Machine, there is interest in why it failed compared to his other movies.

Does anyone know if C S Lewis ever saw the film, and if so, what he thought of it?


 * Since Lewis did write a sci-fi novel set on Mars (Out of the Silent Planet) it might be interesting but I am not sure that Pal was influenced by Lewis' novel.

Racism?
Anyone have a good source on thoughts of racism in this film? The most famous being:


 * Sgt. Imoto: Some years ago, my country chose to fight a terrible war. It was bad — I do not defend it — but there were reasons. Somehow, those reasons are never spoken of. To the Western world at that time, Japan was a fairybook nation — little people living in a strange land of rice-paper houses, people who had almost no furniture, who sat on the floor and ate with chopsticks. The quaint houses of rice paper, sir — they were made of paper because there was no other material available. And the winters in Japan are as cold as they are in Boston. And the chopsticks… there was no metal for forks and knives and spoons, but slivers of wood could suffice. So it was with the little people of Japan, little as I am now, because for countless generations we have not been able to produce the food to make us bigger. Japan's yesterday will be the world's tomorrow — too many people and too little land. That is why I say, sir, there is urgent need for us to reach Mars: to provide the resources the human race will need, if they are to survive. That is also why I am most grateful to be found acceptable, sir. I volunteer.

There has to be someone who commented as a film critic on this part of the film.--Hitsuji Kinno (talk) 05:42, 16 September 2009 (UTC)


 * It's racist to say Japan went to war because it was poor? —Tamfang (talk) 02:24, 20 May 2018 (UTC)

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