Talk:Krell

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Doorway?
The Krell dorrway was wider at Top than bottom, an inverted trapezoid; suggesting a big head. Not "girth".If I had a link to this scene in the movie, I'd post it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.162.46.94 (talk) 19:00, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

A Google image search for "krell doorway" returns images from the film, showing that the shape of the doorway is a square, rotated 45 degrees (corners at the top and bottom, rather than edges), and with about the bottom third truncated. Or described another way, it's like Superman's chest emblem, inverted. So it is narrower at the bottom, widens out, and then comes to a point at the top. Just search for the image, you'll see. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:602:8480:3343:4082:4953:8CBA:93E2 (talk) 04:10, 14 October 2018 (UTC)

Not sure that implies anything as to their shape, as it's just a different door type, odd looks standard for science fiction to emphasize alien-ness of civilizations. Also, consider the round doors on hobbit holes, suggestive of ancient burrowing culture rather than circular vertical shapes. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.14.112.252 (talk) 15:06, 21 December 2018 (UTC)

Physical Nature of the Krell
There are actually many clues as to the physical nature of the Krell.

1) Stairs — divided at the entrance to the lab but not the 3 steps down into the lab itself or over the small bridge between the doorway and the lab interior. The "rise over the run", and the width of the stairs and the width of the ramp between the exterior stairs give the gait.

2) Audio range — the Krell music gives a clue as to the range of hearing.

3) The music player in Dr. Morbius' study give the size of the digits for handling smaller objects while the size of the controls of both the "plastic" (original script reads "plasmic") educator and the library console give the sizes of both average objects and slightly larger objects.

4) The colors used in the lab and on the screens of the library console and at the view screen of the power monitor chamber give a visual spectrum.

5) Archways — there are 3 seen in the movie: The "characteristic arch" (a square on its points with the bottom 1/3 removed); the wide rectangle seen in the shaft entrance and entrance to power monitor chamber (different sizes and proportions); and the ovoid circle entrance to the shuttle car.

6) The chairs seen at the educator and library console have a split back rest. The shapes of the seats of the chairs and those of the shuttle car interior set are slightly different. The height of the seats and the height of the consoles give a perspective on the physical size of the Krell.

7) Writing — Possible writing implement (the "pen" that Doc Ostrow handles while looking at the "paper" with the Krell writing in Dr. Morbius study) gives a perspective of the grasping ability and form of the Krell "hand". The writing at the blackboard. the "paper" and on the library screen give a partial set of the Krell alphabet, numbers and mathematical symbols which in turn gives a clue as to the meme-set of the psychology of the Krell.

There are many others that can be discovered. (Such as the width of the Krell face and skull plus the "flatness" of the face from the educator's head-piece.)

Sources: There are many stills available on the internet. If someone would guide me on how to post them I would do so and insert the proper fair-use statement.

Robert Earl Day PhD, DSc, DLitt, LLD (Hon) Robert Earl Day (talk) 06:30, 5 December 2012 (UTC)

Popular Culture
Why is the Krell Institute called out here and none of the other companies or groups that use "Krell" in their names? This is not necessarily evidence of pop culture's awareness of Krell. (konetidy (talk) 21:14, 5 August 2013 (UTC))

This section refers to "the 10 x 10 x 10 x 10 speech" with no indication of what that speech is. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:602:8480:3343:4082:4953:8CBA:93E2 (talk) 04:11, 14 October 2018 (UTC)

Proposed Removal of "Additional Citations" tag
As the information in this Wikipedia entry can be reviewed in about 20 minutes of exposition from a single fictional film, there are virtually no contesting sources of information. Barring any well-founded objection, the tag will be removed circa October 2020, giving any opposition over a year to muster any argument against its removal. TravellerDMT-07 (talk) 22:51, 25 October 2019 (UTC)

whole article should be deleted
This information is all Original Research. The main points can all be put in the article for the film. Completely useless article to the project! 50.111.30.135 (talk) 06:10, 2 May 2022 (UTC)


 * Seconded. All information (with the exception of the Cinefantasique section, which is improperly cited and requires a complete rewrite) is from external sources either repeating dialog from the primary source or conducting OR of their own. There is insufficient empirical data on the subject to justify a separate article. Canonblack (talk) 12:48, 16 September 2022 (UTC)


 * Notability was questioned in November 2021 (refer notability tag). The article is mainly a (poor) retelling of the movie Forbidden Planet, for which an article already exists. The article needs to be WP:MERGED into that article. 182.239.145.107 (talk) 06:16, 26 January 2023 (UTC)