{"id":2726,"date":"2013-07-13T09:39:15","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T14:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/?p=2726"},"modified":"2020-08-17T17:52:59","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T17:52:59","slug":"2726","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/2013\/07\/13\/2726\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Great Movie Robots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/moviemom\/2013\/07\/five-great-movie-robots.html\">Movie Mom<\/a><br \/>\nby Nell Minow<\/p>\n<p>Did you know that the word \u201crobot\u201d was invented by Czech writer Karl Capek for a play produced in 1920 called R.U.R?<\/p>\n<p>In honor of today\u2019s release of \u201cPacific Rim,\u201d take a look at some of the other great movie robots:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Metropolis (1927) <\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Fritz Lang\u2019s classic dystopian tale (it inspired a memorable Apple commercial) is the story of a revolt against the 1%.  It has been beautifully restored to included scenes originally cut by censors.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Forbidden Planet (1956)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The first major studio sci-fi feature film was inspired in part by Shakespeare\u2019s \u201cThe Tempest.\u201d  The scientist played by Walter Pigeon has a sidekick, Robby the Robot.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Robots (2005)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This adorable animated film stars Ewan McGregor in a story of (literally) scrappy outsiders in an entire civilization of robots<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Iron Giant  (1999)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This animated story about a boy who befriends a weaponized robot is a heartwarming gem, inspired by the work of poet Ted Hughes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wall\u2022E (2008)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This love story between an analog trash-collecting robot with a fondness for \u201cHello Dolly\u201d and a sleek digital robot designed to seek out signs of new life is one of Pixar\u2019s best.<\/p>\n<p>[editor note: Personally I think she missed some great ones like Johnny 5 from Short Circuit, All the Star Wars Droids, and the robots from Black Hole (Disney 1979 movie) just to name a few&#8230;..but I am sure everyone has an opinion on great movie robots&#8230;.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From: Movie Mom by Nell Minow Did you know that the word \u201crobot\u201d was invented by Czech writer Karl Capek for a play produced in 1920 called R.U.R? In honor of today\u2019s release of \u201cPacific Rim,\u201d take a look at &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/2013\/07\/13\/2726\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robot-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5173,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2726\/revisions\/5173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}