Octavia Butler's "favorite" movie!

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Octavia Butler's "favorite" movie!

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Here it is, Devil Girl from Mars, the movie Butler says got her started writing, because it was SO bad that anyone could write a better story. Now you can watch this cinematic gem too! :lol:
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Thanks for posting this. Butler is one of my favorite writers ever. I have an Octavia Bulter bibliography around here. Ill have to add this when I get home today.
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It was one of those old 1950s movies in which the beautiful Martian woman arrives on earth to announce that all the Martian men have died off and there are a bunch of man-hungry women up there. And the earth-men don't want to go.
Man-hungry women from Mars and earth-men don't want to go ?! :shock:

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I just saw this two weeks ago and boy is it awful!!!!!! Ed Wood's movies are far more fun!

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Awful?! This film is a defining example of one of the most ubiquitous motifs used in British science fiction films of a certain vintage - it's set in a pub.

(IIRC there is actually quite a good essay about British science fiction films set in pubs in one of the books I read for my dissertation :))

I've got a soft spot for this film.. but yeah, it is bloody awful :P Great linkage though thanks.
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What was your dissertation on?
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Omphalos wrote:What was your dissertation on?
Some bollocks about the scientist-hero motif in SF. It were shit :(
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Himachil wrote:
Omphalos wrote:What was your dissertation on?
Some bollocks about the scientist-hero motif in SF. It were shit :(
Did you rely on a lot of older stuff for support?
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