moi621 (imported) wrote: Sun Oct 30, 2011 2:05 pm
Good call!
SciFi and Westerns also have actors who cross over like some of the original Star Trek gang.
I had not seen the High Noon connection. Just corporate bad guys doing bad things for profit enhancement.
Moi
MY side of Universal Studios ended at Barham Blvd. Al Jolson's old estate in ruins. Spartacus crosses along the hill sides for a while. No fences.
Gene Roddenberry who created Star Trek was a writer for Have Gun Will Travel. Several have observed that, particularly the first series of Star Trek was essentially Paladin In Space
And Outland is practically a scene for scene remake of High Noon
In the Boston Globe, Michael Blowen was more favorable: "The parallels between Outland and Fred Zinneman's 1952 western High Noon are apparent. Writer-director Peter Hyams has transported the characters and motifs from the dusty frontier town of Gary Cooper to the frontiers of space. While Hyams keeps the story barreling along, he also develops a corollary anti-capitalist theme. Io is an outpost for exploitation, and it doesn't make any difference whether the miners are digging gold in the Colorado hills or titanium on Jupiter's moon, the greed of the corporate class will prevail. Outland marks the return of the classic western hero in a space helmet. His outfit has changed and his environment has expanded but he's still the same. When Connery stares down the barrel of that shotgun, you'd better smile".[5]
Desmond Ryan at the Philadelphia Inquirer called it: "A brilliant sci-fi Western. In many ways, Hyams has made a film that is more frightening than Alien, because he surmises that space will change us very little and the real monsters we are liable to encounter will be in the next space suit.[9]
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