During the SONG we see snatches of the films mentioned in SONG. They look old and scratched and they are INTERCUT with flashes of white screen, burnt celluloid, etc.
SONG: "Science Fiction Double Feature"
THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL - THE END SEQUENCE OF THE ROBOT CARRYING THE HERO
VOICE OVER
Michael Rennie was ill.
The day the earth stood still
But he told us where we stand
WIPE TO:
FLASH GORD
shower into the room.
A second torch cuts through. They move with machine precision, cutting a rectangular path, converging. The torches meet. Cut off. The door falls inward REVEALING a bizarre multi-armed figure. A ROBOT WELDER.
FIGURES ENTER, backlit and ominous. THREE MEN in bio-isolation suits, carrying lights and equipment. They approach a sarcophagus-like HYPERSLEEP CAPSULE, f.g.
LEADER
Sex?
That sound like hes singing to a guy?
Daddy worked so much that sometimes
Mommy could only see him late at night.
Daddy says thats why they
both loved the city so much -
it never went to sleep.
And neither did him and Mommy.
But after a year of romance
in New York City,
Daddy said it was time
to show Mommy where he came from.
So he took her home to New Jersey
and put her through what he said
Robots?
Youre telling us were gonna be replaced by robots?
That robots will get down on their robot hands and knees...
and clean the dust out of every office in this building?
I think not, Ms. Gesteten.
At least the robot wont spend its time writing a trash novel.
Not even a very good trash novel, as I understand it.
[Man on right whistling]
Oh, I see. This is personal.
This has nothing to do wit
robots live here.
On the table next to the sleeping Venus lies an open bottle of pills... next to that, a mirror dusted with cocaine.
She rouses herself to smear some powder on her gums. As she does, we see from her eyes that she is thoroughly, completely whacked out of her mind...
She stands, stumbles across the room, pausing to glance at a photograph on the wall:
Two men. Soldiers. Young, roug