I saw “The Day the Earth Stood Still” on AMC the other night. It didn’t end the way I remembered, so I think I must be remembering some other movie that is very similar. A man and a robot come to earth on some kind of space ship. They meet hostility and are aided by a young woman. At the end, just before they take off, the woman says to the robot, “Tell your master (something)”, and the robot says, “You misunderstand; I am the master”.
Title, please?
Well, it ends that way in the short story. Perhaps you read, rather than, this version?
Even in the movie, Klaatu explains that the robots are beyond their control. They enforce the galactic peace.
But that line was left unsaid in the movie.
Like Lyll said, methinks your memory is filling in the blanks for you.
Just for the record, the story is “Farewell to the Master” by Harry Bates. It’s anthologized, among other places, in the landmark anthology Adventures in Time and Space. A surprising number of storis in that volume were adapted to movies, or related to movies.
I don’t know any other movies where that line is used. AFAIK, it appears only in the short story, and not in any variant version of “The Day the Earth tood Still”. I do note, however, that Marvel comics did an adaptation of Bates’ short stories in its short-lived comic book Worlds Unknown, which specialized in adapting classic SF short stories. At th end of the comic bok version, Gort did say those words. So maybr you’re remembering the comic book version.
Since this is about films, I’ll move this thread to Cafe Society.
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