Plan 9 from Outer Space (1957)

Joanna Lee: Tanna

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• Colonel Tom Edwards : You speak of Solaranite. But just what is it?

  Eros : Take a can of your gasoline. Say this can of gasoline is the sun. Now, you spread a thin line of it to a ball, representing the Earth. Now, the gasoline represents the sunlight, the sun particles. Here we saturate the ball with the gasoline, the sunlight. Then we put a flame to the ball. The flame will speedily travel around the Earth, back along the line of gasoline to the can, or the sun itself. It will explode this source and spread to every place that gasoline, our sunlight, touches. Explode the sunlight here, gentlemen, you explode the universe. Explode the sunlight here and a chain reaction will occur direct to the sun itself and to all the planets that sunlight touches, to every planet in the universe. This is why you must be stopped. This is why any means must be used to stop you. In a friendly manner - or as it seems - you want it.

  Lieutenant John Harper : He's mad.

  Tanna : Mad? Is it mad that you destroy other people to save yourselves? You have done this. Is it mad that one country must destroy another to save themselves? You have also done this. How then is it "mad" that one planet must destroy another who threatens the very existence...

  Eros : [shoves her roughly aside]  That's enough.

  [to the humans] 

  Eros : In my land, women are for advancing the race, not for fighting man's battles. Life is not so expansive on my planet. We don't cling to it like you do. Our entire aim is for the development of our planet.

• Tanna : What do you think will be the next obstacle the Earth people will put in our way?

  Eros : Well, as long as they can think - we'll have our problems.

• Tanna : Eros, do we *have* to kill them?

  Eros : Yes.

  Tanna : It seems such a waste.

  Eros : Well, wouldn't it be better to kill a few now than, with their meddling, permit them to destroy the entire universe?

  Tanna : You're always right, Eros.

  Eros : Of course. But those are not my words; those are the words of the Ruler.