"I deliver perfection..." "and don't brag about it!" ":" "D" "Mayday!" "Mayday!" "This is the "Annabelle"." "I'm lost and I'm taking on water." "My last good reading is 44 degrees north, 68 degrees..." "Portland Station to Annabelle." "What is your position?" "I don't know exactly." "Off the coast somewhere near Rockwell!" "Wait." "The lighthouse!" "I see it!" "Over here, honey!" "Hey, Mom!" "You won't believe our good luck." "Guess what I found?" "Hogarth, we've been through this before." "No pets." "But he's not a pet, Mom." "He's a friend." "We've got to rent a room if we're gonna make ends meet and no one wants shredded upholstery." "You won't know he's there." "I'll cage him." "Until you feel sorry for him and set him free in the house!" "Do you remember the raccoon, Hogarth?" "I remember the raccoon." "Please, Mom, at least look at him." "All right." "Where is this guy?" "I can't read this handwriting." "That one should have lettuce, tomato, extra mayo." "I will go get him, okay?" "So he wants us to hold the mayo and the mustard." "How about just hold the flavor altogether?" "Excuse me." "Excuse me." "Sir?" "Excuse me...!" " What's that?" " Please don't move." "My pet's under your table." "Don't look!" "If you make a scene, my mom won't let me keep him." " What kind of pet, kid?" " A squirrel." "He's friendly." "I'm telling the truth, dang it!" "It came from outer space." "I saw it." "And it was headed toward land." "I called the government in Washington about it." "Maybe it was a Sputnik or an invader from Mars." "That's what it is." "It's an invader from Mars!" "A spaceship of some kind." "An unidentified flying object." "Unidentified?" "Knowing you, Earl, I'd say it was either whiskey or beer." "I saw it too." "I rest my case." "I believe you." "What if it is Sputnik?" "Or a flying saucer from Mars?" "I bet we could find it." "Sorry, kid." "I didn't really see anything." "If we don't stick up for the kooks, who will?" "Is my son bothering you, sir?" "No!" "Call me Dean." "Hogarth, you were going to get your pet, honey?" "I will, Mom." " Right after I finish talking with..." " Dean." " Found your pet." " Where?" "Squirrel's up my pants, Hogarth." "I'm trying not to wig out here." "Don't wig out." "Okay." "He's heading north now." "I'm sorry, kid." "I'd like to apologize to everyone in advance for this." "Check, please." "It's a rat!" "Hello, this is Hogarth Hughes speaking." "Who's calling?" "I'm really sorry, but..." "Thank you." "I need to work late tonight." "There's chicken in the icebox." "You can have that and carrots..." "I'm way ahead of you, Mom." "I'll make it up to you." "I love you." " Me too." "And, Hogarth no scary movies, no late snacks, in bed by 8:00." "Got it?" "Come on, Mom." "It's me, remember?" "Why, the porpoise can communicate telepathically, Miss Melon." "If we can transplant 15% of their brain matter into ours  we may be able to read minds." "Darn." "A perfectly good brain wasted." "You've seen enough." "How about a nightcap?" "Let's say my place." "I was thinking the same thing." "Mind reader." "Darn." "I seem to have left my keys in the lab." "You're gonna get it." "Who's there?" "Come on!" "Stupid antenna." "Invaders from Mars!" "Honey?" "Help!" "Help!" "Stop!" "Help!" "Don't you know better than to wander off at night alone?" "What if something happened?" "I'm sorry, Mom." "Don't you ever do that to me again." "I was so scared." "I thought I'd lost you." "You won't believe this." "Something ate our TV antenna." "No!" "I'm serious!" "It's not Sputnik, like Mr. Stutz thought." "No, it's a robot!" "No, really, it is!" "And the robot, it's 100 feet high!" "And it eats metal!" "Stop it!" "Just stop." "I'm not..." "I'm not in the mood." "Come on." "Let's go home." "A peaceful, stay-at-home kind of day in a town  very much like your own." "But then, suddenly, without warning  atomic holocaust!" "But how does one survive an atomic attack?" "Did you hear about crazy Mr. Stutz?" "He says his boat ran into a sea monster." "I heard it was sunk by a meteor." "It was a metal meteor." "It ate his boat." "My dad says..." "It wasn't any of those." "What would you know about it, Poindexter?" "Don't make me come over there." "Hands over your head Keep low to the ground" "Time to duck and cover The bombs are coming down" "Duck and cover" "It's about 50 or 60 feet high and it only eats metal." "Shut up, you little spaz!" "It's been sent by foreigners to take over the country." "We should bomb it to smithereens before it does." "'Cause all the kids who don't Will cease to be around" "Thanks for the scrap." "Sorry I can't pay you more." "But it's got this this large bite out of it." "That's why I'm selling it." "It's got a large bite out of it." " What could've done this?" " I told you what." "Strange invaders." "Thanks for believing me." "I really did call the government." "They're sending someone to take care of the whole thing." "Jeez, Earl." "You really are crazy." "Who in the hell would the government send?" "Kent Mansley, Unexplained Phenomena." " Marv Loach." "L..." " What happened?" "Not sure." "Sometimes the line'll snap if the weather is bad, sure." "But for a whole tower to get twisted up like that..." "It's got me beat." "It's almost like it was bitten off by some enormous beast." "Enormous beast." "What do you think?" "Escaped gorilla?" "What department is that again?" "I'm not at liberty to reveal the particulars of my agency and all that that implies." "You mean national security?" "Let's put it this way." "Once in a while, things happen that can't be rationalized in a conventional way." "People wanna know the government has a response." "I am that response." "So were there any witnesses?" "Well, sir, if you'll just follow me." "We did find this." "United States Government, huh?" "Guess that means something big's happening here." "No, Marv." "Big things happen in big places." "The sooner I fill out my report, the sooner I can get back to them." "Enormous beast, yeah..." "Biggest thing here is the homecoming queen." "Oh, my God!" "Come on, I need a witness." " It's around the corner." " Don't pull so hard." "It's like a chomp out of the side of the car." "It's like a bite out of a sandwich, like a..." "What are we looking at here, Mr. Mansley?" "Something big, Marv." "Something big." "Hello!" "Come out!" "Hey, big metal guy, I got food here for you!" "Metal!" "Crunchy, delicious metal!" "Come and get it!" "So I guess you're not gonna hurt me, huh?" "The shutoff switch." "You saw me save you." "So where are you from?" "You came from the sky, right?" "From up there?" "Don't you remember anything?" "Maybe it's that bump on your head." "Do you talk?" "You know, words? "Blah, blah, blah", like that?" "Can you do that?" "Well, you get the idea anyway." "Let's see." "See this?" "This is called a rock." "Rock." "Good." "That is a tree." "Rock." "Tree." "Get it?" "That's right!" "My own giant robot." "I am now the luckiest kid in America!" "This is unbelievable." "This is the greatest discovery since, I don't know, television or something." "I gotta tell someone." "I should call..." "No, they'll panic." "People wig out and shoot at something big like you." "Wig out." "It means crazy." "You know, like..." "No, no!" "Don't do that!" "That's the stuff that makes them shoot at you." "Two nights ago, at approximately 1,900 hours, sat com radar detected an unidentified object entering Earth's atmosphere losing contact with it 2 1/2 miles off the coast of Rockwell." "Some assumed it was a meteor or a downed satellite." "But Washington received a call from someone who reported an actual encounter with the object." "This is no meteor, gentlemen." "This is something much more serious." "We can't call "Ripley's Believe It Or Not" because they wouldn't believe it." "And..." "It's getting dark." "And if I don't get home soon Mom's gonna wonder where I am." "If she comes looking for me and sees you we got the screaming problem again." "So for now, would you, you know, just just stay here, okay?" "I'll come back tomorrow." "Goodbye." "No, no." "Me go." "You stay." "No following." "Good." "I told you!" "I'll come back tomorrow!" "Now, stay!" "Bad robot!" "Look, you can't go stomping around and you can't come with me." "My mom will wig out." "That's right." "So you have got to stay in the forest and I'll bring you some food tomorrow." "But I gotta go home now." "So goodbye." "Hey, wait a minute!" "What do you think you're doing?" "Look at this mess!" "Put it back!" "Put it back right now!" "Help me!" "I need your help!" "Good, good!" "Put them together." "Like this." "This one here, that one there." "Okay, over, over." "Good, good." "Now the other one." "Okay." "Good enough." "Let's go!" "What the...?" "That's fine!" "Leave it alone!" "The train is coming!" "The train is coming!" "Come on, let's go!" "You're alive!" " Anybody out there?" " We're in trouble now." "Are you all right?" "I've changed my mind." "You can follow me home." "Let's go." "Mayor's office." "What?" "A train accident?" "He hit a giant creature?" "What creature could be big enough to..." "I need your car." "You can fix yourself?" "Neato!" "Mom's home." "Just stay here, okay?" "I'll be back." "Bye!" "Bye." "What happened here?" "Go on." "Tell him what you saw, Frank." "You're not gonna believe this." "But it was a giant metal man." "Does anyone know where I can get to a telephone nearby?" "Would you say grace?" "Oh, my God!" "Oh, my God we thank you." "For the food that Mom has put in front of us and..." "Stop!" "The devil from doing bad things and..." "Get out of here!" "Satan?" "Go!" "Go, so that we may live in peace." "Amen." "Amen." "That was really unusual, Hogarth." "Forgot to wash my hands." "Stop, stop!" "All right." "Come on." "Over here." "Come on, over here." "Come on." "Hey there, scout." "Kent Mansley." "I work for the government." "Hey, there." "Kent Mansley." "Work for the government." "Your parents home?" "We're eating." "Who's there, honey?" "Hello there." "Do you have a telephone I could use?" " In the kitchen." " Thank you." "Thank you very much." "Here." "Pretend you're a gangster." " You call me at home for this?" "You don't understand." " It ate my car." "And you saw this happen?" "No, I didn't actually see it." "It went off into the woods." "So you don't have any evidence?" "But I've got an eyewitness!" "An eyewitness with a concussion." "This thing is a menace." "It tore up the power station." "It caused a train wreck!" "What did?" "Tell me again, Mansley, and this time  listen to yourself." "A giant metal monster." "Please, sir." "I've got a feeling about this one." "That's lovely, Kent." "But let me try to explain how this works." "If you told me you'd found, say, a giant footprint I'd send an expert to make a plaster cast of it." "Get me a photograph and I could get some troops over there!" "But you tell me you've got a feeling...?" "All right, fine." "You want evidence?" "I'll get you evidence." "And when I do, I'm gonna want a memo distributed." "That sounds swell." "I'll want that memo carbon-copied and redistributed..." "Hi." "Thanks for the use of your phone." "Thank you for the use of your phone, Mrs...?" "Hughes." "Annie Hughes." "And this is my son, Hogarth." "Thank you, Annie." "Hobart." "That's Hogarth!" "What an embarrassing name." "Might as well call him Zeppo." "What kind of a sick person would name a kid Hogar...?" "Hog Hug." "Hogarth Hughes!" "Kent Mansley." "You work for the government." "I wasn't gonna say that." "I have something for you, Hogarth." "Your BB gun." "Where did you find that?" "At the power station." " Hogarth was there the other night." " Really?" "See anything unusual, Hogarth?" "Nothing unusual, really." "Gotta use the bathroom." "Strange he's tightlipped." "The other night he couldn't stop talking." "I mean, 100-foot robots and whatnot." "A hundred-foot robot?" "That's nutty!" "What else did he say?" "No, wait, stop!" "Excuse me." "What is going on in there?" "Are you all right?" "I'm fine." "You know, this sort of thing is why it's so important to really chew your food." "A little privacy?" "!" "Sorry." "Sorry." "He's been acting strange lately." "That hurt." "Thank you again, Annie." "Good night, Hogarth." "I'm sure we'll see each other again real soon." "If you're gonna stay here you gotta keep better track of yourself." "Anyway, I thought you'd like a bedtime story or something." "I've got some really cool ones." ""Mad Magazine", very funny." ""The Spirit", very cool." ""Boy's Life"?" "Oh, here." "This guy is Superman." "Sure, he's famous now but he started off just like you." "Crash-landed on Earth." "Didn't know what he was doing." "But he only uses his powers for good, never for evil." "Remember that." "That's Atomo, the metal menace." "He's not the hero." "He's the villain." "He's not like you." "You're a good guy." "Like Superman." "Superman." "You're hungry, aren't you?" "But I don't have any metal here." "Just follow me." "Pick me up, okay?" "Okay, now, march!" "Oh, yeah." "That's Rockwell." "Nice place, huh?" "Rockwell?" "Yes, I was born right down there." "Rockwell!" "No, stop!" "Look out for the cow!" "Come on, no, not there!" "Please stop." "No, stop!" "We can't go there yet." "People just aren't ready for you." "That was close." "We can't go running around like that, okay?" "Look!" "That would be okay to eat." "It's been there for months." "We gotta hide!" "You know, hide?" "It's when you..." "You know, when you..." "Just get behind something, quick!" "Don't move." "Our troubles are over." "This is it." "All you can eat." "Turn it off!" "Come on, turn it off!" "All right, who's out there?" "I know you." "Squirrel boy." "By night, known as Hogarth." "Got it." "Come on inside, kid." "Sorry about the crowbar." "You'd be surprised how many people wanna steal scrap." "But, man, once I turn it into art, I can't give it away." "I mean, what am I?" "A junkman who sells art or an artist who sells junk?" "You tell me." "I like it, I think." "Listen, you're not gonna call my mom, are you?" "She doesn't know I'm out." "Don't worry, kid." "It's not my style to report a guy to the authorities." "I'm gonna have coffee." "What do you want, some milk, or what?" "Milk?" "Coffee's fine." "I drink it." "I'm hip." "I don't know." "This is espresso, you know?" "It's like coffee-zilla." "I said, I'm hip." "She moved me up a grade." "Now I'm more not fitting in." "I was getting A's." "Mom says, "You need stimulation"." " I go, "I'm stimulated enough now"." " That's for sure." ""You need a challenge." So now I'm challenged to keep my lunch money because of the mooses who wanna pound me since they think I'm smarter." "But I'm not, I just do the homework." "If everyone did, they could move up and get pounded too." "More coffee?" "Look, it's really none of my business, kid but who cares what these creeps think, you know?" "They don't decide who you are." "You do." "You are who you choose to be." " Did you hear that?" " No, wait." "Stop!" "It's okay!" "My God!" " He isn't gonna..." " Run, kid!" "Run!" "It's okay." "He isn't..." "It's okay." "He isn't gonna hurt me." "Don't squash him!" "Do not squash him." "His name is Dean." "We like Dean." "So where'd he come from?" "He doesn't remember." "He's like a little kid." "Little." "Yeah." "Wait a minute." "You can talk to him?" "He can't say a lot of words yet, but he understands things pretty good." "I see." "He needs food and shelter." "You got plenty of room here." " This place is perfect." " Go away." "I can have him push the door down." "You know I can." "I can't hide it here." " "Him", not "it"." " Whatever." "You don't even know where "he" came from." "Or what the hell "he" is!" "He's my friend." "Yeah, what am I?" "Am I your friend?" "Bring a Franken-bot with out-of-state plates, make me change my tune." "I don't like that jazz." "God, I'm tired." "So, he can stay?" "Tonight." "Tomorrow, I don't know." "I don't know about tomorrow." "Sleep tight." "I'll see you tomorrow." " You're up?" " Just making the bed." "That's nice." "Come downstairs." "I have a surprise for you." "Morning, sport." "Sleep well?" "Isn't it wonderful?" "We finally rented our room." "I'm not very hungry." " This is Hogarth Hughes." " I said he could stay the night, kid." "It's morning now." "I'll try to come over." "But there's this weird guy here who's watching me." "What's that mean?" "I got this big, giant..." "Giant thing out here." "I can't talk right now, okay?" "Bye." "Who was that, sport?" "Friend of yours?" "Yeah." "He's a new kid." "Stop!" "Stop that!" "Stop it!" "Mind if I ask you a few questions, buckaroo?" "Why would you tell your mom about a giant robot?" "What was at the power station?" "Tell anyone else?" "How big is this thing?" "Been in the forest lately?" "Champ?" "Slugger?" "Cowboy?" "Where you going?" "I'm going out!" "Why not take Mr. Mansley with you?" "Show him the sights." "Oh, Mom, the sights?" "I'd love that." "Give us a chance to get acquainted." "There are two kinds of metal." "Scrap and art." "If you gotta eat one, eat the scrap." "What you currently have in your mouth is art!" "Art?" "Forget it." "Forget it!" "It's gone." "It's..." "That's not bad." "First, you take a chocolate bar." "Any bar'll do." "Do you mind if I...?" "Knock yourself out, skipper." "You crumble up the chocolate into little pieces." "Then you kind of stir it into the ice cream." "See?" "Yes, I see." "What do you call this again?" "Landslide." "It's new." "Very new." "Landslide." "Topnotch." "You know, Hogarth, we live in a strange and wondrous time." "The Atomic Age." "But there's a dark side to progress." "Ever hear of Sputnik?" "Yeah, it's the first satellite in space." "Foreign satellite, Hogarth, and all that that implies." "Even now, it orbits overhead." "Watching us." "We can't see it, but it's there." "Much like that giant thing in the woods." "We don't know what it is or what it can do." "I don't feel safe." "Do you?" "What are you talking about?" "What am I talking about?" "What am I talking about?" "!" "I'm talking about your goldarned security!" "While you're snoozing back in Washington, we're wide-awake and worried." "Why?" "Because everyone wants what we have!" "Everyone!" "You think this metal man is fun." "But who built it?" "The Russians?" "The Chinese?" "Martians?" "I don't care!" "We didn't build it, and that's reason enough to assume the worst and blow it to kingdom come!" "Now, you'll tell me about this thing." "You'll lead me to it." "And we are going to destroy it before it destroys us!" "Hold that thought and stay there." "Little lower." "Little bit lower..." "I thought you were in trouble." "That sucks." "Let me..." "I ditched this weird guy staying at our house." "It took me hours to shake him!" "I kill myself to get out here!" "And you have him doing arts and crafts." "You got a problem with arts and crafts, little man?" "He's a giant robot, Dean." "It's a little undignified." "Well, smart guy, what would you have him do?" "Main systems on." "Main engines." "One, two and three." "All systems go." "Five, four, three two, one!" "Blast off!" "We're landing." "We're landing!" "We're landing!" "Say, can you guys cool yourselves a little?" "We're pressing our luck here." "Hey, baby, we are cool!" "Welcome to downtown Coolsville." "Population: us." "Well, can you move Coolsville to some place less conspicuous?" "How about the lake?" "Come with us." "It'll be fun." "This can't last forever." "We gotta tell somebody about him." "You worry too much." "Watch this!" "All right, we're watching." "This one's for professionals only!" "Banzai!" "Come on in!" "The water's great!" "No, thanks." "You weenie!" "Come on in." "It's really, really refreshing." "What?" "You too?" "You big baby!" "Banzai!" "You're right in the middle of the road!" "All right." "I think that's enough fun for one day." "Are you okay in there?" "I'm back with the toilet paper you needed." "Thanks!" "I think I'm feeling better now." "Much." "Much better." "It's beautiful, huh?" "Hey, look!" "It's a deer." "Let's get closer." "Well, I guess he decided to..." "It's the monster!" "It's dead." "Dead?" "Don't do that!" "Why?" "It's dead." "Understand?" "They shot it with that gun." "What's wrong?" " Gun." " Yes." "Guns kill." "Guns kill." "I know you feel bad about the deer." "But it's not your fault." "Things die." "It's part of life." "It's bad to kill." "But it's not bad to die." "You die?" "Well yes, someday." "I die?" "I don't know." "You're made of metal but you have feelings." "And you think about things." "And that means you have a soul." "And souls don't die." "Soul?" "Mom says it's something inside of all good things and that it goes on forever and ever." "Souls don't die." "You're late for dinner." "Your mom's working late tonight." "So it's just us guys." "And we're gonna have a little chat." "Sit down!" "How's that?" "A little too bright?" "Good." "Forgive me." "I wanted you to learn something." "What can I learn from you?" "You can learn this:" "I can do anything I want, when I want if it's in the people's best interest." "The giant metal man, where is it?" "I don't know what you're talking about." "You don't?" "Well." "Does this ring a bell?" "How about this?" "You've been careless." "It doesn't prove anything." "It'll get the Army here with one call." "What's stopping you?" "Where's the giant?" "!" "You can't protect him any more than you can protect your mother." "My mom?" "It's difficult to raise a boy alone." "We can make it more difficult." "In fact, we can make it so difficult it would be irresponsible to leave you in her care and all that that implies." " You'll be taken away from her." " You can't do that!" "Oh, we can." "And we will." "He's in the junkyard." "McCoppin's Scrap, off Culver Road." "The junkyard." "Of course!" "Food for the metal-eater." "I wouldn't worry about this." "It isn't really happening." "This is only a bad dream." "Where's the giant?" "This is only a bad dream." "Yes, sir." "This thing is real, sir." "I not only have incontrovertible evidence, I know where it's hidden." "I don't know who built it, but it's massive and we're running out of time." "No doubt we should act." "The question is can you afford not to?" "Excellent, sir." "You won't regret it." "Thank you, sir." "The Army arrives in the morning." "Don't get cute." "I gotta warn Dean." "I'll be watching you." "Morning, Kent." "For some reason, the Army is in our front yard, Mr. Mansley." "Please, call me Kent." " All right, where is it?" " What?" "You know darn well what." "The monster." "The giant thing." "The metal man." "The metal man." "Jeez, you were scaring me there for a second." "I thought I was under attack or something." "He's in the back." "Come on." "I'll show you." "You guys got here just in time." "This rich cat, some industrialist wants him for the lobby of his company." "He whipped out his checkbook." "I said, "Hey, you got him for the rest of your life."" ""But, what, I gotta let go the moment I give birth?" "I mean, come on."" ""Give me some time to cut the umbilical."" "Here he is." "Anyway, I haven't sold him yet." "So if you really want him and if, you know, you throw in a competitive bid..." "Sir, listen." "Step outside, Mansley." "You realize how much hardware I brought out here?" "!" "You just blew millions of Uncle Sam's dollars out of your butt!" "I gotta admit, I'm relieved that this is what Hogarth was talking about." "I mean, I was beginning to think it was real." "I mean, don't get me wrong." "I like it." "But do you need all this stuff on the surface?" "No, actually." "It seems kind of slapped on." "Not as thought-out as this other piece." "You like that one?" "You'll be inspector of toilets when I'm finished with you!" "Pack up." "I'll expect you back in Washington to clear out your office." "Yes, sir." "I see why Hogarth sneaks out here." "You mean, you know about that?" "Now I do." "Bye, Kent, and all that that implies." "Okay, you can move now." "Nice job!" "Thruster to base." "I'm going in." "Only one creature could create so much destruction." "The hideous, people-eating killing machine, Atomo!" "No Atomo." "I Superman." "Okay, Superman." "Take this!" "Stupid gun." "What's wrong?" "As I was saying, take this!" "What happened?" "What...?" "Stay down and follow me." "Get back!" "I said, get back!" "I mean it!" "No, stop." "Why?" "It was an accident." "He's our friend." "He's a piece of hardware." "Why do you think the Army was here?" "He's a weapon!" "A big gun that walks!" "I not gun." "Yeah, what's that?" "You almost did that to Hogarth!" "Come back!" " Stop!" " Giant!" "Come back!" "It was defensive." "He reacted to the gun." "You won't get there fast enough on foot." "See, I told you it was a big hoax." "Give me the binoculars." "There it is." "I see it!" "It's big." "It's walking away." " Give me those." " There!" "See it?" "The monster!" "Holy cow!" "Watch it!" "Help!" "Somebody help me!" "I don't wanna fall!" "Help!" "I'm slipping!" "I can't hold on much longer!" " Dad!" " Daddy!" " He saved those boys!" " It's friendly!" "What...?" "Stop!" "Look!" "Behind you!" "The giant, it's attacking!" "It's stomping the town!" "I was right!" " Sweet Mother of God." " Look, damn you!" "I am not a gun." "Let's get out of here!" "Run!" "Stop!" "There's a kid in his hands!" "Stop shooting!" "He only reacts defensively." "If you don't shoot, he's harmless." "Tell the general!" "This is your fault, beatnik." "If you..." "Shut up and listen!" "You've gotta make them stop." "The giant's got the kid." "I'll take care of it." "He says the monster's killed a kid." "Sir, we must stop it at all costs." "Go to code red." "Repeat, code red!" "Mr. President, we have a situation, sir." "Watch it, lady!" "Look out for the bus!" "You can fly?" "You can fly!" "Try pointing your arms straight ahead, like Superman!" "I've lost visual." "Repeat, lost visual!" "Man, that was close!" "Gotcha!" "Good call, Mansley." "Secure the area." "Let's find out what this thing is and who sent it." " It's still alive!" " Shoot at it!" "Retreat!" "Retreat!" "Let's get out of here!" "He's unconscious, but okay." "Let's get him in the car." "Drive, baby, drive!" "Step on it!" "Floor it!" "It's gaining on us." "Faster!" "Faster!" "Hurry!" "All battleships fire!" "Now!" "Now, damn it, now!" "Nothing can stop it!" "We've hit it with everything!" "Not everything, general." "The bomb." "The "Nautilus" isn't far offshore." "You scare me." "You want us to bomb ourselves in order to kill it?" "The giant follows whatever attacks it." "We can lure it away from the town, then destroy it." "Tell the "Nautilus" to target the robot and await my command." "This is "Nautilus"." "What's the giant's position?" "67.71972 degrees west  by 44.50177 degrees north." "Locked and loaded." "My baby, I'm so sorry." " Stop the car." " You're all right." "Go back!" "We've gotta help him!" "Are you crazy?" "You're lucky to be alive!" "You're going to a hospital." "Out of the car!" "We're evacuating." "We gotta get this boy to a hospital." "What boy?" "Hogarth, no!" "No!" "Stop!" "This is General Rogard." "Ready the attack and retreat to the fallback position." "No!" "Stop!" "My son is out there!" "No, wait." "It's me Hogarth." "Remember?" "It's bad to kill." "Guns kill." "And you don't have to be a gun." "You are what you choose to be." "You choose." "Choose." "It's okay." "It's okay." "We gotta show them you're good." ""Nautilus" to Rogard." "Missile ready." "What are you saying, he's friendly?" "Attacking him triggers a defense mechanism." "Don't listen!" "Destroy the monster while we still have the chance!" "You shoot and the whole thing starts over." "Stop it now!" "Our future's at stake!" "Orders, sir?" "Which is why you have got to stop." "It's getting closer!" "Orders, sir?" "!" "Don't shoot!" "Hold your fire!" "The boy's alive?" "It's a trick!" "Launch it." "Are you mad, Mansley?" "All units, stand down!" "Rogard to "Nautilus"." "Come in, "Nautilus"." ""Nautilus" standing by." "Launch the missile!" "It's targeted to the giant's current position!" "Where's the giant, Mansley?" "We can duck and cover." "There's a shelter right there." "There's no way to survive this, you idiot!" "You mean, we're all going to..." "To die, Mansley, for our country." "Screw our country!" "I want to live!" "Hold him, men." "Make sure he stays here, like a good soldier." "It's a missile." "When it comes down everyone will die." "There it is!" " Shouldn't we get to a shelter?" " It wouldn't matter." "I fix." "Giant?" "You stay." "I go." "No following." "I love you." "You are who you choose to be." "Superman." "Let's go home." "Your best work yet, honey." "No doubt about it." "You think this is my best?" "Really?" "You know, next to that bug thing." "You know, the one with the shovels..." "Come on, honey." "Time to go." "See you later, guys." "See you later, Hogarth." " The general sent this." " What is it?" "He said it was the only part recovered." "He thought you should have it." "I miss him." "See you later!" "English Subtitles by GELULA  CO., INC." "I deliver perfection..." "and don't brag about it!" ":" "D" "Ever hear of Sputnik?" "Yeah." "It's the first satellite in space." "Foreign satellite, Hogarth." "In an age of fear..." "Suddenly, without warning..." "Atomic holocaust!" "... it came from outer space." "Two nights ago, sat com radar detected an unidentified object entering Earth's atmosphere." "Wait!" "The lighthouse!" "I see it!" "Invaders from Mars!" "Some assumed it was a large meteor or a downed satellite." "This is no meteor, gentlemen." "Mr. President, we have a situation, sir." "All right, where is it?" "There it is." "I see it!" "Run, kid!" "Run!" "Warner Bros. is proud to present..." "Look out for the cow!" "... a wild new adventure..." "All systems go!" "Blast off!" "... with a young boy..." "My own giant robot." "I am now the luckiest kid in America!" "... and a robot from outer space." "Hey, big metal guy!" "I got food here for you!" "Starring the voices of Jennifer Aniston as Annie Hughes..." " Hogarth?" " Mom!" " A little privacy?" "!" " Sorry!" "... Harry Connick Jr." "as beatnik Dean McCoppin..." "We don't stick up for the kooks, who will?" "... Eli Marienthal as young Hogarth Hughes  and Vin Diesel as the Iron Giant." "Hogarth." "The acclaimed animation director  from "The Simpsons", "Family Dog" and "King of the Hill"  Brad Bird." "You kind of, like, instantly, lunge into this." "Join us as we spend the next half hour with our host, the Giant himself  Vin Diesel." "... as we go behind the scenes with the cast and crew  of this summer's coolest, most original and entertaining  animated science-fiction adventure." "Welcome to The Making of The Iron Giant." "Welcome to The Making of The Iron Giant." "I'm Vin Diesel and I hope that you'll spend the next half hour with me so I can show you one of the coolest projects that I've ever been involved with:" "The Iron Giant." "What happens when Brad Bird who helped with "The Simpsons", "Family Dog" and "The Critic" wants to make a movie based on a completely original classic tale from a 30-year-old book?" "I'll tell you what happens." "You get magic." "I had seen a drawing at Warner Bros. Open house." "Something about the image of a very small boy and a big metal man that stuck with me." "When I read the Ted Hughes book, I liked it very much." "Our troubles are over." "The thing that I pitched to Warner Bros. Was, "What if a gun had a soul?"" "They looked at each other and went:" ""Oh!" Like that could be a good basis for a movie." "It's really moving and they just have this wonderful relationship." "The mom and kid have a really wonderful relationship." "This is Hogarth Hughes." "Who's calling?" "Hogarth, honey I'm really sorry, but..." "Thank you!" "I need to work late tonight." "It's just the two of them." "A lot of kids grew up that way." "I grew up that way." "And then this wonderful sort of story takes place." "Over here, honey!" "Hey, Mom, you won't believe our good luck!" "Guess what I found?" "Hogarth, we've been through this before." "No pets!" "A lot of credit goes to Jennifer Aniston for doing a terrific voice." "And certainly, no one thinks of her when they think of the all-American mom." "It was a time in America where this sort of innocence pre-World War II innocence was hand in hand with post-World War II paranoia." "You mean national security?" "Let's put it this way." "People wanna know their government has a response." "I am that response." "It was a good environment to drop a giant robot into." "This story is set in 1957, Rockwell, Maine." "A local fisherman comes into a diner with a tall tale that defies reality to everyone, except Hogarth Hughes who's about to set out on an adventure and meets a very very big friend." "When I say this cat is big I mean, this is one big brother." "Do you dig?" "His whole world is a fantasy which is really great." "So when this giant comes along it's sort of fulfilling his fantasy." "There's a moment where he can slip out and get free of this 50-foot tall, very scary thing." "He's home free, he's halfway through the woods, and he stops." "And he's hearing the robot in pain." "He doesn't hear it as a mechanical sound, he hears it as a being." "And he stops and he looks back and that's really the beginning of the core of the movie, right there." "He just comes crashing down in their forest one day and he saves his life." "And that's sort of where the friendship begins." "So I guess you're not gonna hurt me, huh?" "I play a character that I wouldn't..." "Anyone that knows me, knows that I'd be attracted to." "The misunderstood character whose strength is the bane of his existence." "It's okay!" "He isn't gonna hurt me!" "Don't squash him!" "No!" "Don't!" "We like Dean." "Dean." "You just completely fall in love with this creature." "You are riveted and moved by the relationship." "Get it?" "Rock." "Tree." "That's right!" "One of the most important steps in bringing "The Iron Giant" to the screen was recording our voices in character." "And that's not always as easy as it looks." "Rock." "Good, except we've lost the question." "I know it ain't easy." "Hey, baby, we are cool!" "Welcome to downtown Coolsville." "Population:" "Us." "Well, can you move Coolsville to some place less conspicuous?" "Harry Connick..." "I mean, we needed a guy that sounds cool and who sounds cooler than Harry Connick?" "There's two kinds of metal in this yard:" "Scrap and art." "What you currently have in your mouth is art!" "Dean's a real laid-back guy." "He's sort of the token 50s hepcat, you know?" "He's an artist." "Everything is cool with him." "You're not gonna call my mom, are you?" "She doesn't know I'm out." "Don't worry." "It's not my style to report a guy to the authorities." "Hey, there, scout." "Kent Mansley." "I work for the government." "With that ego, he goes on this journey to find this thing." "He reports to this little town..." "It's this Podunk town." "Biggest thing here is the homecoming queen." "Oh, my God!" "He wants to make a name for himself, and the Iron Giant becomes that." "All I know is, we didn't build it and that's reason enough to blow it to kingdom come!" "He has to find out where the giant is, and the kid keeps hiding it from him." "Forgive me." "I wanted you to learn something." "What can I learn from you?" "You can learn this, Hogarth." "I can do anything I want, when I want if I feel it's in the people's best interest." "The giant metal man, where is it?" "I just wanna blow him up and save the world." "Become Kent Mansley, U.S. congressman." "Tell me again, Mansley  and this time, listen to yourself." "A giant metal monster." "Please, sir, I've got a feeling about this one." "When you first see him, he's so sneery." "Basically, he's a man who, when this Iron Giant is reported to him is totally disbelieving." "Who wouldn't be, if somebody described something like that to you?" "You realize how much hardware I've brought here?" "You'll be chief inspector of subway toilets when I'm finished with you!" "Pack up." "I'll expect you in Washington to clear out your office." "He's unaware that he's designed like a wartime weapon." "Atomo!" "No Atomo." "Take this!" "Everybody's been conditioned to fear everything that's not American." "So when this thing comes from somewhere..." "Get back!" "...it has to be bad." "Sir, we must stop it at all costs." "Go to code red!" "Repeat!" "Code red!" "He realizes that it's true, and goes to war against it." "Corporal, take your units south here." "I want flanking positions and set up crossfire zones here, here and here." "Look out for the bus!" "And when we return, we'll find out how our director, Brad Bird assembled this brilliant team of animators and computer-effects geniuses to bring the cast of "Iron Giant" to life." "Here on the WB." "Welcome back to The Making of The Iron Giant." "You've seen how the actors breathe life into these characters." "Now let's look closer at this cool 50s-style world that they've created." "I was thinking the same thing." "Mind-reader." "Darn." "I seem to have left my keys in the lab." "This is the part that's completely foreign to me." "Let me introduce to you the masters behind every frame." "It's rare that a team comes together like this." "It's the right timing the right director, the right story and it's nice to be part of it." "There was a lot more acting and interpersonal stuff between the characters rather than broad action pieces." "The film's producer, Allison Abbate  had no illusions about the challenges of "The Iron Giant"." "This was a cool 2-D movie with a CG character where the CG character was one of the main characters." "It was about acting." "It was using technology but it was using it to make a character you had to love." "That's not bad." "Allison was able to urge us on but do so in a way that was always supportive." "The fact that we pulled this film off with a very short schedule with a smaller budget, without it feeling..." "It feels like a big movie." "It's an amazing achievement, and I tip my hat to her." "First you start with the scripts." "And then, of course, storyboard artists flesh out sequences and add to it and make it alive." "One of the more comedic scenes is where Dean, who's the beatnik guy has just realized he has a squirrel in his pants." "In some of these drawings here these are from things that I did when I was acting it out." "I was kind of pulling on my face." " Found your pet." " Where?" "It's up my leg, man." "Squirrel's in my pants." "I'm trying not to wig out." "Don't wig out." "Pretty much from here, the clean-up artists will get it." "I'm sorry, kid." "I'd like to apologize to everyone in advance for this." "The design scene is based on what you've created in storyboarding." "It's basically set design, the backdrop upon which the characters will act in front of." "When I finish the painting it is composited into the computer." "And from there, it is digitally enhanced." "Trying to bring CG into animation is tricky." "It's hard to do well." "I think we've done a good job of it." "Ideally, you don't want the audience to see a big difference between a computer-generated character and your traditional characters." "The Giant is moving in 3-D but is not painted in 3-D so he doesn't look a lot different than the 2-D characters of Hogarth and his mom and Dean." "He really blends beautifully." "What was different on this show than most computer-generated work is that we had the same artists who were designing the color for Hogarth, Kent, Annie and Dean, designing the color for the Giant, to bring the Giant into their world." "It's an amazing process because you're working at 24 frames a second." "So the average of somebody doing work in a week is three seconds." "We gotta tell somebody." "You worry too much." "There's a section where Hogarth's playing in the lake with the Giant." "I'd storyboarded that sequence, and then I got it in animation." "It became personal to make it look great because I'd come up with it." "This is like my own little bit of film inside this film." "Come on in!" "The water's great!" "When you think of animation, the first thing you think of is a bunch of people drawing and sketching." "The whole visual side." "But that's just part of the story." "Half the movie experience is sound." "Sound has a great deal of impact on how you perceive a film." "The music was done by Michael Kamen." "I think that Michael created a very unique score." "A little darker than what we normally associate with animation." "But dark in a way that the best fairy tales are dark." "It's like a Brothers Grimm kind of Old World Eastern sound, and yet there's some contemporary aspects of it too." "We are now going to Michael's studio which is an old theater." "Apparently, Laurence Olivier first appeared on stage in this theater." "Pretty cool." "It reminds me of, sort of, very classic storytelling where somebody's going into the dark forest." "And it's a very sophisticated approach to the score." "What I'm suggesting to do with this is just..." "I thought Michael did an amazing score." "The orchestra was the Czech Philharmonic which is an amazing collection of musicians." "It was a really great process because he lives in Europe and we felt strongly about getting Brad and him together to combine their vision." "It's like some little gesture of something stopping." "Don't stray too far from the TV, because when we come back we're going deep into the Warner Bros. Classic-animation vault to discover the roots of my character  The Iron Giant." "Rock." "Tree." "Welcome back to The Making of The Iron Giant." "The film's director, Brad Bird has a child-like enthusiasm unrelenting energy, which I can attest to..." "This will be..." "This is Vin." "It's what we hired him for." "...and an uncompromising quest for quality..." "And nobody shoots till I give the word." "...all which make for a great filmmaker." "And all great filmmakers have their influences." "Something that's always separated Warner Bros. Animation from Disney is a sort of fast a little more street-level, something a little more vital, a little more adult and harder-edged." "And I hope that feeling is in this movie." " An unidentified flying object." " Unidentified?" "Knowing you, Earl, I'd say it was either whiskey or beer." "As an adult who saw the movie, I found it fulfilling." "I would take my kids to see it because it was a great kids movie." "We've gotta help it!" "I had such a wonderful time." "I was completely riveted, I was emotional." "He's got a heart." "He's got a soul." "He's a great guy." "Hogarth." "They bring it out in each other." "So I think the message is, you gotta get past the outside." "You can fly?" "You can fly!" "Now you can understand why I'm so excited about this film." "You've seen all the elements that contribute to this masterpiece." "I've always wanted to be a part of the animation world." "The only way that I could do it was by lending my voice as an actor." "And that's why it was a dream come true for me to be the Iron Giant." "And after seeing the film I realized how lucky I was to be a part of it." "You'll be able to see the film on August 6th." "Until then, we'll see you at the movies."