The Twilight Zone. Capítulo 122

[Damned Martian]

Acero

Título V.O.: "Steel"

Guión: Richard Matheson

Director: Don Weis

Fecha de emisión en USA: Oct. 4, 1963

Guest Starring: Lee Marvin (Steel Kelly), Tipp McClure (Maxo el Batallador), Chuck Hicks (Maynard Flash), Joe Mantell (Pole)

Sinopsis: Un futuro no muy lejano. Ya no hay boxeadores, sólo boxean robots. Maxo es uno de ellos, pero un modelo obsoleto. Justo antes de un combate decisivo Maxo se rompe, y será su entrenador Steel, antiguo boxeador, quien tomará su puesto.


Frases destacadas:

Opening Narration: Sports item, circa 1974: Battling Maxo, B2, heavyweight, accompanied by his manager and handler, arrives in Maynard, Kansas, for a scheduled six-round bout. Battling Maxo is a robot, or, to be exact, an android, definition: 'an automaton resembling a human being.' Only these automatons have been permitted in the ring since prizefighting was legally abolished in 1968. This is the story of that scheduled six-round bout, more specifically the story of two men shortly to face that remorseless truth: that no law can be passed which will abolish cruelty or desperate need - nor, for that matter, blind animal courage. Location for the facing of said truth: a small, smoke-filled arena just this side of the Twilight Zone.

Closing Narration: Portrait of a losing side, proof positive that you can't outpunch machinery. Proof also of something else: that no matter what the future brings, man's capacity to rise to the occasion will remain unaltered. His potential for tenacity and optimism continues, as always, to outfight, outpoint and outlive any and all changes made by his society, for which three cheers and a unanimous decision rendered from the Twlight Zone.