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    Lightbulb Everything you need to know about The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

    • Everything you need to know about "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (1951) 70 years ago:


    • Trivia:
    Lock Martin, the doorman at Grauman's Chinese Theater, was cast because of his nearly seven-foot height. However, he was not a physically strong man and could not actually carry Patricia Neal, and so had to be aided by wires (in shots from the back where he's carrying her, it's actually a lightweight dummy in his arms). He also had difficulty with the heavy Gort suit and could only stay in it for about a half hour at a time.

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    • Klaatu arranges to have the electromagnetic fields neutralized from 12.00 pm to 12:30 pm EST, yet it is clearly broad daylight in every country in which people are struggling with inoperative devices. In Asia and the Middle East, it should've been nightfall during this time frame.
    Quotes:
    • Reporter: I suppose you are just as scared as the rest of us.
      Klaatu: In a different way, perhaps. I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason.
    • Crazy credits:
    Elmer Davis, H.V. Kaltenborn, and Drew Pearson identify themselves when they appear on screen. Radio personality Gabriel Heatter is identified by an announcer.
    • The Remake: The Day The Earth Stood Still 1951 vs. 2008:



    In this episode, we pit a classic 1950s sci-fi to its cynical 2008 remake. With The Day The Earth Stood Still, a message of peace, isolation, and nuclear threat is turned into a disaster movie with a disaster of a story.

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    "The casting of the original was flawless. And Rennie seemed born for the part...urbane, well-spoken and the ability to exhibit a detached, yet strong interest in humanity. This was the strength of the original film. Klaatu wanted to know more about us...saw that we had potential, despite our weaknesses and displayed a benevolence lacking in the new film. Of course the original has Herrmann's brilliant score, the excellent (non cgi) realization of Gort's form, the "real" spaceship set and, imho, the visionary and out-of-the-square thinking which went into the interior design of the 50s saucer. Light sensitive non-contact instruments? No 50s VU meters and silly clunky knobs. It was a masterpiece...still is." unquote
    If aliens ever visit Earth, they'll be coming to reprimand us for bad behavior.

    That's the premise of the 1951 classic sci-fi film "The Day the Earth Stood Still," as well as the brand-new Fox remake of the same name, in theaters Friday. In the intervening 50 years, humanity hasn't gotten any better, the filmmakers seem to conclude -- we've just switched to new transgressions.

    In the mid 20th century our most pressing concern about ourselves was the threat of humans annihilating each other with nuclear weapons. The original film follows Klaatu, a human-looking alien who comes to Earth with his bodyguard robot Gort, to warn people to cease and desist with the nukes before we contaminate the rest of the Galaxy with them.

    The new version of the film focuses on a more contemporary preoccupation: the threat of climate change and environmental degradation. The new Klaatu, played by Keanu Reeves, couldn't care less if we blew ourselves to bits, but would we mind not taking out the rest of the species on Earth, as well as our rare habitable planet, with us?

    The concept of the film wasn't the only part of the movie to receive an overhaul: The science behind "The Day the Earth Stood Still" gets a welcome re-imagining, too. Klaatu, Gort, their spaceship and weapons were all modernized, and the film features an impressive arsenal of CGI graphics.

    To top it all off, Fox plans to transmit the movie via radio dish as the first motion picture broadcast into deep space.
    • Alien arrival
    One of the biggest differences between the original and the new film is the way in which the aliens arrive on Earth. In the 1951 version Klaatu and co. step off a metallic saucer-shaped spaceship. In the new movie, the ship looks more like a mini planet -- a huge glowing sphere of swirling gases. Though probably no more or less plausible than a flying saucer, the sphere does have a more organic, otherworldly feel.

    In nice stroke of plotting, the filmmakers come up with a reasonable explanation for why Klaatu looks human: He's really an entity made of light, and decides to visit Earth in human form to experience life the way the locals do! He comes in a gooey womb-like bio-suit which incubates him for a while before peeling off to reveal Keanu Reeves. If this still sounds hokey, remember that in the old version, Klaatu stepped off the ship fully formed in a silver nylon spacesuit.

    The new Gort looks a lot like the old Gort, but bigger: a giant human-shaped metallic robot. To exterminate the unruly humans, Gort unleashes a scary swarm of mini-bots that look like metallic locusts. Watching the inept humans repeatedly try to kill and restrain Gort while he survives unscathed provides some of the movie's funniest scenes.
    • Real-life angst
    To call off Gort, it falls to astrobiologist Helen Benson (Jennifer Connelly) and her stepson Jacob (Jayden Smith, son of Will Smith) to convince Klaatu that humans aren't beyond redemption, that we really can change our gas-guzzling, trash-dumping ways.

    "In re-imagining this picture, we had an opportunity to capture a real kind of angst that people are living with today, a very present concern that the way we are living may have disastrous consequences for the planet," Reeves said. "I feel like this movie is responding to those anxieties. It's holding a mirror up to our relationship with nature and asking us to look at our impact on the planet, for the survival of our species and others."

    In a sign of its own commitment to change, Fox designated "The Day the Earth Stood Still"as its first "green" production. Though some trees were doubtless harmed in the making of this film, the studio endeavored to produce the picture with the smallest possible environmental impact. That meant less paper printing of photo stills for the art department, the use of recyclable materials and biodegradable products to create sets and props, and lumber from sustainably-managed forests.

    The studio even enforced an "idle-free mandate," whereby any member of the crew sitting in a production vehicle for more than three minutes had to cut the engine rather than idle while waiting.
    • Hello out there!
    In another grand gesture, Fox plans to transmit the entire film into space on Friday via dish antenna through the Orlando, Fla.-based Deep Space Communications Network firm. In what the studio is calling "the world’s first galactic motion picture release," the movie will be broadcast in the direction of the closest star system, Alpha Centauri, where eager aliens waiting with popcorn could view it by 2012, when the signal arrives.

    [Alpha Centauri is about 4 light-years away. The signal will travel at the speed of light.]

    While it is fitting perhaps that the first film broadcast on purpose to outer space is about contact with an alien species, one must wonder whether we are really putting our best foot forward here. Instead of a movie based on our irresponsible treatment of the planet, couldn't we send something with a more flattering view of humanity -- Star Trek, perhaps?
    There is so much I can say about both movies the 1951 version and the 2008 version that ties in to The Great Dystopian Reset "Philosophy" <<< Soon I hope am able to make an overall review of both movies both versions (taking notes when I re-watch it for the 2nd time) and explain the dark side of them pushing the assumed "good will" symbolism of the aliens & robotics CONCEPT being hijacked by more sinister humans having different plans for all of us towards 2030 and beyond!
    • It is all part of a mass psychological conditioning.
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    • Metaphors
    In a 1995 interview, producer Julian Blaustein explained that Joseph Breen, the film censor installed by the Motion Picture Association of America at the Twentieth Century Fox studios, balked at the portrayal of Klaatu's resurrection and limitless power. At the behest of the MPAA, a line was written into the script; when Helen asks Klaatu whether Gort has unlimited power over life and death, Klaatu explains that Gort has only revived him temporarily: "that power is reserved to the Almighty Spirit".Of the elements that he added to Klaatu's character, screenwriter Edmund North said, "It was my private little joke. I never discussed this angle with Blaustein or Wise because I didn't want it expressed. I had originally hoped that the Christ comparison would be subliminal".

    That the question even came up in an interview is proof enough that such comparisons did not remain subliminal, but they are subtle enough so that it is not immediately obvious to all viewers that those elements were intended to compare Klaatu to Jesus Christ.

    When Klaatu escapes from the hospital, he steals the clothing of a Maj. Carpenter, carpentry being the profession the Bible says Jesus learned from Joseph, his father. He presents himself as John Carpenter, the same initials as Jesus Christ (and borrowing a given name from one of his disciples, John). His previous actions are misunderstood, and he eventually is killed by military authority. At the end of the film, Klaatu, having risen from the dead, ascends into the (night) sky. Other parallels include: his coming to Earth with a message for all mankind; his befriending of a child; possessing wisdom and specialized scientific knowledge beyond any human being; and people being given a sign of his power. At the very start of the film, one of the British radar technicians, upon observing the speed of Klaatu's spaceship, is heard to exclaim, "Holy Christmas"!
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    There is so much I can say about both movies the 1951 version and the 2008 version that ties in to The Great Dystopian Reset "Philosophy" <<< Soon I hope am able to make an overall review of both movies both versions (taking notes when I re-watch it for the 2nd time) and explain the dark side of them pushing the assumed "good will" symbolism of the aliens & robotics CONCEPT being hijacked by more sinister humans having different plans for all of us towards 2030 and beyond!
    • It is all part of a mass psychological conditioning.
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    Default Re: Everything you need to know about The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

    I remember watching an interesting review by Dave Cullen who also came to the conclusion that it is a kind of social (pre)conditioning and propaganda for Globalism etc. taking place.


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