The Day The Earth Stood Still

[Astrocreep]

Originally Posted by Cybsled

For those that never saw the old one...

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

Basically a flying saucer lands on the lawn of the capital. The human looking alien sneaks out. The military stands guard. The alien guy goes around town, checking things out. He rents a room, makes friends with some chick and some old man. Eventually the old man figures out he's an alien and he asks what he is going to do. He basically doesn't like how the Earth is on the verge of nuclear war and he wants to prevent us from doing that. He then stops every machine on the planet Earth, with the exception of stuff that would cause people to die (planes in the air, stuff in hospitals, etc). In the meantime, a big robot named Gort steps outside. The alien guy tells the chick that if he ever gets hurt, she needs to tell the robot "Klatu Verata Niktu" (Yes, this is the movie Army of Darkness got that from). Eventually the alien guy gets shot and the robot starts to go into rape the humans mode and kills some army guys. The chick tells him the command and the robot picks up the alien guy and goes in the saucer. Alien guy gets healed. He then goes outside and is like "We are part of a big outer space government...if you guys keep doing your nuke shit, then these robots are going to come down and fuck you up".

That's it in a nutshell. So it makes sense that they're keeping the "humans are fucking shit up and they must be stopped!!!" theme and using the primary "fear" of people today. In the 50s it was nukes, in the 2000s it's global warming/the environment.

im not scared of the world getting warmer, i wont melt.

[Vorph]

Originally Posted by The Ancient

Where is the big robot?

Probably fully CGI and the effects aren't done yet, and that's why you only see it for half a second using the eye beam at the end of the trailer.

[Malakriss]

Stupid aliens and their dictatorships, telling us what to do...

..and they choose to look like Keanu Reeves FFS!

[homsar]

For those that care
"For the film's version of Gort, Derrickson explored many possibilities for depicting the character, but realized making a faithful homage to the original was best. One script draft depicted the robot as a four-legged "Totem" that stands upright after firing its weapon beam"

"Derrickson felt Reeves could portray a lack of humanity, but he would not be "doing things that are highly unusual or highly quirky. He’s not performing an alien like Jeff Bridges in Starman."

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

With mankind’s first uncertain steps into the atomic age comes a warning from beyond the stars: cease your fighting and your wars or you will be destroyed. “The decision rests with you,” Klaatu says by way of farewell at the end of “The Day the Earth Stood Still,” a classic of Cold War science-fiction from 1951.

Fifty years later and Klaatu has a new message for humanity, but one with equally dire consequences should we choose to ignore it, Keanu Reeves, who is playing the alien in Scott Derrickson’s upcoming remake, told MTV News.

“The first one was borne out of the cold war and nuclear détente. Klaatu came and was saying cease and desist with your violence. If you can’t do it yourselves we’re going to do it. That was the film of that day,” Reeves explained. “The version I was just working on, instead of being man against man, it’s more about man against nature. My Klaatu says that if the Earth dies, you die. If you die, the earth survives. I’m a friend to the earth.”

While humanity still engages in a staggering number of international conflicts, the environmental message is one that, not only encompasses wars, and fights, and terrorism, but one that goes beyond constrictions to become a millennial message of “what we are doing and who we are as a species,” Reeves insisted. “We’re trying to reach beyond the idea of [just] environmentalism.”

Among the other changes in the film, none may be more radical than Gort, Klaatu’s robot companion (or leader in some versions), that, let’s face it, looked like the tin-man in 1951. FX should change that, right?

“Hey man, don’t put that tin man down! That was iconoclastic!” Reeves protested. “[But] yes, we have another version of the [robot].”

One thing that won’t change? According to Reeves, he still says the immortal words, “Klaatu barada nikto.”

How does “The Day the Earth Stood Still” speak to you? What do you make of the new Earth friendly message? Sound off below.

[fucker]

Originally Posted by homsar

For those that care
"For the film's version of Gort, Derrickson explored many possibilities for depicting the character, but realized making a faithful homage to the original was best. One script draft depicted the robot as a four-legged "Totem" that stands upright after firing its weapon beam"

lets hope this is not another "Galactus is not a tornado" case

[The Edge]

New Keanu Reeves movie coming out in December. Saw the trailer before 'The Dark Knight.' Looks pretty cool.

[Rathgar]

http://www.fohguild.org/forums/milli...od-still.html?

Searching is hard.

[The Edge]

meh, search failed me. only thing that came up was funny,strange,random picture thread

[Vehn]

that's why you go to google and type the day the earth stood still site:fohguild.org

the site:fohguild.org is key!!

[Callic]

Honestly, i think expecting people to google whether threads have been posted or not is excessive.

If the search isn't working at that point in time, fuck it, there can be two threads for a bit until some jackass from the department of redundancy comes by to inform you how stupid you are.

[Fedor]

All you had to do was search for Keanu.

[PosterOfStuff]

Heh was that the kid from Heroes ?

[Vatoreus]

You don't even have to go to google, just learn to use the advanced search function.

[Rathgar]

Or "Search This [Motherfucking] Forum"

It works perfectly.

[Nenai]

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