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Klaatu Gort redux: the remake of a classic film The Day the Earth Stood Still delivers a modern warning wrapped in an ancient myth.

Publication: Skeptic (Altadena, CA)
Publication Date: 01-JAN-09 		Format: Online
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Full Article Title: Klaatu Gort redux: the remake of a classic film The Day the Earth Stood Still delivers a modern warning wrapped in an ancient myth.(Movie review)

Article Excerpt
KLAATU IS BACK AND BADDER than before, with Gort the robot four times the size of the original and a new message for humans to shape up and save the environment ... or else.

The remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still closely parallels Robert Wise's 1951 science fiction film classic that was a Cold War warning shrouded in a Christ allegory. In the original screenplay by Edmund H. North, an alien ambassador named Klaatu (Michael Rennie) arrives in Washington D.C. in his saucer-shaped spaceship (a la UFO convention of the time) with an eight-foot humanoid robot named Gort (played by the 7-foot, 7-inch Lock Martin, who was working as a doorman at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood when discovered). Trigger-happy soldiers shoot Klaatu and whisk him away to a government facility from which he subsequently escapes and disappears into the city, blending in with common Earthlings under the assumed name Mr. Carpenter (to reinforce the allegory lest anyone missed the biblical overtones). Eventually he takes up residence in a boarding house and meets fellow resident and single mom Helen Benson (Patricia Neal).

Klaatu fails to gain access to the United Nations, where he had hoped...

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