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John in Woodbridge
August 26th, 2004, 05:57 PM
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Movies tend to reflect the culture at the time, and watching some older movies you can gauge how far the culture has sunken into the abyss.
This movie is a science fiction classic about a spaceman that lands his spaceship in the middle of the DC and warns the world leaders of imminent doom if aggression in not deterred.
Some nice shots of DC before the shitskins made it unlivable. Reflects a healthy white culture.
Factoid: Actress Patricia Neal thought the movie was just another cheesy flying saucer film, and had trouble keeping a straight face while saying her lines. This movie is considered one of the greatest science fiction films of all time.
FranzJoseph
August 26th, 2004, 07:38 PM
Good one, Jim. This movie has an unusual backstory.
Nobody was aware till the late 60s (by the time it had been on TV a lot) that The Day the Earth Stood Still was a Christian allegory on its surface. This has led to the charge that this movie consciously tried to draw a link between the UFO phenomenon (which was new when it came out) and monotheist religion. Conspiracy buffs love it.
Michael Rennie comes down from space and looks just like a mortal man. He walks the world like any one of us. He has a message from powers beyond earth to give to us. He performs a miracle to get our attention. He meets resistance, force, and is killed bringing us the message. After his death, he is resurrected and calls a meeting where he can state plainly why he came to earth. Then he ascends and goes back to where he came from.
Why conspiracy buffs get a real kick out of this is that none of this was in the original story which was called Farewell to the Master by Harry Bates. The story is fun in its own way, and is considered a bit of a classic in its own right. Hollywood bought movie rights to it and changed everything.
In the story a humanoid comes to earth with a huge and powerful robot at his side (Gort in the flick.) In the story the humanoid is killed in a much more conventional situation, but the twist is that after he's killed, the earthlings go to the robot and say, "We're sorry we killed your master" and the robot replies, "I am the master". Ka-boom!
When Colonel Corso wrote his book The Day After Roswell and told everybody that "Hollywood was in on our UFO disinformation program from the start", this is the first movie that came to eveyone's mind.
N.B. Forrest
August 27th, 2004, 01:12 AM
Some nice shots of DC before the shitskins made it unlivable.
Did you hear about the sequel in the pipeline? Gort vs. Gangstas: Throw-Down in Da 'Hood."Klattu Barada Nikto, muhfucka!"
Coming this Hannukah from JewWorks.
Auschwitz_Part_II
August 27th, 2004, 01:40 AM
The Day the Earth Stood Still is a great movie with an important message: stop fucking up shit, or we'll fuck up your shit!
White Winger
August 28th, 2004, 02:24 PM
Some nice shots of DC before the shitskins made it unlivable.
Did you hear about the sequel in the pipeline? Gort vs. Gangstas: Throw-Down in Da 'Hood."Klattu Barada Nikto, muhfucka!"
Coming this Hannukah from JewWorks.
If they stick to the original common sense of the 50's sci-fi,Gort would fry every single nigger,easily.But no one will ever have the guts to do it.
White Winger
August 28th, 2004, 02:28 PM
The Day the Earth Stood Still is a great movie with an important message: stop fucking up shit, or we'll fuck up your shit!
Shit,we know that all you have to do,is just fry every nigger,spic,spigger,arab,indian,central american,south amercian non-Whites,jew and gypsy,and everything would fall into place.
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