Talk:The Day the Earth Stood Still

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Contents 1 Vandalism on this page 2 Alternate text from newly created The Day The Earth Stood Still, now a redirect: 3 First use of Theremin? 4 250 million miles 5 Wikiquote Page? 6 Frank Conroy

[edit] Vandalism on this page

I am removing the George Noory reference. I think this is vandalism. See the page for the user who added it, where there are many other incidents of this type. Anyway, it's a POV and doesn't belong. --Slowmover, 27-Jan-2006.

[edit] Alternate text from newly created The Day The Earth Stood Still, now a redirect:

Classic US science fiction film released in 1951 starring Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, Billy Gray, and others. Directed by Robert Wise who later directed some of the Star Trek movies. One of the first science fiction films to present the concept that aliens might not be destructive. Filmed in black & white with minimal, but effective special effects. Some of the spaceship scenes were recycled in other movies and television, notably the Twilight Zone.

The movie featured a tall robot, "Gort", who could destroy objects with a powerful heat-ray. Gort was one of many such robots who patrol the galaxy, maintaining the peace.

This movie has become a cult film, partly because of the high quality for such an early science fiction film, and partly for its unusual message of peace.

[edit] First use of Theremin?

"The score was written by Bernard Herrmann and is notable for including the first use of a theremin in movie background music."

Wasn't Herrmann's score for TDTESS inspired by Miklós Rózsa's use of the theremin in "Spellbound" & "Lost Weekend" (both 1945)? Yrs, &c. Lech 66.222.176.48

You appear to have caught an error in the article. I will attempt to correct it. Please reply if possible. --Viriditas | Talk 10:16, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] 250 million miles

Klaatu says he has travelled 250 million miles for 5 months to reach earth. That works out to an average of 19 miles/sec, which would cause him to coast inwards to the Sun from approximately the orbit of Jupiter. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_velocity. However, where is 250 million miles from Earth? --209.221.206.206 03:40, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

I surmise that Klaatu flew in a transfer orbit from Mars or Venus (which in 1951 were thought to be within limits for being habitable). That could be 250 million miles. However, the craft seems to have inertial damping that should have allowed a much faster trip, say, a couple of weeks at most, and even that is more than it would take delegates to arrive at the conference Klaatu wanted.

I hope this movie is never remade. It is just too effective to be duplicated without the greatest effort and willingness to spend months in post-production and repeated re-touches to make sure a remake is as effective. The 1951 shots of space and stars just hammer it home. GBC 18:36, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

Agreed. I will sit down to watch just a few minutes of it, and wind up watching the whole thing. It's just gorgeous and perfect as it is. I like when Frances Bavier's character says "I wouldn't be too sure about that...they come from right here on Earth. And you know who I mean...." The obvious implication is that she's talking about the Soviets, but the fact that it's left ambiguous makes the whole story a timeless fable. What a film! Alan Canon 17:51, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikiquote Page?

there doesn't seem to be one for such an important film, with such great quotes, especially the final monologue --voodoom 04:43, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Frank Conroy

The actor Frank Conroy linked in this page is not the same Frank Conroy who directed the Writer's Workshop at the University of Iowa and wrote "Stop Time."