The Day the Earth Stood Still
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Sep 11, 2026
Darren MarlarHOST
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Darren MarlarHOST
Serving as an object lesson to us all, towards the finale of the classic nineteen fifties sci-fi film The Day the Earth Stood Still, in which an alien spacecraft lands in an American city park, the line of dialogue, "Klatu Barada Nikto," uttered by the heroine, saves the Earth.
Darren MarlarHOST
By using this phrase from an alien language taught to her by the hero, an alien but human-looking ambassador from the spacecraft, the heroine instructs a robotic enforcer slash bodyguard slash policeman called Gort to rescue and reanimate his by now dying charge, that is, the ambassador, instead of systematically laying waste to the entire planet.
Darren MarlarHOST
The film ends with an impassioned farewell speech delivered from the rim of the saucer by the altruistic ambassador prior to his departure, earnestly pleading with us to abandon our aggressive tendencies, interscene rivalries, and most importantly, the nuclear arms race, and live in harmony.
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Darren MarlarHOST
On the other hand, if they were not and resembled giant spiders or had waving tentacles, they would be assumed to represent a menace to the human race.
Darren MarlarHOST
This would probably involve a return to the paranoia expressed in sci-fi films over the years.
Darren MarlarHOST
For example, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The War of the Worlds, and Independence Day.
Darren MarlarHOST
All these films expressed different viewpoints.
Monster ZeroHOST
1915, Edmund O'Brien, who appeared in the 1939 version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Dream No Evil.
Monster ZeroHOST
1914, Robert Wise, director for The Day the Earth Stood Still, Curse of the Cat People, Body Snatcher, Audrey Rose, and The Haunting.
Monster ZeroHOST
If you've never seen The Haunting, I strongly urge you check that one out.
Monster ZeroHOST
That is a great flick.
John HolmbergHOST
So slow.
Bret VeselyHOST
The Day the Earth Stood Still, 1951, comes in at number six.
John HolmbergHOST
Is War of the Worlds?
Bret VeselyHOST
Contact, number five.
Marty GentiusHOST
It was a risky pick, I think, on my part, because when I watched it last night, I thought, I don't know, this is a little corny.
Marty GentiusHOST
We're going to do The Day the Earth Stood Still from 1951.
Marty GentiusHOST
And I don't know how this came to me.
Marty GentiusHOST
I think I was watching a montage of scenes and Gort showed up on it.
Marty GentiusHOST
So I thought, you know, and then it shaped sort of the storyline of a lot of science fiction from then on.
Marty GentiusHOST
And a lot of science fiction authors added in this concept of the moral imperatives that go on, that will go on in the future.
Marty GentiusHOST
So, yeah, we went ahead and took a look at The Day the Earth Stood Still.
Marty GentiusHOST
Cindy, had you seen this one before? Absolutely not.
Joe McCormickHOST
Uh, original series creator Gene Roddenberry was heavily involved, and the film was directed by Robert Wise, who was a very respected filmmaker with a lot of critically acclaimed movies in his past.
Joe McCormickHOST
Even in the sci-fi genre, he made the original The Day the Earth Stood Still in 1951-
Robert LambHOST
Mm
Joe McCormickHOST
... you know, Gort, Klaatu barada nikto.
SimonHOST
The film is based on a book by C.S. Forrester and features a screenplay by Edmund H.
SimonHOST
North known for his work on The Day the Earth Stood Still and Patton.
SimonHOST
With a runtime of 97 minutes, the film manages to capture the tension and strategic complexity of naval warfare without resorting to melodrama or sensationalism.
SimonHOST
At the heart of the story is Captain Jonathan Shepard, played by Kenneth Moore, the newly appointed Director of Naval Operations.
SkyeHOST
So then eventually Paramount settled on Robert Wise, who by then he was something of a Hollywood darling.
SkyeHOST
He directed some beloved classics like The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Haunting, West Side Story, Sound of Music, the McQueen war film, The Sandpabbles.
SkyeHOST
And didn't he do The Andromeda Strain in, I think, was it 71 or thereabouts? Yes.
SkyeHOST
And before that, before he became a director, he was an editor, editing none other than Citizen Kane for Orson Welles.
Paola HarrisGUEST
So I then looked at all the Hollywood movies and how they tried to disclose.
Paola HarrisGUEST
When I talked to Robert Short, he said, Robert Wise, The Day the Earth Stood Still, that speech that Klaatu has is an incredible speech.
Paola HarrisGUEST
But he said that the actor, I forgot what his last name is, Remy, I think it's David Remy, he channeled that speech.
Paola HarrisGUEST
It was not part of the script about we're not ready to go out into space until we become evolved.
JayGUEST
I used to watch all these movies.
JayGUEST
You know, I watched The Day the Earth Stood Still.
JayGUEST
And I can't remember what the movie was called, but there was this one kid in it.
JayGUEST
It was, oh, gee whiz, ma.
David BrinGUEST
And we're in a position right now where we could launch grandchildren who would be the makers of the makers of truly civilized interstellar people.
David BrinGUEST
To have aliens wag their fingers at us in a movie that I both love and hate, The Day the Earth Stood Still, How I wanted in that movie for the scientists to stand up and say, yeah, everything you say about us is true, but where the hell have you been? Huh? Huh? You had our ancestors drag sticks through the sand and pile up stones? Thanks a lot.
David BrinGUEST
One community college and we could have had the germ theory of disease and the notion of justice and science and egalitarianism.
David BrinGUEST
You guys have been no help.
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