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RX_Sith
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7/12 2:08pm
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The Day the Earth Stood Still trailer is now posted online. Enjoy!
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Please, Gaia, no! 
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooo! 
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I couldn't have said that better myself ^^.
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Katana_Geldar
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7/23 10:51pm
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I was shocked when I heard of this, they should not do this. What makes the original so special is the whole Cold war paranoia.
I still remember that machine that Klaatu has that gets blown up, I felt so sad.
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twodaynojoke
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7/26 10:34pm
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i've seen most of the original
it was pretty good
the remake is probably gonna be a hit even if it's nothing like the original
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If this is anything like War of the Worlds, it's gonna be incredible. I tend to think (and hope) that Fox wouldn't mess with something as seminal as DTESS if it wasn't going to be phenomenal, and relevant to the here and now.
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RX_Sith
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MTV Movies Blog.
The last shot in the trailer is a hero shot, although strangely not of Keanu Reeve’s character Klaatu, but of his trusty robot Gort. The look of the character deliberately recalls his look in the 1951 original.
“It was intentional,” Derrickson said. “I certainly took a lot of time to explore other possibilities. It wasn’t just a foregone conclusion in my mind that we would be sticking to the original. I tried looking at a lot of different possibilities, worked on a lot of different ideas with artists and just always a nagging sense that there was something right about the way the original, that there was something about this alien entity choosing a human form or being in a human form that had value even by modern standards, not by 1950 standards. I also am such a fan of the original film. You have to also just have some respect for Gort. Gort is Gort. There’s no question what we designed pays homage to the original.”
Klaatu sits in an interrogation room, hooked up to a lie-detector as a government official quizzes him on his purpose. Even in still frames, Keanu Reeves has a rigid, alien quality about his body language.
“One of the biggest challenges of this movie was whether or not audiences would really buy the whole idea — and there’s no question that you buy it, there’s no question that you believe Keanu’s performance. He really thinks through every moment and every beat with tremendous rigor. And he is very clear, I think, about what works for him and his physicality,” Derrickson said. “And yet it’s not like he’s doing things that are highly unusual or highly quirky. He’s not performing an alien like Jeff Bridges in ‘Starman.’ What he’s doing is something that’s not quite so upfront and center or distracting, but it still really gives you a feel of alien-ness and keeps you aware of the fact that this being you’re walking through this movie with is not a human being.”
Reeves told us that Klaatu’s message to Earth was very different from the one in the original, that he was bringing with him a warning to stop destroying the environment. Here it looks like the environment is destroying us (or Giants Stadium, at any rate) — which is it?
“It’s both and even more,” Derrickson explained. “I think that this film in some ways is an attempt to address a number of issues that are amongst the most pressing issues for the human race. The original being a Cold War film was addressing what was clearly the greatest threat for the human race at that time, mutual nuclear destruction, and that’s not the most pressing threat that we face now. It’s also man vs. man. We are destroying each other as well. Our country’s at war right now. There is certainly the issue being addressed in the movie of our treatment of one another on the planet. I think it’s a movie about human nature as much as anything else and how human nature is acting itself out in the world right now.”
Jennifer Connelly
In the original, Klaatu finds the character of Helen after he escapes from custody. Here, she goes to him.
“She’s actually a professor at Princeton University and she’s a microbiologist and she’s recruited early in the movie for an event that’s clearly occurring. She’s recruited by the government whether she likes it or not, really,” Derrickson said. “Helen is probably an expanded role from the original film. Jennifer, of course, is a fantastic actress. She was always my first choice for the role so I’m elated that she’s in it.”
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The original was a not-so-subtle allegory for Christ (the alien’s human name is Carpenter, he calls for peace, he is resurrected at the end, etc.). Is Derrickson’s version as overt?
“I don’t think you can really escape that metaphor,” Derrickson said. “I think the Christ-myth stories make great stories, whether it’s ‘The Matrix’ or ‘Braveheart,’ they all are tapping into some kind of deep myth in our DNA, and by myth I don’t necessarily mean false. I mean something that has mythological power and that’s definitely part of the story and part of what attracts me to it. My approach to that was to not discard that, but to be not quite as direct as the original.”
What do you think of the trailer? Excited for “The Day the Earth Stood Still”? “Klaatu barada nikto!” Sound off below.
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I first saw the trailer online, and having never seen the original movie, I didn't really have a problem with it. But seeing the preview before The Dark Knight, Keanu’s acting made me burst out laughing. It's classic Keanu, but that's really not a good thing to carry a movie on 
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not sure what to make of this, but people in the theater were laughing the first time Keanu appears on the screen and shouting Neo.
I'll see it, just cause jennifer connelly is in it, other than that, not really interested in it. They should just leave classic films alone.
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I'll believe it when I see it. Either the movie is good or it isn't; referring to some mythic resonance supposedly ingrained in our DNA to help sell the movie is not a good sign, IMO.
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I can't help but note the hypocrasy of wanting to stay true to the original classic while remaking it. So, um, if you value the original so highly, why remake it at all?
"Look! Cassablanca! They've remade Cassablanca!"
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Katana_Geldar
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Next thing you'll know they'll remake Gone with the Wind
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RX_Sith
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Katana Gelder posted:
Next thing you'll know they'll remake Gone with the Wind
Here you go: Hugh Jackman eyed for "Gone with the Wind" Broadway role. It's on Broadway, but I'm sure that one for Hollywood can't be that far behind.
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Merlin_Ambrosius69 posted:
Gotta love Red Dwarf quotes. There's usually one for every occasion. Better than Monty Python's Holy Grail.
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I love the Orignal, probably one of the BEST Sci Fi movies ever made. The Remake, I'm scared of.... You don't have Robert Wise directing, like in the orignal, and Bernard Herrmann's score is one you would NEVER forget. I just can't take Keanu Reeves' seriously.
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