The Day The Earth Stood Still Has Gone Green

If you visit my blog often you know I am not a fan of Classic movie remakes. But Hollywood can’t create things anymore, so they recycle the good stuff. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) a movie which shook a generation to the core by making it realize that before any alien can destroy the earth, man would destroy themselves first. In the 50’s we were in the cold war and America had fears about the Eastern Bloc, or Communism. Films in the 50’s used aliens, creatures, or any other metaphor which represented Communism or what America feared most. However, this film was different in that it placed the responsibility of man’s destruction on everyone. The one to fear was man, or the “nature of man and the terrible violence that humanity is capable of.”


What the classic film told us about ourselves as humans is timeless and it unfortunately still applies to us today. As Hollywood would have it, the remake tackles “issues and conflicts that are affecting us now." Hollywood has decided in the remake that man is destroying the earth and it must be stopped! Forget the economy, war, and terrorism, those don’t matter or Americans are not afraid of those. We have sleepless nights thinking of the milk carton we forgot to throw in the recycle bin. I guess the theme in the remake has gone green because that’s what we worry about…huh? Well I don’t know about that, I just heard about a poll which said that Americans don’t worry as much about the environment than they do about the economy. Please Hollywood, we all care about the earth, but right now what is scaring us is the economy. Why can’t Hollywood just leave a good thing alone? The movie opens in December, if you must see it, the only thing that will make it worth your while is Keanu Reeves as Klaatu .

Source iesb.net