The Day The Earth Stood Still - Keanu Reeves

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• Description : BlackTree TV Personality Danai P Ma...(more)iraire sits down with actor Keanu Reeves to discuss The Day The Earth Stood Still and are we ALONE in this universe?? PERFECT CASTING This contemporary remake of the science-fiction classic knew what it was doing when it cast Keanu Reeves, the movies greatest stone face since Buster Keaton, as a perplexed alien whose first words on Earth are, This body will take some getting used to. When you want distant and disconnected, Reeves is your man. Keanu meets Klaatu. It could be a match made in heaven, or at least in a galaxy far, far away. Which is just what The Day the Earth Stood Still wants us to think. This contemporary remake of the science-fiction classic knew what it was doing when it cast Keanu Reeves, the movies greatest stone face since Buster Keaton, as a perplexed alien whose first words on Earth are, This body will take some getting used to. When you want distant and disconnected, Reeves is your man. The 1951 original offered the more genial Michael Rennie as the intergalactic visitor, a being arrived on Earth accompanied by giant robot companion Gort. Rennies alien was a courtly individual with the charm of vintage James Bond, but Klaatus temperament is not the only thing that has been changed in this enjoyable updating. For one thing, Helen Benson (Jennifer Connelly), the widow who is Klaatus main human contact, has been elevated from mom to mom and astrobiologist. And imperturbable robot Gort has gone from a clunky 8 feet to a lithe and bulked-up 28 feet tall. Take it easy on those steroids, big guy! The biggest change of all is the reason Klaatu and Gort are on Earth in the first place. No, its not to take advantage of our weakened economic condition; it is, as it was the first time around, to warn us to mend our ways as a planet or face the consequences. Coming as it did during the Cold War era, the 1951 Day was deeply concerned about the arms race, with Klaatu warning anyone who would listen that if the big powers threatened to extend nuclear arms to outer space, Earth will be burnt to a cinder. Ouch. Though nuclear weapons are hardly a settled issue even today, screenwriter David Scarpa and director Scott Derrickson have moved on to trendier issues. What Klaatu is irked at this time around is the way our bad ecological habits are killing the planet. You treat the world, he says, not without reason, as you treat each other. Ouch again. Aside from Klaatu and Gort, the Day team claims to have retained the originals snappy catchphrase, Klaatu barada nikto, but its so hard to hear that viewers will be forgiven if they miss it. Also still around is the charming blackboard scene, in which Klaatu solves an equation for Professor Barnhardt (John Cleese), a man smart enough to have won the nonexistent but indisputably high-minded Nobel Prize for biological altruism. Day has also retained the B-picture feeling of the original, down to the US Armys bellicose decision to fire on both Klaatu and Gort as soon as they set foot on American soil, a decision that has the same ruinous consequences today as it did in 1951. Doesnt anyone in the Pentagon go to the movies? A BlackTree Media Production Produced by Danai P. Mairaire Personality Danai http://www.blacktree.tv (less)