We stare at the brink of destruction and analyze a movie that was so good, they made it twice. We’re talking about “The Day the Earth Stood Still” with special guest, Dr. Dennis Foster. We go over the original sci-fi classic from 1951 and the remake they made Heinz-57 years later. Klaatu barada nikto.
The original 1951 version about the Cold War where an alien emissary gives a dramatic demonstration of power when he attempts to warn mankind about the folly of atomic experimentation.
In the remake Watermelon one, they made Heinz-57 years later in 2008 starring Neo from the Matrix, renowned scientist Dr. Helen Benson finds herself face to face with an alien called Klaatu, who travels across the universe to warn of an impending global crisis.
Our guest is Dr. Dennis Foster. He was born in Washington, D.C. but raised mostly in Denver, Colorado. Went to Drake University in Des Moines as an undergraduate (majoring in economics). Went to work for a bank in Denver after graduation for one year before starting graduate school at the University of Hawaii. He received his doctorate from there in 1991. Since 1990 he has been teaching at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. For the past few years, his primary courses have been Macroeconomics, Money & Banking, and Public Choice Theory.
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The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
When a UFO lands in Washington, D.C., bearing a message for Earth’s leaders, all of humanity stands still. Klaatu (Michael Rennie) has come on behalf of alien life who have been watching Cold War-era nuclear proliferation on Earth. But it is Klaatu’s soft-spoken robot Gort that presents a more immediate threat to onlookers. A single mother (Patricia Neal) and her son teach the world about peace and tolerance in this moral fable, ousting the tanks and soldiers that greet the alien’s arrival.
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The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)
Klaatu (Keanu Reeves), an extraterrestrial visitor to planet Earth, becomes the herald of upheaval on a global scale. As the world’s governments and scientists race to understand what is happening and how to stop it, Dr. Helen Benson (Jennifer Connelly) and her stepson come to understand the chilling ramifications behind Klaatu’s statement that he is a “friend to the Earth.”
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We didn’t have a whole lot of notes for this one, despite the length and amount of discussion.
Our guest penned an article on this movie a few years ago, and you can read that here:
The Day the Earth Stood Still commentary: http://www.kaibabjournal.com/rf_arch/2009_01_02_03.htm#20090107
We also pondered whether Murray N. Rothbard might have done a review of this movie in the past, but sadly, he had not. However, we did find an article discussing the libertarianism in this movie that was fruited from the search. You can read that here:
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Libertarian Themes
http://alexpeak.com/art/films/tdtess/libertarian/
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