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The Day the Earth Stood Still was originally scheduled for release on May 9, 2008, but was released on a roll-out schedule beginning December 12, 2008, screening in both conventional and IMAX theaters. [3] [4] It was met with generally negative reviews from critics but was a financial success, grossing over $233 million worldwide.
The Day the Earth Stood Still is now considered one of the best films released in 1951. [34] [35] The Day the Earth Stood Still is in Arthur C. Clarke's list of the 12 best science fiction films of all time. [36] The film holds a 97% rating at the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes based on 57 reviews, with an average rating of 8.10/10.
"Klaatu barada nikto" is a phrase that originated in the 1951 science fiction film The Day the Earth Stood Still. The humanoid alien protagonist of the film, Klaatu (Michael Rennie), instructs Helen Benson (Patricia Neal) that if any harm befalls him, she must say the phrase to the robot Gort (Lockard Martin).
In the film The Day the Earth Stood Still, Klaatu, portrayed by Michael Rennie, arrives in Washington, D.C. in a flying saucer alongside Gort, a robotic companion. Klaatu presents a device to the American President for studying life on other planets. However, a soldier misinterprets Klaatu's actions and shoots him.
Michael Rennie (born Eric Alexander Rennie; 25 August 1909 – 10 June 1971) was a British film, television and stage actor, who had leading roles in a number of Hollywood films, including his portrayal of the space visitor Klaatu in the science fiction film The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951). In a career spanning more than 30 years, Rennie ...
For an endless afternoon, our eyes watered and our hearts pounded and our world stood still. You heard. You gathered. You wept. You honored. With flowers and signs and jerseys and love sprinkled ...
A global IT outage which hit airports, banks, train networks, TV stations, shops and GP surgeries dominates Saturday’s front pages.
Gort is an eight-foot tall robot apparently constructed from a single piece of "flexible metal". He is but one member of a "race of robots" invented by an interplanetary confederation (described as "a sort of United Nations on a planetary level" by Klaatu, who is a representative of that confederation) to protect their citizens against all aggression by destroying any aggressors.