FLiCX: The Day the Earth Stood Still
Tuesday, Mar. 27
7:15 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. 聽
Belcourt Theatre
2102 Belcourt Avenue, Nashville, TN
Dir. Robert Wise聽触听鲍厂础听触听1951听触听92 min.聽触听骋听触听DCP
Post screening discussion with Dr. Steve B. Howell, head of the Space Sciences and Astrobiology Division at the NASA Ames Research Center:聽“WWKD: What Would Klaatu Do?” Considering modern humanity through the eyes of the first extraterrestrial visitors, and, the current search for life beyond Earth.
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In the midst of the Cold War, a humanoid extraterrestrial named Klaatu and his indestructible robot bodyguard Gort visit Earth in order to make first contact with its civilization. After a botched initial encounter that leaves the alien visitor in the hospital and several tanks disintegrated by his protector, Klaatu is forced to go incognito under the alias John Carpenter in order to intimately experience the lives of several area residents. At once a thinly veiled religious allegory and one of the most progressive pieces of science-fiction of its time, The Day the Earth Stood Still’s聽humanistic message is as valuable and necessary today as it was at the height of that previously tense moment in American history.