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In Reply to: RE: The second badest film of the decade. Reeves in: The day the Earth stand still - posted by patrickU on February 14, 2011 at 09:54:21
the original presented some very interesting and relevent ideas about ETs. It has been said that the original film was a socialogical experiment by the military to judge the public reaction to the idea of ETs visiting Earth.The remake was also particularly disappointing in that it portrayed aliens as evil, belligerent monsters again -- the standard take on them in the movies since Close Encounters. The original portrayed ET as more evolved and non-war mongering as opposed to man.
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The original was a typical film of the nervousness of the time. Communism.
ET? I don´t think so. A political film. Yes.
...about the consequenxces of giving into the general paranoia of the era. Quite different.
For all we know, Jules Verne also was a paranoid product of anti-communist propaganda.
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Different eras, different causes ...the book (1898) has been suggested as being a commentary on British Imperialism or victorian fears, the radio drama of 1938(I presume you mean this, by 'Welles'?) as a commentary on the uprise of nazism, and the '53 Byron Haskin film as a commentary on communism.
Jules Verne is more the adventurous, heroic side (Great Exhibition etc) of the era although he has been criticised for his anti-semetism.
You can keep trying to connect people's fears to the particulars of their times... truth is you will always find some excuse.
Which is just another way of saying there is natural human need for scary stuff - always has been, always will be. Kids tell scary stories under the blanket with flashlight, they grow up and some of them go on making scary movies.
So you might as well say the movie X was scary because it was made in October, when something bad was happening... but something bad happens every day.
PS. By Welles I meant Wells, but it kinda works either way! :)
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... kids of a later generation ran to see Friday 13th ...in the generation of the serial killer. Our fears, times & the products of them are interdependant, as are our needs to excorcise them.
No. It was about the Time.
***The remake was also particularly disappointing in that it portrayed aliens as evil, belligerent monsters again -- the standard take on them in the movies since Close Encounters. The original portrayed ET as more evolved and non-war mongering as opposed to man.
Wow... it was time someone stood fro them aliens rights...
You just can't invent that sort of crap.
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