{"id":60,"date":"2006-06-28T23:09:14","date_gmt":"2006-06-29T03:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/60"},"modified":"2009-05-18T17:53:23","modified_gmt":"2009-05-18T21:53:23","slug":"the-day-the-earth-stood-still-1951-robert-wise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/60","title":{"rendered":"The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951, Robert Wise)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What I learned about life in the 50&#8217;s from watching <em>The Day The Earth Stood Still<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>Women scream and fall down when confronted with danger<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/images\/daytheearth3.jpg\" alt=\"Day The Earth Stood Still\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In an emergency, army men ignore women entirely and let them get away.<\/p>\n<p>If a spaceship lands in Washington DC, it&#8217;s okay to leave it guarded by two men and some police tape<\/p>\n<p>Scientists necessarily have frizzy hair.<\/p>\n<p>When you ask a US general to summon representatives from every country, the only one they&#8217;ll contact is Russia, whom they know will say &#8220;no&#8221; anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Saying &#8220;klaatu barata nikto&#8221; can help in a lot of situations, not just when retrieving the book of the dead.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/images\/daytheearth2.jpg\" alt=\"Day The Earth Stood Still\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Even aliens believe in God.  Lady: &#8220;He has the power of life and death&#8221;  Klaatu: &#8220;No, that power is reserved for the almighty spirit&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Kids say &#8220;golly&#8221; an awful lot.<\/p>\n<p>The cold war was pretty serious stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Aliens are well-mannered white men.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/images\/daytheearth1.jpg\" alt=\"Day The Earth Stood Still\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The decision rests with you&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What I learned about life in the 50&#8217;s from watching The Day The Earth Stood Still: Women scream and fall down when confronted with danger In an emergency, army men ignore women entirely and let them get away. If a spaceship lands in Washington DC, it&#8217;s okay to leave it guarded by two men and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[342,712,713],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1950s","tag-aliens","tag-robert-wise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2448,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions\/2448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}