Re: Re: "The Day the Earth Stood Still"

[Eugene Coyle]

Jim, are you thinking of the second film of the same name?

Gene Coyle

Jim Devine wrote:

> At 03:11 PM 3/1/00 -0500, you wrote:
> >Last night I watched "The Day the Earth Stood Still" on video. It was the
> >first time I had seen it since its original theater appearance in 1951. It
> >is one of the first films of the period to question the cold war even if
> >on an allegorical basis, just as another science fiction flick "Invasion
> >of the Body Snatchers" was designed to increase anti-Communist hysteria.
>
> Maybe "Invasion" was _designed_ to do this, but it's clearly objecting to
> conformity of any kind and some have interpreted it as being against the
> Truman-McCarthy era's brand of conformity.
>
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