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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: The two doctors discussing Klaatu's BizarreAlienBiology and superior medical technology unintentionally end up invoking this to modern audiences. After wondering how anyone can live for so long, they end their conversation by casually [[HilariousInHindsight lighting up cigarettes]].
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* ScienceMarchesOn: There's a news report which casually states the most likely candidates for Klaatu's homeworld are Venus and Mars because they are the most likely planets to be capable of supporting life. In 1951 this would have made sense as it was suspected that Venus could be similar to Earth, and Mars had long been suspected as a possible candidate for life. We now know that the runaway greenhouse effect on Venus makes it too hot to support ''anything'' let alone a species intelligent enough to develop interplanetary travel, and so far there has been no solid evidence of life on Mars and most will agree that if there is anything at all, it probably won't be much more than bacteria. In fact since then scientists have actually been shifting focus even further out towards various Moons among the Jovian bodies (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune) as more likely candidates for extra-terrestrial life.
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***Though synthetic diamond creation was only perfected about three years ''after'' this film was released...
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** TruthInTelevision: Diamonds are just compressed coal, carbon lattices. Even humans can make artificial diamonds with 20th century technology. The gemstone industry responded by establishing the principle that only "real" diamonds are valuable, specifically because they contain various impurities - ironically, artificial diamonds aren't considered as valuable, specifically because they are ''too'' perfect.
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** TruthInTelevision: Diamonds are just compressed coal, carbon lattices. Even humans can make artificial diamonds with 20th century technology. The gemstone industry responded by establishing the principle that only "real" diamonds are valuable, specifically because they contain various impurities - ironically, artificial diamonds aren't considered as valuable, specifically because they are ''too'' perfect.
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**TruthInTelevision: Diamonds are just compressed coal, carbon lattices. Even humans can make artificial diamonds with 20th century technology. The gemstone industry responded by establishing the principle that only "real" diamonds are valuable, specifically because they contain various impurities - ironically, artificial diamonds aren't considered as valuable, specifically because they are ''too'' perfect.
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* AllNationsAreSuperPowers: Surprisingly averted. Klaatu landed in the Washington, D.C. because he thought that landing in the capital of the world's most powerful country would get the ''entire'' world's attention, but he repeatedly insists that his message is for all of humanity, no matter how large or small the country. He brushes off U.S. warnings about the Soviets as internal bickering that doesn't concern him. Moreover, when it is suggested that he could give his message to the whole world by addressing the United Nations, he actually ''declines'', because he feels that not every nation or state-group is represented by it (when the film was made, the People's Republic of China was an unrecognized state, and would not be until 1971, when it replaced Taiwan - but then Taiwan wasn't represented). Ultimately, pressed for time he comes up with the impromptu solution of addressing an international conference of scientists, who are generally apolitical.
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* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: The main twist of the movie's "alien invasion" is that Klaatu is really a peaceful ambassador sent to deliver a warning that humans need to straighten up and fly right. From the perspective of the interplanetary federation that Klaatu serves, Earth is basically ''their'' equivalent of a hostile rogue nation, with warlike tendencies and expansionist policies. Klaatu specifically says that the reason they decided to contact Earth now is because recent advances in rocketry and nuclear weapons indicated that humans were on the verge of expanding into outer space, and they feared that they would spread their aggression with them (the film was made six years before Sputnik launched). It's the equivalent of if North Korea or Somalia just detonated a nuclear test bomb, and so the United Nations sends an ambassador to politely but firmly warn them that further aggressive action will result in a foreign intervention. He also specifically underlines that they have no interest in how humans conduct internal affairs on their own planet.
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This film's plot was copied in the extremely similar (yet hilarious) ''Film/Plan9FromOuterSpace''.
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This film's plot was copied in the extremely similar (yet hilarious) [[NarmCharm hilarious]]) ''Film/Plan9FromOuterSpace''.
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* GodTest: As a demonstration that he is a powerful alien, Klaatu is asked to stop traffic so a man can cross the street. He does so by cutting power ''all over the globe'' with the exception of hospitals and airplanes in flight.
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Trivia.
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* ExecutiveMeddling: At the end, after Gort [[spoiler:brings Klaatu back from the dead]], the filmmakers were made to add dialogue specifying that the result was temporary and that [[spoiler:"the power of life and death ... is reserved for the Almighty Spirit"]].
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* KlaatuBaradaNikto: [[TropeNamer The Trope Namer.]]
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Trope has been split. From what I remember, doesn\'t fit any of the more specific tropes it\'s been split into.
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* HotMom: Both versions.
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* ScienceMarchesOn: There's a news report which casually states the most likely candidates for Klaatu's homeworld are Venus and Mars. In 1951 this would have made sense as it was suspected that Venus could be similar to Earth, and Mars had long been suspected as a possible candidate for life. We now know that the runaway greenhouse effect on Venus makes it too hot to support ''anything'' let alone a species intelligent enough to develop interplanetary travel, and so far there has been no solid evidence of life on Mars and most will agree that if there is anything at all, it probably won't be much more than bacteria.
In fact since then scientists have actually been shifting focus even further out towards various Moons among the Jovian bodies (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune) as more likely candidates for extra-terrestrial life.
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* ScienceMarchesOn: There's a news report which casually states the most likely candidates for Klaatu's homeworld are Venus and Mars.Mars because they are the most likely planets to be capable of supporting life. In 1951 this would have made sense as it was suspected that Venus could be similar to Earth, and Mars had long been suspected as a possible candidate for life. We now know that the runaway greenhouse effect on Venus makes it too hot to support ''anything'' let alone a species intelligent enough to develop interplanetary travel, and so far there has been no solid evidence of life on Mars and most will agree that if there is anything at all, it probably won't be much more than bacteria.
bacteria. In fact since then scientists have actually been shifting focus even further out towards various Moons among the Jovian bodies (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune) as more likely candidates for extra-terrestrial life.
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* ScienceMarchesOn: There's a news report which casually states the most likely candidates for Klaatu's homeworld are Venus and Mars. In 1951 this would have made sense as it was suspected that Venus could be similar to Earth, and Mars had long been suspected as a possible candidate for life. We now know that the runaway greenhouse effect on Venus makes it too hot to support ''anything'' let alone a species intelligent enough to develop interplanetary travel, and so far there has been no solid evidence of life on Mars and most will agree that if there is anything at all, it probably won't be much more than bacteria.
In fact since then scientists have actually been shifting focus even further out towards various Moons among the Jovian bodies (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune) as more likely candidates for extra-terrestrial life.
In fact since then scientists have actually been shifting focus even further out towards various Moons among the Jovian bodies (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune) as more likely candidates for extra-terrestrial life.
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: The two doctors discussing Klaatu's BizarreAlienBiology and superior medical technology unintentionally end up invoking this to modern audiences. After wondering how anyone can live for so long, they end their conversation by casually [[HilariousInHindsight lighting up cigarettes]].
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* GenreSavvy: Klaatu, due to his knowledge of Earth culture. When the human officials try to give him lame excuses why he can't meet world leaders and claiming that such meeting are without any precedents, he points out the United Nations exists to do just that.
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* GenreSavvy: Klaatu, due to his knowledge of Earth culture. When the human officials try to give him lame excuses why he can't meet world leaders and claiming that such meeting meetings are without any precedents, he points out the United Nations exists to do just that.
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* GenreSavvy: Klaatu, due to his foreknowledge knowledge of Earth culture. When the human officials try to give him lame excuses why he can't meet world leaders and claiming that such meeting are without any precedents, he points out the United Nations exists to do just that.
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* GenreSavvy: Klaatu, due to his foreknowledge of Earth culture. When the human officials try to give him lame excuses why he can't meet world leaders and claiming that such meeting are without any precedents, he points out the United Nations ''does'' exist exists to do just that.
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* GenreSavvy: Klaatu, due to his foreknowledge of Earth culture. When the human officials try to give him lame excuses why he can't meet world leaders and claiming that such meeting are without any precedents, he points out the United Nations ''does'' exist to do just that.
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This film's plot was copied in the extremely similar (yet hilarious) ''PlanNineFromOuterSpace''.
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This film's plot was copied in the extremely similar (yet hilarious) ''PlanNineFromOuterSpace''.
''Film/Plan9FromOuterSpace''.
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* CrowdPanic: When the spaceship first lands and when Gort first appears.
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What I mean is that this is *your* reaction to the film. It\'s not the trope unless someone *in* the film has the same reaction.
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* AliensAreBastards: Klaatu's society has robots that can and will ''destroy your homeworld'' if it feels you're being too paranoid and violent. They've also set things up that said homeworld-destroying robots [[ImplacableMan cannot be bargained with, reasoned with, nor feel pity, remorse, or fear]].
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* NotSoDifferent: Humans regularly try to enforce peace from the barrel of a gun. Klaatu's society enforces peace from an army of Terminators.
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I don\'t know what a \"resistant reading\" is.I do know what tropes are in the film. Restoring some unacceptably deleted content.
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* AliensAreBastards: Klaatu's society has robots that can and will ''destroy your homeworld'' if it feels you're being too paranoid and violent. They've also set things up that said homeworld-destroying robots [[ImplacableMan cannot be bargained with, reasoned with, nor feel pity, remorse, or fear]].
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* NotSoDifferent: Humans regularly try to enforce peace from the barrel of a gun. Klaatu's society enforces peace from an army of Terminators.
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If you have to present a resistant reading to make the example work, it\'s not a good example. Nobody in the movie says Klaatu\'s people are bastards, and nobody in the movie says they\'re not so different.
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* AliensAreBastards: Klaatu's society, in a nutshell. they are so paranoid about spacefaring races being violent that they willingly enslaved themselves to a robotic police force that ''destroys planets'' for infractions.
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* NotSoDifferent: Klaatu's society wants to reduce violence and paranoia on Earth. It's the same society that ensured that every spacefaring race is paranoid about a violent robot force.
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Of what other story is this a perspective flip?
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* CoversAlwaysLie: You know that famous poster with Gort holding a woman and firing lasers from his eyes? Yeah, he's not evil.
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->''[[MemeticMutation Klaatu...]] [[KlaatuBaradaNikto barada... nikto.]]''
'''''The Day The Earth Stood Still''''' is a 1951 black-and-white science fiction movie based on the short story ''Farewell to the Master''. The HumanAlien Klaatu lands in Washington DC (in a classic [[FlyingSaucer flying saucer]]) during the ColdWar era. The paranoid military shoots him, prompting his [[KillerRobot robot]] Gort to go on a rampage. Klaatu stops Gort, then tells the President of a message for all the world's leaders (who can't agree on a meeting place). Klaatu later escapes to live among the people of Earth and learns of their penchant for war -- but also of their message of peace and understanding.
As a demonstration of power, Klaatu freezes everything mechanical in the entire world (except for airplanes in flight and hospital electronics) for exactly half an hour. (This is the event referred to in the title, though nobody calls it such within the story.) The military takes this as a sign of hostile intent and responds by hunting Klaatu down and killing him. Shortly before they catch up with him, Klaatu gives one of his newfound human friends, Helen, a message to deliver to Gort in his own language: "[[KlaatuBaradaNikto Klaatu barada nikto]]." Gort re-activates upon Klaatu's death and begins destroying the city, but Helen's message diverts Gort into retrieving Klaatu's body. The robot temporarily revives Klaatu, who tells the people of Earth of Gort's true purpose: he, and other robots like him, were built to enforce peace in the galaxy -- and if humans bring their warlike ways into space, they will be destroyed. Klaatu leaves Earth with a simple phrase to mull over: "The choice is yours."
This film's plot was copied in the extremely similar (yet hilarious) ''PlanNineFromOuterSpace''.
There was a [[Film/TheDayTheEarthStoodStill remake made in 2008]] starring Keanu Reeves.
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!!This film provides examples of the following:
* AliensStealCable: Klaatu says that his people have been monitoring Earth's radio signals, and that this is the source of his knowledge of Earth culture and language; however, the common subtrope of aliens being unable to distinguish fiction from reality is avoided.
* BenevolentAlienInvasion: Played mostly straight in the original. Subverted in the remake.
* CrushKillDestroy: Averted
* CyberCyclops
* DisintegratorRay: Gort's eye beam
* EarthShatteringKaboom: Klaatu warns that if humanity continues to be so violent, his society will have to do this.
* EinsteinHair: Professor Barnhardt
* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt
* ExecutiveMeddling: At the end, after Gort [[spoiler:brings Klaatu back from the dead]], the filmmakers were made to add dialogue specifying that the result was temporary and that [[spoiler:"the power of life and death ... is reserved for the Almighty Spirit"]].
* FirstContact
* FlyingSaucer
* FutureMusic
* HanlonsRazor: For the most part, Klaatu blames human aggression and violence on ''irresponsibility'', not malicious intent.
* HolographicTerminal: The UrExample. Being a movie from the 1950's, Klaatu of course does not have access to CGI hologram special effects, but he does wave at his computer to control it from a distance.
* HotMom: Both versions.
* HumanAliens
* HumanityOnTrial
* HumansAreBastards
* HumansAreMorons
* InnocentAliens
* InterruptedCooldownHug
* JerkAss: Tom, who rats Klaatu out to the Feds.
* KlaatuBaradaNikto: [[TropeNamer The Trope Namer.]]
* KillerRobot
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The item shot out of Klaatu's hand was a gift for the President that would have advanced science significantly.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Professor Barnhardt is a clear stand-in for AlbertEinstein.
* PoorCommunicationKills:
** Almost. Klaatu refuses to deliver his message until he can deliver it to representatives of each nation in person, all at once. The 'kills' part comes from the threat of global destruction if everyone doesn't listen. He also never communicates this threat to the appropriate people.
*** He also assumes that walking right up to the military with a strange object that pops open unexpectedly couldn't be misconstrued ''at all''.
** Helen tells Tom not to tell the authorities about Klaatu, but doesn't say why it's such a bad idea - that Klaatu's people will destroy Earth.
* ScareChord: The Piano got some really bad abuse during the making of this film.
* ScreamingWoman: Helen
* ShootHimHeHasAWallet: Happens to Klaatu in the beginning.
* SpacePolice
* SpaceWhaleAesop: Give up war or be destroyed by robots from outer space.
* TwoOfYourEarthMinutes: When Klaatu is telling the President's representative how long and how far he's traveled to reach Earth.
* WeComeInPeaceShootToKill: Of the first variety.
** Partial aversion. Almost everyone is (reasonably) suspicious of Klaatu at first, but only one nervous soldier actually shoots him. It's not until Earth Stands Still (a harmless demonstration of power, meant to get Earth to recognize the seriousness of the situation), that everyone starts trying to kill him.
* WorthlessYellowRocks: Klaatu's diamonds.
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->''[[MemeticMutation Klaatu...]] [[KlaatuBaradaNikto barada... nikto.]]''
'''''The Day The Earth Stood Still''''' is a 1951 black-and-white science fiction movie based on the short story ''Farewell to the Master''. The HumanAlien Klaatu lands in Washington DC (in a classic [[FlyingSaucer flying saucer]]) during the ColdWar era. The paranoid military shoots him, prompting his [[KillerRobot robot]] Gort to go on a rampage. Klaatu stops Gort, then tells the President of a message for all the world's leaders (who can't agree on a meeting place). Klaatu later escapes to live among the people of Earth and learns of their penchant for war -- but also of their message of peace and understanding.
As a demonstration of power, Klaatu freezes everything mechanical in the entire world (except for airplanes in flight and hospital electronics) for exactly half an hour. (This is the event referred to in the title, though nobody calls it such within the story.) The military takes this as a sign of hostile intent and responds by hunting Klaatu down and killing him. Shortly before they catch up with him, Klaatu gives one of his newfound human friends, Helen, a message to deliver to Gort in his own language: "[[KlaatuBaradaNikto Klaatu barada nikto]]." Gort re-activates upon Klaatu's death and begins destroying the city, but Helen's message diverts Gort into retrieving Klaatu's body. The robot temporarily revives Klaatu, who tells the people of Earth of Gort's true purpose: he, and other robots like him, were built to enforce peace in the galaxy -- and if humans bring their warlike ways into space, they will be destroyed. Klaatu leaves Earth with a simple phrase to mull over: "The choice is yours."
This film's plot was copied in the extremely similar (yet hilarious) ''PlanNineFromOuterSpace''.
There was a [[Film/TheDayTheEarthStoodStill remake made in 2008]] starring Keanu Reeves.
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!!This film provides examples of the following:
* AliensStealCable: Klaatu says that his people have been monitoring Earth's radio signals, and that this is the source of his knowledge of Earth culture and language; however, the common subtrope of aliens being unable to distinguish fiction from reality is avoided.
* BenevolentAlienInvasion: Played mostly straight in the original. Subverted in the remake.
* CrushKillDestroy: Averted
* CyberCyclops
* DisintegratorRay: Gort's eye beam
* EarthShatteringKaboom: Klaatu warns that if humanity continues to be so violent, his society will have to do this.
* EinsteinHair: Professor Barnhardt
* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt
* ExecutiveMeddling: At the end, after Gort [[spoiler:brings Klaatu back from the dead]], the filmmakers were made to add dialogue specifying that the result was temporary and that [[spoiler:"the power of life and death ... is reserved for the Almighty Spirit"]].
* FirstContact
* FlyingSaucer
* FutureMusic
* HanlonsRazor: For the most part, Klaatu blames human aggression and violence on ''irresponsibility'', not malicious intent.
* HolographicTerminal: The UrExample. Being a movie from the 1950's, Klaatu of course does not have access to CGI hologram special effects, but he does wave at his computer to control it from a distance.
* HotMom: Both versions.
* HumanAliens
* HumanityOnTrial
* HumansAreBastards
* HumansAreMorons
* InnocentAliens
* InterruptedCooldownHug
* JerkAss: Tom, who rats Klaatu out to the Feds.
* KlaatuBaradaNikto: [[TropeNamer The Trope Namer.]]
* KillerRobot
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The item shot out of Klaatu's hand was a gift for the President that would have advanced science significantly.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Professor Barnhardt is a clear stand-in for AlbertEinstein.
* PoorCommunicationKills:
** Almost. Klaatu refuses to deliver his message until he can deliver it to representatives of each nation in person, all at once. The 'kills' part comes from the threat of global destruction if everyone doesn't listen. He also never communicates this threat to the appropriate people.
*** He also assumes that walking right up to the military with a strange object that pops open unexpectedly couldn't be misconstrued ''at all''.
** Helen tells Tom not to tell the authorities about Klaatu, but doesn't say why it's such a bad idea - that Klaatu's people will destroy Earth.
* ScareChord: The Piano got some really bad abuse during the making of this film.
* ScreamingWoman: Helen
* ShootHimHeHasAWallet: Happens to Klaatu in the beginning.
* SpacePolice
* SpaceWhaleAesop: Give up war or be destroyed by robots from outer space.
* TwoOfYourEarthMinutes: When Klaatu is telling the President's representative how long and how far he's traveled to reach Earth.
* WeComeInPeaceShootToKill: Of the first variety.
** Partial aversion. Almost everyone is (reasonably) suspicious of Klaatu at first, but only one nervous soldier actually shoots him. It's not until Earth Stands Still (a harmless demonstration of power, meant to get Earth to recognize the seriousness of the situation), that everyone starts trying to kill him.
* WorthlessYellowRocks: Klaatu's diamonds.
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