Aliens for Peace: The Day the Earth Stood Still, Bernard Hermann, and Enhancing Emotion Through Music

What role does religion play in the film? Describe the use of different religious symbols, elements or terms.

Human beings are the epitome of contradictory. As a whole we have so many accomplishments to take pride in, yet at the same time we have caused so many tragedies where the means do not justify the ends. Regardless of the fact that we are the utmost confusing race to ever exist, human beings should be spared from the wrath of the aliens because human beings are constantly developing and surely that is something to be proud of.

The alien's have not meddled with the destruction of a civilization in millions of years, but they found they could not allow the complex human being to become extinct. However, because humans are intelligent to a fault without actively questioning authority and have a tendency to be

The motivation behind this motion picture is to divert. In light of this, the film has a huge authoritative reach and individuals aren't anticipating that it should induce them of anything so they are more vulnerable to having confidence in the social standards and thoughts that the motion picture advances.

The culture and structure within this movie can be interpreted in many different ways. what i took away from the film is fear. the characters are always in fear of some bigger and darker force. they are always seen running away from something physical or mental. something that sneaks upon them as they sleep or something that sneaks upon them in their

Due to this fear, the government acts defensively, without realizing how unnecessary it is. This behavior causes the alien to reciprocate with violence, too. The government’s actions ultimately causes unnecessary damage and harms more people than were originally affected. In this situation, people acted on the assumption that aliens would be violent. As previously stated, extraterrestrial life is unpredictable, but not necessarily aggressive.

Contact is a mind blowing movie which was based off the novel Carl Sagan wrote. This makes you question the ideas of science and religion and how they intertwine. The movie follows the life of Scientist Dr.Ellie Arroway beginning with scenes of when she was young and how her interest in science and the unknown wonders of space came to be. Her journeys brought her to a astronomy lab in New Mexico in which where she discovered sound waves from extraterrestrial life beings trying to communicate with her. She was able to figure out that they were trying to communicate using prime numbers, also they used a video of a speech made by Adolph Hitler from the 1936 Summer Olympics because it was the first televised event that was streamed through space.

In the film called, They live by John Carpenter contains so many messages and metaphor. The film begin with an unnamed man “Nada” discovers a lot of sunglasses at church. The sunglass allows Nada to be able to see the true face of people. Most of rich people and elite workers are aliens and other are normal working people. Carpenter argue that aliens control the world and hide the truth from the hard working people.

This movie can be seen as a little more or and invasive attack on the humans. These aliens can consume humans and then take the form of their body. The reason this is invasive to some is because we all look at each other as being the same. No matter what someone’s skin colour, hair colour or eye colour be we all know who each others bodies work. However, now with these aliens, that mind set in completely gone.

First, the reasons for destruction of the Earth are entirely different. In the 1951 version, it is the threat, which the humankind poses for other alien civilizations. The threat comes from people and their atomic weaponry they have just discovered and started using (Hoberman MT4). In the 2008 version, it is the threat, which the humankind poses for the Earth, damaging the nature, polluting, and consuming unwisely. Therefore, the 1951 version is “anti-militarist” (Pardon 145), while the 2008 version is ‘green’. Second, the character of Klaatu is depicted differently in the two versions. In the 1951 film the alien is ‘more human’– in means of personality, physicality, and emotions. Keanu Reeves’ Klaatu is ‘more alien’ – less emotional, less friendly, indifferent, with superhuman abilities. Even when he starts to doubt the necessity to destroy the humankind, he still shows no emotions. In addition, in the 1951 version there seems to be a direct reference to the Christian religion. Klaatu’s pseudonym, Mr. Carpenter (Cowan 4) refers to Jesus Christ, carpenter by profession. Third, in both versions Klaatu watches people, good and bad, and changes his mind about the need of destruction by understanding people better. However, there is the difference in what convinces him to change his mind. In the 2008 version not only people’s actions, but also

Leon Mugo Film 214 Drew Ayers December 2nd Interpretive Analysis Essay: Rise of the Planet of the Apes All Lives Matter Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011, Directed by Rupert Wyatt) establishes the power of the relations among the characters. Their roles in the film shows their assistance and belief in their leaders plan (Caesar) just like two dream characters.

Hollywood has had a history of producing apocalyptic science fiction films in which certain societies are faced with life-threatening conditions and have to look to other planets for gathering resources. Movies such as Oblivion (directed by Joseph Kozinsky) and War of the Worlds (Steven Spielberg) focus on aliens who arrive on Earth, looking to wipe out humankind in hopes of obtaining the planet’s food and water to sustain their own population. They are seen to be evil and greedy creatures who care for no other species except for themselves. However, despite their attempts to take over Earth, these resource-hungry aliens eventually retreat back to their own worlds with empty hands after being driven off by humans and their determination to

This was revisited in the second book with the rats, it was a concept that was originally very hard for me to grasp. Imagine if the entirety of the human conscience could be compared to the intelligence of, say an ant... No, a more accurate example would be a mosquito. Mosquitos have no real purpose, no true function on this planet and yet, they continue to live. A fact which we as “holier than thou”humans often despise, yet are we not the same? Humans have no preordained purpose despite those we choose to construct, in fact from any outside perspective, not only is there no reason for our existence, but there are far too many negative repercussions our enduring has caused to counteract this hypothetical reason for life. So, what? What if the only reason for our existence is we got lucky on a lump of dirt 150 million kms from the sun? What if there is no reason for life, and if so why do we continue to live? Throughout the book these questions are continuously uprooted and are never truly answered. But I believe that is the point. We automatically sympathise with our young protagonists, however we still cannot truly support their plight. For if we cannot answer those questions, how can we say that The Others conquest of earth is not just and why do we continue to hope for the eventual triumph of the humans? The Others, aware of this situation, often mock the humans on

There is a fascination and a fear of invasion surrounding science-fiction film because alien invasion parallels invasion of foreigners into one’s own country. Many films represent the main characters as those who fight off these foreigners. There is a large focus on the characterization between the military man versus the the science man. In US films, such as The Thing from Another Planet, the military is displayed to have immense military power that can fight off aliens. The military men at the base defeated the alien using electricity while the scientist failed to communicate and subdue the alien. Here the hopeful fantasy is that the human military power will be enough to destroy what drops from the sky and that the human race will be saved. Foreign movies such as Japan’s Godzilla, portrays the military to be inefficient. This is a

In most modern movies, the line between hero and villain is one that is very clearly defined, resulting in characters that have obvious alignments. They’re either on the side of the heroic protagonist, or the villainous antagonist, but in the 1951 film The Day the Earth Stood Still, directed by Robert Wise, the sides take on more ambiguous roles. Set in the Cold War era America, the movie opens with the arrival of an alien, Klaatu. His mission is to alert the entirety of the Earth that the rest of the universe has created a peaceful society and that if they ever leave the confines or Earth’s atmosphere with the intuition of showing others hostility, that the entire race would be wiped out. During his quest to deliver this message to the heads