Ever since the atomic bomb ended World War II, the U.S. military has proven their strong will of aggression to all nations around the world. Until today, their attendance in modern conflicts has raised immensely. The movie “The Day The Earth Stood Still” shows a representation of how the U.S. military overestimates their capability of representing the entire human race during an intervention with alien species. In the motion picture, viewers are introduced to Klaatu, a humanoid creature who landed in Manhattan to negotiate with humans about the decline of Earth as a consequence of human behaviour. However, the U.S. Secretary of Defense misinterpreted his intention and locked him in a secure facility. Then, Klaatu successfully escaped with the …show more content…
While waves of destruction occur on Earth, Helen has shown Klaatu that humans are different and that they are capable of changing. In the end, Klaatu stopped the devastation and left Earth in his spaceship as seeing hope in humanity. The theme of the film is a critique of the U.S. military and it is demonstrated through the use of the arrogant figure of the army. In the movie, the armed force is perceived as being more representative than the government and thus, guns talk more than words do. Also, it should be noted that the U.S. Secretary of Defense quoted: “As a rule of less advanced civilization is either exterminated or enslaved. Unfortunately, in this case, the less advanced civilization is us.” As a matter of fact, this shows how the U.S. government puts emphasis on defending the country as a rule of basic surviving principle. Moreover, it is clear in the movie that there are stronger examples of military actions rather than diplomatic ones upon negotiating with Klaatu. For instance, as the spaceship landed in Manhattan, a massive military operation with heavy weapons took place at the landed site.
“No child had such an oversized balloon shaped head. It didn’t even look human, although it had human like features” (18). This is a description of an extraterrestrial from the Roswell incident in the book The Day After Roswell written by Col. Philip J. Corso (Ret.) with WIlliam J. Birnes. This book is quite the interesting read to say the least. Extraterrestrials, flying saucers, and “foreign technology” are some of the complications in Corso’s autobiography during his time in military intelligence working at The Pentagon. Corso describes everything between the events of a flying saucer crash that occurred in Roswell, NM. on July 4, 1947 to the modern day technology that the United States has managed to reverse engineer due to the crash.
This movie explores issues of greed, human relationships, betrayal and redemption, personal innocence and responsibility as well as the effects on the human mind
Q.1. What do you think is the main messages this movie is trying to deliver?
Therefore, the Vietnam War not only holds the basis of the film but also gives it its historical accuracy. (Appendix D) The comparison of the civil rights movement in the United States and the fight for indigenous Australian peoples equality help the movie flow. The use of these historical events allows the film to give itself credibility without the negative effect of
Klaatu plays a part as an alien coming to earth to send a message, but the message he sends is more of a threat to secure peace in the solar system than a message of just peace. The huge metal robot Gort is the system of law that goes through the galaxy and portrays a society of order, peace, and prosperity. Gort acts against aggression by naturalizing the source and establishing dominance over everyone and everything. This is important because earth has survived off power from certain party’s or kingdoms and when Klaatu came it was a shock to the world that such a creation could stop the flux of power. “Earth is getting too dangerous…
To be sure, a surprise strategic Chinese attack is a valuable worst-case scenario to study, but protracted multi-dimensional U.S.-China competition for Pacific influence—akin to the contemporary era—is arguably more likely and, thus, a more sensible scenario against which to wargame. Also, despite its plausible portrayal of a localized insurgency, the novel stops short of depicting mass civil unrest elsewhere and social stability considerations that would almost certainly accompany a future world war. Nonetheless, Ghost Fleet’s technical narrative provides ample realistic content for today’s security and defense officials to balance and refine tomorrow’s warfare strategies. Singer and Cole’s near-future depiction of U.S. technological vulnerability in warfare should spur those officials to enable American innovation and adaptation in warfighting solutions well before the onset of strategic
While the creature is an important part of Japanese identity, American cinema has changed the Japanese monster to reflect American ideology towards the use of nuclear weapons such as the atomic bomb. In contradictory to earlier Japanese films such as Return of Godzilla (1984), that warn towards the dangerous return of nuclear weapons during the cold wars; American pop-culture emphasis on Godzilla’s destructive nature as a good thing. American’s transform the creature from being an antagonist to protagonist. In fact, Godzilla (2014) put the creature as humanity’s one hope from salvation against another monster. It no longer represents a threat, but instead Godzilla is a savior.
1. What are the main themes, politically and socially, that are portrayed in the film?
The series of oppositional insurgents who have risen up to combat U.S. presence have a very similar message to that of Captain Said. They have lost families, had their beliefs challenged, and feel that they are losing their culture to a soulless consumerism. This film feels more like a missed opportunity to be warned of the dangers of impersonal war. It will take many more enlightening films willing to universalize and highlight our shared characteristics to bring people a less superficial understanding of living in a war torn country. If a conflict that lasted seven months warranted one film humanizing the enemies of the United States, surely after the last fourteen years of war the average citizen in the United States would benefit from dozens more films with a similar
The storyline is about the fictitious African nation of Wakanda whose country is rich in Vibranium and is advanced in technology. Beyond this point, is that the movie focuses upon the power of men and women who through working together rule and reign. Moreover, the movie highlights peace not war,
The film represents violence of destruction as associated with masculinity, and it shows this as a negative attitude, and
The theme of war stars in a big part of this film because the war battles played a big part on who would be the ruler of France’s throne. War portrays a wide range of the depth of this film. It shows the brutality of medieval warfare, how glory and honor justify the means of war, and how the common soldiers just wanted to make it home safely. The theme of war shows how traumatic the consequences can be for families and their families to come just for power. Bates: “Ay, or more than we should seek after; for we know enough, if we know we are the king's subjects.
The political elements of the movie are shown through the politics of violence. The movie focuses on masculinity, violence and gender. It resembles the pathology of individual and institutional violence that fills America, ranging from hate crimes to criminal subcultures. Violence functions mostly through the politics of denial, insulation, disinterest and inability to criticize with self-consiousness. This is the violence that represents society today.
He is taking us to a world where violence “the predator animals” and media “The tv” are taking control over everything. Every cinematic element in the movie is reflecting these ideas to us. Starting from the actors, their clothes, characteristics, production designer,
When most people think of President Kennedy’s Diplomacy efforts, they will often refer to situations that were resolved using the doctrine of flexible response. This is when the military and White House planners implemented a policy that offered them a range of options to choose from: in dealing with a host of threats. These included: the increased use of conventional forces to small and large nuclear weapons. As, this was based on two main principals most notably: destroying the enemy’s ability to make retaliatory strikes against American interests and only attacking the cities along with other population centers as a last resort. (Cohen, 1986, pp.