In the first clip , we see a scene where Klaatu is held in custody after quest to speak to humankind leader . Instead of speak to human race leaders , he speak to US official who interrogates him . You ’ve credibly see this bit in the previews circulating online . What you have n’t see is that when Klaatu tells his interrogator to let him go , he take after up by using the interrogation gimmick to shock the human race unconscious , take over his brain , and steal all the information from his mind that he need to escape the compound . Then he steals the guy ’s courting , and sends a call racket through the bluetooth headset all the army ninjas are wearing , which seems to instantly kill them . ( It ’s not clear if they ’re just astounded . ) Reeves ’ robotic playing works well here : He ’s exotic who is merely inhabiting a human organic structure . Klaatu is way more badass than in the 50s interpretation , where the unknown is a blue scientist . I get a kind of Terminator feeling from Reeves — he slays a base full of hardcore intelligence guys just by sending a crazy sign through their bluetooth devices . He is earnestly scary .
Next we see a clip of Reeves with Jaden Smith , who plays Jacob , the kid he stick to with who learn him what it means to be human . Jacob ask Klaatu why he look so human if he ’s alien , and Reeves explains that before he was n’t human - looking — he was just Klaatu . They appear to be fleeing in a truck . Not certain what ’s happening , but it ’s clear that Klaatu has become more appealing to mankind . Talking about the scene afterwards , Reeves say , “ Klaatu ’s starting to have a fight about a decision he made in the first place in the cinema — he ’s being affected by humans . He ’s ambivalent about man , that they ’re not as bad as he cogitate they were . ” Derrickson bestow that Reeves worked out the animalism of the character of Klaatu on his own , and that Derrickson really admire the way Reeves embodied an extraterrestrial slow come to be human . The shift you see is forcible , in the way he holds his dead body , as well as in his level of view . And it ’s true : in this snip , we really do see Klaatu moving and talking in a more human way of life than in his earlier , Terminator - style incarnation .
Derrickson differentiate the audience that he met Robert Wise , director of the original Day the Earth Stood Still , when he was a film student . Wise advised him to that if he was concerned in genre films , he ought to make his first film a revulsion film . Said Derrickson , “ That ’s why I made The Exorcism of Emily Rose as my first film . ” No mention of the fact that his actual first motion-picture show was a Hellraiser flick — I guess that was straight to television , so it does n’t reckon .
About his casting , Reeves sound out , “ They know I could play an outlander . ” He describes Klaatu as “ An entity trapped , or contained , in a human body . He exteriorize everything around him . As opposed to the original , where Klaatu was warm and fuzzy , more human than human . I ’m not that guy cable . ” Apparently when we first see him emerge from his spacecraft he may not be the guy we see on film . We ’ll get a glimpse of Klaatu ’s dependable face .
The newfangled motion-picture show is in a contemporary setting . So why did Derrickson decide do that ? He say today we ’re not dealing with nuclear threat now , we have dissimilar issues . From what everyone on the instrument panel say , those issue are going to be environmental . Derrickson feel that few people have seen the original motion-picture show , and he want to broadcast the story of an stranger who come to Earth and assesses human nature from the exterior .
Connelly let the cat out of the bag about Helen Bensen , the doctor , and how her human relationship with her boy provides a way of life for Klaatu to understand how humans treat each other and their planet . The family relationship between Klaatu and her boy is still the affection of the film , like in the early variant of the film .
Derrickson said they ’re still working on what Gort will attend like . The ship is also a very unique design . They essay to create biological and technical alien ship — not a hard spacecraft , more of an organic spacecraft . It will look biologic . He says you see this kind of agency of sophisticated engineering a mickle in SF literature , but not so much in movies — that foreign wash may not be as interested in machines as we are . The ship is ecological , based in something biologic . Like a minor planet that travels . We really get to see the ship in another clipping .
afterward , they showed us the official trailer . The ship looks like a glowing Earth , sort of like a mini - ground . And there is more than one ship : Many have fall to all city in the earth . We see immense waves of some foreign tech washing over the world , disintegrate thing . It seems like an remaining option , if the aliens are disturbed by humans destroy the Earth , that they would revenge with a substance that destroy the Earth . But mostly we see it disintegrate truck and sport arena , so maybe the outlander are most disquieted about diesel fuel and football riots .
Derrickson said what the new film retains from the archetype is a sense that humanity has a inclination to destroy itself , for a turn of reasons ( he was cagey about what those might be ) , but in the end there is Leslie Townes Hope that man may survive .
Overall , in footing of visuals and flair , the film attend like an odd cross between Terminator 2 and X - Files . And I mean that in a good way of life .
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