tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5216738179263317509.post6648311694817409189..comments2024-01-08T00:25:24.777-08:00Comments on Philosophy of Science Portal: "The Day The Earth Stood Still"--remakeMercuryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13757909461674304095noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5216738179263317509.post-84890100678869720732009-02-06T07:57:00.000-08:002009-02-06T07:57:00.000-08:00Well David, I cannot comment on the film since I h...Well David, I cannot comment on the film since I have not seen it. My only observations, as I mentioned, were based solely on the theatrical trailer. Obviously, you found some merit in the film even though I do not understand what you are saying...something to the effect that annihilation of the human species is inevitable and we should be somewhat Stoic about the whole event.<BR/><BR/>The equations I assume are the ones behind Dr. Barndardt in the 1951 film. This is a common artifice in television and motion pictures. It can, among other things, represent high academics, a scholarly atmosphere. I have seen many sci-fi/jorror films of the mad doctor in the laboratory surrounded by assorted chemical apparatus that in reality are incorrectly used or serve an unknown function. The same with people surrounded by volumes of books or, as in this case, standing in front of a blackboard filled with algebra and calculus equations that probably mean nothing at all--something the property master of the film production copied from a university physics 101 text. Who knows.Mercuryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13757909461674304095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5216738179263317509.post-10767498360882702092009-02-05T20:58:00.000-08:002009-02-05T20:58:00.000-08:00Having seen "day earth stood stil" twice and havin...Having seen "day earth stood stil" twice and having read many dismissive comments about all personnel and all art efforts and against all reinventions that make up this movie, I can honestly say I like it. I found it speaking to the world perhaps not as strongly ideologically and nor intellectually nor issue-ly,but that's on every blog, chat room,website, radio show editorial every day. What it did do is say OK doom's day is here, you have had your chances: go extinct, die! as it's not my blog, I stop here. I do wonder what the equations say on the black board. Please ferret that out,could you?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5216738179263317509.post-10684764079493970612008-09-15T20:35:00.000-07:002008-09-15T20:35:00.000-07:00I do not see the same aura that the original had. ...I do not see the same aura that the original had. We who attended schools where we were taught to hide beneath desks and avoid windows are not this generation. Though we face dire situations there is almost a non-existent aura around the current dangers such as a dirty bomb. Personally I think the questions arising from the original film lack the ideal audience of those who lived through Hiroshima, World War II and witnessed the destructive power not just of weapons but societies bent upon destruction. That was the intent of the original film....get your societies peacefully together or be eliminated by those who do not want your kind in the universe. They may surprise me with the new film but I am not holding my breath.Timrayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10121655821325121641noreply@blogger.com