Le Jour où la Terre s'arrêta...

Titre original : The Day the Earth Stood Still

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Watch the trailer for the sci-fi classic The Day the Earth Stood Still.

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Un alien débarque et dit aux habitants de la Terre qu'ils doivent vivre en paix ou ils seront détruits en tant que danger pour les autres planètes.Un alien débarque et dit aux habitants de la Terre qu'ils doivent vivre en paix ou ils seront détruits en tant que danger pour les autres planètes.Un alien débarque et dit aux habitants de la Terre qu'ils doivent vivre en paix ou ils seront détruits en tant que danger pour les autres planètes.

Réalisation
- Robert Wise
Scénario
- Edmund H. North
- Harry Bates
Casting principal

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7,7/10

87 k

MA NOTE

Réalisation
- Robert Wise
Scénario
- Edmund H. North
- Harry Bates
Casting principal

Voir les informations de production sur IMDbPro

Récompenses
- 3 victoires et 1 nomination au total

Peddler
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Marshall Bradford

Chief of Staff
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Chet Brandenburg

Farmer
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John Brown

George Barley
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John Burton

British Radio Announcer
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Wheaton Chambers

Mr. Bleeker
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Spencer Chan

Scientific Delegate
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Réalisation
- Robert Wise
Scénario
- Edmund H. North
- Harry Bates
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Anecdotes
Lock Martin, the doorman at Grauman's Chinese Theater, was cast because of his nearly seven-foot height; however, he was not a physically strong man and could not actually carry Patricia Neal, so he had to be aided by wires (in shots from the back where he's carrying her (actually a lightweight dummy in his arms). He also had difficulty with the heavy Gort suit and could only stay in it for about a half hour at a time.

Gaffes
Klaatu arranges to have the electromagnetic fields neutralized from 12.00 pm to 12:30 pm EST, yet it is clearly broad daylight in every country in which people are struggling with inoperative devices. In Asia and the Middle East, it should've been nightfall during this time frame.

Citations
Helen: Gort. Klaatu barada nikto. Klaatu barada nikto.

Crédits fous
Elmer Davis, H.V. Kaltenborn, and Drew Pearson identify themselves when they appear on screen. Radio personality Gabriel Heatter is identified by an announcer.

Connexions
Edited into The Giant Claw (1957)

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10/10

One of the finest sci fi movies ever made

Up-front: anyone who low-rated this does not understand what science fiction is about, at all. To those who judged this harshly: You can go back to watching Transformers; you're in the wrong theater. Such people should be tied to the back side of a Bantha with tummy problems. ;D

Okay, on to the serious review: Who doesn't recognize the term "Gort, Klaatu barada nicto"? This film set the bar for so many films to come, in an age when monsters were a guy in a gorilla suit and a space helmet, giant ants were terrorizing a city, and another guy in a rubber suit was stomping on a miniature Tokyo. Among that, we suddenly find a movie with actual meaning, a moral, a great plot and story-line, decent acting, an honest-to-goodness valid warning-- and one of the best robot presentations EVER.

Was it perfect? No. I don't know as I've ever seen a perfect film. Were there flaws? Sure. What do people expect? It's the overall cinematic presentation that is the thing here-- the experience of a movie capturing the audience and making them say, "Wow". Relatively few films have accomplished that over the decades. This film did.

The special effects for that day were superb. The modern-day remake didn't come close to the quality of this 1951 film. The story has stood the test of time and is even more applicable today that it was back then (only now we can add the destruction of our own world to the mix).

This movie is as close to pristine as a movie can get (for that day) , and proudly takes its place among non-sci-fi classics-- and even sci fi classics that came later. Had the HUGO awards existed in '51 I have no doubt this film would have taken top slot.