Didactic ending of The Day the Earth Stood Still
Aliens travel to Earth to warn humans to shape up or face destruction
- from The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
- Creator: Robert Wise
- Posted by Critical Commons Manager
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Didactic ending of The Day the Earth Stood Still
by Critical Commons ManagerThe didactic ending of The Day the Earth Stood still culminates in a warning from outer space for humans to shape up or face destruction by an intergalactic police force of pitiless robots, a bizarre conflation of post-WWII Cold War rhetoric and technological triumphalism.
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