And actually, this is wrong...
“Klaatu the spaceman first visited these parts in Robert Wise’s 1951 Cold War classic “The Day the Earth Stood Still,” when he threatened to blow us all up unless we stopped threatening to do the job for him.”
Klaatu tells the crowd that robots like Gort have been given a directive to destroy any planet that is aggressive to another. He even says, “It doesn’t matter what you do to yourselves.”
Understanding that this was really close to the space race, it was about taking over in Space.
I just posted this on another thread but:
the first movie had a robot named GORT who simply impersonated Sen. Al Gort from TN.
the remake is about the Al Gort initiative on Global Warming and happens to have a robot named GORT.
Real progress...
It’s snowing in New Orleans too...
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