man, I lived to read that :D :D :D

http://grunes.wordpress.com/2011/01/21/the-day-the-earth-stood-still-robert-wise-1951/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0970416/tvschedule

in the US

http://youtu.be/LK9VtgYZpfw

http://youtu.be/LK9VtgYZpfw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg9qG1Rwf_s&feature=related

link was posted at topix

Scarpa ( about K as Klaatu)
…[…] he really was the star that anyone could imagine for this role ; you buy him act in this sort of otherworldly way ;

…I think this would be a dangerous idea ( the lead actor contributing to the script writing) with a lot of actors because most of them would try to beef up their part [..] while with Keanu, ironically, what he is trying to do is shape up the movie and make the whole movie better.

the lie detector interview scene was specially written for Keanu – ‘because it suits him and it’s something he does well’ “ironically ( my note : ???) it became one of the major scenes in the movie ‘

methinks there wasn't much love between Scarpa and Keanu. :\\

if that metallic, distorted sound that can be heard over the general noise made by the nanobots when Klaatu was reaching up to the sphere is supposed to be the second time he 'whispers' the famous phrase, then so be it.
it's sort of overkill, though. saying it once, at the beginning, would have been more than enough. oh well, it's not the only faux pas of this movie :(

http://www.beckyances.net/2011/09/school-bells-a-clangin/

Speaking of foreigners speaking Chinese the blog Confused Laowai had this video that I just had to share. It’s called The Hollywood Guide to Speaking Chinese and it is a compilation of some of the funniest scenes of actors speaking Chinese in movies. For the most part they are really terrible. For me, I found the blond woman to be the best speaker followed by….Keanu Reeves. Seriously, give the guy some props as I could actually understand what he was saying. It comes off slightly awkward and slow, but I believe he really learned it versus the others who just tried to memorize the sounds.

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the point of saying Klaatu Barata Niktu is the same in the remake as it was in the original. To stop Gort from his mission.

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For me, the movie works better without inserting the line also at the end. If the destruction process was activated by Klaatu placing his hand on the sphere, the same action could have deactivated it. Saying the line a second time dilutes its power. Magic words are not to be abused of ;) Maybe that's why I had a hard time identifying said noise as 'the' line.
But hey, it's their movie, not mine...
*shrugs*

"The Day the Earth Stood Still" (2008)

It isn’t the threat of nuclear warfare but rather our own carelessness with the environment that prompts an alien race to threaten us with extermination in this tree-hugging update of the 1951 sci-fi film. Keanu Reeves is actually quite good as Klaatu, the extraterrestrial ambassador who comes to Earth with the imposing GORT, here a much more organic (and shape-shifting) menace than the clunky robot of the original; Jennifer Connelly works her two expressions (wide-eyed, vaguely erotic confusion and wide-eyed, vaguely erotic confusion) as the Princeton professor who tries to talk the handsome visitor out of pulling the trigger. Director Scott Derrickson’s big-budget remake never quite comes together, but it’s not without its apocalyptic pleasures, including a GORT (here an acronym for Genetically Organized Robotic Technology) who turns into a swarm of nanomachines that devours everything in its path — especially Giants Stadium.