FLiCX: The Day the Earth Stood Still
Tuesday, Mar. 27
7:15 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
Belcourt Theatre
2102 Belcourt Avenue, Nashville, TN
https://anchorlink.vanderbilt.edu/event/1889579
Dir. Robert Wise | USA | 1951 | 92 min. | G | DCP
Post screening discussion with Dr. Steve B. Howell, head of the Space Sciences and Astrobiology Division at the NASA Ames Research Center: “WWKD: What Would Klaatu Do?” Considering modern humanity through the eyes of the first extraterrestrial visitors, and, the current search for life beyond Earth.
Participants who agree checking in with the FLICX administrator by no later than 7:15 p.m., to remaining through the post-screening discussion may RSVP on this page for tickets purchased by the Dean of Students office.
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- that if you RSVP in the affirmative, and your plans change, you are expected to log back in and change your status to “not attending;”
- that Vanderbilt participants must RSVP for themselves, and may not be “guests;” and
- that non-Vanderbilt guests are limited to one per participant.
In the midst of the Cold War, a humanoid extraterrestrial named Klaatu and his indestructible robot bodyguard Gort visit Earth in order to make first contact with its civilization. After a botched initial encounter that leaves the alien visitor in the hospital and several tanks disintegrated by his protector, Klaatu is forced to go incognito under the alias John Carpenter in order to intimately experience the lives of several area residents. At once a thinly veiled religious allegory and one of the most progressive pieces of science-fiction of its time, The Day the Earth Stood Still’s humanistic message is as valuable and necessary today as it was at the height of that previously tense moment in American history.