AAfter seeing Dr Barnhardt and becoming separated, Helen meets up again with Klaatu and Jacob in the cemetery where Jacob's father is buried. Jacob is devastated when he learns that Klaatu cannot raise his father from the dead. Jacob breaks down crying in Helen's arms, as Klaatu watches. "There's another side to you," he admits. "I feel it now." As the all-consuming nanobot locusts spread across Manhattan, Helen pleads with Klaatu to reverse the destruction process, and he agrees to try. They return to the city, racing against time to reach the sphere in Central Park. To their surprise, the pursuing military suddenly backs down, letting them through. Helen wonders why and soon has her answer when the park starts to blow up around them. Their car in shambles, they try to make it the rest of the way on foot, but they are swarmed by the nanobots and are forced to take refuge under a footbridge. Suddenly Jacob's nose starts to bleed and he collapses. Klaatu explains that the nanobots are inside of him and he is dying. Then it starts to happen to Helen, too. Helen pleads with Klaatu to help Jacob, so Klaatu forces the nanobots out of both Jacob's and Helen's bodies and into his own. "Your professor was right," Klaatu says. "At the precipice, we change." He then walks out into the cloud of nanobots and fights to reach the sphere as they tear at his body. Once Klaatu is inside the sphere, the nanobots begin to drop like dead locusts. Lights begun going off all over the world. All vehicles stop running, oil wells stop drilling. In a way, Earth has basically been hit by a global electromagnetic pulse (EMP). The people of Earth are saved, but at a price. In the final scene, Helen and Jacob stand together watching as the sphere takes to the skies.
QWhat is 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' about?
AWhen an alien spacecraft appears to be on a trajectory path to Central Park on Manhattan Island, astrobiologist Dr Helen Benson (Jennifer Connelly) and other eminent scientists are summoned to a military facility under the command of U.S. Secretary of Defense Regina Jackson (Kathy Bates). The spaceship lands, releasing a giant robot and a humanlike alien who calls himself Klaatu (Keanu Reeves). Klaatu is immediately shot and taken to a hospital. With Dr Benson's help, Klaatu manages to escape, but she is uncertain whether his seemingly peaceful mission will result in him saving or destroying the Earth.
QHas Gort been changed much?
AYes. Whereas the original version of Gort was an 8 foot silver robot, the new Gort is considerably taller (approximately 30 feet tall) and is composed of a vast swarm of "nanomachines", microscopic insect-like devices that self-replicate through the consumption of matter (and possibly energy as the swarm of nanomachines grow in size when fired upon by rockets) and are capable of disintegrating any object or substance they touch. When the need arises, Gort can transform from a solid humanoid form to a huge cloud, which then swarms around targets and devours them. In addition to this mode of attack, Gort still possesses his trademark eye-beam to destroy obstacles, and to also manipulate attacking fighter drones by hacking into their electronic systems via projected beams. Gort does not have an official name in the remake but the US military give him the name GORT which is an acronym of Genetically Organized Robotic Technology. Director Scott Derrickson explained "It was intentional. I certainly took a lot of time to explore other possibilities. It wasn't just a foregone conclusion in my mind that we would be sticking to the original. I tried looking at a lot of different possibilities, worked on a lot of different ideas with artists and just always a nagging sense that there was something right about the way the original, that there was something about this alien entity choosing a human form or being in a human form, that had value even by modern standards, not by 1950 standards. I also am such a fan of the original film. You have to also just have some respect for Gort. Gort is Gort. There's no question what we designed pays homage to the original."
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