Post by Keith Heitmann on Jan 13, 2005 18:16:25 GMT -5
I finally got 4 of the five DVDs the wife ordered for me for Christmas yesterday. I gave her a list of DVDs that I'd like to have more than a year ago.
This time she got me copies of The Green Berets, Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, and The Day the Earth Stood Still.
I watched The Day the Earth Stood Still last night. The remastered DVD looks very nice. It's a classic SciFi flick and one of the best from the 1950s. It had some info about the script and the technical diagram for the flying saucer used in many of the scenes. They also interviewed a few people that worked on the movie itself, but none of the actors, who have all since passed away. They talked with a collector about his collection of items from the movie such as posters, cards, promotional material and one guy that even owns the actual GORT robot suit, which he bought from Larry Harmon the creator of Bozo the Clown.
Interesting to note is that their were two suits for Gort. Since we are talking about 1950s technology they didn't have digital effects and computers to do things or hide things. For frontal shots of the Gort, the suit had laces in the back so the actor, who was 7 foot 7 inches tall could get in and out. For shots of Gort from the back the laces were on the front of the suit. While in the suit the actor playing Gort could not see ahead, he had to look down through the air holes under the chin to see where he was going.
The flying saucer used in some of the scenes was a 7 foot diameter fiberglass model. The model was also used years later on in a episode of the tv show "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea". The one you see when Klaatu and Gort first appear from the craft is only a half-shell prop. If you went around behind all you would see is the timber frame supporting the plaster coated spacecraft skin.
This time she got me copies of The Green Berets, Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, and The Day the Earth Stood Still.
I watched The Day the Earth Stood Still last night. The remastered DVD looks very nice. It's a classic SciFi flick and one of the best from the 1950s. It had some info about the script and the technical diagram for the flying saucer used in many of the scenes. They also interviewed a few people that worked on the movie itself, but none of the actors, who have all since passed away. They talked with a collector about his collection of items from the movie such as posters, cards, promotional material and one guy that even owns the actual GORT robot suit, which he bought from Larry Harmon the creator of Bozo the Clown.
Interesting to note is that their were two suits for Gort. Since we are talking about 1950s technology they didn't have digital effects and computers to do things or hide things. For frontal shots of the Gort, the suit had laces in the back so the actor, who was 7 foot 7 inches tall could get in and out. For shots of Gort from the back the laces were on the front of the suit. While in the suit the actor playing Gort could not see ahead, he had to look down through the air holes under the chin to see where he was going.
The flying saucer used in some of the scenes was a 7 foot diameter fiberglass model. The model was also used years later on in a episode of the tv show "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea". The one you see when Klaatu and Gort first appear from the craft is only a half-shell prop. If you went around behind all you would see is the timber frame supporting the plaster coated spacecraft skin.
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