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FLiCX: The Day the Earth Stood Still

Posted by on Monday, March 19, 2018 in Archives, News.

Tuesday, Mar. 27
7:15 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.  
Belcourt Theatre
2102 Belcourt Avenue, Nashville, TN
https://anchorlink.vanderbilt.edu/event/1889579

Since seating is limited, we must remind participants of the following:

  • 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.