The Day The Earth Stood Still

I saw The Day the Earth Stood Still this evening. This is not about that movie, and there are no spoilers. But there was a little tiny thing that I want to mention, so that those who see it, will catch it as it goes by.

I know this woman
Jennifer Connelly plays Patricia Neal's role of Helen Benson. But as you get to the middle of the movie, and she tries to change Klaatu's mind, a woman that I know and love emerged... Abby Quinn. The movie is really just a CGI-laden remake of The Seventh Sign.

• She befriends a traveling stranger who is really here to destroy the Earth... ok, the PEOPLE on the Earth (In the original, Klaatu is even a boarder.)
  
• She tries to convince the Harbinger of Destruction that people can change.
• Ultimately, (no spoiler) the love of her child saves the world (for now)

What made the Seventh Sign great (IMHO) had nothing to do with effects. But if they DID remake it, this would have been a good start. Aside from the Abby parallel, the stream of TV coverage of riots, panic and mayhem were reminiscent of T7S. Words like "tribulation" and "Armageddon" are heard. There was a mood about this piece that harked back to T7S. And like the world populace in T7S, no one else knew what was going on. NO one knew who had saved the world. No one knew what changes had to be made to "use the chance she has given them."

In the end, Helen Benson, like Abby, convinces Klaatu to give the world another chance. That's all I'm going to say about it, except that, as in T7S, we don't know how long the reprieve lasts. And like T7S, more questions were left than answers given. UNLIKE T7S, I'm not inclined to write a sequel ;-) But if I DID, Michael Gavon would be one of the spearheads to try to effect the changes that need to be made. And in doing so, he would certainly meet Hamad Qiryat.

THAT would be the Day the Earth Stood Still!