Compare And Contrast The Day The Earth Stood Still

The movie The Day the Earth Stood Still was created in the cold war era, The book was written in 1940 however the movie was made in 1951 and the movie is completely different from the book. The movie talks about the development of atomic weapons and the dangers of it, however the book was written in 1940 so atomic weapons were not used yet. In the movie, the spaceman Klaatu comes to Washington, D.C because he listens to radio broadcast from earth while he is in space and hears about the atomic bomb or weapons that were made from atomic. Because Klaatu’s spaceship was made from atomic he feared that Earth would use atomic energy and make spaceships, since America had just dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and were using atomic weapons on other countries. The space people were okay with the destruction of Earth but the threat to other planets had to be taken care of so they sent Klaatu to make sure spaceships were not

Based on what the author writes as Klaatu’s message I can tell that he believes if we continue this way Earth will come to an end. However another possibility for the future is that only one country will survive. Since there are so many wars one country may continue to win wars and kill all other countries and have to repopulate the entire world but in the meanwhile humans will end up becoming an endangered species and if the country cannot repopulate we will become extinct. However if we continue this way we will end up no longer existing and Earth will only contain plants and animals. I am aware that many wars are still continuing and many countries live in fear. In many countries only men can fight in wars in order to reproduce you need a male and female so if all men die in war there is no hope of our species