I thought "The Day the Earth Stood Still" was a modern story of Christ. An omnipotent and omniscient being (Klatu) comes in human form and in peace to warn man to practice the Golden Rule or else face eternal death by fire and brimstone. He is killed and his disciple (robot) who does his bidding brings him back and lays him in state (inside the ship) where he shortly thereafter comes back to life. He appears once again before man and then is lifted up into the heavens (blasts off).
That cinema class I took in school was not a waste of time, eh????
In the News/Activism forum, on a thread titled Soviet Army fought UFOs, Lawgvr1955 wrote: I thought "The Day the Earth Stood Still" was a modern story of Christ. An omnipotent and omniscient being (Klatu) comes in human form and in peace to warn man to practice the Golden Rule or else face eternal death by fire and brimstone. He is killed and his disciple (robot) who does his bidding brings him back and lays him in state (inside the ship) where he shortly thereafter comes back to life. He appears once again before man and then is lifted up into the heavens (blasts off). That cinema class I took in school was not a waste of time, eh???? Um...typologically speaking, yes, as in a vague allegory but probably one of the Jungian Christs rather than the real J.C. of Galilee. The friendly stranger motif appears again in StarWars and E.T.. The X-Files seemed to employ it also with that Jeremiah character. Healers from space. Of course, in StarWars Obi Wan Kenobi dies and then mystically reappears in a transfigured glorified form. The brown medieval Franciscan robe adds to the Christian mystical suggestions.
Interesting point, by the way. Christ figures in modern films, that is.