Klaatu Gort Redux

摘要

In the original screenplay by Edmund H. North, an alien ambassador named Klaatu (Michael Rennie) arrives in Washington D.C. in his saucer-shaped spaceship a la UFO convention of the time with an eightfoot humanoid robot named Gort (played by the 7-foot, 7-inch Lock Martin, who was working as a doorman at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood when discovered). (Why not' Is resurrection restricted by length of time after death?) Gone, too, is the electrical blackout, but in its stead (and escalating the seriousness of Klaatu's warning), the 28-foot metallic Gort dissolves into billions of tiny nano-bots that feed on manmade materials - tanks, trucks, cars, roads, sports stadiums, office buildings, and everything else that represents civilization- growing as they spread around the globe.