Klaatu is dead. And also appears to be bigger on the inside. Next, go get Klaatu. Bring Klaatu back to the ship. Raise him from the dead. Then go into sleep mode. Zombie-Klaatu will take it from there. My first thought is that we really need to streamline the English language. Or is it like text talk? The words will live on.
As words are wont to do. Loved the story. I just love these tie ins. Also a fun fact.. Klaatu Barada. As a dedicated curmudgeonly and misanthrope, I rather liked the remake, doing us all in instead of letting us off. But as Elliot dropped in a poem, I wear my trouser bottoms rolled these days.
So who gives a flying fuck what o think. Oh, hell yes. Google for information on this topic. An international auxiliary language devised in by Dr.
If you read the credits of the film you will see a credit for Esperanto dialogue used in the script as the alien language by the characters. Plan B — Crew member request assistance. Locate crew member. Go to crew member. Rendered needed assistance. Since Gort is a robot, my guess is that it is code. The rest is the command, opening up a file or triggering a set of other commands that prompted Gort to complete the rest of the more complex tasks.
Loved both versions by the way. An Esperanto-style influence could steamline the language by using the nominative form for all cases. The speculation about computer code is pretty interesting and credible, but it relies on a premise of greater sophistication than the movie industry displayed during its early Cold War era fervor. It seems much more likely that one or two writers decided to throw in some Russian or Russian-like phraseology as their own, personal in-joke.
Great blog. I was the only one around that got the thanks for the fish. My brother-in-law and I have been sayings it on Krazy occasions for 70 years now. So yes it is certainly a classic movie. O yeah! My wife thinks we are both nuts. Thanks for the awesome review. Imrey klaatu neruwatt baringy dinga.
Forgive the spelling I think this is what Klaatu said to his home planet to arrange the power outage. OR he may have been giving commands to the ship to do the power outage. It would seem logical that the ship would be an extension to the systems of GORT since the ship was a patrol craft that the Interplanetary Peacekeeping Force would use.
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In the Stephen King novel The Tommyknockers , a young reporter, John Leandro, is convinced that something is wrong in a small town called Haven. His colleague, David Bright mocks him from it, saying that it must be "green men from space" and quotes the phrase. The town is actually controlled by aliens.
The Poisonwood Bible gives a brief mention of this phrase when Rachel wants to yell some foreign language at the Congolese villagers, among other options "Bukabuka" or " We like Ike ". A series called 'The Klaatu Diskos' has the Klaatu, ghostlike beings made from a transplanted human consciousness. By book two, there have been no signs of either 'nikto' or 'barada', but a horse called Gort has showed up.
Martin , there is a character named Gort. The protagonist greets him with "Klaatu Barada Nicto, Gort. Live-Action TV. The phrase appeared in an episode of The Monkees , when Micky Dolenz is replaced by an alien-controlled robot. In The Rockford Files , Rockford said it to a rather large chunk of muscle. In a third-season episode of The X-Files , a man pretending to suffer from stigmata begins faking glossolalia speaking in tongues ; one of the phrases he says is this.
The Book of the Dead. The band Klaatu is named after the same character. When Klaatu first became known, they were rumored to be the Beatles reunited under a pseudonym, with the following example as one of the "clues". The Alice Cooper song "My Stars" is about being stranded on a distant planet and going on a rampage probably.
The lyrics are a bit ambiguous , and ends with chanting of "Klaatu Barada Nikto". In one episode of the German Comedy Series "Sataan - Die Serie", the titular character tries to use the phrase "Klaatu Verata niktu" see the Army of Darkness example to bring the end of the world. The play The Foreigner references this.
The main character, a science-fiction magazine editor, ends up scaring off the local KKK with a string of frightening-sounding nonsense, including this line. Video Games. In Fallout 2 the hostile Mr. Handy robot guarding the crashed Enclave vertibird in Klamath Canyon says the line "Gort!
Klaatu Berada Nictu! The manual mentions he is a fan of old SF films and the discoverer of the planet Klaatoo. The moons get discovered much later, though. The Lost Vikings 2 ; in the medieval levels, the teleportation spell is always "Klaatu, barada, something". Needless to say they don't work as desired. In RuneScape , the magic words "Klaatu Barada Nikto" spoken by a certain character trigger a spell that teleports you a place where you can mine rune essence.
In Sacrifice , "klaatu", "barada", and "nikto" are three of the magic words that are combined to form various magical incantations; though not necessarily all three together or in order. Mysterio's first appearance in Spider-Man 2 , The Game Of The Movie , has him posing as an alien invader, and says this, as well as " You have no chance to survive, make your time.
Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage! However, he couldn't quite remember the third word, so he dropped the matter. There's a series of helms in Dragonfable named after this. Spike the Clown from Toon Struck says this in response to being told "I believe the spatula is mine! Did we mention he's an insane clown?
Subverted when, even though the barbarian says something like "Clambake Baraka Nictuu", it works anyway Myrdred wakes up from his thousand-year-sleep, says "close enough", and teleports himself and your troops out of the area.
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