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  Klaatu barada nikto - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Klaatu barada nikto!" was used to stop Gort, the robot in the film, from destroying the world.
In an episode of The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers (1986), Klaatu Nikto Barada is a greeting used by the freedom fighters of Wolcab.
Klaatu is the father, Barada is the mother and Nikto is the little boy.
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 The Day the Earth Stood Still - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Klaatu (Rennie) arrives in a flying saucer on The Ellipse in Washington, DC, wearing a silver spacesuit and helmet and accompanied by a large humanoid robot called Gort (Martin).
Klaatu says he comes in peace, on a mission of goodwill; he holds and activates a small device which opens with a snap: before he can explain, he is shot by a soldier who assumes the device is a weapon.
A slightly altered version of the phrase "Klaatu barada nikto" is used by the character Ash in the film Army of Darkness to appease the Necronomicon and render it inert.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Day_the_Earth_Stood_Still   (2179 words)

  
 Klaatu barada nikto
Klaatu brings a message of peace and goodwill along with a warning that "if you threaten to extend your violence, this Earth of yours will be reduced to a burned-out cinder." Earth must stop its violent behavior or face destruction.
Klaatu is brought to a hospital and he asks to speak to all of the world leaders but is not getting any co-operation.
Klaatu escapes the hospital, blends into society and moves into a boarding house to observe earthlings and figure out how to get the importance of his message across.
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 A. M. Siriano - amsiriano.com - Tony Rubolotta's 70mm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Klaatu meets Professor Barnhardt in hopes of addressing a group of world renowned scientists, since his efforts to meet with all heads of state has failed.
Klaatu leaves with Gort in tow and the scientists are left to do their thing.
Klaatu also claims the planets are at peace because they gave up their petty squabbling and abandoned war.
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 "The MAG"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
It came in spurts and gasps, sound waves disturbed by a strengthening gale from the north that clutched the chant at its source--a mounted air-raid speaker, judging by its gun-hollow timbre--and deposited it about the wasteland in random pockets of variegated density, tone and hue.
Klaatu: Your teeth had been knocked out, placed carefully in a mock smile on the dashboard.
Nikto: Your lips had been severed, and used as eyebrows, flening blood and tendrils of vaginal-red tissue wedding them to the convex plane of the dash.
www.muse-apprentice-guild.com /summer_2004/fiction/matt_samet.html   (2271 words)

  
 Klaatu Barada Nikto!
Klaatu believes that Earthlings might listen if they knew what was at stake, so he decides to stop all energy around the world, with the exceptions of hospital equipment, planes in flight, and other instances where a shutdown would cause destruction.
When Klaatu of the film is asked where he is from, he says, "Venus and Mars." This, of course, is also the title of Wings 1975-album.
When Klaatu reunited in 1988 to record a new song called Woman, this was believed to be an allusion to both Paul's song with that title (given to Peter and Gordon) and also to John's likewise-titled Woman from Double Fantasy.
web.telia.com /~u66002771/klaatu.htm   (1342 words)

  
 daytheearthstoodstill
Klaatu recovers from the gunshot in Walter Reed Hospital after the bullet is removed and by self-healing he miraculously closes the wound which startles the doctors, who realize how backward their technology is compared to the spaceman's.
But Klaatu tells Barnhardt, that he will show the world that he means business about how important this meeting is. As a demonstration of alien power the world's electrical power supply is shut off for a half hour, except for hospitals and airplanes in flight.
Gort revives the dead alien and before Klaatu goes home to outer space he tells the scientists convened for their meeting, his urgent message of peace for the Earth or else the Earth will be destroyed.
www.sover.net /~ozus/daytheearthstoodstill.htm   (642 words)

  
 Course Assignment   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
In the process, Klaatu is cast like a sacrificial lamb, gunned down but technologically resurrected for a short time to address the international gathering of savants he has arranged to meet outside his spaceship, before reentering the craft and ascending into space.
Klaatu's only immediate allies are Professor Barnhardt, a humble scientist, Bobby Benson, a fanciful boy, and Bobby's widowed, broad-minded mother, who has experienced a personal loss that tested her faith and perhaps humbled her to accept the existence of a world beyond munificently governed by a higher power or powers.
Klaatu's mission of peace, the redemptive implications of it, his self-sacrifice in service to his Earthly kith, are all meaningful, intertextual notions that other filmmakers have used, whether consciously or not, to weave profound themes or messages into their tales of aliens far in advance of Earthman.
www.physics.hku.hk /~tboyce/sf/assignments/tdtess.html   (4880 words)

  
 Star Wars Episode 6: Return of the Jedi : Klaatu Barada Nikto
Klaatu, Barada and Nikto are also the name of 3 aliens on Jabba's sail barge.
Klaatu: Green face, brown "vest", shiny metal helmet (After Luke makes it to the top deck of Jabba's sail barge, he kills the Nikto with the large laser, and the very next alien that shoots at him is Klaatu.)
Klaatu Barada Nikto was also used in two episodes of "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: the TV Series", one of the two with the alien that married the daughter (can't think of her name), and the one with the mummy
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 Klaatu (Hulk character)
Klaatu was mortally wounded in the attack however, and as Cybor landed on its back, Klaatu began to drift into the sun.
Klaatu was again found by the Andromeda Starship, and again, the starship latched several harpoons onto Klaatu.
Klaatu was thankful to Hulk, and thanked him by replenishing his strength (which was also weakened by harpoons) by giving him some of its energy.
www.marvunapp.com /Appendix/klaatuhu.htm   (971 words)

  
 Rebelscum.com: Star Wars Power of the Force 2 Photo Archives
But the captives quickly overcame the skiff guards Klaatu, Nikto and Barada, and brought Jabba himself to a fitting end.
Klaatu is actually a member of the Nikto race, and was seen aboard the Sail Barge, not the skiff.
Barada is actually a member of the Klatoonian race, and was one of the first to fall into the sarlacc pit.
www.rebelscum.com /POTF2jabbasskiffguards.asp   (197 words)

  
 PR Direct
Together in public for the first time in 23 years, the original three members of Klaatu will reunite for a day of celebration to commemorate the release of their new CD anthology, "Sun Set: 1973 - 1981" a collection of rarities, demos, outtakes and live performances.
The original trio will be performing a short acoustic set of material from their studio albums, as well as signing autographs, answering questions, and having photos taken with attendees.
Fans of the semi-legendary Toronto band are coming from as far away as Switzerland, Denmark and Germany as well as from all over Canada and the US to participate in events that start Friday, May 6 and culminate on Sunday, May 8.
www.prdirect.ca /en/view_release.aspx?TrafficID=2388   (602 words)

  
 BeatleLinks Fab Forum - Klaatu Barada Nikto
Klaatu is the character who tries to push Luke into Sarlacc.
Also, in 'Return of the Jedi', Barada was the name of a Weequay on Jabba's Sail Barge.
To continue the Beatles/Star Wars relation, one of the songs that the Ewoks sing (in Return of the Jedi) is identical to a song sung in Ringo's 'Caveman' movie.
www.beatlelinks.net /forums/showthread.php?t=5712   (197 words)

  
 Memorable Quotes from The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Klaatu: We have come to visit you in peace and with goodwill.
Klaatu: We do not claim to have achieved perfection, but we have a system, and it works.
Klaatu: There must be security for all, or no one is secure.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0043456/quotes   (682 words)

  
 Bush Barada Nikto!
Klaatu decides to infiltrate human society under the pseudonym Carpenter and takes up residence at a local boarding house, where he meets a widow named Helen Benson (Patricia Neal) who has a 10 year old son Bobby (Billy Gray of later Father Knows Best fame).
In short, Klaatu is hunted down and killed by the military, then resurrected by Gort, who is aided by Helen, who knows the phrase that can control Gort: Klaatu Barada Nikto.
Klaatu shows he has the power to utterly immobilize human machinery (hence the film’s title) yet it is oblivion or else- no degrees of shading, such as ‘we’ll take away all your nuclear toys if you humans are bad’.
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 Blather.net: Shitegeist: Klaatu Barada Nikto - The Day the Earth Stood Still
Klaatu is immediately demonised by the authorities, and shot while reaching for a gift to give to the US President.
This lead to speculation that a band called Klaatu were really the Beatles, a situation not helped by the lack of information about the band on their record sleeves, and the fact that they actually sounded a bit like the Beatles.
In the movie Army of Darkness (Evil Dead III), '"Klaatu Barada Nikto" is the shibboleth needed to negate the demonic forces of evil, or something'.
www.blather.net /shitegeist/2005/10/klaatu_barada_nikto_the_day_t.htm   (1419 words)

  
 fUSION Anomaly. Klaatu Barada Nikto
In August of 1976, the self-titled debut album by an unknown group called Klaatu was released to little notice.
Magical Mystery Tour." The article began the rumor that Klaatu was "more than likely either in part or in whole the Beatles." These conjectures, fueled by a series of articles in trade magazines like Billboard created a huge amount of hype and Capitol did nothing to deny or confirm the rumors.
Reportedly, some of the "clues" as to whether or not Klaatu were the Beatles included backward messages, Morse code, references to the group's identities in the song lyrics, and the word "Beatles" hidden in various places on the record jacket.
fusionanomaly.net /klaatubaradanikto.html   (904 words)

  
 Fun_People Archive - 26 Sep - Re: The Gort (or Klaatu) Fan Club   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 95 17:53:21 -0700 From: Peter Langston To: Fun_People Subject: Re: The Gort (or Klaatu) Fan Club From: Daniel Steinberg Well, this just demonstrates that "Klaatu Barada Nikto" is not merely a quotation from a 50's movie, but is really in the collective unconscious.
The signal was to be "Klaatu Barada Nicto" [sic], but it became clear that a more complex code was required in order to differentiate between a land-based and sea-based invasion, and thus the famous lantern signal ("one if by land, two if by sea") was chosen.
Such terryble curses she cried out, invoking the names of her trio of devyls: Klaatu, Barada, and Nikto.
www.langston.com /Fun_People/1995/1995BHU.html   (339 words)

  
 Trivia / Bloopers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
"Gort, Klaatu barada nikto" is a sentense of direct address to the robot.
Klaatu is an alien humanoid that accompanies Gort to Earth.
I forget what the statement means exactly, but it has something to do with Klaatu asking that the human race be spared, or something along those lines.
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 The Day the Earth Stood Still
Carpenter, Klaatu takes a room at a boarding house and befriends single mother Helen Benson (Patricia Neal) and her son Bobby (Billy Gray)....Helen's boyfriend Tom Stevens (Hugh Marlowe) betrays the alien to the authorities, who corner and shoot Klaatu--this time to death.
Instead of going on a rampage, the robot retrieves Klaatu's body, takes it into the saucer, and brings it back to life long enough for Klaatu to give the scientists and the world an ultimatum.
Since the movie was made in 1951, Gort and Klaatu could be seen as comments on the mechanical bi-products of totalitarian regimes.
www.umich.edu /~engb415/film/Earth.html   (522 words)

  
 The Day The Earth Stood Still quiz -- free game
Klaatu steps forth and speaks to the crowd, 'We have come to visit you in peace and with _______.'
After Klaatu is shot, Gort steps forward, and wipes out a few weapons.
Klaatu asks Bobby who the greatest man in America is. Who does Bobby suggest?
www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=53792   (143 words)

  
 Beatles Reference Library - Klaatu   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
He suggested there were some 150 clues and pieces of evidence which pointed to a 'Klaatu Konspiracy'.
The only clear connection between Klaatu and George Martin was that David Long became head programmer in a computer room at Martin's AIR Studios.
As the group had hidden behind the name 'Klaatu', no details on producers or writers is available.
www.beatlesagain.com /breflib/klaatu.html   (556 words)

  
 Front Page Archive 6th January 2005
If memory serves, this is Klaatu, a character from Return of the Jedi, one of three monsters from Jabba the Hutt's palace who are named after "Klaatu barada nikto", the famous line from the 1950s scifi classic The Day the Earth Stood Still.
You've got your Klaatu, you've got an alien called Barada, and you've got Klaatu's work-buddy who goes by the name the Nikto Warrior.
It's thought to mean something like "I need your help" or "Don't hurt the humans", but when I was studying first-year Russian at university, I found three Russian words that were pretty similar, which hinted at an alternative meaning for the phrase.
www.labyrinth.net.au /~adamford/pages/archives/Archive20050106.htm   (578 words)

  
 The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Goofs: Continuity: In one scene near the end, the sound of an airplane approaching can be heard, then there is a cut to another angle and the sound is absent.
Quotes: Klaatu: I came here to give you these facts.
Could you answer Klaatu's question: 'Who is the greatest thinker?'
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Subj: Re: Klaatu Barada Nikto Klaatu was the name of the alien (Michael Rennie).
Klaatu's down and Klaatu's hurting; light the saucer's fender-skirting.
Cleared for kwerlik: ease the yoking forward, and "Barada Nikto," Gort: No Smoking.
www.regiments.org /wombats/classics/klaatu.txt   (360 words)

  
 play - gallery for still and motion pictures - Shahram Entekhabi (IRAN)
The night shots of Klaatu barada nikto were taken on the 20th and the 21st of May 2002, between the barricades of demonstrators, and the impenetrable protective shield created by the German security forces on the occasion of the Berlin visit of US President George W. Bush and his Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice.
Sequences from the science fiction classic "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (USA 1951, directed by Robert Wise) as well as found film-footage, visual material, and selected sound recordings were also included in the work.
At the same time, its title, Klaatu barada nikto, delivers the quintessence of George W. Bush’s “Berlin Address”.
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 The Day the Earth Stood Still: Nostalgia
Despite Klaatu’s promise that, “We have come to visit you in peace and with good will,” a panicky soldier shoots the visitor, wounding him.
After calming his robotic protector, Klaatu is taken to a military hospital, where he announces that he has a message to deliver to the combined leaders of every nation on Earth.
With the help of scientist Dr. Barnhardt, Klaatu arranges a demonstration of his abilities, shutting down all electrical power in the world (except for hospitals and airplanes in flight) for a full hour.
www.skooldays.com /categories/movies/mv1576.htm   (487 words)

  
 Jimmy Neutron : Klaatu Barada Nikto
In that movie the alien instructs the girl to memorize and say the codewords "Klaatu barada nikto" to stop the robot from attacking." -submitted by daunrealist
In the Jimmy Neutron episode where Jimmy's Dad says how he could've invested in McSpanky's Burger Factory, Jimmy, Carl and Sheen go back in time to tell his dad to invest.
When they first see them, Carl says, "Klaatu Barada Nikto," in reference to The Day the Earth Stood Still.
www.eeggs.com /items/43019.html   (280 words)

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