""In its awards year with competitorsThe African Queen (1951),A Place in the Sun (1951),An American in Paris (1951), andA Streetcar Named Desire (1951)that received most of the accolades and awards,The Day the Earth Stood Stilldid not receive any nominations - not unusual for a sci-fi film.With a naturalistic acting style, Marlon Brando portrayed Terry Malloy, an inarticulate, struggling, brutish hero and small-time, washed-up ex-boxer who took a regrettable fall in the ring.Human home.Do not come back." The apes abruptly turned and departed.Back inside he colony after the apes"" retreat, Dreyfus addressed everyone with a megaphone - encouraging them to have hope and defend the human survivors, and also continue their search for electrical power (with only about two to three weeks until their fuel was depleted):We""re all immune, or we wouldn""t still be here!.The battle was over when the remaining soldiers surrendered their weapons.Lucy healed wounded mouse Reepicheep, although the drop from her vial could not replace his lost tail - Aslan obliged and replaced it for him.In the first light of the prehistoric dawn on the second day, a tall, black, rectangular monolithic slab (THE FIRST MONOLITH), with an eerie humming sound - symbolic of the religious/spiritual unknown - materializes in the midst of their den.