The Day the Earth Stood Still + The Thing + The Remakes of Both

I am posting these pictures to see how the new actors that portrayed the monsters further took the idea of humanizing or dehumanizing them.

In the original, Klaatu displays a caring, yet foreign personality. We can relate to him through his humanity yet, he seems out of the ordinary.

Keanu Reeves portrays Klaatu in the remake, he's a familiar face. Unlike Michael Rennie, it might be hard to believe that he's an alien, since he's widely known. Maybe the role of Klaatu would've been better served by an unknown. Casting unknowns can do great things for a film and its characters, just look at the original Star Wars trilogy.

In the original The Thing, the monster still looks a lot humanlike, but displays no human qualities during the movie.

Looking at pictures of the thing in the remake, they made it appear even less human and more like a monster. Maybe they were limited in how different and weird they could make the thing look back in 1951. With the technology of today how would the movie look if that technology was made available back then?