You don’t need to know what exact job it is. And you know what the guys are trying to do in the Antarctic: They’re doing experiments. You know what the police are doing in society: They’re trying to keep order. It wasn’t that I wanted to leave it out I just didn’t think it was necessary. We don’t know what they’re researching in The Thing, and we don’t know much about the cops or murderers in Assault on Precinct 13. That’s a hallmark of your films in general. We had to go through who that was, figure out what that was all about. He was playing a different character, a guy named John Nada. , he played Rowdy Roddy Piper and that wasn’t what we were doing.
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Roddy had a lot of natural talent, but he didn’t have a lot of experience in movie acting. In the Blu-ray commentary for They Live, the late Roddy Piper says you worked closely with him on his acting. The mentality that the ‘80s bred is really alive and well - that’s the part that’s so bad.
I love the system that we’re in, but not without some restraints on it. The same problem - unrestrained capitalism - still exists. It’s morphed into something really bizarre. It’s not science fiction.ĭo you feel like it’s gotten worse since then? You have to understand something: It’s a documentary. They Live was a reaction to the Reagan years, but the income inequality, corporate ownership of the media - all of that is more extreme now than ever.
The director, now 67, was delightfully irascible, showing all the wit that helped him become one of the ‘70s and '80s most pioneering filmmakers. Yahoo Movies called Carpenter earlier this week to look back on They Live and discuss several of his other iconic movies like Halloween and The Thing, along with his career as a movie score composer.
Fans are also rediscovering They Live, as they look back on the life and career of the film’s star, WWF brawler Roddy Piper, who died in July. A movie about a blue collar worker who discovers that there are aliens living as rich people on earth, it focuses on extreme economic inequality and corporate media control, topics that are still very much in the news. It’s been over 25 years since John Carpenter’s sci-fi social satire They Live hit theaters, but the film is more relevant than ever.
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