They Live - John Carpenter
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Here's some quotes from Mr. Carpenter with regards to his film "They Live" (Thought you'd enjoy these Kent):
Here is a short clip about They Livefrom a John Carpenter interview:
KOOLKING: Were you proud of They Live?
Carpenter: I love 'They Live'. It is one of my favorites of my own movies.
...and from another interview:
AOLiveMC11: From EBerns697:
Question: What is your favorite movie that you have directed?
JCarpentr: I love each one of my movies as you might love a child. I make them, they grow up to be 18, I kick
them out of the house and into the theaters, and tell them to get a job. I do have, however, a few particular
favorites, including "The Thing" and "They Live."
AOLiveMC11: From HuckHound:
Question: Hi, John. I had an impression of Nada from "They Live" as being a somewhat Christ-like figure. I also get the same impression from Travis Bickle. Nothing concrete to back this up, but I was wondering if this is completely insane or not.
JCarpentr: John Nada was meant to be an everyman/working class character. I'm not so sure about the Christ-like stuff.
AOLiveMC11: From BDuke25:
Question: Despite his surprisingly good performance (for a wrestler), what was the impulse or story behind the casting of Roddy Piper in "They Live?"
JCarpentr: I thought Roddy had a lot of charisma and ability, and I wanted to give him a chance. I think he did a great job.
More wisdom by Carpenter:
"You have an opportunity in a lot of films to really tell a story,” says Carpenter. “They Live is a good example of a traditional story turned inside out. The aliens have taken over, they’re definitely horrible, ugly aliens, but what they stand for is unrestrained capitalism and what it’s doing."
Another quote about They Live from Carpenter:
Carpenter : "This is one of my favourite movies. It's a comment on unrestrained capitalism and features the greatest fight scene in history. I saw The Quiet Man and thought, 'I can do it better.' We rehearsed it for two months - and shot it in four days."
Why he made the movie:
"I wanted to return to low budget movies that would turn a profit for the studio cos it cost shit to make. I wanted to say something about a lot of the things what were going wrong in the country at the time. There was this trend to unrestrained capitalism, it was absolute total stupidity some if it. All the problems I thought had been solved were back: censorship, racism. But I didn’t want to preach. So I took a short story and adapted it. And I also wanted to make the longest fight scene in film history..."
–--
'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'
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Here's some quotes from Mr. Carpenter with regards to his film "They Live" (Thought you'd enjoy these Kent):
Here is a short clip about They Livefrom a John Carpenter interview:
KOOLKING: Were you proud of They Live?
Carpenter: I love 'They Live'. It is one of my favorites of my own movies.
...and from another interview:
AOLiveMC11: From EBerns697:
Question: What is your favorite movie that you have directed?
JCarpentr: I love each one of my movies as you might love a child. I make them, they grow up to be 18, I kick
them out of the house and into the theaters, and tell them to get a job. I do have, however, a few particular
favorites, including "The Thing" and "They Live."
AOLiveMC11: From HuckHound:
Question: Hi, John. I had an impression of Nada from "They Live" as being a somewhat Christ-like figure. I also get the same impression from Travis Bickle. Nothing concrete to back this up, but I was wondering if this is completely insane or not.
JCarpentr: John Nada was meant to be an everyman/working class character. I'm not so sure about the Christ-like stuff.
AOLiveMC11: From BDuke25:
Question: Despite his surprisingly good performance (for a wrestler), what was the impulse or story behind the casting of Roddy Piper in "They Live?"
JCarpentr: I thought Roddy had a lot of charisma and ability, and I wanted to give him a chance. I think he did a great job.
More wisdom by Carpenter:
"You have an opportunity in a lot of films to really tell a story,” says Carpenter. “They Live is a good example of a traditional story turned inside out. The aliens have taken over, they’re definitely horrible, ugly aliens, but what they stand for is unrestrained capitalism and what it’s doing."
Another quote about They Live from Carpenter:
Carpenter : "This is one of my favourite movies. It's a comment on unrestrained capitalism and features the greatest fight scene in history. I saw The Quiet Man and thought, 'I can do it better.' We rehearsed it for two months - and shot it in four days."
Why he made the movie:
"I wanted to return to low budget movies that would turn a profit for the studio cos it cost shit to make. I wanted to say something about a lot of the things what were going wrong in the country at the time. There was this trend to unrestrained capitalism, it was absolute total stupidity some if it. All the problems I thought had been solved were back: censorship, racism. But I didn’t want to preach. So I took a short story and adapted it. And I also wanted to make the longest fight scene in film history..."
–--
'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'
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