Without a doubt, it was Roddy Piper's greatest role.
Posted on 08/11/2018 2:03:02 PM PDT by Rummyfan
How a 1980s sci-fi flick became an inspiration for Marxist tracts
"I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass. And I’m all out of bubblegum.”
It’s one of my favorite movie lines of all time, but there are other reasons I love John Carpenter’s sci-fi action movie They Live, which celebrates its 30th anniversary later this year. Starring the 1980s professional wrestler “Rowdy” Roddy Piper, it is one of the best B-movies of the era. Kurt Russell was supposed to play the lead role, but Carpenter felt that after directing so many Russell vehicles, he should go with someone else. When Carpenter, a wrestling fan, saw Piper’s bravura performance in Wrestlemania III, he had found his man.
I have watched They Live many times since it first came out. But it was only a few years ago that I learned it’s also a timeless piece of Marxist propaganda.
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Without a doubt, it was Roddy Piper's greatest role.
It was a very good movie, pushing Marxism? Not one bit. It showed what happens when totalitarians take control, as in Communists. It was anti-marxist if anything.
How is it Marxist propaganda...I’d of thought the opposite...perhaps because it is companies which exert control vs government...but we have learned fascism and Marxism utilizes both to partner and exert control.
Jonah is always wrong about everything.
I really loathe it when non-professionals start pontificating about movies. I remember my fury when non-professional, nepotism-recipient John Podhoretz was appointed film critic of The New York Post. What a blow to great film criticism! I grew up with James Agee, Pauline Kael, Andrew Sarris, Mollie Haskell, John Simon - and even the likes of David Denby and James Wolcott - who were intellectual GIANTS compared to these midgets. Now we have the disheveled, Trump-hating, eye-blinking guest of the All Star Panel of Bret Baier’s awful show holding forth. Politically ambitious people have NO place in commenting publicly on the arts.
The only occasional film critic I respect today is Camille Paglia. I don’t always agree with her opinions but she understands films, actors, and film history.
LOL !
Maybe he gets it from his mom ; -)
“It’s one of my favorite movie lines of all time...”
Moron.
It’s the opposite of Marxist propaganda. The writer sounds delusional like the rest of the never trumpers at NRO
“The real threat to freedom isn’t merely power, but unchecked power yoked to the state.”
He’s a nutty NeverTrumper, but I agree with that statement.
He wrote an awful lot in that article just to take potshots at the Alt-right.
“Jonah is always wrong about everything.”
Pretty much. He’s def a channel-changer for me.
Plus, he can’t write worth beans.
The protagonists in They Live represent anyone who feels disenfranchised and repressed. Goldberg indicates that Carpenter’s aim was to make the consumerist Yuppies of the Reagan era the villain. The character of Nada, played by Piper is an example of a hero in a strange land- one that rejects his simple masculinity and lack of consumer power. Piper’s character can be read as generic to anybody out there who feels they are alienated and up against what they perceive as tyrannical and deadly.
And Jonah is a POS GOPEer, who hasn't been right about anything at all in over a decade!
OTOH...the N.Y. Post's film and theatre critics stink on ice and are mentally defective; every last one of them!
Paglia on cultural/the ARTS stuff is usually BRILLIANT, though on a few rare times, she goes a bit off the rails. But hey...nobody's perfect! At least she is very thoughtful and does actually know what she's talking about!
It’s anti-commercialism and blind obedience. Not really Marxist. Certainly not fond of capitalism, but there’s a big gap between that and Marxism.
“...a brilliant piece of Marxist propaganda...”
Funny, I recall seeing it condemned as fascist propaganda.
They Live;
is a really stupid movie.
The plot depended on the aliens being ugly and so hateful that humans reacted murderously to seeing them as they really were. But what if they had been cute and cuddly, if just as sneaky and controlling?
“Chumscrubber”
The movie
Watch it.
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