Super Deep Thoughts You Guys

Oct 29, 2011 02:53

Thesis: The cowardly, murderous, shapeshifting alien infiltrator in John Carpenter's 1982 film The Thing is an allegory for communism.

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"It'll fight if it has to, but it's vulnerable out in the open. If it takes us over, then that means it'll have no more enemies. Nobody left to kill it. And then it's one."
Totes talking about the Cold War, you guys.

Either that, or it's leftover from the 1951 film of the same premise The Thing from Another World.

But rational explanations are boring and lame. Tinhattery forever!

cold war, allegory, serious intellectual business, the thing, overanalyzing light entertainment, john carpenter films

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