They Live
A drifter discovers a pair of sunglasses that allow him to wake up to the fact that aliens have taken over the Earth.
- Director: John Carpenter
- Genre:Action / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller
- Runtime:90 minutes
Cast
Roddy Piper : Nada
Keith David : Frank
Meg Foster : Holly
George ‘Buck’ Flower : Drifter
Peter Jason : Gilbert
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The story revolves around a nameless man referred to as “Nada” (Roddy Piper), a quiet drifter who finds work on a Los Angeles construction site. One of the workers, Frank Armitage (Keith David), takes him to a local shantytown. After eating at the soup kitchen and spending the night, he notices odd behavior at the small church across the street. Investigating, he discovers that the church’s soup kitchen is a front: inside, the loud “choir practice” is a recording, scientific apparatus fills a back room, and cardboard boxes are stacked everywhere, including some in a secret compartment that he stumbles across.
That night, the police surround the church, forcing the inhabitants to flee. The police then turn on the shantytown, destroying it with bulldozers and beating the blind minister of the church to death. Nada returns to the site the next day and investigates the church again, which has been emptied. He takes one of the boxes from the secret compartment and opens it in an alleyway, finding it full of sunglasses. He keeps one pair and leaves the rest in a garbage can.
When Nada later dons the glasses for the first time, the world appears in shades of grey, with significant differences. He notices that a billboard now simply displays the word “Obey”; without them it advertises that Control Data Corporation is “creating a transparent computing environment.” Another billboard (normally displaying “Come to the Caribbean” written above a lovely woman lying on a beach) now displays the text “Marry and Reproduce.” He also sees that paper money bears the words “This is your God.” All printed matter around him contains subliminal advertising.
Additionally, he soon discovers that many people are actually aliens, who are human-looking except for skull-like faces. When the aliens realize he can see them for what they truly are, the police suddenly arrive. Nada escapes and steals a police shotgun; while evading the police, he accidentally stumbles into a local bank filled with aliens. Realizing that the jig is up, he proclaims, “I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass…and I’m all out of bubblegum.” A shooting spree ensues and after killing many of them, one of the aliens sees him and disappears after twisting a dial on his wristwatch. Fleeing the bank, he forces a woman (Meg Foster) at gunpoint to take him to her house in the Hollywood Hills. Taking off the glasses to rest, he remarks “wearin’ these glasses makes you high, but, oh, you come down hard.” Holly (the woman) tricks Nada and pushes him through her window, nearly killing him. He leaves behind his pair of sunglasses, however. Read more
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