Sempre mitico
Essi Vivono; un manovale trova più o meno per caso un paio di occhiali che gli mostrano come realmente è il mondo: una razza aliena si è infiltrata tra gli umani e con una tecnologia avanzata riesce a mantenere il potere, utilizzando messaggi subliminali inseriti in ogni trasmissione televisiva, manifesto e rivista. Si unirà ad un piccolo gruppo di ribelli, nel tentativo di mostrare al resto del mondo come stanno realmente le cose.
Mi era piaciuto di più all'epoca: oggi mostra qualche ingenuità ed una estetica eccessivamente anni ottanta (
primi anni ottanta, per giunta, in un film dell'88), ma resta comunque uno degli ultimi lavori davvero belli di
John Carpenter.
Voto: 7.5.
Tags: alieni, messaggi subliminali, potere, controllo, fantascienza, azione, cospirazione.
They Live (1988)
Essi vivono
Regista: John Carpenter Scrittore: Ray Nelson,
John Carpenter Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller, Action
Valutazione: 6.5/10 (7137 voti)
Durata: 93 min
Paese: USA
Lingua: English
Cast:Trama:Nada, a down-on-his-luck construction worker, discovers a pair of special sunglasses. Wearing them, he is able to see the world as it really is: people being bombarded by media and government with messages like "Stay Asleep", "No Imagination", "Submit to Authority". Even scarier is that he is able to see that some usually normal-looking people are in fact ugly aliens in charge of the massive campaign to keep humans subdued.
Trivia random: There is a thinly veiled jab at "Siskel & Ebert & the Movies" (1986), with both Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert as aliens. "Siskel" is denouncing George A. Romero and John Carpenter as too violent. (In fact, Siskel had written a scathing review of Romero's Night of the Living Dead (1968).)
Citazione random: Frank: The Golden Rule: He who has the gold, makes the rules.
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Carpenter, John (I)
Nome di battesimo: Carpenter, John Howard
Data di nascita: 16 January 1948
Altezza: 6' (1.83 m)
Coniuge: Sandy King::(1990 - present), Adrienne Barbeau::(1 January 1979 - 1984) (divorced) 1 child
Ultimi lavori: Biografia:John Carpenter was born in Carthage, New York. His family moved to Bowling Green, Kentucky, where his father was the head of the music department at Western Kentucky University. He attended Western Kentucky University and then USC film school in Los Angeles, not the University of South Carolina. While there, he made The Resurrection of Broncho Billy (1970) and started work on Dark Star (1974). He was also in a band called the Coupe de Villes while he attended USC, which included future directors Tommy Lee Wallace and Nick Castle.
Trivia random: Is a fan of the Quartermass movies (_Quatermass Experiment, The (1953)_ , Quatermass and the Pit (1967)), wrote Prince of Darkness (1987) under the pseudonym of Martin Quatermass, and the village in In the Mouth of Madness (1995) is named after a rail station in Quatermass and the Pit (1967).
Citazione random: "Another trend is a lot of women are going to see horror films. That's a really welcome development for horror... It actually has a broadened audience. I think most studios recognize that there is a real potential in horror, if you can find something new and unique. For a while it was a lot of remaking of Japanese horror films that have a whole different way of approaching a story - some of which translates quite well in this country. It is fascinating to watch for a guy who worked in the horror trenches."
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb. 
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