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They Live - Just a movie, right?

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Saturday May 13 2006

Just a joke of course...

A while ago I saw this photoshopped image which I thought looked rather cool. I had no idea about the movie "They Live by John Carpenter that inspired the person who created the image. Of course it triggered me to check out the movie and watch it.

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We are living in an artificially induced state of consciousness that resembles sleep. The poor and the underclass are growing. Racial justice and human rights are nonexistent.

They have created a repressive society and we are their unwitting accomplices ...their intention to rule rests with the annihilation of consciousness.

We have been lulled into a trance.

They have made us indifferent, to ourselves, to others, we are focused only on our own gain. They are safe as long as they are not discovered ...that is their primary method of survival. Keep us asleep, keep us selfish, keep us sedated... [...]
Rebel transmission in John Carpenter's "They Live"

I loved it! A world in which people are kept in some sort of artificially induced sleep in order to obey, to not question authority and to do whatever those who hold the power desire. One would need to literally put on some special glasses in order to see what was really happening with the world and with humanity as a whole. Without the glasses no one would ever see. The glasses were the only thing that could reveal the true face of those who hold the power. The movie's plot was just excellent. What an awesome concept! The execution could have been better I guess but I still enjoyed it a lot. I can understand how this movie didn't score all that well when it was released but gained a true cult status later on. If you're into cult sci-fi movies you should definitely give this flick a try.

After watching the movie I realized this was of course just an awesome movie scenario. People not thinking for themselves anymore, being misguided by the powers that be. Hidden agenda's behind the scenes. A thing like that could NEVER happen for real of course! It's too crazy to even think of. Right?

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At 14 May '06 - 02:07 Max Roeleveld wrote:
You mean you haven’t read 1984? This Perfect Day? This idea is far from new, and this wasn’t the last movie to use it either… The Matrix trilogy springs to mind.

Of course, I’ll have to go and see this one, too. =]
At 14 May '06 - 14:14 Marco wrote:
Well… this movie is way older than The Matrix… ;)

When I first saw The Matrix I thought it was really original but later on I figured it really isn’t. “Dark City” is another one of those great movies with the same plot as The Matrix (and older too) for example.
At 16 May '06 - 08:28 Rose wrote:
I love these kind of stories… The knowledge to live in a ‘normal’ world, but the fantasy of how a world could (not! not?) be…
A scary idea, but nice to think about!
At 16 May '06 - 13:59 Max Roeleveld wrote:
Oh, and wasn’t the ending (like the last 20 seconds or so) of The Fifth Element another twist like that?
At 16 May '06 - 17:08 albert ramstedt wrote:
The oldest sci-fi i can think of in the same theme is Aldous Huxleys : Brave New World (1932) where the people are lulled into obedience with a drug called “soma”.

Of course there are books on a similar topic way before this book, but I am pretty confident this was a precursor to 1984 and similar books.

The matrix was somewhat a ripoff from the Gibson) neuromancer trilogy, melded with philip k dick and 1984.

Oh and did I mention I am a total sci-fi nerd? :)
At 23 July '06 - 11:50 esaruoho wrote:
here is a slideshow of the film
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8WESKQ4Q..
At 01 October '06 - 13:11 Mysterium Tremendum wrote:
Check out David Cronenberg ‘s Videodrome if you like this.
At 16 August '07 - 12:22 GraphFanGuy wrote:
Hey There… A friend of mine sent me this link on MySpace. I’m the person who made that (Bush – They Live) picture, I posted it on Worth1000 a couple years ago, and I still have it on my personal MySpace now. I pulled almost all my pictures from that website, because so many people were using them and not giving me any credit, or editing them and saying they made them. But I’m honored that you found it and used it, and it got you to watch a great movie… and I got to discover your really cool website. Thanks!
~ Nathan “The Movie Guy”

http://www.GraphicFantasyMovie.com
http://www.MySpace.com/GraphFanGuy
At 12 March '08 - 00:45 Kevlar wrote:
This shit is for real.

Watch Zeitgeist at: http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com
At 17 April '08 - 06:51 Smithee wrote:
Yes, watch zeitgeistmovie!
http://www.infowars.com
At 29 September '08 - 19:25 invisiblito wrote:
They live is real. Based on a short story by Ray Nelson entitled “8 o’clock in the morning.” However, the sunglasses are not part of the original plot. In the short story Nada is in a theatre with a hypnotist on stage hypnotising the audience. When he gives the command “wake up” Nada really does and can see the aliens which in the short story are really Green Skinned, Yellow Eyed Reptilians. Much like the Annunaki. Our masters from the 12th planet (planet X) which is returning. Look it up. Global Banks wish to destroy us.
At 27 July '09 - 17:36 Ryan Swayze wrote:
Actually, Carpenter’s message was clear and tacit at the same time. He could not, and would not have survived naming them by name, so the implication of being aliens sprang up. The stark truth is far graver than our naiveté portrayed to us. ..... Think: Wall Street and the serpents, Brood of Serpents to whom Jesus had pointed out by name, creed and character traits. They are the biblical vampires that dig their fangs in the necks of humanity and suck their blood. They have a complete and total stranglehold on the US and Europe and their institutions and puppeteer the human race through the total and complete stranglehold on 70% of humanity’s cash flow and resources, and the world media, press and publishing industry, in addition to controlling the ivory towers of the who’s who eminent academic institutions.
Think, then think again, and again! …. Who are they?
At 03 August '09 - 16:36 William W. Beckner III wrote:
I came across this movie while surfing the Pirates Bay download site. At first, I thought it might be one of those whacky spring break movies from the sixties, and I really wanted to find out how those (by now) old geezers used to be like in college.

But I couldn’t download the dam thing. Somehow, the site wouldn’t let me, and it was the only movie that I couldn’t download. So I went to Google looking for a solution, and this is where Google brought me.
Having read all the comments, I decided to find it and rent it. Success at last! I think I may have watched it a half dozen times before it sank in, and I said Holly Sh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I imagine everyone who contributed with a comment in your thread said the same thing, or worse! But the comment that really, really hit the nail right on the head was that last comment (Ryan Swayze), I think that dude knows what he’s talking about. This Sh*
At 15 June '10 - 18:10 emerson wrote:
Yeah well anybody noticed how everybody looks like everybody else these days with short black hair to no hair at all??? We’ve been sucked in worse than we thought.
At 28 July '10 - 02:43 MAKEON.COM wrote:
this is a fantastic movie with roddy piper in it

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