{"id":12078,"date":"2011-06-09T23:36:19","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T22:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=12078"},"modified":"2011-06-09T23:51:02","modified_gmt":"2011-06-09T22:51:02","slug":"john-carpenter-on-they-live-shephard-fairey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/06\/09\/john-carpenter-on-they-live-shephard-fairey\/","title":{"rendered":"John Carpenter on They Live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12079\" title=\"John Carpenter on They Live\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/John-Carpenter-on-They-Live.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"280\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of the most interesting films of the late 1980s was John Carpenter&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.to\/mIygcX\">They Live<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>After his amazing run of genre films in the late 70s and early 80s (from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0398712\/\">Assault On Precinct 13<\/a> until <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0082340\/\">Escape From New York<\/a>), his efforts at major studios seemd to lack the intensity of his early career.<\/p>\n<p>But in 1988 he returned with a sci-fi horror film that was a chilling and darkly comic response to the dark side of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Presidency_of_Ronald_Reagan\">Regan&#8217;s America<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"450\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oWu9JOB-TmY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The story of a wandering man (Roddy Piper) who discovers sinister forces secretly shaping society through advertising, it has a new relevance in these recessionary times.<\/p>\n<p>Part of what makes the film so effective is that it wraps a subversive message within the form of an entertaining sci-fi thriller. <\/p>\n<p>In fact, I would suggest that it is one of the most quietly subversive films ever released by a major studio and was possibly a big influence on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Matrix\">The Matrix<\/a> (1999).<\/p>\n<p>Carpenter recently recorded this video introduction for the film for an upcoming screening at the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin, Texas.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bAOyt37Mi5I\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The cinema recently achieved internet fame by creating <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/j4BFBg\">the greatest cinema advert ever<\/a> and artist Shepard Fairey (an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artinfo.com\/news\/story\/28602\/street-cred\/\">admirer of the movie<\/a>) has even created a <a href=\"http:\/\/collider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/they-live-mondo-poster-sneak-peekl-01.jpg\">special Mondo poster<\/a> for the screening.<\/p>\n<p>> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B0019GJ4DS\">Buy They Live at Amazon UK<\/a><br \/>\n> <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.to\/mIygcX\">They Live at IMDb<\/a><br \/>\n> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Carpenter\">John Carpenter<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shepard_Fairey\">Shepard Fairey<\/a> at Wikipedia<br \/>\n> <a href=\"http:\/\/drafthouse.com\/movies\/shepard_fairey_w_they_live\/austin\">More on the Alamo Drafthouse screening of They Live<\/a><br \/>\n> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artinfo.com\/news\/story\/28602\/street-cred\/\">Shephard Fairey on They Live<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Carpenter on his 1988 cult classic They Live<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[620,2075],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12078"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}