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They Live: The 80s Movie That Reveals How Corrupt And Lost We Are Today
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 ก.พ. 2023
- In this video we take a look at the John Carpenter classic, They Live.
Living In The Past is a channel about revisiting pop culture from the past. Hosted by Jeremy Scott and Devin Kleffer (along with Carl the Intern), these two (three) friends can’t help but revisit the movies and TV shows that they loved from their younger years. Come along and get a little nostalgic with us as we look back, enjoy, and ask the important question: is it still OK to like this stuff?
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What do you all think? Is They Live a warning to where we are today as a culture? Is there any way to wake up?
Yeah. Put the phones and social media down along with the religious man-made books that are more about dogma than spirituality, divisive things that bombard people with OBEY, CONSUME, MARRY and other forms of matrix mind kontrol. Left and right telling you what to eat, smoke, drink, think, feel. Fuk off!
Zen Mind is the key. 1 world 1 race, human. Telling others how to live isn't freedom. Live and let live.
100%! Not sure if you know who David Icke is?…but he has famously predicted many world events in the last 30+ years, and has been unavailing great secrets of the world. You should hear his take on this film, as well as his take on John Carpenter!
You're correct the capitalistic republicans pushing for people to marry and reproduce are a lot worse now that they used to be.
@@roythomas7207 Even violating peoples rights/freedoms, the constitution, and overstep government powers to do so.
@@silvercloud1641 republicans are very good at violating the constitution.
All time - Hands down- Greatest fight scene in cinema history!
It is but I just remember thinking "those wrestling moves on concrete no way they were walking away!"
I remember seeing this in the theater while I was in the Navy. The "and I'm all out of bubble gum" line was so iconic that I remember people saying it for a long time. Roddy Piper had so much potential to become a huge action star.
Totally agree!!!
"They Live" is my favorite John Carpenter film. Then is now.
One of my favorites. Saw it in high school. And it hasn't lost a step.
Also worth pointing out that Shepard Fairey's (very ironic) brand Obey was obviously inspired by this.
That movie fits now more than ever. It is one of my favorite movies.
The film "Brazil" by Terry Gilliam hits the bullseye as well.
I've always liked this movie. I hadn't seen it for awhile, and it came on cable about a year or so ago, so I watched it again. Like you, I was stunned by how accurate it is to today.
Yeah, I was pretty amazed at how spot on it felt.
I came across this movie kind of by accident. I'd never heard of it and I watched it and loved it. 3x at least! And the bubble gum line should be and deserves to be one of the most famous lines in movie history.
God bless you Rich, please take care and I hope for the very best for your daughter. Take care
I think some of us have started waking up. And this is still one of the greatest films of all time.
Watched Prince of Darkness last night...again
Great flick!
1966 ???
Society is too groomed for change, but there still hope for change.
Change is coming, just not the kind of change we want or need,…
I would say They Live is more prevalent today than when it was released.
The beauty of this film is the pacing. Is it slow? Yes. Yet before we know it we are in the middle of something incredible once that point arrives. Very subtle hints which finally reveal the plot arc and our characters place in the story manifests.
Yes, totally agree. My 11 year old son was captivated by the mystery of what was going on and when the glasses were put on he was totally hooked till the end.
Classic Carpenter Film!
One of the greatest metaphors in the film was the fight scene itself. Frank’s incredibly persistent resistance towards opening his eyes - flat out refusing to entertain any reality besides his own. Not to mention the pain and agony Nada had to endure in order to finally get through to him.
It’s simply common-man vs common man. One who realizes the scope and severity of the problems plaguing the world around him, and the other who is ignorant to it all (intentionally or not).
It makes you wonder… Maybe Nada convinced Frank of the truth before he even put on the glasses - Frank just never wanted to see for himself.
Well said! Thanks so much for commenting.
Great movie i watched it as a kid in the 2000's
This was The Matrix before The Matrix!
Best alley fight scene ever .
Agreed, it’s hilarious, lol 🤜🤛
Until WrestleMania XII.
@@hattorihanzo2275 I loved the chase footage.
On to something!
This movie is top 5 ever. Way ahead of its time.
If you like They Live, you should watch Idiocracy. Another truly prophetic comedy.
Oh man yes we are hurtling towards that world at light speed unfortunately.😮😢
While "They Live" was originally marketed as a SciFi- action comedy it was something much more than that. I believe it was meant to be satire of the action films of that era that contained an underlying commentary about corporate social influence. But , when revisiting it sporadically over the years, it now seems to have been more of a dire warning of a much more sinister reality that was awaiting us as a species. It may have been an attempt to bring about a true and public dialogue about what was actually happening around us all.
Well said John!
YUP, YUP, YUP!! Between this movie and Starship Troopers, I just thought they were SciFi stories. GREAT message in both films.
Agree! I have Starship Troopers on a rewatch list. Looking forward to diving back in to its meaning/message.
@@livingthepast The only way to 'wake up' I know is to continue fighting against the fatcats that run our country. SuperWealthy behind the scenes ghosts that make deals in the dark, smoke filled rooms.
Nice one, ended far too quickly though, for such a classic it deserves more! Cheers!
Glad you enjoyed it! We are going to do a bigger breakdown on the podcast (audio version).
Back in the 80s, product placement was king, even the guns that the action stars used. I think today it is more of placing targeted messages into films.
Enjoy your videos. Seems like we would have been buddies in high school back in the 80’s. Great film. Thanks for highlighting it.
Thanks so much for watching and commenting!!! One of the best things about doing this channel is connecting with like minded people. They Live is awesome isn’t it?
What's kind of funny is how the players have kind of Switched, the director was making a point about one group and now it is actually the opposite group.
What opposite group?
They all belong to the same 33 freemasonic Jesuit Illuminati occult Kazhar pedo club . This being said , JC is of course a 33 . Watch the scene with the TVs in the shop window a couple of times . That price tag 339 dollars is CHANGED for the next shot from a different angle . So now it resembles 33 degrees , the nine turning into a degree . They always tell you . And the prove is there. The tag is changed. Different color, and has a different 33 writing . There was no reason to change it , except to have it resemble a 33 degrees now . The 33 is in each of JC s movies , in Halloween 3 a mind boggling 6 times . The 666 also . „ I shot him 6 times“ …Pleasence repeats it 2 times . Could give u examples for each movie he produced/ directed. This being said , this video is the typical disinfo. You even find videos on YT that talk about the Freemason and Illuminati agenda in They Live . And the hidden symbolism . Each scene has some . I could do 3,3 hours about all the gematria and symbols in the graffiti at the beginning , only about that
They Live was John Carpenters "F You" to the Reagan era 80's mantra of "greed is good" and "Yuppie" mentality. Carpenter had just as much of an axe to grind against Reagan as Michael Moore does against the Republican politician of your choice today, except Carpenter wasn't so blatant about it.
I love Carpenter! We need more F-you genre films. So many of the messages of They Live still apply.
“Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss”
-The Who
So very true you took the words right out of my mouth. I love early Carpenter Sci-fi with that particular bent.
I was really into the concept of subliminal messaging then and now memetics that so much the movie mirrors the world we live in today, it's really kind of scary. The movie had a big effect on my life and how I see the world. In fact I teach my teen son every time he watches an ad(especially influencers I despise them)to try to realize they are just trying to sell him something or control him they almost never have benevolent intent.😮😢
Yeah, I think many people in Gen X is on to the BS that everyone is trying to sell something. Then again, our generation always seemed to sniff out that stuff. Like you I am hoping to teach my kids that a lot of what they see is a con. We have to be careful these days.
@@livingthepastI really credit my father for making me aware of it and then I picked up on it all around.👍 So crazy how blatant and aggressive it is now it's just scary as I see kids absorbed. Almost no one teaches them how to handle it and most parents are caught up just as bad.🤬
This is your God.
I preferred the original short story, "Eight O'Clock in the Morning." The Aliens were far more gruesome, the protagonist's solution to the secret invasion was interesting, and there was some hope for the awakened Humans. (No "special glasses" required, just a case of mass hypnosis.) John Carpenter's tale was just too messy.;)
I've not seen the movie, but I agree that, like Idiocracy, it was "prophetic", on many levels. Scientists have already proved our reality is digital, and that we live in a 10-dimensional (at least - maybe more) "construct" akin to The Matrix. Luckily for us the Being outside our simulation is God, not "aliens" or psychopathic AI/robots, but as long as we're stuck in this simulation, the "bad guy" (that would be Satan) holds most of the cards, and his aim is the corruption, defilement and, ultimately, destruction of humanity. THAT is why the 21st century is a steaming pile of nonsensical, rabid leftist shite, and why it is "the age of deceit". Good review, BTW, if a bit short. Hope your channel gets more views and subs.
Fantastic film!
This movie was very cool and pretty hilarious.
People won't wake up until Christ returns
“By the end of the 70s there was a backlash against everything in the 60s, and that’s what the 80s were, and Ronald Reagan became president, and Reaganomics came in … so a lot of the ideals that I grew up with were under assault, and something called a yuppie came into existence, and they just wanted money. And so by the late 80s, I’d had enough, and I decided I had to make a statement, as stupid and banal as it is, but I made one, and that’s They Live.”
- John Carpenter
It's an anticapitalist film. Anti-capitalist. And yet some morons interpret it as an anti-Semitic or conservative film.
Yeah, I saw Carpenter's recent (2017) Tweet about They Live and his frustrations with the racist interpretations of the film. Thanks for commenting.
I'm here to chew bubblegum, and kick ass.
Haha! One of the best lines ever!
@@livingthepast I'm old school. I saw this in the theater.
Duke Nukem 3D trivia: This is the opening line for E3L1, except he swaps them around and says "It's time to kick ass and chew bubble gum... and I'm all out of gum."
Its not about money now
Its about freedoms
@Steve - Most Americans are fine with giving up their freedoms as long as their political faction is in charge.