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apologizes to Nada for striking him, claiming she hadn't known what was occuring. Soon afterwards, the meeting is raided by police, with the majority of those present killed and the survivors scattered. Nada and Frank are cornered in an alley, but Frank activates an alien wristwatch, opening a portal to the alien's spaceport on Earth under Cable 54, an alien-run news network.
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humans from identifying them and their hidden messages. Nada and Frank locate Holly and fight their way to the transmitter on the roof, but Holly, herself a collaborator responsible for the raid, murders Frank. Nada kills Holly and destroys the transmitter, but is mortally wounded by a police helicopter. With the signal shut down, Nada gives them
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playing that unbeknownst to Nada obscures a meeting with a group including the hacker. Nada also uncovers equipment and boxes inside, but escapes when he bumps into the preacher. The shantytown and church are destroyed in a police raid, and the hacker and preacher are brutalized by law enforcement officers.
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planet. As soon as they exhaust all our resources, they'll move on to another world... I began watching TV again. I quickly realized that everything we see is designed to sell us something. ... It's all about wanting us to buy something. The only thing they want to do is take our money." To this
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While Nada retrieves another pair of sunglasses from the trash pile, Frank comes to give Nada his paycheck and orders him to stay away following Nada's killing spree becoming widespread news. When Nada tries to put the glasses on him, Frank resists and a lengthy brawl ensues. After subduing him, Nada
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one of his "favorite movies of the eighties, hands down". He said, "It's a great movie...Look at what it does to people, look at how it emboldens and provokes...It's disturbing and ridiculous and outrageous and uncomfortable, but I think it's the kind of great movie that doesn't really need defense,
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A hacker takes over TV broadcasts, alerting that humanity is "their cattle" and the only way to unfold the truth is to shut off the signal at its source. Those watching the broadcast complain of headaches. Nada follows Gilbert and the preacher into the church, discovering a recording of gospel music
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was theatrically released in North America on November 4, 1988, and debuted at #1 at the box office, grossing $ 4.8 million during its opening weekend. The film spent two weeks in the top ten. The film's original release date, advertised in promotional material as October 21, 1988, had been pushed
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Coming across a meeting of aliens and collaborators celebrating the defeat of the human resistance, they are approached by a drifter from the shantytown, now a collaborator. Mistaking them for new recruits, he gives the pair a tour of the facility, where the aliens broadcast a signal that prevents
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in pursuit of a job, where he spots a preacher warning that "they" have recruited the rich and powerful to control humanity. He finds employment at a construction site and befriends his coworker Frank, who invites him to live in a shantytown near a church and meets their community leader Gilbert.
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Nada retrieves one of the boxes from the church and takes a pair of sunglasses from it, concealing the box in a trash pile. He finds out they make the world appear monochrome, but also reveal subliminal messages in the media to consume and conform. The most puzzling reveal, however, is they also
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executive asked me, 'Where's the threat in that? We all sell out every day.' I ended up using that line in the film." The aliens were deliberately made to look like ghouls, according to Carpenter, who said "The creatures are corrupting us, so they, themselves, are corruptions of human beings."
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to make Earth's atmosphere similar to their homeworld, while depleting its resources for their own gain. They also learn that the aliens have been bribing human collaborators in exchange for wealth. Holly joins the meeting, bringing information about where the signal may be coming from. She
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wrote, "Carpenter's wit and storytelling craft make this fun and watchable, although the script takes a number of unfortunate shortcuts, and the possibilities inherent in the movie's central concept are explored only cursorily." Jay Carr, writing for
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Because the screenplay was the product of so many sources—a short story, a comic book, and input from cast and crew—Carpenter decided to use the pseudonym "Frank Armitage", an allusion to one of the filmmaker's favorite writers,
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was a minor success upon release, debuting at #1 at the North American box office. It initially received negative reviews from critics, who lambasted its social commentary, writing, and acting; however, it later gained a
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between Nada and Frank over a pair of the special sunglasses. Carpenter recalls that the fight took three weeks to rehearse: "It was an incredibly brutal and funny fight, along the lines of the slugfest between
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ranked the fight scene between Roddy Piper's character Nada and Keith David's character Frank Armitage seventh on their list of "The 20 Greatest Fight Scenes Ever". The fight scene influenced the 2008 film
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The character is referred to as "Nada" in the film's credits, which is Spanish for "Nothing"; in the original short story, the name of the character is George Nada. "Nada" is also the name of a short
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was...the basis for my use of the word 'obey'", Fairey said. "The movie has a very strong message about the power of commercialism and the way that people are manipulated by advertising".
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features an extended parody of the film with Roddy Piper and Keith David voicing fictionalized versions of themselves in a recreation of the fight scene between Nada and Armitage.
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end, Carpenter thought of sunglasses as being the tool to seeing the truth, which "is seen in black and white. It's as if the aliens have colonized us. That means, of course, that
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places the glasses on Frank, who sees the aliens for himself and goes into hiding with Nada. The two run into Gilbert, who introduces them to the human resistance. They are given
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disclose that many people are actually ghoulish, bug-eyed aliens hiding under human facades. Additionally, the creatures have wristwatch communicators that allow them to
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who discovers through special sunglasses that the ruling class are aliens concealing their appearance and manipulating people to consume, breed, and conform to the
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is doubly disappointing. So is its crazy inconsistency, since the film stops trying to abide even by its own game plan after a while." Richard Harrington wrote in
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and experienced a significantly more favorable critical reception. It is now regarded by many as one of Carpenter's best films. The film has also entered the
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and needed someone "who wouldn't be a traditional sidekick but could hold his own." To this end, Carpenter wrote the role of Frank specifically for David.
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earlier in 1987. For Carpenter, it was an easy choice: "Unlike most Hollywood actors, Roddy has life written all over him." Carpenter was impressed with
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in downtown Los Angeles, with a budget only slightly greater than $ 3 million. One of the highlights of the film is a five-and-a-half-minute alley
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The film is noted for a popularly quoted line spoken by Nada: "I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubblegum".
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is really a monster from outer space." The director commented on the alien threat in an interview: "They want to own all our businesses. A
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is full of black holes, the acting is wretched, the effects are second-rate. In fact, the whole thing is so preposterous it makes
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premise. The social commentary wipes clean with a dry towelette – it's not intrusive and not pedantic, just lighter-than-air."
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Carpenter has said that the film's political commentary derives from his dissatisfaction with then–U.S. President
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signed on to direct and write the screenplay. The project eventually shifted away from being a direct remake of
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as it's one of his favorite films, but was never able to get interest or financial backing for the project.
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used scenes from the film interspersed with clips of himself for the song "Roddy Piper" from his 2017 album
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In 2010, a remake movie was stated as being in development with Carpenter in a producing role. In 2011,
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in November 1963, involving a protagonist, George Nada, and an alien invasion in the tradition of
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A game in which they hired Roddy Piper and Keith David to recreate their famous fight scene from
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would be announced shortly; while acknowledging the possibility of a sequel becoming a reality.
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starts running low on imagination and inventiveness", but felt that "as sci-fi horror comedy,
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Having acquired the film rights to the Nelson-penned short story prior to the production of
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it just needs to be given the air". Lethem wrote a book-length homage to the movie for the
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wrote, "Since Mr. Carpenter seems to be trying to make a real point here, the flatness of
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interpretations of the film's themes, Carpenter further clarified that the film "is about
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In July 2018, the film was selected to be screened in the Venice Classics section at the
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On January 19, 2021, Shout! Factory released the "Collector's Edition" of the film on
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magazine's "The Cult 25: The Essential Left-Field Movie Hits Since '83" list in 2008.
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rating of 55 out of 100 based on 22 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews".
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credits the film as a major source of inspiration, sharing a similar logo to his
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Upon the film's release, Carpenter remarked, "The picture's premise is that the '
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was made to be a mix of 80's and 90's action film stars, including Roddy Piper,
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For the screenplay, Carpenter was credited by the pseudonym "Frank Armitage".
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also used the film as the influence behind their 2010 video for "Slow Down".
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Meanwhile, humans all over the world discover aliens hiding among them.
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released a "Collector's Edition" of the film on both DVD and Blu-ray.
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flying saucers, and makes his point that the rich are fascist fiends,
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in April 1986. John Carpenter describes Nelson's story as "... a
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used the film as inspiration for the music video for their song "
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was shot in eight weeks during March and April 1988, principally
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came from a short story called "Eight O'Clock in the Morning" by
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For the role of Nada, the filmmaker cast professional wrestler
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to replace the sunglasses, and learn about the aliens using
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in their music video for "Back in the USA" from the album
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in 1986, which was adapted from the same short story as
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is definitely one of the forgotten masterpieces of the
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Music for the film was composed by John Carpenter and
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Turner had received some bad press in the 1980s for
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