Talk:They Live

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1 Shouldn't Plato be mentioned as credited writer?
2 quote?
3 source of text?
4 Frank Armitage?

[edit] Shouldn't Plato be mentioned as credited writer?

This is basically the Allegory of the Cave.

-G

I think we should call attention to the fact that this movie is in fact perfectly true- except instead of aliens it's George Soros that's hiding amoung us.

The fact that SOAD's "BYOB" bares resemblance to "They Live" (which is dubious and highly debateable at best) can hardly be termed "trivia".

--Badharlick 07:16, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

Fun factoid: The actor who plays the lead character, Roderick Toombs, was born in Saskatoon where the three IGA supermarkets recently converted into Sobeys... Life imitates art? ;)

-- Limulus 29 June 2005 09:19 (UTC)

They Live reference in the July 4, 2005 webcomic [http://www.nothingnice.com/index.php?pageNum_Recordset2=271&totalRows_Recordset2=273 Nothing Nice to Say] --Limulus 7 July 2005 00:50 (UTC)

I think the movie They Live shows how greed can change people. Other wise it's a good movie with cool action scenes. -- Anon

"Single longest fistfight in all cinema"?! I have trouble believing this...what about every Bruce Lee movie ever?

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Watch the scene, it really is a long old cut. I think it serves to show you metaphorically just how difficult it is to get someone to 'put on the sunglasses' so they see what you can see. ....

Among the numerous other "gleanings" by The Matrix... was the notion of sunglasses as symbolic of strength/enlightenment lifted directly from They Live?

Another Reference?

I'm pretty sure that in the game "Bart Vs The Space mutants" Bart can get special glasses that make the aliens visible, so should someone add that to the trivia section of the article?

[edit] quote?

isn't it "kick ass and chew bubblegum", not the other way around?
- The chew bubblegum scene on Youtube Joerite 00:38, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
- "It's time to kickass and chew bubble gum... And I'm all out of gum" is the Duke Nukem 3D version, which is of course a reference to They Live. ☢ Ҡi∊ff⌇↯ 03:26, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] source of text?

It looks to me as if there's a good deal of commentary copied from this article: http://www.geocities.com/j_nada/carp/interview/theyliveretro.html - but I don't see any clue to where the article originally appeared. Could be copyvio. ←Hob 21:13, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

I believe that is the original source, altho, it also appears, here Count Ringworm 13:40, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Frank Armitage?

The linked article (Lovecraft's Dunwich Horror) reports that the character's name is Dr. Henry Armitage. 200.48.20.67 21:02, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

I'll vouch for that, and I checked my copy. Googling 'Frank Armitage' shows the majority of results claim it is from Neuromancer, but there do not appear to be any references to Frank in the actual book. In the absence of sources, remove the claim? 219.110.244.23 15:04, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Armitage is all over Neuromancer and plays an integral role. He shows up as early as page 28 in the novel. See here. Count Ringworm 15:24, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

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