Holly arrives at the meeting, apologizing to Nada. They also learn that the aliens have been bribing humans to become collaborators, promoting them to positions of power. At the meeting, they are given contact lenses to replace the sunglasses, and learn that the aliens are using global warming to make Earth more like their own planet, and are depleting the Earth's resources for their own gain.
After seeing the aliens and a flying saucer, Frank goes into hiding with Nada.įrank and Nada run into Gilbert, who leads them to a meeting of the anti-alien movement. Frank and Nada get into a long and violent brawl, after which Frank is too tired to prevent Nada from putting the sunglasses on him. Nada tries to get Frank to put on the glasses, but Frank thinks Nada is a murderer and wants nothing to do with him. The next day, Nada returns to the alleyway and retrieves the sunglasses from a garbage truck before Frank meets Nada to give him his paycheck. At Holly's home, Nada tries to get her to try on the glasses, but she knocks him out of the window and down a hill and calls the police. He kills several aliens with a shotgun and escapes by taking Cable 54 employee Holly Thompson hostage. Nada enters a bank, where he sees that several of the employees and customers are aliens. Nada leaves but is confronted by two alien police officers. When Nada mocks an alien woman at a supermarket, she alerts other aliens via a wristwatch-like device. The glasses also reveal that many people are actually aliens with skull-like faces. Nada discovers that the sunglasses make the world appear monochrome, but also reveal subliminal messages in the media to consume, reproduce, and conform. The following day, Nada retrieves one of the boxes from the church and takes a pair of sunglasses from it, hiding the rest in a trash can. The shantytown and church are both destroyed in a police raid in the same night, and the hacker and preacher are beaten by riot police.
Nada is discovered by the blind preacher and escapes. He sees scientific equipment and cardboard boxes inside. Nada secretly follows Gilbert and the preacher into a nearby church and discovers them meeting with a group that includes the hacker. Those watching the broadcast complain of headaches. That night, a hacker takes over television broadcasts, claiming that scientists have discovered signals that are enslaving the population and keeping them in a dream-like state, and that the only way to stop it is to shut off the signal at its source. Nada finds employment at a construction site and is befriended by coworker Frank, who invites him to live in a shanty town soup kitchen led by a man named Gilbert.
While out on the street, he sees a street preacher warning that "they" have recruited the rich and powerful to control humanity. A nearly six-minute sequence in which the protagonists brawl in an alley has made appearances on all-time lists for best fight scenes.Ī homeless drifter-credited as "Nada"-comes to Los Angeles in search of a job. The film has also entered the pop culture lexicon, notably having a lasting effect on street art (particularly that of Shepard Fairey). It is now regarded by many as one of Carpenter's best films. It initially received negative reviews from critics, who lambasted its social commentary, writing, and acting however, it later gained a cult following and experienced a significantly more favorable critical reception. They Live was a minor success upon release, debuting at #1 at the North American box office. President Ronald Reagan, as well as what Carpenter saw as increasing commercialization in both popular culture and politics. Carpenter has stated that the themes of They Live stemmed from his dissatisfaction with the economic policies of then-U.S. Having acquired the film rights to the Nelson-penned short story prior to the production of They Live, Carpenter used the story as the basis for the screenplay's structure, which he wrote under the pseudonym "Frank Armitage". Starring Roddy Piper, Keith David, and Meg Foster, the film follows an unnamed drifter who discovers through special sunglasses that the ruling class are aliens concealing their appearance and manipulating people to consume, breed, and conform to the status quo via subliminal messages in mass media. They Live is a 1988 American science fiction action horror film written and directed by John Carpenter, based on the 1963 short story " Eight O'Clock in the Morning" by Ray Nelson.
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