Special Report · Film year 1988
They Live (1988)
- Special Guests
- D. Harlan Wilson, Sandy King, Peter Jason, Keith David
- Guest Co-Hosts
- El Goro, Patrick Bromley
Show notes
On this special episode of The Projection Booth, we're giving you a choice: either put on the podcast, or start eating a trash can.
Yes, we're talking about John Carpenter (opens in a new tab)'s They Live (1988) wherein a man with no name -- or a name that means nothing -- Nada ("Rowdy" Roddy Piper) comes to Los Angeles looking for work only to find a vast conspiracy instead.
We talk to the author of the They Live Cultography, D. Harlan Wilson (opens in a new tab), as well as producer Sandy King (opens in a new tab), and actors Peter Jason (opens in a new tab) and Keith David (opens in a new tab).
F! This Movie (opens in a new tab)'s Patrick Bromley and Talk Without Rhythm (opens in a new tab)'s El Goro join Mike to discuss this politically-charged film as well as Pizzagate, Wrestlemania, Shepard Fairey's use of wrestling, skateboarding, and politics (opens in a new tab) via the "Andre the Giant Has a Posse" phenomenon, and morning in America (opens in a new tab).
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Yes, we're talking about John Carpenter (opens in a new tab)'s They Live (1988) wherein a man with no name -- or a name that means nothing -- Nada ("Rowdy" Roddy Piper) comes to Los Angeles looking for work only to find a vast conspiracy instead.
We talk to the author of the They Live Cultography, D. Harlan Wilson (opens in a new tab), as well as producer Sandy King (opens in a new tab), and actors Peter Jason (opens in a new tab) and Keith David (opens in a new tab).
F! This Movie (opens in a new tab)'s Patrick Bromley and Talk Without Rhythm (opens in a new tab)'s El Goro join Mike to discuss this politically-charged film as well as Pizzagate, Wrestlemania, Shepard Fairey's use of wrestling, skateboarding, and politics (opens in a new tab) via the "Andre the Giant Has a Posse" phenomenon, and morning in America (opens in a new tab).
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Labels: Cultography F This Movie John Carpenter Keith David Peter Jason Rowdy Roddy Piper Sandy King Talk Without Rhythm Walter Hill
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Music credits
- "Return to Church" - John Carpenter & Alan Howarth
- "Wake Up" - John Carpenter & Alan Howarth
- "Back Alley" - John Carpenter & Alan Howarth
- "Transport Station" - John Carpenter & Alan Howarth
- "For Everybody" - "Rowdy" Roddy Piper
- "With Hoffman Lenses We Will See The Truth" - Set Your Goals
- "They Live" - Reign of Zaius
- "Obey, Consume... Escape" - Jon of the Shred
Links & resources
- Buy They Live on Blu-ray (opens in a new tab)
- Buy They Live (Cultography) by D. Harlan Wilson (opens in a new tab)
- Buy They Live (Deep Focus) by Jonathan Lethem (opens in a new tab)
- Buy Mitch O'Connell's The Real Donald Trump Revealed T-shirts (opens in a new tab)
- Listen to 8 O'Clock in the Morning by Ray Nelson (opens in a new tab)
- Read Nada by Ray Nelson and Bill Wray (opens in a new tab)
- Visit the official John Carpenter website (opens in a new tab)
- Visit Storm King Productions (opens in a new tab)
- Visit the official Peter Jason website (opens in a new tab)
- Visit the official Keith David website (opens in a new tab)
- Visit the official D. Harlan Wilson website (opens in a new tab)
- Visit the official Rowdy Roddy Piper website (opens in a new tab)
- Visit the official Ray Nelson website (opens in a new tab)
- Visit Obey Giant - The Art of Shepard Fairey (opens in a new tab)
- Learn more about Wallflower Press (opens in a new tab)
- Listen to the Talk Without Rhythm podcast (opens in a new tab)
- Listen to the F! This Movie podcast (opens in a new tab)
- Read John Carpenter Is Fighting With Internet Nazis Over His Cult Classic They Live by Sidney Fussell (opens in a new tab)
- Les Hoffman (opens in a new tab)
- Felix Hoffman (opens in a new tab)
- Albert Hoffman (opens in a new tab)
- Read Larger than life: An oral history of WrestleMania III by Adam Graham and Tony Paul (opens in a new tab)
- Listen to our episode on The Thing (opens in a new tab)
- Hear more Keith David on the Requiem for a Dream episode (opens in a new tab)
- Hear more about Other Side of the Wind (opens in a new tab)
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Comments (1)
lrobhubbard Very good work, highlighting this beloved docu-drama... Saw this on Election Day, 1988... and 30 years later, it's still just as depressing. Actually, as things go, this could stand a follow-up/sequel - obviously, The Resistance didn't get very far...