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Jacques Street Preacher as Street Preacher. Susan Blanchard Ingenue as Ingenue. Norman Alden Foreman as Foreman. John F. John Carpenter. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Nada, a down-on-his-luck construction worker, discovers a pair of special sunglasses. Wearing them, he is able to see the world as it really is: people being bombarded by media and government with messages like "Stay Asleep", "No Imagination", "Submit to Authority".

Even scarier is that he is able to see that some usually normal-looking people are in fact ugly aliens in charge of the massive campaign to keep humans subdued. Action Horror Sci-Fi Thriller. Did you know Edit. Trivia The line "I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass, and I'm all out of bubble gum" was ad-libbed by Roddy Piper. According to director John Carpenter , Piper had previously written the line in his notebook of potential verbal bits during his wrestling career. He shared the notebook with Carpenter, and they agreed that this particular line fit the character and the film perfectly.

Piper went on to use it at a wrestling match. Goofs The alien at the magazine stand gets his change twice. Quotes Nada : I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass Crazy credits The screenplay writer for "They Live" which is credited to "Frank Armitage", does not exist. John Carpenter used many pseudonyms when giving credit to his works in films.

With his vast amount of work that he did himself, directing, producing, writing and composing the musical scores , he did not want to appear to be braggadocios and vain by having his name appear over and over in the credits of his movies. Connections Edited into The Arrivals User reviews Review. Top review. Unfortunately this film has aged very well. A fun film with a serious message. More relevant now with 'social media' than ever. If only more people would put the glasses on.

FAQ 4. What is 'They Live' about? Is it based on a book? What are the differences between the book and the film? Details Edit. Release date November 4, United States. United States. Official site. John Carpenter's They Live. Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Welcome to the real world. Aliens are systematically gaining control of the earth by masquerading as humans and lulling the public into submission.

Humanity's last chance lies with a lone drifter who stumbles upon a harrowing discovery - a unique pair of sunglasses that reveal the terrifying and deadly truth. John Nada is a man without job who walks around a big American city trying to find something to do. He finally finds a job as a worker and a place to spend the nights, but one day something terrible happens to him.

John discovers a pair of sun-glasses through which he can see the true face of people. Many persons in this city are in fact aliens from the Andromeda and most of them are important members of our society.

They keep humans in ignorance and they rule our world as they like. Nada must find the rest of the men that know what's happening those who made the strange sun-glasses and join them in the fight against the aliens. The unemployed construction worker George Nada drifts to Los Angeles and finds a job. Nada is a man that believes on the American Dream and expects to have his big chance someday. He befriends the worker Frank Armitage that is a conformist and invites Nada to camp in the homeless settlement where he lives.

Nada observes that the television has weird interferences from a pirate transmission of a man that belongs to an underground movement and notes a strange moving of people in the church on the other side of the settlement. Nada sneaks around the church and finds a box with pairs of sunglasses. When he wears the glasses, he discovers that the average people is being dominated and subdue by subliminal messages and several persons are aliens indeed.

Further, the elites are corroborating with the invaders, receiving financial support in return. Nada forces Frank to wear the sunglasses and together they seek other humans aware of the situation to organize a resistance against the powerful aliens from Andromeda and their associates.

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