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- George "Buck" Flower died of cancer at age 66 on June 18, 2004. Although the "Buck" may have sadly stopped, George "Buck" Flower's extraordinary cinematic legacy shall continue to live on and entertain film fans all over the world for all eternity.
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George Albert "Buck" Flower (October 28, 1937 – June 18, 2004) was an American actor, writer, producer, assistant director, production manager, and casting director.
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Only four characters in the movie have names, so let’s get the actor attributions out of the way: Nada (Roddy Piper), Frank Armitage (David Keith), Holly Thompson (Meg WATCH TV Foster), and Gilbert (Peter Jason). “Frank Armitage” is also Carpenter’s screenwriter pseudonym, giving the impression that a fictional character in the movie also wrote it....
Carpenter often put anti-authoritarian subtexts into his films, such as the satirical backdrops of the two Escape From… movies. But They Live is his most overtly political work. Often savagely so: here’s a movie that lingers on the image of police officers savagely beating a blind black preacher, and retrofits the famous political images of the era...
A movie with a small scope dealing with a global menace faces a dilemma: how do you craft a satisfying and logical climax? They Live manages the best send-off it can when it cuts out at Nada’s sacrifice and the exposure of the aliens to the world. But the ten minutes of action rushing to get to those final shots makes the movie feel hurried. Carpen...
The aliens are foiled and exposed to the world for what they really are, but Nada and Frank have to die to achieve it. Next: Memoirs of an Invisible Man WORK AS DIRECTOR FOR HIRE Ryan Harvey is one of the original bloggers for Black Gate, starting in 2008. He received the Writers of the Future Award for his short story “An Acolyte of Black Spires,”...
Drifter : What's wrong with having it good for a change? Now they're gonna let us have it good if we just help 'em. They're gonna leave us alone, let us make some money. You can have a little taste of that good life too. Now, I know you want it.
Flower achieved his greatest popularity with his terrific contributions to a handful of John Carpenter features: he's an ill-fated fisherman in The Fog (1980); a bum in Escape from New York (1981); a crusty cook in Starman (1984); excellent as the rags-to-riches bum Drifter in They Live (1988); another bum in the "Unleaded" segment of the ...
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Starring: George Buck Flower, Keith David, Meg Foster, Peter Jason, Roddy Piper. Screenwriter: John Carpenter. Producer: Larry J. Franco. Your Black Friday ends here! I came in here to kick ass and chew bubblegum… and I’m all out of bubblegum.
Nada (Roddy Piper), a wanderer without meaning in his life, discovers a pair of sunglasses capable of showing the world the way it truly is.
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They Live. Opens on October 27. Director: John CarpenterRun Time: 94 min.Release Year: 1988. Starring: George Buck Flower, Keith David, Meg Foster, Peter Jason, Roddy Piper. Nada, a wanderer without meaning in his life, discovers a pair of sunglasses capable of showing the world the way it truly is.
