Roddy Piper
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- R1988 · Science fiction · 1h 33m
Nov 4, 1988 · They Live: Directed by John Carpenter. With Roddy Piper, Keith David, Meg Foster, George 'Buck' Flower. They influence our decisions without us knowing it. They numb our senses without us feeling it. They control our lives without us realizing it. They live.
- (140K)
- Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
- John Carpenter
- 1988-11-04
His stories were about gods who are repressed, who were once on Earth and are now coming back. The world underneath has a great deal to do with They Live." Casting. For the role of Nada, the filmmaker cast professional wrestler Roddy Piper, whom he had met at WrestleMania III earlier in 1987. For Carpenter, it was an easy choice: "Unlike most ...
- $3 million
- John Carpenter, Alan Howarth
- November 4, 1988
- Larry Franco
A politically subversive blend of horror and sci fi, They Live is an underrated genre film from John Carpenter. Nada (Roddy Piper), a wanderer without meaning in his life, discovers a pair...
- (74)
- Sci-Fi
- R
Sep 22, 2023 · Piper’s nameless character in They Live (stream it here on Peacock), known only in the credits as “Nada,” is out for a good old-fashioned human revolt after discovering a mysteriously magical pair of sunglasses that allow him to see the movie’s big dystopian secret: A skeletal race of alien control freaks, all masquerading as people ...
- Benjamin Bullard
- 4 min
- 9
- They Live was inspired by a comic book adaptation of a short story. They Live is an adaptation of Ray Nelson’s science fiction short story “Eight O’Clock in the Morning,” which was originally published in the 1960s.
- They Live was a response to Ronald Reagan's America. Carpenter has described They Live as a “primal scream against Reaganomics,” a story that uses a science fiction concept to pour on social commentary about the way he saw what was happening to the American middle class in the 1980s.
- John Carpenter wrote They Live under an alias. Carpenter has always been a multi-hyphenate kind of filmmaker, directing, writing, producing and scoring his movies.
- Roddy Piper had never heard of John Carpenter. For the role of “John Nada,” They Live's central character, Carpenter was on the hunt for an everyman who could embody the blue collar working class.
George Nada (Roddy Piper) is a homeless laborer who arrives in Los Angeles looking for work. The national economy seems to be in decline and the poor and middle class have been especially hard hit, living in shantytowns across the city.
