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Oct 3, 2018 · Artist Ivan Cash has invented a pair of sunglasses that block LCD/LED screens and make them look like they are off, based on the fictional ones from John Carpenter's They Live. The glasses are currently being funded on Kickstarter and are compatible with some TVs, computers and smartphones.
Oct 4, 2018 · IRL Glasses are a pair of sunglasses that block the images of most screens, including LCD/LED TVs and computers, according to the movie They Live. They are designed to look like the ones from the cult classic and are available for $49 on Kickstarter.
Starring Roddy Piper, Keith David, and Meg Foster, the film follows an unnamed drifter [c] 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 .
- $3 million
- John Carpenter, Alan Howarth
- November 4, 1988
- Larry Franco
- 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.
Jun 21, 2020 · They Live Sunglasses refer to a plot device in the 1988 science fiction action satire film They Live. In the film, wearing a pair of special sunglasses allow the wearer to see through advertisements and other elements of consumerism to see the evil extra-terrestrial race behind capitalism and human misery.
