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One of the main distinctions between the 1982 film of J W
Campell’s Novella ‘Who Goes There’ and the 1951 version, is the all consuming
sense of paranoia that goes alongside the horror and increases the fear levels significantly.
Whilst there’s a certain level of ‘scientists (intellectuals) VS. Regular Joes’
mistrust going on in The Thing From Another World, the discovery that that the
alien can look and sound like anyone, and the divisions and terror that causes
onscreen are a key factor in the success of Carpetner’s The Thing. It on of
factors that makes the 1982 film a much more faithful adaptation of the source
material tan them also excellent, 1951 film. Replicating that is surely going
to be key if this prequel is going to have any chance of escaping the shadow of
either of the previous films.
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| John Carpenter's The Thing |
This clip shows that director Matthijs van Heijningen and
writers Eric Heisserer & Ronald D. Moore understand the importance of this
theme, even if the clip gives little indication that the execution will be sufficient.
Synopsis...
“Antarctica: an extraordinary continent of awesome beauty. It
is also home to an isolated outpost where a discovery full of scientific
possibility becomes a mission of survival when an alien is unearthed by a crew
of international scientists. The shape-shifting creature, accidentally
unleashed at this marooned colony, has the ability to turn itself into a
perfect replica of any living being. It can look just like you or me, but
inside, it remains inhuman. In the thriller The Thing, paranoia spreads like an
epidemic among a group of researchers as they're infected, one by one, by a
mystery from another planet. Paleontologist Kate Lloyd (Mary Elizabeth
Winstead) has traveled to the desolate region for the expedition of her
lifetime. Joining a Norwegian scientific team that has stumbled across an
extraterrestrial ship buried in the ice, she discovers an organism that seems
to have died in the crash eons ago. But it is about to wake up. When a simple
experiment frees the alien from its frozen prison, Kate must join the crew's
pilot, Carter (Joel Edgerton), to keep it from killing them off one at a time.
And in this vast, intense land, a parasite that can mimic anything it touches
will pit human against human as it tries to survive and flourish. The Thing
serves as a prelude to John Carpenter's classic 1982 film of the same name”
We shall see...
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