This is my view of you guys out there on T Nation.
[quote]digitalairair wrote:
[quote]John S. wrote:
It seems our friend Nards has been in the news.[/quote]
i literally thought he shot someone in Taiwan when i read the title.[/quote]
If I had a shotgun I’d likely only shoot scooter drivers who go down the sidewalk at 20 miles per hour.
I’d need a shotgun with a 100 round drum I think.
[quote]Marzouk wrote:
i’ve always wondered who the hell that guy is in Nards’ avi. [/quote]
Its the one and only MCGYVER.
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[quote]theBird wrote:
[quote]Marzouk wrote:
i’ve always wondered who the hell that guy is in Nards’ avi. [/quote]
Its the one and only MCGYVER.
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Give it up, koala bear. The McGyver thing’s not catching on.
“They Live”, the Weird Movie With a Powerful Message
By VC | April 17th, 2012 | Category: Movies and TV
“They Live” is a science-fiction movie from the Eighties that features aliens, a WWF wrestler and a whole lot of sunglasses. What’s not to like? While, at first glance, the movie appears to be a bunch of nonsense, “They Live” actually communicates a powerful message about the elite and its use of mass media to control the masses. Is the movie describing what we call the Illuminati? This article looks at the deeper meaning of John Carpenter’s strange but fascinating movie “They Live”.
Im goin to get me a shotgun and kill all the whities I see
Im goin to get me a shotgun and kill all the whities I see
When I kill all the whities I see
then whitie he wont bother me
Im goin to get me a shotgun and kill all the whities I see…
Garrett Morris, SNL parolee 1978 ? ? ?
^^ heh heh I remember that one.
[quote]Jeffrey of Troy wrote:
“They Live”, the Weird Movie With a Powerful Message
By VC | April 17th, 2012 | Category: Movies and TV
“They Live” is a science-fiction movie from the Eighties that features aliens, a WWF wrestler and a whole lot of sunglasses. What’s not to like? While, at first glance, the movie appears to be a bunch of nonsense, “They Live” actually communicates a powerful message about the elite and its use of mass media to control the masses. Is the movie describing what we call the Illuminati? This article looks at the deeper meaning of John Carpenter’s strange but fascinating movie “They Live”.
http://vigilantcitizen.com/moviesandtv/they-live-the-weird-movie-with-a-powerful-message/[/quote]
I liked that article as it goes beyond the usual anti-consumerism thing.
I like how they explain the long fight scene as an example of how hard it is for people to overcome their ignorance…as descried in the article:
It takes a lot of effort on Nada’s part, but Frank finally sees the aliens controlling the world.
Ha! “a lot of effort” = 7 minute back alley fight.
[quote]Nards wrote:
[quote]Jeffrey of Troy wrote:
“They Live”, the Weird Movie With a Powerful Message
By VC | April 17th, 2012 | Category: Movies and TV
“They Live” is a science-fiction movie from the Eighties that features aliens, a WWF wrestler and a whole lot of sunglasses. What’s not to like? While, at first glance, the movie appears to be a bunch of nonsense, “They Live” actually communicates a powerful message about the elite and its use of mass media to control the masses. Is the movie describing what we call the Illuminati? This article looks at the deeper meaning of John Carpenter’s strange but fascinating movie “They Live”.
http://vigilantcitizen.com/moviesandtv/they-live-the-weird-movie-with-a-powerful-message/[/quote]
I liked that article as it goes beyond the usual anti-consumerism thing.
I like how they explain the long fight scene as an example of how hard it is for people to overcome their ignorance…as descried in the article:
It takes a lot of effort on Nada’s part, but Frank finally sees the aliens controlling the world.
Ha! “a lot of effort” = 7 minute back alley fight.
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My fav part of the article was
“Upon discovering this truth, Nada became pissed off. REALLY pissed off. How did he react to the situation? He did not go home and write a poem about it. Nope, he grabbed a shotgun and started shooting aliens.”
They Live may just be the best zombie movie ever, when you just take it on the action movie level.
[quote]Jeffrey of Troy wrote:
[quote]Nards wrote:
[quote]Jeffrey of Troy wrote:
“They Live”, the Weird Movie With a Powerful Message
By VC | April 17th, 2012 | Category: Movies and TV
“They Live” is a science-fiction movie from the Eighties that features aliens, a WWF wrestler and a whole lot of sunglasses. What’s not to like? While, at first glance, the movie appears to be a bunch of nonsense, “They Live” actually communicates a powerful message about the elite and its use of mass media to control the masses. Is the movie describing what we call the Illuminati? This article looks at the deeper meaning of John Carpenter’s strange but fascinating movie “They Live”.
http://vigilantcitizen.com/moviesandtv/they-live-the-weird-movie-with-a-powerful-message/[/quote]
I liked that article as it goes beyond the usual anti-consumerism thing.
I like how they explain the long fight scene as an example of how hard it is for people to overcome their ignorance…as descried in the article:
It takes a lot of effort on Nada’s part, but Frank finally sees the aliens controlling the world.
Ha! “a lot of effort” = 7 minute back alley fight.
[/quote]
My fav part of the article was
“Upon discovering this truth, Nada became pissed off. REALLY pissed off. How did he react to the situation? He did not go home and write a poem about it. Nope, he grabbed a shotgun and started shooting aliens.”[/quote]
I was just getting into the article when I realized that it was posted on a conspiracy theorist website. I re-read the whole thing from scratch and it seemed as though the author thought that They Live was a documentary and the accompanying review was a call to arms.
Have you heard of David Icke?
He’s an English guy (a former footballer I think) and he really believes that there are lizard people that rule the world.
There are even videos on youtube of George Bush Sr. where you can see one of his contacts slip and his lizard eye can me seen momentarily!
Wait…lemme find it…
Oh man after I went I see there are many videos that say they’ve captured lizard eyes on famous people. JEEEEEEEEEEESSUUUS!!!
By the way in case you read me worng there I don’t believe any of that at all.
I am actually a very reasonable and rational person. I mean that.
Well everyone of course thinks they are rational and resonable…oh man you see! Of course I’m not a nut because I’m worried so much about sounding like I’m set in my beliefs an don’t want to look like I am.
[quote]Nards wrote:
Have you heard of David Icke?
He’s an English guy (a former footballer I think) and he really believes that there are lizard people that rule the world.
There are even videos on youtube of George Bush Sr. where you can see one of his contacts slip and his lizard eye can me seen momentarily!
Wait…lemme find it…
Oh man after I went I see there are many videos that say they’ve captured lizard eyes on famous people. JEEEEEEEEEEESSUUUS!!![/quote]
I saw a documentary on David Icke once (never read any of his books). The Really crazy thing about him is that he actually makes sense…until he gets to the part where world leaders are refugees from the original V TV series:
[quote]Nards wrote:
By the way in case you read me worng there I don’t believe any of that at all.
I am actually a very reasonable and rational person. I mean that.
Well everyone of course thinks they are rational and resonable…oh man you see! Of course I’m not a nut because I’m worried so much about sounding like I’m set in my beliefs an don’t want to look like I am.[/quote]
I’m as down with reptilian overlords as much as the next puny human, but the tone of the other articles didn’t back the idea that the writers were John Carpenter fans.
I watched the David Icke video and you can see how nuts he is in the part where the police came by near Big Ben and he told them it was a free country and he should be allowed to film and that if this were Russia or China he wouldn’t be surprised etc. etc.
Wait!..I thought all these people were lizards from space? Why would you talk to them like that? Also…why would you say that our freedoms are just now being taken away? I thought they were taken away thousands of years ago when the lizard people enslaved us?
Here’s a link to a comic of the original story They Live was based on.
And here’s the whole short story 8 O’clock in the Morning that it’s based on.
Eight O’Clock in the Morning
At the end of the show the hypnotist told his subjects, “Awake.”
Something unusual happened.
One of the subjects awoke all the way. This had never happened before. His name was George Nada and he blinked out at the sea of faces in the theatre, at first unaware of anything out of the ordinary. Then he noticed, spotted here and there in the crowd, the non-human faces, the faces of the Fascinators. They had been there all along, of course, but only George was really awake, so only George recognized them for what they were. He understood everything in a flash, including the fact that if he were to give any outward sign, the Fascinators would instantly command him to return to his former state, and he would obey.
He left the theatre, pushing out into the neon night, carefully avoiding any indication that he saw the green, reptilian flesh or the multiple yellow eyes of the rulers of the earth. One of them asked him, “Got a light buddy?” George gave him a light, then moved on.
At intervals along the street George saw the posters hanging with photographs of the Fascinators’ multiple eyes and various commands printed under them, such as, “Work eight hours, play eight hours, sleep eight hours,” and “Marry and Reproduce.” A TV set in the window of a store caught George’s eye, but he looked away in the nick of time. When he didn’t look at the Fascinator in the screen, he could resist the command, “Stay tuned to this station.”
George lived alone in a little sleeping room, and as soon as he got home, the first thing he did was to disconnect the TV set. In other rooms he could hear the TV sets of his neighbors, though. Most of the time the voices were human, but now and then he heard the arrogant, strangely bird-like croaks of the aliens. “Obey the government,” said one croak. “We are the government,” said another. “We are your friends, you’d do anything for a friend, wouldn’t you?”
“Obey!”
“Work!”
Suddenly the phone rang.
George picked it up. It was one of the Fascinators.
“Hello,” it squawked. “This is your control, Chief of Police Robinson. You are an old man, George Nada. Tomorrow morning at eight o’clock, your heart will stop. Please repeat.”
“I am an old man,” said George. “Tomorrow morning at eight o’clock, my heart will stop.”
The control hung up.
“No, it wont,” whispered George. He wondered why they wanted him dead. Did they suspect that he was awake? Probably. Someone might have spotted him, noticed that he didn’t respond the way the others did. If George were alive at one minute after eight tomorrow morning, then they would be sure.
“No use waiting here for the end,” he thought.
He went out again. The posters, the TV, the occasional commands from passing aliens did not seem to have absolute power over him, though he still felt strongly tempted to obey, to see things the way his master wanted him to see them. He passed an alley and stopped. One of the aliens was alone there, leaning against the wall. George walked up to him.
“Move on,” grunted the thing, focusing his deadly eyes on George.
George felt his grasp on awareness waver. For a moment the reptilian head dissolved into the face of a lovable old drunk. Of course the drunk would be lovable. George picked up a brick and smashed it down on the old drunk’s head with all his strength. For a moment the image blurred, then the blue-green blood oozed out of the face and the lizard fell, twitching and writhing. After a moment it was dead.
George dragged the body into the shadows and searched it. There was a tiny radio in its pocket and a curiously shaped knife and fork in another. The tiny radio said something in an incomprehensible language. George put it down beside the body, but kept the eating utensils.
“I can’t possibly escape,” thought George. “Why fight them?”
But maybe he could.
What if he could awaken others? That might be worth a try.
He walked twelve blocks to the apartment of his girl friend, Lil, and knocked on her door. She came to the door in her bathrobe.
“I want you to wake up,” he said
“I’m awake,” she said. “Come on in.”
He went in. The TV was playing. He turned it off.
“No,” he said. “I mean really wake up.” She looked at him without comprehension, so he snapped his fingers and shouted, “Wake up! The masters command that you wake up!”
“Are you off your rocker, George?” she asked suspiciously. “You sure are acting funny.” He slapped her face. “Cut that out!” she cried, “What the hell are you up to anyway?”
“Nothing,” said George, defeated. “I was just kidding around.”
“Slapping my face wasn’t just kidding around!” she cried.
There was a knock at the door.
George opened it.
It was one of the aliens.
“Can’t you keep the noise down to a dull roar?” it said.
The eyes and reptilian flesh faded a little and George saw the flickering image of a fat middle-aged man in shirtsleeves. It was still a man when George slashed its throat with the eating knife, but it was an alien before it hit the floor. He dragged it into the apartment and kicked the door shut. “What do you see there?” he asked Lil, pointing to the many-eyed snake thing on the floor.
“Mister…Mister Coney,” she whispered, her eyes wide with horror. “You…just killed him, like it was nothing at all.”
“Don’t scream,” warned George, advancing on her.
“I won’t George. I swear I won’t, only please, for the love of God, put down that knife.” She backed away until she had her shoulder blades pressed to the wall.
George saw that it was no use.
“I’m going to tie you up,” said George. “First tell me which room Mister Coney lived in.”
“The first door on your left as you go toward the stairs,” she said. “Georgie…Georgie. Don’t torture me. If you’re going to kill me, do it clean. Please, Georgie, please.”
He tied her up with bed sheets and gagged her, then searched the body of the Fascinator. There was another one of the little radios that talked a foreign language, another set of eating utensils, and nothing else.
George went next door.
When he knocked, one of the snake-things answered, “Who is it?”
“Friend of Mister Coney. I wanna see him,” said George.
“He went out for a second, but he’ll be right back.” The door opened a crack, and four yellow eyes peeped out. “You wanna come in and wait?”
“Okay,” said George, not looking at the eyes.
“You alone here?” he asked as it closed the door, its back to George.
“Yeah, why?”
He slit its throat from behind, then searched the apartment.
He found human bones and skulls, a half-eaten hand.
He found tanks with huge fat slugs floating in them.
“The children,” he thought, and killed them all.
There were guns too, of a sort he had never seen before. He discharged one by accident, but fortunately it was noiseless. It seemed to fire little poisoned darts.
He pocketed the gun and as many boxes of darts he could and went back to Lil’s place. When she saw him she writhed in helpless terror.
“Relax, honey” he said, opening her purse, "I just want to borrow your car keys.
"He took the keys and went downstairs to the street.
Her car was still parked in the same general area in which she always parked it. He recognized it by the dent in the right fender. He got in, started it, and began driving aimlessly. He drove for hours, thinking–desperately searching for some way out. He turned on the car radio to see if he could get some music, but there was nothing but news and it was all about him, George Nada, the homicidal maniac. The announcer was one of the masters, but he sounded a little scared. Why should he be? What could one man do?
George wasn’t surprised when he saw the road block, and he turned off on a side street before he reached it. No little trip to the country for you, Georgie boy, he thought to himself.
They had just discovered what he had done back at Lil’s place, so they would probably be looking for Lil’s car. He parked it in an alley and took the subway. There were no aliens on the subway, for some reason. Maybe they were too good for such things, or maybe it was just because it was so late at night.
When one finally did get on, George got off.
He went up to the street and went into a bar. One of the Fascinators was on the TV, saying over and over again, “We are your friends. We are your friends. We are your friends.” The stupid lizard sounded scared. Why? What could one man do against all of them?
George ordered a beer, then it suddenly struck him that the Fascinator on the TV no longer seemed to have any power over him. He looked at it again and thought, “It has to believe it can master me to do it. The slightest hint of fear on its part and the power to hypnotize is lost.” They flashed George’s picture on the TV screen and George retreated to the phone booth. He called his control, the Chief of Police.
“Hello, Robinson?” he asked.
“Speaking.”
“This is George Nada. I’ve figured out how to wake people up.”
“What? George, hang on. Where are you?” Robinson sounded almost hysterical.
He hung up and paid and left the bar. They would probably trace his call.
He caught another subway and went downtown.
It was dawn when he entered the building housing the biggest of the city’s TV studios. He consulted the building director and then went up in the elevator. The cop in front of the studio recognized him. “Why, you’re Nada!” he gasped.
George didn’t like to shoot him with the poison dart gun, but he had to.
He had to kill several more before he got into the studio itself, including all the engineers on duty. There were a lot of police sirens outside, excited shouts, and running footsteps on the stairs. The alien was sitting before the TV camera saying, “We are your friends. We are your friends,” and didn’t see George come in. When George shot him with the needle gun he simply stopped in mid-sentence and sat there, dead. George stood near him and said, imitating the alien croak, “Wake up. Wake up. See us as we are and kill us!”
It was George’s voice the city heard that morning, but it was the Fascinator’s image, and the city did awake for the very first time and the war began.
George did not live to see the victory that finally came. He died of a heart attack at exactly eight o’clock.