They Live What's Wrong Baby
what's wrong baby? In his dying moments in They Live, John Nada uses the last of his strength to destroy the satellite broadcasting subliminal, alien propaganda and flip off the aliens trying to stop him. Once...
At the end: "What's wrong, baby?" That woman has just realized she's having sex with an alien who resembles a rotting corpse. In the Nada comic the woman shrieks in horror at the reveal she's been riding a hideous Fascinator while the alien bluntly responds: "Shit." 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. Whats wrong, baby? Bar keep! A paper bag if you will? Wow I've watched this movie every year for 20 years and never noticed her! Just the alien in the foreground.
They only had 2 masks so they really got their moneys worth every scene. Carpenter always had counterculture leanings, but they werent expressed as obviously as in films by his colleague and friend George Romero (both of whom are name-checked in the Hey, whats wrong, baby? gag). This sci fi action movie starred pro wrestler Rowdy Roddy Piper.
Like most Carpenter films, it's artistic, fun, and intelligent. The film's best line from Piper is "I have came here to chew bubble gum and kick ass and i'm all out of bubble gum". When they arrive, Frank introduces Nada to Gilbert who asks about whether or not Nada has tools in his pack.
Nada says he does and Gilbert says that they can use him because a shower needs to be fixed. Frank takes Nada to get food first. The two men go through a food line and talk.
She stares at him in horror, as he responds, Hey, whats wrong, baby? Carpenter thus ends his film by giving the finger to moralizing conservative critics of contemporary film, just as Nada had ended his life giving the finger to the alien forces that shot him down as he was destroying their transmitter. Whats wrong, baby? An alien interloper tries on a human for size Note: Based on the 1963 Ray Nelson short story, Eight O Clock in the Morning, They Live ends just as the true revolution is beginning, with its many possible outcomes are left entirely up to the audience.
