The makeup in this fight is so well done too. Look at the marks on them and their fists and their bodies. Its a cheesy superlong fight scene that has very little to do with the plot, but its so well done.
> It was some of the best fun I’ve had in my life. We rehearsed it for two weeks. It’s everything you get to study acting about. I was also certified . . . in stage fighting, so I got to put all those techniques I learned in school to the test and do it. The fight was fashioned after the John Wayne Film “The Quiet Man,” and it just went on for days. It was great because it was like a silent movie except for the few times we spoke because the fight has a story to it, it has an arc, and Roddy Piper. . . How great is that? I got to do a fight with Roddy Piper! We had a wonderful time.
“Alright Roddy, we’ve got roughly 15 minutes of film left and should’ve been off this lot about an hour ago. So I want you to throw Keith around a little bit and do what you do best!…….aaaaand, ACTION”
I get the feeling that when Keith David breaks the bottle it was scripted to break further up so he could use it as a weapon. Instead, it shattered completely and Roddy Piper’s laugh seems like a genuine character break that they decided to leave in because it played well. Whether intentional or not, I love the little breaks in intensity during the fight, like when he acts genuinely sorry for busting the car window.
I keep trying to get people to watch this movie that haven’t seen it, its so fun, and badass.
I love how the fight starts pretty gentlemen like, knock the guy down, let him get back up and get his fists up, resume. But but the end, its turned dirty and its about winning and the other guy staying the fuck down until you leave the area. But he gets up and comes at you again, with a fuckin peice of wood this time again. Just gets worse and worse. I dig those characters, oldschool, hard working, blue collar badasses.
Media is the opiate of the masses. John Carpenter got Rowdy Roddy Piper who was the best known ‘heel’ in tv wrestling at the time to make an anti-establishment movie that criticized mainstream media for it’s pervasive propaganda undertones.
A quote of his about it:
> “All of the aliens are members of the upper class, the rich, and they’re slowly exploiting the middle class, and everybody’s becoming poorer,” he explains. “It has kind of a theme and a message to it, but basically it’s an action film.”
It came out in 1989 at a time when counter-culture alternative media was growing as competition to mainstream corporate media. They Live is pretty much a punk cult movie. It’s a blue collar fight movie that was warning about rich people running everything.
Recuperation is like cultural appropriation but way worse and way more malicious.
In the early 90s, the corporate establishment stole true counter-culture communities like punk rock and hip hop then resold them to mainstream consumers. At the same time, they phased out the stuff they didn’t want young people complaining about.
The current hyper fixation on stuff like gay, religious, or women’s rights helps ignore other issues like anti-war activism, class inequality issues between rich and poor people.
Even the way they appropriated Shepard Fairey’s art for the Obama poster was a punch in the junk since he was famous for the OBEY brand he pilfered from They Live.
This fight’s become a meme but seriously I’m old enough to have seen this movie in theaters when it came out, and even back then the audience was like… WTF it’s *still going*. You could hear patches of disbelieving laughter and people saying stuff out loud like “holy shit”.
Amazing movie. “I’ve come to kick ass and chew bubble gum, and I’m all out of bubble gum”
South park did a blow by blow exact reenactment in the episode “cripple fight ” and its brilliant.
Just put in the damn sunglasses
Oh yeah, you got kids maniac?
Completely unnecessary, and does nothing to service the plot.
I love it.
keith david is the greatest
DiD yOu GuYs KnOw SoUtH PaRk dId A vErSiOn?!
I love the way Zizek is obsessed with this movie and this scene in particular
The makeup in this fight is so well done too. Look at the marks on them and their fists and their bodies. Its a cheesy superlong fight scene that has very little to do with the plot, but its so well done.
> The uploader has not made this video available in your country
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[PUT ON THE H H H AT!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeWMwrdFBw0)
RIP buddy. Remember, [The Maniac loves you](https://youtu.be/oUKXkVZ4_kc?t=223)
I can’t believe Keith David lifted up Roddy like that! My back is killing me just watching that haha
The uploader has not made this video available in your country
Best fight on film EVER!
“Hey man, put on these sunglasses for a minute”
“No!”
*six minute fucking all-out brawl*
I’ve been saying for a while that they should remake They Live, starring John Cena and Terry Crews.
It’s fine to modernize it a bit, but the fight scene must be a shot for shot, blow for blow exact replica.
I rewatched this recently and I’m still surprised every time the fight keeps going.
A quote I found of Keith David talking about it.
> It was some of the best fun I’ve had in my life. We rehearsed it for two weeks. It’s everything you get to study acting about. I was also certified . . . in stage fighting, so I got to put all those techniques I learned in school to the test and do it. The fight was fashioned after the John Wayne Film “The Quiet Man,” and it just went on for days. It was great because it was like a silent movie except for the few times we spoke because the fight has a story to it, it has an arc, and Roddy Piper. . . How great is that? I got to do a fight with Roddy Piper! We had a wonderful time.
“Alright Roddy, we’ve got roughly 15 minutes of film left and should’ve been off this lot about an hour ago. So I want you to throw Keith around a little bit and do what you do best!…….aaaaand, ACTION”
*-John Carpenter (probably)*
That man really didnt want to try those glasses on
I get the feeling that when Keith David breaks the bottle it was scripted to break further up so he could use it as a weapon. Instead, it shattered completely and Roddy Piper’s laugh seems like a genuine character break that they decided to leave in because it played well. Whether intentional or not, I love the little breaks in intensity during the fight, like when he acts genuinely sorry for busting the car window.
Saw this in a theater at 11 years old. Super underrated sequence.
why do i love Keith David so much
Why can’t Hollywood remake this???
this film aged beautifully. love zizeks overexplanation about this film
mirror for uk please
The South Park parody of this is honestly one of my favorite bits they’ve ever done.
I got up, took a dump and made a bowl of cereal. When I returned to my room… still fighting.
I keep trying to get people to watch this movie that haven’t seen it, its so fun, and badass.
I love how the fight starts pretty gentlemen like, knock the guy down, let him get back up and get his fists up, resume. But but the end, its turned dirty and its about winning and the other guy staying the fuck down until you leave the area. But he gets up and comes at you again, with a fuckin peice of wood this time again. Just gets worse and worse. I dig those characters, oldschool, hard working, blue collar badasses.
[Here](https://youtu.be/TVwKjGbz60k?si=0t9kHk3QiAqnReu_) is an analysis.
I’m sorry. Downvoting this. How many times has this been posted, reposted, and reposted ad nauseam?
One of the best lines in any fight scene ever.
> Either put on these glasses, or start eating that trash can.
Just put in the damn sunglasses
One of the best documentary films I’ve ever watched.
45 seconds shorter than the Anakin vs. Obi-Wan duel in Revenge of the Sith.
Why is he punching Steve Irwin?
Media is the opiate of the masses. John Carpenter got Rowdy Roddy Piper who was the best known ‘heel’ in tv wrestling at the time to make an anti-establishment movie that criticized mainstream media for it’s pervasive propaganda undertones.
A quote of his about it:
> “All of the aliens are members of the upper class, the rich, and they’re slowly exploiting the middle class, and everybody’s becoming poorer,” he explains. “It has kind of a theme and a message to it, but basically it’s an action film.”
It came out in 1989 at a time when counter-culture alternative media was growing as competition to mainstream corporate media. They Live is pretty much a punk cult movie. It’s a blue collar fight movie that was warning about rich people running everything.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recuperation_(politics)
Recuperation is like cultural appropriation but way worse and way more malicious.
In the early 90s, the corporate establishment stole true counter-culture communities like punk rock and hip hop then resold them to mainstream consumers. At the same time, they phased out the stuff they didn’t want young people complaining about.
The current hyper fixation on stuff like gay, religious, or women’s rights helps ignore other issues like anti-war activism, class inequality issues between rich and poor people.
Even the way they appropriated Shepard Fairey’s art for the Obama poster was a punch in the junk since he was famous for the OBEY brand he pilfered from They Live.
Every single time me and my brother had to decide who got the *good* xbox controller:
This fight’s become a meme but seriously I’m old enough to have seen this movie in theaters when it came out, and even back then the audience was like… WTF it’s *still going*. You could hear patches of disbelieving laughter and people saying stuff out loud like “holy shit”.
Leftist trying to convince a liberal to abandon capitalism