The Thing

The American feature film The Thing, also known as "John Carpenter's The Thing (United States)", is a horror/science fiction film from 1982, directed by John Carpenter.The screenplay is based on the short story "Who Goes There?" by John w. Campbell Jr..



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[hide] *1 Story  ==Story[ Edit] == An American scientific expedition in Antarctica during their work in the base camp is disturbed by the sound of a helicopter that a seemingly mad dog tail on the ice. The men on board the unit try to shoot the dog. The Americans are kind of surprised that the Norwegians want to kill a single dog.
 * 2 alternate endings
 * 3 Cast
 * 4 Nominations
 * 5 Trivia
 * 6 Background
 * 7 external link

During this attempt, the helicopter down. The scientists investigate the wreck and see that it is a Norwegian helicopter is a camp not far away. They find no survivors except the dog that they bring to the base camp. There they close the beast in a kennel.

Helicopter pilot R.J. MacReady (Kurt Russell) goes to the Norwegian camp to investigate what is going on. The camp turns out to be completely destroyed. Also he finds the mangled body of what was probably once a human being. He takes back the body for research.

The dog is locked up when the other dogs in the kennel. The other dogs behave aggressively against the newcomer, as if something is wrong. Then it starts to mutate into something the dog afzichtelijks. The other dogs in the kennel to the falls and kills them. The members of the expedition come and watch what is going on, and are immediately at Cleveland stadium by the terrified survivor dogs. They see the monster that now seems in no way more on a dog, and kill it with a flamethrower.

They then realize that they have included a parasitic alien life form in their camp that every organic form can perfectly imitate. The parasite is the life form to, then the biological material to be an imitation of the life form. To at the cellular level can perfectly imitate a human or animal the parasite. Therefore, the thing even about the memories and the behavior of that person so nothing strange other people will notice.

If the members of the American expedition left watch by the Norwegians, they see how the Norwegian expedition something gigantic Grand in the ice have discovered: probably the alien spaceship that crashed on Earth thousands of years ago.

Because the thing can take any form to each Member of the expedition may be the thing. The infected dog has quite some time can walk around freely on the base, and a number of team members is only been with the dog. No one is trust more because everyone now runs danger to be infected then forced to be host to the organism. No one dares to stay only with yet another. Paranoia dominated, and the expedition members are now each other's greatest enemies.

The mutated dog is examined by Benning, but turns out still alive and dangerous. First "absorbs" the George Benning (Peter Maloney), and tries to escape. The team knows to kill him with a flamethrower, for the transformation is complete. There are all kinds of indications that other team members also are infected. Blair realizes that the thing, should it manage to make the crossing to the inhabited world, within three years all earthly life will absorb it. That is why he kills the remaining sled dogs and tries to destroy the camp and all means of transport, but his teammates overpower him.

Vance Norris (Charles Hallahan was born) Gets the tensions a heart attack, but if the doctor Dr. Copper (Richard Dysart) gives him heart massage, the chest of Norris a giant Maw that the arms of the doctor bite the child. From the mouth shoot the Norrisworm out, that by MacReady with a flamethrower is killed. By the heat makes the head of Norris away from the hull and eventually on the ground. There grow large spiders legs from the infected head with which the thing is trying to run away. The others know it again with the flamethrower to kill.

MacReady decision to the other team members to a blood test subjects. He realizes that the cells of the thing are capable of acting independently (hence that Norris ' head spinning legs developed). Each nugget flesh of the thing, every cell, is in fact a separate animal with its own survival instinct, able to act independently. Infected blood will therefore ejection of a hot needle. The blood of Palmer (David Clennon) reacts indeed aggressively on the test, and the blast his way in Palmer hidden Thing from Palmers body and falls Windows (Thomas g. Waites) to. MacReady blows it infected body of Palmer on with TNT and if Windows ' body also starts to mutate falls MacReady him with the flamethrower.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In the end only MacReady, Garry, Nauls and Childs about and it is certain that they are all human. They want to test, but now Blair who turns out to have disappeared. Find the team members a kind of flying saucer with which the thing apparently wanted to escape, probably built by the now infected Blair. Childs runs off in the snow, in the freezing cold. The thing the aggregate sabotages of the camp; It wants to see itself apparently freezing while it waits for "fresh" people.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Nauls disappears without a trace on the hunt for the thing, and Garry is gekeeld by Blair, who is also in human form if the thing operates. Ultimately, only the entire camp including MacReady, which ultimately undermines the thing with dynamite. Before he can blow up the whole thing will follow a final confrontation with the thing, that is mutated to a huge horrible monster.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">While waiting for his inevitable end MacReady in the freezing cold on the smoking rubble of the camp, Childs appears out of the night. They do not know of each other or the other is infected, but realize that it is now no longer matters. They close an uneasy peace while they warm up to the fire, and realize that they both will freeze to death. ==Alternate endings<span class="mw-editsection" len="335" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p lang="en" len="119" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">For the video respectively the dvd version are two alternative endings filmed: an open end and a happy ending.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In the open end to escape the thing know, again in the form of a sled dog. The thing look once more to get to the burning camp and rent than the poolwindernis in. In the happy ending is saved and he undergoes a blood test MacReady, which shows that he is still human. ==Division Of Roles<span class="mw-editsection" len="328" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Nominations<span class="mw-editsection" len="326" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Trivia<span class="mw-editsection" len="322" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Background<span class="mw-editsection" len="327" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The pulp- paperback Novella "Who Goes There?" by John w. Campbell, Jr. from 1938 was the inspiration for the movie. John Carpenter is a fan of both writer Campbell as of the first film incarnation of the story: Howard Hawks The Thing from Another World from 1952. Also the co-producer of The Thing, Stuart Cohen, has admitted to be a fan of Campbell.
 * In 1983, the film was the Saturn Award for "best Horror film" and for "best Special Effects" Rob Bottin.
 * Ennio Morricone got for this movie in the same year nominated for the Razzie Award for "worst movie music".
 * Rob Bottin is responsible for the makeup and special effects. At the release of The Thing they found all these effects too explicit and too bloody.
 * The sale of tickets was extremely bad after the premiere, probably because two weeks earlier the film E.T. the extra-terrestrial by Steven Spielberg had come out. This more optimistic film broke all records and one was probably not in the mood for dark fairy tale The Thing. After The Thing, however, appeared on VHS and dvd, it increased the popularity.
 * Recognizable elements of the newly discovered disease aids in 1982 are inadvertently ended up in the film: infection by a foreign body, blood tests, not recognize infected organisms.

<p lang="en" len="127" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In General, John carpenters film version of "Who Goes There?" as the most faithful to the source text.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Filming was done in five chilled to freezing studios in Los Angeles. Lead actor Kurt Russell noticed there later over on: "it was like being in a refrigerator worked. But if you like the set ran out it was like you ended up in an oven. "

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">On 2 december 1981 went about 100 American and Canadian filmmakers to a remote location near the town of Stewart in British Columbia to the last recordings for the film. There were good reasons to choose it right for that spot:

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Every hotel, motel and rented room near was occupied by the film crew. The team had to each day with helicopter, car or bus via the narrow winding road to the cold, snow-covered film location. Director John Carpenter says: "there were only a few hours of daylight because we filmed in november and december. The lenses sometimes frozen in the cameras. It was very hard for you to get from one place to another. Filming gave us a lot of problems, but not as much as I initially had thought. "
 * 1) It was the most northern ice-free port on the Canadian west coast.
 * 2) There was a glacier which was accessible via a road.
 * 3) There was one hundred percent chance of snow.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">After the last shooting was filmed there a week extra on the Takuglacier at Juneau in Alaska, in June 1981.