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Topic: The Thing
How do you interpret the last scene of John Carpenter's The Thing? Obviously, spoilers follow for this forty-year-old movie.
Brandon Reed
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Brandon Reed Blah blah blah let's eat up some lines so the rest of the discussion doesn't show up on anyone's feed, because it's a mystery thriller and we don't want to accidentally ruin it for anyone. There, that should do it. Personally, I think MacReady was testing Childs, and Childs failed the test. If Childs was human, then he wouldn't have taken the whiskey. MacReady would be consumed within thirty seconds of the credit roll beginning.
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Road Master It's been a while since I've seen it. How did the creature handle the cold?
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Brandon Reed Hibernation. Hundreds of thousands of years, before the beginning of the narrative.
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Road Master That's what I thought. It stands to reason that a search party will be sent when the outpost doesn't check in. So what will they find when they arrive? If I'm not mistaken, the scientists didn't communicate any information about The Thing. So... that's bad.
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Bill S. I noticed that you could see the breath of one of them, but not the other. I can't remember which was which.
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Road Master I just looked it up on YouTube. MacReady's breath was super visible. Childs' breath wasn't at all. It's been a long time and I've only seen it once. But I never noticed that.
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Bill S. This is just a guess on my part, but the fact that you couldn't see Childs' breath is a pretty clear indicator that he was not human since they were in Antarctica.
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